Podcast Episodes

Spirits From Whey: How Milk Becomes a Distilled Spirit in About a Week

Season 1 Episode 20

Takeaways

Make what you love, because it is easier to sell and talk about, and Alise's best-selling brie came from that.Ask specialty shop buyers what…

1 day, 2 hours ago

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Alise Sjostrom on Building a Cheese Business That Brings the Whole Community Along

Season 1 Episode 19

Takeaways

Community is part of the business plan: Alise sees her marketing as bringing people along for the ride, and David says the same is true for …

1 week, 1 day ago

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How to Start a Food Business on Your Family's Farm: Alise Sjostrom's Redhead Creamery Story [Part 1]

Season 1 Episode 18

Takeaways

Starting a food business on family land works best when you do something different with what the farm already produces.Food marketing and st…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

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How to Handle Bunnies, Doubters, and Grumblers: Community Building Lessons From Tracy Ore

Season 1 Episode 17

Takeaways

Think big and share the load. Tracy Ore wants to essentially take over the block around the St. Cloud State University Community Garden, and…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Garden Lady: How 20 Years of Showing Up Earned a Professor a Place in Her Community with Tracy Ore

Season 1 Episode 16

Takeaways

Big ideas can take years, so keep saying them out loud. Tracy Ore talked about creating a tomato unique to St. Cloud State from 2010 until a…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

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Stay Long Enough to Name Its Problems: Community Building Lessons From a Community Garden with Tracy Ore

Season 1 Episode 15

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1 month ago

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Inside Bruno Press 2.0: Why Mary Bruno Stopped Chasing What People Want

Season 1 Episode 14

Takeaways

Sometimes the biggest business turning point isn't a new product, it's dropping the instinct to chase what you think people want and making …

1 month, 1 week ago

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Mary Bruno's Ice Cream Story: A Fourth of July Tradition Bigger Than Christmas

Season 1 Episode 13

Takeaways

The ice cream memories that stick aren't the fancy ones. They're the specific, slightly ordinary ones, like a hand-cranked churn on the Four…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Doritos on Ice Cream? The Six-Year-Old Flavor Memory Bruno Press Owner Mary Bruno Can't Shake

Season 1 Episode 12

Takeaways

The best ice cream flavors, whether it's a six-year-old's Doritos-topped vanilla or a Ritz cracker flavor that won a national contest, usual…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Should Ice Cream Shops Do Samples? A Hot Take From Two Small Business Owners

Season 1 Episode 11

Takeaways

David and Donella both wrestle with finding the right event size. Too big and you lose the craft and the community, too small and it is not …

2 months ago

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