Pro Food Maker
You need more than inspiration to build your food business. Launch and scale your restaurant, bakery, CPG brand, food blog, or food truck with tips, strategies, and lessons learned from your favorite Black chefs, Black owned restaurants and Black content creators from around the world. Join the host, Mercedes Gosby, at the intersection of food, tech, business, and finance as she interviews food professionals and entrepreneurs every week to discover how to get started in the hospitality industry, and how to build a profitable food business. Visit profoodmaker.com for show notes, articles & more.Podcasts
30: Tips for getting your product into grocery stores w/ Planted Foods Co.
Published: April 15, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 51 seconds
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29: How to find investors for your business w/Kube Nice Cream
Published: April 8, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds
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29: How to find investors for small food businesses w/Kube Nice Cream
Published: April 8, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 23 seconds
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28: Food truck marketing w/ The Food Truck Scholar
Published: April 1, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 57 seconds
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28: Food truck marketing tips w/ The Food Truck Scholar
Published: April 1, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 57 seconds
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27: Get more press features without hiring PR
Published: March 25, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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27: How to write a media pitch
Published: March 25, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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27: How to pitch to media outlets
Published: March 25, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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26: Navigating social media to grow your brand w/ Geos Table
Published: March 18, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds
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26: Navigating social media to grow your brand with Geo’s Table
Published: March 18, 2021, 5:30 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 12 seconds
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25: Before Mo Better Brews, there was Houston Sauce Co. vegan food truck
Published: March 11, 2021, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds
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25: How much does it cost to buy a food truck? w/Houston Sauce Co.
Published: March 11, 2021, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds
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25: Houston Sauce Co.’s vegan empire started with a hot sauce recipe
Published: March 11, 2021, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 48 seconds
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24: How much does it cost to open a restaurant? w/Felicia Middleton, owner of Urban Aesthetics
Published: March 4, 2021, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 25 seconds
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24: How much does it cost to open a restaurant or food space?
Published: March 4, 2021, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 25 seconds
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23: Life in Tokyo, Japan as a Black Bakery Owner
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds
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23: Tokyo Black Owned Bakery w/ Kyle's Good Finds
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds
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23: Kyle's Good Finds: Black Owned Bakery in Tokyo, Japan w/ Kyle Sexton
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds
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23: Kyle's Good Finds: Tokyo, Japan Black Owned Bakery w/ Kyle Sexton
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 7 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds
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22: Season 2 Sneak Peek & Ask Me Anything
Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 6 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds
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21: Season 2 Announcement + Listener Challenge
Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 12:54 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
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20: How to grow your hospitality career with mentorship & coaching
Published: Aug. 6, 2020, 6 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 29 seconds
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19: Centering Black people in food & beverage with Black Food Folks
Published: July 16, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds
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19: Centering Black chefs & Black owned restaurants with Black Food Folks
Published: July 16, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 25 seconds
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18: Create & customize your own cookbook using your phone with Shaun Chavis of LVNGbook
Published: July 2, 2020, 6:48 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 59 seconds
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17: Improve your food photography skills with food blogger Anela Malik
Published: June 18, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 8 seconds
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16: How a stuffed waffle maker was invented by a software engineer
Published: June 5, 2020, 12:32 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds
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16: Black inventor creates Wonderffle stuffed waffle maker w/Mike Bradford
Published: June 5, 2020, 12:32 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 8 seconds
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15: Popcorn entrepreneur turns $53 into $500,000 and will help Black owned businesses grow with new digital marketplace
Published: May 21, 2020, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds
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15: Black owned Soul Popped Popcorn turns $53 into $500,000 w/De J Lozada
Published: May 21, 2020, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds
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14: How a Howard alum runs a pop up soul food restaurant around the world
Published: May 7, 2020, 4:49 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 24 seconds
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13: How this kombucha brewmaster left the tech industry & started a kombucha business w/Kemiko Lawrence of Kemboocha
Published: April 16, 2020, 4:36 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds
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12: How to start a food business from home in 2 months
Published: April 2, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 32 seconds
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12: How Vicky Cakes Pancake Mix launched in 2 months w/Christian Sargent
Published: April 2, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 32 seconds
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11: Top mistakes food entrepreneurs make with their food business w/Chelsea Rainey
Published: March 19, 2020, 2:39 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 19 seconds
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10: Pivot your business in a recession with celebrity baker Warren Brown of Spark Bites
Published: March 5, 2020, 6:42 p.m.Duration: 37 minutes 19 seconds
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9: Food Experience Design with Product Designer & Researcher Bianca Jackson of Bianca Bakes
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds
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9: Food, Tech & Design w/ Product Designer Bianca Jackson of Bianca Bakes
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds
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9: Food Tech & Food Design w/ Product Designer Bianca Jackson of Bianca Bakes
Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 54 seconds
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8: How this mompreneur started a coffee business from home with Fly Carmichael of Boss Blend Coffee
Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 30 seconds
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7: How to review & learn from 2019 to level up in 2020
Published: Jan. 30, 2020, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 6 seconds
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6: How former NFL player’s soul food brand landed Walmart.com in 3 months with Reggie Kelly of KYVAN Foods
Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 9:42 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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6: How NFL player Reggie Kelly got KYVAN on Walmart.com in 3 months
Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 9:42 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 52 seconds
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5: How the Modern Day Milk Lady brings almond milk to Houston communities w/Jornae Rideaux
Published: Dec. 12, 2019, 7:16 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 23 seconds
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4: How this Food Video Producer is changing food media representation w/Kiano Moju
Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 6:31 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 5 seconds
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3: How to prepare for a food business consultant meeting and what to expect
Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 11:59 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes
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2: Free business & career resources for your food business or food job
Published: Oct. 31, 2019, 5:57 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds
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1: We amplify Black owned businesses in the food & beverage industries
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 23 seconds
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1: We amplify Black owned restaurants & Black food businesses
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 2 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 23 seconds
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0: For food entrepreneurs, foodies, and food industry professionals
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 1:21 p.m.Duration: 48 seconds
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