EYL #220 The First Black Owned Sliced Bread Company

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jamel Lewis Sr. and Mark V. Edmond from The Black Bread Company discuss being the first black-owned sliced bread company, distributing their projects to major retailers, marketing, and the food industry.

They spoke about their plans for expansion, discussed working with government contracts, going on Ellen, the process of making bread and more. #theblackbreadcompany #foodindustry #chicago

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0:00.0	You gotta kinda dive down to build up where you wanna be at.
0:06.6	The pivot, it's a pivot that we knew we was gonna hit this point
0:11.4	at some point where you gotta shut everything that we doing
0:14.2	like down for a second so that when it rebrands
0:18.1	and rebuilds up that you just that much stronger.
0:22.2	My graduates from my school being forced, backdrop.
0:26.8	Bags drop, oh my drop, backdrop, backdrop.
0:41.2	All right guys, welcome back, EYL.
0:44.2	This is gonna be an educational and interesting episode.
0:48.6	So I always like to tell back stories on the episode
0:51.2	before we actually get into it.
0:52.3	So we were in Chicago a few months ago.
0:56.9	What event was that?
0:59.4	The mid-summit.
1:00.2	Blue print.
1:01.4	The blue print summit, yeah.
1:02.7	The blue print summit, right?
1:04.4	Yeah, dope event.
1:07.4	And we were in, they had like a holding room
1:11.0	which was in the tower, like an apartment at the time.
1:14.3	I was like holding it.
1:15.3	Yeah.
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