Ep. 87: Speaking Your Truth & Holding Your Ground With Miyoko Schinner
In this episode Bailey sits down with vegan activist, entrepreneur, chef, cookbook author, and founder of a wildly successful vegan cheese company, Miyoko Schinner. Miyoko is considered a pioneer in the vegan scene with her development and creation of the vegan food brand that wedged it's way into the dairy alternatives market and caused waves in the dairy industry with it's successful marketing, product quality, and it's commitment to healthy, whole food ingredients. Her company became a force of compassion in a world of animal exploitation, corporate greed, and misleading food labels.
Throughout this convo, Miyoko opens up about the recent events between her and the company she founded back in 2014. She shares her experiences on being a female founder that brought a company from zero to 100, and gives tips for anyone who wants to become a entrepreneur and run their own business. This episode is filled with lots of juicy details about the current events and you won't want to miss it.
Highlights of the show:
- Hardships for female founders
- Miyoko exiting her own company
- Sexism, discrimination and gaslighting in the workplace
- Economic democracy
- The future of vegan companies
- Maintaining integrity while growing a business
- Going against big dairy
- Crowdfunding and fundraising platforms
- Imposter syndrome and overcoming it
- Rancho compassion Animal Sanctuary
- LEAP (Leaders for Ethics, animals, and the planet)
- Disassociation from a young age of animals to love vs animals to kill for food
And much more!
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show notes:
Wefunder- crowdfunding platforms