What if you could invent a business that was a model of collaboration and high quality and featured products that tasted really good?
What if I told you that a business like this exists and is also native Texan-woman owned?
The micro-batched and artisan food industry is more of a movement. Creative folks who roast coffee, brew beer, make bread, or create specialty condiments, are in it for the creativity as much as the profitability.
Our guest today had a dream of crafting specialty foods she loved and knew others would find tasty. Let’s talk with Taffie Lynn Butters about how she made her jalapeno dream a reality and does good at the same time.
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S01, Ep 28: Steve Stoler, Telling Your Story
Can you tell your own story? Do you know where to start and what does it take to have an impact? Claire and Steve talk about his story as an illustration of how to best tell a difficult and complex story.Steve Stoler is a veteran Emmy Award winning television news reporter, whose career has spanned more than three decades at six television stations in Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Texas. Steve has covered almost every type of news story imaginable. Throughout his career, Steve has been an eyewitness to history. After 34 years in TV, Steve is now the City of Plano, Texas’ Director of Media Relations.
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S01, Ep 24: Cindy Baccus, Effectively Communicating Digitally
Do you own your digital footprint? Can you navigate in a digital world? These are skills we are all going to need in today’s world, both professionally and personally. In this episode, Cindy Baccus covers the key things you need to know to be an effective digital communicator.Cindy Baccus is considered an expert in the field of social media and digital marketing and currently serves as an Instructor at Collin College. An expert communicator, having graduated from the prestigious John C. Maxwell leadership and speaking program, Cindy can make even the most complex challenge look simple. She has authored several books and has served and headed several boards.
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S03, Ep02: What Drives an Entrepreneur? Featuring Adpop and Techmillenial
What is it that drives entrepreneurs? Why would anyone subject themselves to the crazy, unpredictable entrepreneurial lifestyle?
Entrepreneurs are an interesting breed. They are tenacious, passionate people who really do march to the beat of a different drum. They are visionaries, their strongest advocate, and although they have immense self confidence in themselves and their vision, they are humble enough to know when to pivot and say ”this isn’t working.” Lastly, entrepreneurs believe that rules are made to be broken. The status quo is boring. They are always thinking of ten different ways to solve a problem, and by putting all of these traits to work, develop products and services that their competition says, “Why didn’t we think of that?” It’s the amazing combination of using both sides of their brains to achieve what others may never have thought possible.
Here at Coffee with Claire, we celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit. And today, our guests demonstrate how collaboration and the bringing together two totally opposite ends of the business spectrum is the perfect combination to help newly formed companies or re-designed businesses create a strong professional footprint, while staying true to their individual entrepreneurial spirits.
Stay tuned and learn how bringing two very different worlds together has found the crossroads of the soft skills of creativity and the “hard” skills of programming have created the perfect combination for success!
This episode features Sungwoo Chun of Adpop and Jonathan Kim of TechMillenial discussing their businesses and their place in a variety of communities.
