Gratitude, Fear, and Empowering Women to Pursue Their Dreams with Rachel DesRochers

The most powerful tool in business and life? Gratitude.

Rachel DesRochers is a serial entrepreneur who went from “making brown squares” to building multiple businesses that empower women and other entrepreneurs to achieve their wildest dreams. She explains how gratitude is an essential tool to building businesses and living a fulfilled life, shares some gratitude practices you can implement today, and how letting go of expectations will let your goals and achievements become bigger than you could ever have imagined.

Rachel DesRochers is the founder of Grateful Grahams, an artisanal graham cracker company; the Incubator Kitchen Collective, a non-profit providing kitchen space, business support, and mentorship to food entrepreneurs; founder of The Good People Festival, an annual free music festival; and In Gratitude, a podcast of tools, tidbits and chats on living a life in gratitude. Rachel recently launched Head to Heart Mentorship where she is using all the tools she’s learned as an entrepreneur to support other makers & creatives to live a life of joy! Her most recent project is Power to Pursue a one day woman’s empowerment conference.

Rachel has received numerous local awards and was a semi-finalist for Martha Stewarts American Made Award, awarded the Local Luminary from Slow Foods Cincinnati, 2020 40 Under 40 from the Cincinnati Business Courier and in 2021 the Emerging Leaders for Outstanding Women of NKY. Rachel is a passionate believer in the power of gratitude and the role of food in creating of community. Her mission goes beyond making a great cookie: she also wants to impact her community with positivity and action. If that wasn’t enough she is also mom to 3 and works side by side with her husband in building these businesses.