ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Confessions Beyond the Food is a podcast about working in the Food Industry. People who work in the Food Industry have grit and lots of stories to tell. W3 Sales, a sales & marketing company, will host this podcast with their confessions on how they have a new, fresh approach and invite guests to confess their secrets to their sauce.
Update frequency:
every 19 days
Average audio length:
32 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
50 episodes
since Oct. 6, 2023
episodic
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What does it really take to grow a business that doesn't depend on you?
In this episode, I sit down with Christin Marvin, founder of Columbine Hospitality and author of Multi-Unit Mastery. Christin shares her journey from line cook at 15 to managing partner by age 30, proving that initiative, …
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
What does it really mean to create a culture of learning?
In Part 2 of my conversation with Michael Wolfe, Director of Learning & Development at SEFA, we move beyond training programs and explore how organizations create environments where people continue to grow long after onboarding.
We discu…
What if the biggest problem with training...isn't the training?In this episode of Confessions Beyond the Food, Nancy Ridlen sits down with Michael Wolfe, Director of Learning & Development at SEFA, to explore why organizations often misunderstand learning and what it really takes to develo…
In Part 2 of Confessions: Beyond the Food, the conversation shifts from winning… to what it takes to sustain it.
After early success, the real test isn’t talent — it’s leadership, discipline, and how you show up when people are counting on you.
Preston Nguyen opens up about what it’s like leading i…
At 18, Preston Nguyen didn’t plan on competing in the World Food Championships.
He was going to volunteer.
Instead, a last-minute opportunity put him in the competition — alongside his parents — going up against chefs with decades more experience… and they walked away as Rookie of the Year.
In Part…
AI isn’t the barrier in distribution.
Culture is.
In this episode of Confessions Beyond the Food, Nancy sits down with Ian Heller — AI expert and Chief Strategy Officer at Distribution Strategy Group — to explore what’s really slowing adoption across foodservice, sales, and manufacturing.
They unpa…
Foodservice sales has always been built on relationships.
But what happens when intelligence evolves?
In this episode of Confessions Beyond the Food, Nancy sits down with Dr. Elena Park, an AI strategist specializing in sales transformation, to explore how artificial intelligence is already influen…
Life can pivot on a single decision — sign the contract, board the plane, lace up before dawn.
Shawn Porter’s journey spans a family legacy of military service, deployment to Iraq, and now leading one of the largest sales districts at Edward Don & Company. He shares what it was like returning h…
In this episode, Nancy Ridlen sits down with Jeanette Brick, President of iSi North America, for a grounded, no-fluff conversation on leadership built on customer truth, mentor-driven growth, and disciplined listening.
Jeanette explains why learning to sell before leading marketing keeps brands fro…
When friends and colleagues get together, you’re bound to learn—and laugh.
In this episode, host Nancy Ridlen, Principal at W3 Sales, sits down with Shannon Tallon, VP of Merchandising at Edward Don & Company, for a candid conversation about growth, leadership, and facing fear head-on.
Shannon …
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