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How To Expand Revenue Streams With A Product Line & Packaged Goods.

Soraya Fernandez-Hazoury is the Co-Founder of Nearby Naturals, a viral “instagram-famous” DIY mushroom grow kit that started as a tiny urban mushroom farm in a rental house garage. Prior to COVID, the family-owned business mainly serviced restaurants but when their customers were forced to close due to the pandemic, they pivoted into an wildly successful e-commerce store selling direct-to-consumers.

In the past 2 years the company has bloomed into a high volume mushroom farm supplying eateries and hotels out of a large warehouse and is now selling the viral DIY mushroom grow kits to households nationwide.

How To Grow Your Brand & Social Media

Maria Nguyen is the founder & CEO of social media culinary platform @theartofplating, with 1 million followers on Instagram and creator of @itsonthepass podcast. When the former art director is not traveling the world in search of the next beautiful plate, Maria Nguyen is in Los Angeles honing in on the subject of plating and pushing the conversation forward to inspire creativity.

Chef Adrianne Calvo is an acclaimed chef with 700K+ followers on Instagram, author of 6 cookbooks, television personality, and restaurateur who opened her namesake Restaurant Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant and Wine Bar when she was 22 years old. Calvo can be found taping her weekly local NBC segment or at various events supporting her “Make it Count Foundation” that she started to help inspire young people to do their best.

How To Publish Your First Cookbook

Yasmin Khan, is a best-selling and award-winning food and travel writer, broadcaster, and human rights campaigner based in London. Her publications The Saffron Tales, Ripe Figs, and Zaitoun - was named one of the best cookbooks of the year by The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and the BBC Food Programme.

Andrew Friedman is the author of Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits, and Wanderers Created a New American Profession, and of Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Bocuse d’Or, the World’s Most Prestigious Cooking Competition. He also co-edited the popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home, and has collaborated on more than 25 cookbooks, memoirs, and other projects with some of America’s finest and most well-known chefs. He hosts and produces the popular podcast Andrew Talks to Chefs.

How To Create A Must-Hear Podcast

Bravo Top Chef Alum and OWN TV Host Tanya Holland is the owner, operator, and restaurateur of multi-award-winning Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland, CA, and creator of Tanya's Table Podcast.

Learn how she made time to start her own podcast that quickly went viral.

How To Grow Your Brand Beyond A Brick And Mortar

Multi-award-winning Chef, Author, and Artist Chef Elizabeth Falkner, has used her culinary training and background to merge her passion for art, travel & storytelling. Hear how to take your brand to astronomical levels from a former restaurateur who created entrepreneurial success with her art, creativity, and advocacy.

Take what you've built and learn how to keep it growing through your brand and today's new landscape including ghost kitchens.

We were excited to join a virtual wine tasting experience on October 20, 2020, with Wine.com’s Director of Education, Gwendolyn Osborn. It was a great discussion with panelists including winemaker Heidi Bridenhagen, and CEO of the James Beard Foundation Clare Reichenbach.

To learn more about how dough is a catalyst for good for the Foundation, and all about the wines, the recording of the tasting can be found on Wine.com’s YouTube’s Channel