The Food Means Business Podcast

From Sabbaticals to Sustainable Packaging: How to Create Meaningful, Healthy Food Products with Kailey Donewald

Aug 23, 2023

One of the main topics of this show is leaving behind the corporate world to pursue a passion in the food industry. So often, corporate jobs eat up so much of our time that we become burnt out and start looking elsewhere for professional fulfillment. It’s normal to want to leave behind the rat race and do something meaningful instead.

In this episode, I’m interviewing Kailey Donewald, founder of Sacred Serve creamy plant-based gelato. Kailey shares how taking sabbaticals from her corporate job led to her passion for nutrition and healthy foods, why truly sustainable packaging is important to her, and how she launched her business with some trial and error.

In this episode, you’ll learn…

[00:37] Kailey shares how she went from employee to food business founder

[05:10] Why Kailey became interested in nutrition and also ice cream, and how she launched her business

[13:00] How she created completely sustainable packaging for her product and how she came up with her ice cream flavors

[19:06] How she got her product into grocery stores and her plans for launching more product lines

[22:48] Kailey talks about her nonlinear journey to hiring a team

[24:45] What entrepreneurship has taught Kailey about herself and how she takes care of herself

Get full notes and a transcript at: https://www.thehudsonkitchen.com/podcast/ep32/

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