Dream First, Details Later with Ellen Bennett
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
One of the most common stories I hear is, "I'm not ready yet." You have a dream, a goal, an ambition, but without the connections, skills, or resources it feels out of reach. Social media makes it easy to see others' success without showing the REAL stuff. Late nights, blood, sweat, tears… the messy middle doesn't make the highlight reel. This mindset undermines our confidence and inhibits creativity.
Chances are, you do have what you need to get started. Today's show is going to prove it to you. Ellen Bennett, Founder of Hedley and Bennett and author of DREAM FIRST, DETAILS LATER, lifts the curtains to talk about her uncertain, circuitous, passion-driven journey. After a difficult divorce at age 9, Ellen was raised by her mother, who worked long hours to keep the lights on and the family fed. At 18, a two-month trip to Mexico turned into 4 years before Ellen returned to the U.S., walked in the back door of a Michelin star restaurant and asked for a job as a line cook. There, she observed the challenges cooks faced- one of them being the one-size fits all aprons that wore out, caused problems and generally weren't quality products. Hedley and Bennett is now one of the world's leading Apron manufacturers, collaborating with tastemakers like Martha Stewart and Alton Brown and top chefs like David Chang, April Bloomfield, and Nobu Matsuhisa.
For aspiring entrepreneurs stuck in analysis paralysis, creatives procrastinating on a personal project, or anyone caught in obsessive over-planning, Ellen shares her gutsy personal playbook to putting your inner worrier on silent and leaping into action.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live. You know the show where I sit down with amazing humans and do everything I can to extract from their brain and share it with you. And my guest today is Ellen Bennett. Now, if you're in the food world, you know who Ellen is. If you are not, be prepared |
| 0:21.3 | because Ellen started working at nine years old around her house, moved to Mexico by herself |
| 0:27.0 | at the age of 18, back to the United States, and walked into the back door of a Michelin two-star |
| 0:32.7 | restaurant, got herself a job as a line cook, and rest as they say is history she today runs headley |
| 0:40.7 | and bennett which is an apparel company that specializes in premium chef aprons now it sounds |
| 0:45.7 | like a small business a huge multi-million dollar business supplying chefware for the best in the business |
| 0:53.9 | nobu david chang april boomfield the best in the business. Nobu, David Chang, April Boomfield, |
| 0:57.1 | the best of the best. And if you've ever wanted to start a business in an area that you love, |
| 1:02.7 | this episode is for you. Again, her upbringing in Mexico, single mother, and took all of her upbringings, |
| 1:11.6 | mash them together and said, |
| 1:13.5 | what do I want to be or become in this world and did it? |
| 1:16.9 | She talks in this episode about how to maintain creativity |
| 1:20.3 | while building a business. |
| 1:22.6 | She talks, there's this great analogy of things are breaking |
| 1:25.7 | all the time, right? |
| 1:26.6 | And sometimes you have to get off of the bike in order to fix the bike. |
| 1:31.9 | And we also, of course, talk about her new book, which is I have right here, |
| 1:34.8 | Dream First Details Later, How to Quit Overthinking and Make It Happen. |
| 1:41.1 | This woman is a firecracker. |
| 1:43.2 | You're going to love her, her personality. Her story is |
| 1:45.8 | incredible. And if you've ever doubted yourself, this will likely be the inspiration that will get |
| 1:51.2 | you going. So I'm going to get out of the way. And again, back to the episode here with |
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