EP11: Dishing on Disasters in Business: Turning Failures Into Successes With Chef Ouita Michel
The entrepreneurial journey is rife with immense highs and lows. Some of your best breakthroughs come after major failures. But sometimes you just need to laugh about the absurdity that can happen while working to build your dreams. You can’t plan for everything and having mentors and a supportive community around you can help with that perspective.
In this episode, Toa and her mentor, Chef Ouita, a James Beard nominated chef and proprietor of Holly Hill Restaurants, will share their most memorable business fails. Their stories range from paperwork and permitting problems to plumbing nightmares you have to hear to believe. Ouita and Toa assure as all that though we may not be able to avoid business disasters, we can get through them with a little resourcefulness and a lot of laughter.
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Resources Mentioned From the Episode
Quotable Moments From the Episode
“We have to say goodbye to one dream, to chase a bigger dream.” - Toa Green
“So much of when you're up and coming, whether you're a chef or you're a business person, having someone who has experience and has some clout in the community, go to bat for you and to promote you and to say, ‘hey, this is really good.’ I mean, that I think that was everything in the beginning to say that Chef Ouita Michel has our product in her store so that other people would say, ‘oh, it must be good." - Toa Green
"Well, it's a rollercoaster ride and you're living your dream out often when you're a small business owner. And so it can be hard too–the lows can be very low and the highs can be very high. I think the main phrase that guides my business experience is ‘this too shall pass.’” - Chef Ouita Michel
Connect with Toa!
C&B Podcast website
Connect with Chef Ouita!
Holly Hill Company website
*Production by Four Eyes Media*