Hi, Boys and girls are all fired up.

Hi everyone, you're listening to Radio Cherry Baum, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond, coming

to you from newsstand studios at Rockefeller Center in the heart of New York City. I'm the founder

and editor of Cherry Bomb Magazine, and each week I talk to the most interesting women and

culinary creatives in and around the world of food. We're doing things a little differently today and talking

about life at Cherrybaum. My guest is Cherrybaum CEO, Kate Miller Spencer. Kate is a mom, a food

lover, and a longtime media veteran who has worked at Bon Appetit, Food and Wine, Fox Media, and

several other places. Kate also had her own media sales company

based in Chicago, and she was an entrepreneur before a lot of us even used that term. Before she

became our CEO, Kate was our publisher. She left for a few years, and I literally begged her

to come back. Kate recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with Cherrybaum. As some of you know,

Cherrybaum is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year, and Kate has been helping us get ready for the

next decade of Cherrybaum. We have a lot of goals and dreams and plans, as you can imagine. As part of that,

Cherrybaum is raising money for the first time ever. For the past decade, we've

been bootstrapped. And I did all the classic things a lot of you entrepreneurs did and built

the company on my credit cards. I trashed my 401K. Things that in retrospect probably were not the

smartest, but they were my only option at the time. We're fundraising through a platform

called WeFunder and doing what's called a community round.

I wanted our community to have the opportunity to participate

and be angel investors,

and I also wanted to fundraise in as transparent a way as possible.

We all know the stats about women and fundraising

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