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It's the simple show. You've got episode 83. I'm Tish Oxenwriter, and on the

simple show, we talk about books, travel, and life at home. But for the next few weeks,

you'll hear from entrepreneurs, artists, and creatives as they let us peek behind the curtain

and learn more about what they do. In this episode,

I'm talking with Allison's chef, a woman who started a digital company out of her love of

cooking and nutrition. If you've been around the simple show for long, you've heard of PrepDish,

one of our regular sponsors. This is Allison's baby. We talk about what inspired her to start

a meal planning business from her experience as a personal

chef, what it's like to work with a remote team, what her daily routine is like, and how she keeps

coming up with amazing recipes. If you've ever wondered how all those meal planning services that are

sprouting up everywhere work, well, now you'll know. Listen to Allison and be inspired by her creativity.

Welcome to women's work.

You are the mastermind behind prep dish, which if anybody's listening to the simple show for any amount of time, they know that you are a longtime sponsor. So tell us a little bit about the

backstory of how you began this work. Yeah. So really it started with my work as a chef and that started as far back as high school. I really enjoyed cooking. My home

at instructor set me up with a personal chef gig in the summers and really enjoyed that, which inspired me to go to culinary school and then nutrition school.

And sort of came full circle. And after all the schooling, I decided to go back to what I knew

and loved. And that was personal chef work. And I started a personal chef company in Austin, Texas

back in 2009 and really still enjoyed that work. You know, I loved the intimacy of working one-on-one

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