The Vital Side Podcast 2. Building a Mission-Driven Business through People, Planet & Profits with Heather Emerson
Entrepreneur, Speaker, & Forbes Next 1000 Leader, Heather Emerson shares more about overcoming adversity and trauma to build an impact-driven, plant-based, zero-waste food business impacting thousands of people.
This episode includes Heather’s story of how she turned her pain to purpose, co-leading a team of 25 people to provide organic, plant- based meals to hard-working Texans, all with a zero-waste mission. After rebuilding her life after being incarcerated 15 years ago, she has made a choice to turn her challenging experiences into doing good for the community. To date, Prep To Your Door has saved over a million pieces of plastic from the landfills and oceans, and sourced over 100,000 pounds of Texas-grown produce.
Episode 2 Show Notes: Heather's mission is to change food through strengthening local food systems so that everybody wins: the community, our health, our planet. In 2016, she founded Prep To Your Door in an effort to make that a reality.
- Heather’s personal story in the justice system
- Overcoming adversity & childhood trauma to take the next step towards entrepreneurship
- Leaving NYC to backpack around the world before starting Prep to Your Door
- The role that food has in our individual & collective healing journeys
- Heather’s advice for aspiring entrepreneurs
- Building a world-class employee culture; a sneak peek inside of the Prep to Your Door culture
Resources:
- https://www.heatheremerson.com/ and @theheatheremerson on instagram
- https://preptoyourdoor.com/ and @preptoyourdoor
- Cait’s instagram: @caitrossco
- Lindsay’s instagram: @myvitalside
- The Vital-Side Membership
- Cait’s Website
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