Alison Cayne: Founder of Haven’s Kitchen Sauces, Cooking School, and Café

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🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alison Cayne is the founder of Haven’s Kitchen, a brand on a mission to make home cooking more enjoyable via a NY-based cooking school, café, event space, and line of all-natural refrigerated sauces available across the U.S. at grocers like Whole Foods. But before she set out to change the way people feel about cooking, she was busy raising five children. In this week’s episode, hear Cayne’s personal journey to finding professional alignment.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Huwa Ware, and
0:12.0	this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:18.0	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:23.3	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:29.5	This week, as we continue to shelter at home, I have another amazing guest who I was lucky
0:35.3	enough to sit down with back in February, the founder and CEO of Haven's Kitchen, Alison
0:41.5	Kane.
0:42.9	Alison started Haven's Kitchen in 2012 as a cafe and cooking school, and soon after launch,
0:49.8	she also started hosting events in the space.
0:53.3	Since then, Haven's Kitchen has taught 10,000 classes, planned over 300 unique weddings,
1:00.6	and hosted over 1 million guests and students.
1:04.6	As if that doesn't keep her plate full, in 2018, Alison dove into the world of product,
1:11.0	and launched a line of refrigerated, globally inspired sauces made with fresh, all-natural
1:17.4	ingredients aimed at making home cooking easier, faster, and much more delicious.
1:24.5	Haven's Kitchen sauces are now available in over 1,000 stores, including whole foods
1:30.0	across the United States.
1:32.2	With so much under her belt, you might be shocked to hear that Alison didn't embark on
1:37.0	her Second Life until she was 38, when she went back to school to get her masters in
1:42.2	food studies at NYU.
1:44.9	More than her days look quite different as she was busy raising 5 children.
1:50.2	Talk about multitasking.
1:52.0	I'm so excited to share her story with all of you today.
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