018: Allergen-Free, Gluten-Free Handcrafted Delights to Snack On! with Michelle Carfagno
Essential Ingredients Podcast
English - January 18, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 127 ratingsNutrition Health & Fitness Business Entrepreneurship Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
“You have to find ways to find the definition of success as more than just dollars in your pocket.” -Michelle Carfagno
Episode Description:
A food allergy is defined as a physical reaction to certain types of food often leading to an immune system response and affecting other organs. This happens when the body mistakenly reads a food protein as harmful, thus, allerting antibodies to fight it. Symptoms may include hives, swelling of some parts of the body, diarrhea, nausea, trouble breathing, and dizziness. On the other hand, food intolerance also causes some symptoms similar to food allergy, but is limited to the digestive system. It occurs due to a chemical reaction in the body caused by particular substances found in a food or drink.
Food is a major part of our lives. We love it and we enjoy it. However, food allergies and food intolerance often rob many people of this very right. Not being able to enjoy food for fear of how your body might react can be isolating. Michelle Carfagno’s journey started with her desire to give other people access to the food that they love without all the pain and suffering. Hence, she founded The Greater Knead, the home of gluten-free and allergen-free snacks. Her desire is for people to eat with confidence and feel a joy that only food can bring.
Tune in as Michelle relates how helping her family and herself feel better has turned into a greater cause. Justine and Michelle also discuss how to look at fear and problems, build your business despite uncertainties, and develop a fighting spirit to keep growing. When the pandemic hit, businesses were hit hard. If you find yourself in one of those tougher times, listen as Michelle shares the secret to maintaining her business and success.
Connect with Michelle Carfagno:
Being authentic, creating gluten-free and allergen-free foods, with integrity, empowers others and inspires change. Since founding The Greater Knead, formerly Sweet Note Bakery, in June 2012 Michelle has been on a mission to do just that. They add the ingredients of passion, persistence and honesty to our products, so the allergen-free community can eat confidently.
They work with retail and food service partners to service 35 states and 1000 locations along the East Coast. We are continuing to expand across the nation with our authentic gluten-free and top 8 allergen bagel line.
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Episode Highlights:
01:12 Managing Food Allergies with Food
05:44 The Nostalgia in Food
08:43 Fear of Error is the Death of Success
11:35 Why Outsourcing Allows More Control
14:48 Find the Solution
18:25 Success is More Than a Revenue
23:10 There’s So Much Room to Grow