Food Business Success® with Sari Kimbell

The FASTEST way to grow your business (and launch your business successfully) is to grow your connections and community. My guest today is the amazing Lee Koles who is helping us understand how to better network (is this the most painful word ever?) in person and on LinkedIn. This is a must listen episode!



Check out my YouTube channel at www.foodbiz.tube for how to videos to start and grow a packaged food business.

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Yes, you heard me. It may be July, but creating a successful holiday season for your business requires planning that starts NOW. You can either be stressed out, anxious, overwhelmed and waste time and money, or you can do the work now to be at ease and have fun in your personal life too!

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100 episodes! 🎉 I'm taking just a moment to take it all in and be so grateful for you bringing me along in your journey!

On this very special episode we are taking a deep dive into the concept of reinvention. Have you ever considered that to step into entrepreneurship you MUST reinvent yourself, on purpose? I share with you the next steps to go big and go all in on your possibility you created last week for your food bus...

Are you looking to your past for the "how" to create something you have never done before like starting a packaged food business? That will never work. That results in the start-stop-start-stop cycle. On this episode I share the concept of remembering your future and give you a strategy for speeding up your business. I also make a bold (and scary) declaration that you can now hold me accountable for taking the action requir...

In just a little over two years Sara went from brewing kombucha at home as a stress release and a way to help her son with Autism to leaving her full time teaching job, moving to her own space, adding four additional farmers markets, hiring and scaling her growing business, 3rd Bird Collective.

There are so many takeaways about why to start, the benefits of entrepreneurship, being resilient and investing in coaching to help you tra...

Regret is a powerful emotion that can drag us into a pretty self-loathing, unkind place if we let it. It can also be used as a tool to help you improve your decisions, raise performance and deepen the meaning in your life according to Daniel Pink and his book The Power of Regret.

I recently used regret to help me make a decision about my summer and it was really helpful. I want to share how you can harness the power of regret, not ...

I got this question from a Food Business Success member on our call last week and it sparked an episode idea I have been wanting to tackle for a while now. How do you know if it is time to quit. Sometimes quitting comes in the small "q" form when it gets a little hard and sometimes we need to evaluate the big "Q" quit of our business.

I give you some ideas and strategies on how to manage the small "q's" ...

Your business requires you to think bigger and use your brain for solving higher level problems. Welcome to entrepreneurship my friend! In this episode, I share the strategy I use to solve either recurring issues in my business (after I solve the urgent problem) or focus on the longer term strategy to achieve the results I want in my business.

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What if I told you that from where you are at to where you want to go in your business, there are 10,000 problems (big and small) that need to be solved (scientists estimate you make 35,000 decisions each day which are essentially problems you are solving).  Wouldn't you just want to get better at solving problems so they aren't such a BIG deal?

On this episode, I share my strategies for solving those immediate, gotta get f...

We wear "busyness" as a badge of honor, but why? Does it feel good to tell someone you are busy when they ask how you are doing? NO! It feels terrible. It feels overwhelming and demotivating, like, what's the point anyways.

I am on a mission to cure you of "busyness" syndrome. If you are actually going to launch or grow that dream businesses, we first have to master your time so you actually have the minutes to ...

Ryan was exactly where many of you listening are at right now. He had a dream and a desire to create a food business. His passion is hot sauce and after listening to the podcast and YouTube videos, he finally reached out. But he wasn't quite ready...yet.

Then he decided to go all in and we started our work together just over a year ago to bring Pup & The Pepper to life. His story is such an amazing example of (mostly) enjoy...

Are you happy?

In your life and your business pursuit?

Sure, it's fun to fantasize about turning your hobby into a real business and having more freedom as an entreprneur. Often times what happens is that you put so much pressure on yourself to achieve success really fast and are not enjoying the process. And when your business feels like a grind and brings on anxiety, you are actually LESS effective when you do actually do the...

Do you consider yourself a procrastinator? Check in and see if any of these feel true for you and your business. 

Do you notice that you aren't making real progress on your business because you keep putting it off for something else?

Do lame chores like laundry somehow become really important when it is time to sit down and do something hard for your business?

Or do you sit down for just a few minutes to check social media and the...

I debated whether to call this episode "words matter" or fewer things better. With my amazing guest today, Kristin Graham, we talk about both. But I love the beauty of her podcast by the same name, Fewer Things Better, so I went with that.

This is a must listen to episode with an expert who offers simple, easy to do brain hacks that will increase your productivity AND help you feel better while doing the work and living you...

Whether you are creating a food business as your side hustle or this is your full time career, I see a lot of my clients struggle with productivity. It is challenging to manage yourself when the work that needs to be done is self-directed without a lot of structure or accountability (like when you work for an employer). Overwhelm, stress, anxiety and hustle quickly become a way of life for many entrepreneurs. As one of my clients r...

What has been holding you back from starting your delicious idea and turning it into a business? Or taking it to the next level? Fear is one of the big ones. Fear it won't work. Fear it is a terrible idea. Fear that people will judge you. Fear it will fail.

Think about what happens when you show up to your dream with fear in the feeling line of the model. What action do you or don't you take? What is the result? It definite...

Do you ever feel like things are always happening TO you? That you just can't help being in a bad mood, feeling overwhelmed or just plain discouraged. Get ready for a tool that will change your life if you let it.

I have been promising an episode devoted to The Model for some time. I have danced around it and taught about different parts, but now I bring it all together to help you unlock the secret ingredient in your business ...

You wear a lot of hats as the food business founder, but is one of them the CEO? Most of the people I work with have never even thought about this - they are so busy being the maker, the marketer and sales person.

But what does it even mean to be a CEO as an entrepreneur? No, you may not have employees and you most likely don't have a board of directors to report to, so why does it matter?

Because the most successful brand foun...

I have a lot of thoughts on money lately.  There is a certain amount of money we all need to meet our basic needs. But then what? Why do some people create big businesses and some seem to struggle consistently?

It seems to me that it is more about a mindset than the ability. What is your relationship with money? Money is just one of those things that isn't easy to talk about. There is a lot of judgement and built up money belief...