Pro Food Maker

Launch and scale your food business and food career with tips, strategies, and lessons learned from your favorite Black owned food & beverage brands. Your host, Mercedes Gosby, interviews Black food professionals and entrepreneurs twice a month to discover how to get started in the food industry, and how to build a profitable food business.

30: Tips for getting your product into grocery stores w/ Planted Foods Co. 04/15/2021

29: How to find investors for small food businesses w/Kube Nice Cream 04/08/2021

28: Food truck marketing w/ The Food Truck Scholar 04/01/2021

27: Get more press features without hiring PR 03/25/2021

26: Navigating social media to grow your brand w/ Geo’s Table 03/18/2021

25: Before Mo Better Brews, there was Houston Sauce Co. vegan food truck 03/11/2021

24: How much does it cost to open a restaurant? w/Felicia Middleton, owner of Urban Aesthetics 03/04/2021

23: Kyle's Good Finds: Tokyo, Japan Black Owned Bakery w/ Kyle Sexton 02/25/2021

22: Season 2 Sneak Peek & Ask Me Anything 02/25/2021

21: Season 2 Announcement + Listener Challenge 02/02/2021

20: How to grow your hospitality career with mentorship & coaching 08/06/2020

19: Centering Black chefs & Black owned restaurants with Black Food Folks 07/16/2020

18: Create & customize your own cookbook using your phone with Shaun Chavis of LVNGbook 07/02/2020

17: Improve your food photography skills with food blogger Anela Malik 06/18/2020

16: Black inventor creates Wonderffle stuffed waffle maker w/Mike Bradford 06/05/2020

15: Black owned Soul Popped Popcorn turns $53 into $500,000 w/De J Lozada 05/21/2020

14: How a Howard alum runs a pop up soul food restaurant around the world 05/07/2020

13: How this kombucha brewmaster left the tech industry & started a kombucha business w/Kemiko Lawrence of Kemboocha 04/16/2020

12: How Vicky Cakes Pancake Mix launched in 2 months w/Christian Sargent 04/02/2020

11: Top mistakes food entrepreneurs make with their food business w/Chelsea Rainey 03/19/2020

10: Pivot your business in a recession with celebrity baker Warren Brown of Spark Bites 03/05/2020

9: Food Tech & Food Design w/ Product Designer Bianca Jackson of Bianca Bakes 02/20/2020

8: How this mompreneur started a coffee business from home with Fly Carmichael of Boss Blend Coffee 02/06/2020

7: How to review & learn from 2019 to level up in 2020 01/30/2020

6: How NFL player Reggie Kelly got KYVAN on Walmart.com in 3 months 01/24/2020

5: How the “Modern Day Milk Lady” brings almond milk to Houston communities w/Jornae Rideaux 12/12/2019

4: How this Food Video Producer is changing food media representation w/Kiano Moju 11/27/2019

3: How to prepare for a food business consultant meeting and what to expect 11/14/2019

2: Free business & career resources for your food business or food job 10/31/2019

1: We amplify Black owned restaurants & Black food businesses 10/07/2019