Kiersten Firquain is the Chef and Founder of Legit Provisions. The innovative eatery is a farm-to-table micro market in Napa Valley, California. In addition to her culinary talents, Kiersten, or Chef K as she’s popularly known, is a serial entrepreneur. Before establishing Legit Provisions, she founded Get Happy Catering, the Happy Food Company, InHome Bistro, and Bistro Kids. Chef K attended the Culinary Institute of America in Greystone and has an MBA in business and corporate communications from California State University, Sacramento.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- Chef Kiersten Firquain discusses her first business and transitioning to catering
- How Kiersten maintained healthy lunch meals in her daycare schools
- Overcoming bureaucracy
- What is the Happy Food Company?
- Should you work for the company you sell to?
- How to manage more than one company
- The pandemic’s impact on the Happy Food Company
- The secret to selling to a variety of buyers
In this episode…
Starting a new business is usually an extension of a job where you’ve had prior experience. However, some people take a more challenging route and create a company in a field without any background. So can you build a business with passion alone?
Chef Kiersten Firquain suggests starting with a business plan. When the passion is there, people will go above and beyond to learn and discover resources to achieve their goals. As a first-time entrepreneur, you may face numerous challenges. However, with the correct strategies and resources, you can overcome the obstacles.
In this episode, host John Corcoran of Rise25 welcomes the Chef and Founder of Legit Provisions, Kiersten Firquain. She shares how she left a successful career to pivot into entrepreneurship, the challenges of working and selling to the same business, how to manage more than one company, and the secret to selling to a wide variety of buyers.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Kiersten Firquain on LinkedIn
- Email Chef K: ChefK@LegitProvisions.com
- Legit Provisions
- Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
- EO San Francisco
- EO Accelerator
- John Corcoran on LinkedIn
- Rise25
Sponsor for this episode…
EO San Francisco
This episode is brought to you by EO San Francisco.
The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a global, peer-to-peer network of more than 14,000+ influential business owners with 198 chapters in 61 countries.
If you are the founder, co-founder, owner, or controlling shareholder of a company generating over $1 million a year in revenues, and want to connect with other like-minded successful entrepreneurs, EO is for you.
The EO San Francisco chapter enables leading entrepreneurs in the Bay area to learn, grow, and achieve greater success.
The EOSF chapter was founded in 1991, and today we have over 100 members in industries ranging from marketing to agriculture to tech and professional services.
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This episode is also brought to you by my company, Pacific Crest Group.
Pacific Crest Group provides outsourced CFO, Controller, and bookkeeping services. You can learn more about us at https://www.pcg-services.com/
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