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[fusebox_track_player url="https://episodes.castos.com/5e3aa627bb42e8-95594950/Souper-Jenny-EP56-BTW.mp3" artist="Bright this Way with Allison Hare" title="No Experience Required To Serve Your Community: Jenny Levison of Souper Jenny" social_twitter="true" social_facebook="true" social_linkedin="true" social_pinterest="true" social_email="true" ]\n\nHost Allison Hare talks to Jenny Levison, owner of beloved Atlanta restaurant Souper Jenny and the founder of the foundation The Zadie Project. They discuss serving your community, following your purpose and passion, adventures in entrepreneurship, healthy cooking, and more.\n\nEpisode Highlights:\n\n\nJenny grew up in Atlanta, but moved to LA with her mother when her parents got divorced, and that led her into acting.\n\nAs an actor, she always also worked in restaurants, making her way through management and eventually ending up in the kitchen for a friend\u2019s restaurant.\n\nJenny and her husband at the time traveled around the world for 18 months, visiting 24 countries, and during that time she collected recipes from anyone she met, later realizing they were almost entirely soups.\n\nJenny founded The Zadie Project 3 years ago as a 501(c)3 after coming together with her whole Souper Jenny team and realizing she wanted to expand the ways she was serving the community in Atlanta.\n\nThrough The Zadie Project, they donate food from Souper Jenny to Title I schools, homeless shelters, and other at risk populations.\n\nJenny is dedicated to being intentional every day, even if that means being intentional about relaxing and watching Netflix.\n\nThe Zadie Project also holds a free drive-through grocery for those in need, especially with the effects of COVID-19.\n\nSouper Jenny is lucky to have already been a take-out only restaurant so they have not had to close, but it\u2019s been hard on the employees.\n\nJenny wants to open another location and is bidding to get into the airport.\n\nSouper Jenny sells 3 cookbooks that you can buy on their website, or get other recipes off Jenny\u2019s blog.\n\n\n3 Key Points\n\n\nIf you\u2019re driven to do something and you feel it is your purpose, then you don\u2019t need experience to get started.\n\nCOVID-19 has brought out so much kindness in people that perhaps we can make this a permanent change for the better.\n\nFranchising would mean not having your hands on every aspect of the business anymore, so deliberate, intentional growth is crucial.\n\n\nTweetable Quotes:\n\n\n"I look at the end like it\u2019s already happened. All the things that you need to think about\u2014how am I going to pay for it, how am I going to get time off work\u2014all those things come later for me. I see that picture of what I want and everything else is secondary.\u201d \u2013Jenny Levison\n\n\u201cMy purpose is just to know that I didn\u2019t waste my time here. That I created something that people enjoy, it\u2019s not gonna change the world, maybe, but I truly love what I do.\u201d \u2013Jenny Levison\n\n\nResources Mentioned:\n\n\nText me at 470.242.6311. Subscribe to this podcast, SHARE, and find me everywhere at Allison\u2019s Linktree.\n\nSubscribe to Allison\u2019s blog, Sticky Notes\n\n\nOrder Souper Jenny\n\n\nSouper Jenny Instagram\n\nBuy Souper Jenny cookbooks\n\n\nJenny\u2019s blog\n\n\nJenny\u2019s TED Talk\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices