Erica Barrett's guest appearances

Erica Barrett

Girl on Purpose with Vivian Tenorio

SistersInc.

Lisa Price

Sevetri Wilson

Sam Polk

Guy Kawasaki

Sassy Jones

Jessamyn Stanley

Robin Wilson

Mahisha Dellinger

Amanda Bates

Katie Lee

Natasha Case

Jen Groover

Loren Brill

David Israel

Michelle Johnson

OwlTail

SistersInc. is a podcast for and about women business owners, brought to you by Black Enterprise and sponsored by Nationwide. On each episode we will talk to one successful entrepreneur. Episode One features Erica Barrett of Southern Culture Foods.

Episode 1: Taking The Heat with Erica Barrett of Southern Culture Foods.

Erica's love for cooking started at the tender age of 9 years old. She got her inspiration as a young girl from a red and white checkered cookbook titled Good Housekeeping offered to her by her grandmother. From the time she was given the cookbook, Erica immediately started experimenting with recipes, which soon blossomed into meals for her family.Erica went on to attend Clark Atlanta University and earned a degree in Business Administration. She landed her first job at Target as an Executive Team Leader. Even at Target, she won food contest amongst her peers. It wasn't until years later that Erica entered a cooking contest with Lea &amp; Perrins and Foodnetwork.com, that she really started to craft for making amazing dishes seriously. Erica ultimately became the grand prize winner of that contest. But it wasn't until she was making breakfast for her husband one weekend morning that she realized that something was missing from the grocery aisle, good breakfast. Erica left the store an entrepreneur and started Southern Culture Artisan Foods. Erica's mission was to totally re-invent breakfast. She wanted to make food  that was great tasting and clean to eat.She  started with pancakes, the kind that were light and airy, then decided to have fun with flavors like Vanilla and Bourbon Salted Pecan and Banana Pudding. Erica thought, "these are delicious, but what will people think?" So she asked neighbors, friends, and family to try them and they loved them. With the official stamp of approval, Erica placed the products for sale April 2012 and the rest is history. So now we are all  on a mission to save people from drab, boring breakfast and give them life with carefully hand-crafted batches of goodness. Everything we craft is hand made, all-natural and contains no genetically modified ingredients. Finally, we can eat a breakfast we are proud of.On Today’s show Erica will share:- How she has reinvented the pancake mix- How she prepared for Americasmart in 2 weeks and made $80,000- How she landed Nordstorm- How cold calling TJ Maxx got her a $19,000 order in just 3 weeks- Why she was rejected from ABC's Shark Tank in Season 4- Plus much more... Useful links:http://www.viviantenorio.com/012-erica-barrett-founder-of-southern-culture-foodsCOPYRIGHT © 2014  VIVIAN PRODUCTIONS LLC

<p>Erica's love for cooking started at the tender age of 9 years old. She got her inspiration as a young girl from a red and white checkered cookbook titled Good Housekeeping offered to her by her grandmother. From the time she was given the cookbook, Erica immediately started experimenting with recipes, which soon blossomed into meals for her family.Erica went on to attend Clark Atlanta University and earned a degree in Business Administration. She landed her first job at Target as an Executive Team Leader. Even at Target, she won food contest amongst her peers. It wasn't until years later that Erica entered a cooking contest with Lea &amp; Perrins and <a href="http://Foodnetwork.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Foodnetwork.com</a>, that she really started to craft for making amazing dishes seriously. Erica ultimately became the grand prize winner of that contest. But it wasn't until she was making breakfast for her husband one weekend morning that she realized that something was missing from the grocery aisle, good breakfast. Erica left the store an entrepreneur and started Southern Culture Artisan Foods. Erica's mission was to totally re-invent breakfast. She wanted to make food  that was great tasting and clean to eat.She  started with pancakes, the kind that were light and airy, then decided to have fun with flavors like Vanilla and Bourbon Salted Pecan and Banana Pudding. Erica thought, "these are delicious, but what will people think?" So she asked neighbors, friends, and family to try them and they loved them. With the official stamp of approval, Erica placed the products for sale April 2012 and the rest is history. So now we are all  on a mission to save people from drab, boring breakfast and give them life with carefully hand-crafted batches of goodness. Everything we craft is hand made, all-natural and contains no genetically modified ingredients. Finally, we can eat a breakfast we are proud of.On Today’s show Erica will share:- How she has reinvented the pancake mix- How she prepared for Americasmart in 2 weeks and made $80,000- How she landed Nordstorm- How cold calling TJ Maxx got her a $19,000 order in just 3 weeks- Why she was rejected from ABC's Shark Tank in Season 4- Plus much more... Useful links:<a href="http://www.viviantenorio.com/012-erica-barrett-founder-of-southern-culture-foodsCOPYRIGHT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.viviantenorio.com/012-erica-barrett-founder-of-southern-culture-foodsCOPYRIGHT</a> © 2014  VIVIAN PRODUCTIONS LLC</p>

012: Erica Barrett, Founder of Southern Culture Artisan Foods