In Ep. 43 Kylee Shields talks with her long time friend Scott about life, about what matters, and of course about churros! ABOUT OUR GUEST: Scott Porter Scott Porter is a serial entrepreneur, brand-experience architect, and unabashed “taco whisperer.” He is the founder and owner of San Diablo Artisan Churros, a gourmet churro company on a mission to fill lives with happiness—one churro at a time. Since 2016, San Diablo has served literally millions of churros at 9,000+ events and sold 35,000 churro-making kits worldwide. Most recently, Scott launched frozen Take & Bake churros and a freeze-dried, shelf-stable snackable churro line for retail grocers, restaurants, and food service. The brand is a seven-time Best of State pastry winner with $6.9M in lifetime sales. Across the nursing-home, luxury-airline, and gourmet-food industries, Scott’s framework for elevated, human-centered brand experience has driven measurable results: a turnaround from bankruptcy to $4.5M within a year in a market with 200 direct competitors, and an airline Net Promoter Score of 91 (industry average ~15), fueling loyalty, profitability, and operational excellence. Before San Diablo, Scott was co-founder/CMO at Surf Air (taken public at a $1.42B valuation); executive director of two nursing homes and a home-health agency in Southern California; co-founder of the NGO Singular Humanitarian; and a management consultant with Gartner (formerly CEB), InsideOut Development, and General Assembly. For more than 20 years he has trained Fortune 500 executives and leadership teams—in English and Spanish—keynoted industry conferences, and guest-lectured at USC, BYU, the University of Utah, Utah Valley University, Utah State, and Thunderbird. A fluent Spanish speaker and avid traveler to 46 countries, Scott has lived and worked across Latin America, spending three years in Mexico and leading 800+ volunteers on 23 weeklong humanitarian expeditions in Guatemala, Nepal, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, and Kenya. He holds a BA in Public Relations and an MBA from Brigham Young University, and an MA in Spanish from CSU Sacramento. Born in Arizona and raised in Las Vegas, he has also lived and worked in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Peru, and Mexico. LISTEN/SUBSCRIBE TO “The Belonging Place” PODCAST: *YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheBelongingPlace *Apple Music - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-belonging-place-with-kylee-shields/id1736354936 *Spotify - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-belonging-place CONNECT WITH “THE BELONGING PLACE” All Links: https://thebelongingplace.komi.io/ *Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_belonging_place/ *TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thebelongingplace?lang=en *YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheBelongingPlace *Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheBelongingPlacePodcast/ CONNECT WITH SCOTT PORTER *website: *LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottcraigporter/ *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandiablochurros *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/searchfortheperfecttaco *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forevervitamint PRODUCTION CREDITS: Intro/Outro Music: Kimberly Knighton https://www.instagram.com/kimberlyknightonmusic/ Recorded at Mindset Content Creation Studios Produced by Tommy Moore Brought to you by Vodcasts by Tommy Moore Presents - https://www.instagram.com/vodcasts_by_tommymoore/
