Anna-Lena Kamenetzky is the Founder and CEO of Touch Capital, a venture/growth investment fund focused on consumer products and services companies. On this episode of ITS, Anna-Lena shares insights from her career in investment banking, large cap investment firms, and private equity to help emerging brands plan for the future...

Noah Wunsch is the founder of Ruby, a new, super creative line of organic hibiscus water. On this episode of ITS, Noah and Ali talk about the value of going beyond what we’ve come to think of building a brand identity, how brands need to take time figuring out where...

Lola Adeyemi is Founder of "It’s Souper” a line of Afro-Fusion Soups Sauces currently sold online and in Canada. On this episode of ITS, Lola and Ali talk about the beginning: What is it really like to go from idea to product to sales and why confidence is not...

Authentic products by artisan producers are worth protecting. Beatrice Ughi, founder and president of the food importing company Gustiamo talks about the fake and adulterated products passing as "Made in Italy", and shares her passion for keeping it real. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support...

Amrit Richmond and Steven Vigilante are friends and CPG gurus who created Indie CPG - a global community of over 250 brand founders. On this episode of ITS, Amrit and Steven talk Ali through some of most common mistakes founders make, as well as some of the common strategies that...

Part I: Setting the stage…People, Places and Products of the Midwest that inform the region’s foodways. Featuring: Mark Anthony Arceno https://anthropology.osu.edu/people/arceno.1; Cynthia Clampitt http://www.worldplate.com https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/44dks8mf9780252038914.html Lucy Long https://foodandculture.org/ https://www.academia.edu/5933358/Green_Bean_Casserole_The_Logic_of_a_Midwestern_Foodways_Aesthetic https://www.questia.com/library/120085956/regional-american-food-culture Eat Your Heartland Out is powered by Simplecast.

Allison DeVane is founder of Teaspressa, the company that created coffee-inspired tea blends, designed to make tea drinks like lattes just like their espresso counterparts. On this episode of ITS, Allison and Ali discuss the assets and liabilities of building brick and mortar businesses alongside CPG products, especially as COVID-19...

In this special live episode of In The Sauce - Ali joins Whole Foods Market Tribeca to celebrate women makers across the country who raise the bar! Recorded on February 27th, 2020: We hear from a diverse group of women how they have overcome adversity to create products we love...

Amanda Hesser is Founder and CEO of Food52. Kristina Wasserman is Director of Five Two, the line of crowd-sourced home products Food52 launched in 2018. On this episode of ITS, Ali talks with Amanda and Kristina about growing and staying connected with its community of 16 million people since 2009...

Elena taped today's episode at the Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin Booth at the Summer Fancy Food Show. Today's episode features shorter interviews with ten different cheesemakers, all from Wisconsin and all making unique products! From the science behind cheese spread texture to the benefits of using a bio digester, these...