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Hosted by Djenaba Johnson-Jones · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 81 episodes
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Hosted by Djenaba Johnson-Jones, former marketing executive turned entrepreneur and founder of food business incubator, Hudson Kitchen, The Food Means Business podcast features the personal stories and “secret ingredients” behind what it's like to abandon your day job to start a food business. Join our community of fellow food business owners and subject matter experts to learn and laugh with us as we explore a start-up world that’s a little more culinary and a lot less corporate these days.
Djenaba Johnson-Jones hosts The Food Means Business Podcast, a business show with 81 episodes published.
Before you price your product, raise money, or pitch a buyer, there is one question you need to answer: what kind of business are you building? In this episode, fractional CFO and SFT Consulting co-founder Elena Minton b
Kelsey Bross built Kel's Kitchen Table with a granola recipe, a farmers market tent, and a willingness to listen. A year and a half of weekends spent talking directly to customers taught her more about her product than a
By the time Rachel Cheng joined co-founders Marlon and Ben to build Yay's Snacks, she had spent seven years learning what it takes to build a food operation that gives a founder room to lead. In this episode, she shares
Kelsey Bross built Kel's Kitchen Table with a granola recipe, a farmers market tent, and a willingness to listen. A year and a half of weekends spent talking directly to customers taught her more about her product than a
Eve Chery sat on her Pikliz recipe for five years before the Food Business Bootcamp finally moved her to act. In this episode, the founder of C'est Si Bon Pikliz talks about bringing a beloved Haitian condiment to market
Alli Meyer has spent her career turning data into decisions, from her early days at IRI (now Circana) to brand work at Applegate Farms and Dr. Praeger's. In this episode she breaks down what market research actually is,
Ryan Mulligan spent 12 years in CPG consulting before walking away to build the brand he always wanted. In this episode, he talks about launching Morty's Naturally Leavened White Sourdough Bread, the dog behind the name,
Christina Branco of Starving Artist Food Photography has spent her career capturing food in a way that tells a story. In this episode she breaks down her process, explains why props are about guiding the viewer not decor
Dr. Jonathan Deutsch of the Drexel Food Lab shares what separates a delicious home recipe from a commercially viable product, the one word every food entrepreneur needs to learn, and why you should talk to a food scienti
Arnelle Thomas of Irie Brew Kombucha shares how Caribbean culture and a passion for wellness led her to kombucha, what the Food Business Bootcamp® taught her about commercializing a volatile product, and why she believes
Bea Saludo Francisco has worked on some of the biggest names in CPG, Pringles, Cheez-Its, Unilever, and now she brings that same strategic rigor to early-stage food founders through her creative agency, Opus Hours. In th
Lan Luong spent a decade raising her kids with intention — whole foods, healthy habits, no shortcuts. When she went back to work and couldn't find a portable snack worthy of what she'd built, she made one. In this episod
Karen Merz of Next Level Grains shares how a COVID-era rabbit hole into home flour milling became a food brand, what she learned about operations and margins in the Food Business Bootcamp®, and why she developed a childr
Maria Javier of Toasty Polvo shares how she pivoted from 15 years in government and nonprofit to launching a Filipino shortbread brand, why she chose food service over retail as her go-to-market strategy, and why the bes
Sarah Hwang of Gamsa Foods shares how she turned a childhood staple into a Korean-inspired breakfast brand, what she learned about building a category that barely exists, and why knowing your why matters more than having
Alejandro Quintero Corral of Mucha Macha shares how he turned a beloved Mexican chili crisp into a CPG brand, what he learned about operations from building inside the Food Business Bootcamp®, and why taking the first st
In this episode, Juliette "Juju" Clark shares how she went from home kitchen to market-ready in under a year, what the Food Business Bootcamp® Startup Accelerator taught her about building under pressure, and why she bel
Coby Farrow didn’t set out to launch a beverage brand. But when a restaurant concept he was working on fell through, he couldn’t shake the idea of turning avocado seed tea into something bigger. What started as a kitchen
JW Wiseman started his career in marketing and not specifically in the food industry. But that didn’t stop when he decided to branch out into the CPG industry via non-alcoholic cocktails. After years in the corporate wor
When you’re starting out creating a CPG brand, one of the most challenging aspects can be simply getting eyes on your product. It’s hard to sell when no one knows you exist, and it’s also hard to create an audience from
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