When it is Too Hot in the Kitchen: A Holistic Approach to Business
October 28, 2019
Hosted by Sara Roach Lewis
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In this episode of Breakthrough, Sara Roach Lewis speaks with Patty Howard, owner and founder of Kitchen Door, a multi-million-dollar catering, food delivery, and culinary event company. From cooking on a four-burner stove and doing everything herself to managing a team and hiring people who can do the job better than herself, Patty shares with Sara her journey to success over the past 11 years. Sara and Patty candidly discuss whether women do business differently and how to manage “working hurt” as a business owner. Tune in to hear Patty speak on the importance of mental health for entrepreneurs and how she calls on compassion, extending what she calls “emotional bank deposits” while overseeing her team in a nurturing manner.Patty also shares how she extends compassion to herself while managing a successful company in an industry that often has its members, quite literally, run off their feet.
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Entrepreneurs often have similar characteristics: energy, passion, vision. Why do some soar to success while others struggle to climb?
Would it shock you to know that less than 2 percent of women-owned businesses in North America ever achieve a million dollars a year in revenue? Why is that? How do we dramatically increase that number?
What methods and mindsets do these powerful businesswomen have that you can learn from as you press forward on your journey to success? What obstacles did they face, opportunities did they identify, and trails did they blaze to hit this milestone?
Each week Sara Roach Lewis has conversations with the ambitious women entrepreneurs that help to form that 2 percent as well as those destined to shatter it. Are you interested in becoming a 7-figure entrepreneur? Sara Roach Lewis is here to help you “breakthrough.”
Sara Roach Lewis
Sara Roach Lewis is a successful entrepreneur, recognized expert in gender equality, facilitator, strategist, mentor, coach and radio host. Over the last 15 years, Sara has worked with some of our country’s top female leaders and has helped dozens of entrepreneurs scale and grow their businesses.
With a background in the not-for-profit sector, Sara honed her operations and management skills building programs, leading teams and managing budgets.
As an expert in women working in traditionally male occupations, she has worked with hundreds of women to succeed in their careers while blazing new trails for others. At the same time, she has worked with industry leaders and associations to address the systemic and structural women face, whether it is in business, government, trades, technology, or trucking.
In fact, she developed Trade HERizons, a program to increase the number of women in the trades sector in her home province. Over 10 years, the number of women in the sector has increased by 1100 percent.
A life-long learner, Sara has a degree in Psychology, diplomas in business administration and journalism and is a trained mediator focusing on interest-based conflict resolution. For the past several years, Sara has honed her focus on women in business and helping women meet their own million-dollar milestone. Through coaching and training, she helps established business owners focus on building their business to the next level.
