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Cooking up Substance: A Chef’s Journey to Entrepreneurship

56m · Working on Purpose · 04 Feb 08:00

What we do to earn a living can have a profound influence on the meaningfulness of our overall lives. Our careers can be a terrific source of joy, or can manifest tremendous disappointment or angst in us. And sometimes, we just need some kind of change but don’t know exactly what it is. What to do, then, when your career has developed over several years, you’ve gained some valuable skills, and you think you might just be ready to make the leap to self-employment? Join the conversation as Chef Tara Anderson of Tara’s Table, who launched two product lines, Half Pint Palates in 2013 and will be launching Mother Meatball in 2015, shares her journey from a successful corporate executive chef to starting her own company. You’ll learn why she felt compelled toward entrepreneurship, how she made the tough decision to leave a great job, the early steps she took to launch the business, and how her life has since changed throughout her odyssey.

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