The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses

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The Forrager Podcast for Cottage Food Businesses episodes

May 23, 2023 Bless Yourself By Blessing Others with Barbara Williford
Barbara Williford of DeBerry, TX shares how she built a cottage food bakery with her daughter and grew it into a full-time business by networking with others and giving back to her community
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/89
57 min
May 09, 2023 Beautiful Chaos with Chelsa Smith
Chelsa Smith of Des Moines, IA sells sourdough bread from her wildly successful home microbakery and shares many of the ups and downs of building her business while finding work-life balance
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/88
1 hr
April 25, 2023 Men Bake Cookies with Mike Skyring
Mike Skyring of South Lyon, MI shares how he started a gourmet cookie bakery totally by accident, and how he quickly grew it into a very successful business by leveraging many marketing techniques
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/87
59 min
April 11, 2023 Anything Is Possible with Emily Vanlandingham
Emily Vanlandingham of New Orleans, LA runs a home bakery that focuses on school celebrations, and shares the triumphs, lessons, and challenges that have come from creating her very unique business
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/86
58 min
March 28, 2023 Think Like A CEO with Jen Morris
Jen Morris shares so many lessons from her crazy journey building a popular cupcake business in Collingdale, PA, including promoting yourself, scaling up, getting published, and validating products
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/85
1 hr
March 14, 2023 Baking Saved My Life with Christina Marquez
Christina Marquez of Antioch, IL shares how she built a cottage food bakery amidst many life challenges by following her passion, caring deeply about her customers, and focusing on serving others
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/84
49 min
February 28, 2023 Stop Letting Fear Run Your Business with Brette Hawks
Brette Hawks is one of Utah's top wedding cake artists and shares how she grew two successful businesses as a stay-at-home mom by niching down, pricing correctly, and working smarter, not harder
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/83
1 hr
February 14, 2023 Serve The People with Lee Thomas
Lee Thomas runs a legal home BBQ business in San Leandro, CA and shares how he leveraged his political connections to help legalize MEHKOs (micro-enterprise home kitchen operations) in his county
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/82
59 min
January 31, 2023 Growing A Movement with Lisa Kivirist
Lisa Kivirist of Browntown, WI shares an update on the past, present, and future of the cottage food and food freedom movements, and how she's helping support them with many different resources
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/81
59 min
January 17, 2023 Get Passionate About Sales with Amanda Schonberg
Amanda Schonberg of Baton Rouge, LA shares tons of business tips for generating more sales, building a following, managing mindset, improving time, growing an email list, and scaling up a bakery
Get full show notes and transcript here: https://forrager.com/podcast/80
1 hr

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Learn how to start a food business from your home kitchen by hearing stories from cottage food entrepreneurs about how they grew their businesses from the ground up. Does everyone ask for your…