1 hr 2 min
Episode #176 - "Don't Underestimate Your Value" with Maven Catering OV Boss Babes
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- Entrepreneurship
Maven Catering has been a staple in the Deep River community for quite some time now and I'm sure many of my listeners have sampled Carolyn Arnold's delicious meals at one point or another.
But how did this seasoned world traveller who left home to explore restaurants in Australia, Cambodia, and Thailand, bring back sharpened skills, new recipes and seasoned flavours and wind up working... for an insurance agency?! Well that 9-5 corporate job didn't last long, as Carolyn's entrepreneurial spirit finally emerged as she gave her boss 3 month's notice and began the shift from employee to employer, launching Maven Catering and building a team of folks with a passion for providing great food to their local community.
In this episode, we chat all about:
👩🏽🍳 How this Deep River local went from world traveller, to working in insurance to launching a successful catering biz
🤌🏼 Carolyn's award-winning catering strategies, from curating her menu to setting prices to offsetting overhead costs
🤦🏽♀️ Mixed up orders, too much food, customer complaints and dealing with price negotiations
🤔 How Carolyn (unintentionally and unconventionally!) landed huge corporate catering contracts with CNL and at the Hexagon Restaurant
Maven Catering has been a staple in the Deep River community for quite some time now and I'm sure many of my listeners have sampled Carolyn Arnold's delicious meals at one point or another.
But how did this seasoned world traveller who left home to explore restaurants in Australia, Cambodia, and Thailand, bring back sharpened skills, new recipes and seasoned flavours and wind up working... for an insurance agency?! Well that 9-5 corporate job didn't last long, as Carolyn's entrepreneurial spirit finally emerged as she gave her boss 3 month's notice and began the shift from employee to employer, launching Maven Catering and building a team of folks with a passion for providing great food to their local community.
In this episode, we chat all about:
👩🏽🍳 How this Deep River local went from world traveller, to working in insurance to launching a successful catering biz
🤌🏼 Carolyn's award-winning catering strategies, from curating her menu to setting prices to offsetting overhead costs
🤦🏽♀️ Mixed up orders, too much food, customer complaints and dealing with price negotiations
🤔 How Carolyn (unintentionally and unconventionally!) landed huge corporate catering contracts with CNL and at the Hexagon Restaurant
1 hr 2 min