Hi everyone I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of who

what where and this is Second Life a podcast spotlighting women who have

truly inspiring careers we're talking about their work journeys what they've learned

from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears and what happens

when they embark on their second life.

Today on the show I'm speaking with the co-founder and president of Primal Kitchen, Morgan Zanotti.

In 2015, Morgan and her co-founder Mark Sisson set out to disrupt grocery store isles everywhere with a line of high quality and

delicious condiments, sauces, and dressings all made without dairy, added sugar,

and canola oil. They launched with a single product, an

avocado oil mayonnaise and have since grown to over 70 skews and are on shelves at over 16,000 retail locations.

But before Morgan was building one of the fastest growing natural product companies

and leading it through acquisition to craft

tines for $200 million. She had a variety of other jobs. After graduating from

college, she worked as an accountant, but after about nine months left in pursuit of a career she felt more connected to.

During that time, she worked as a waitress at a resort in Wisconsin, surfed throughout South America, and even became

Yoga certified. Eventually, she returned to the United States, but still wasn't quite sure what a corporate career would look like for her.

She ended up taking a job at a branding and design agency before becoming the marketing director at

Beverage Company, Kavita. It was through that role that she met Mark and they

began to chat about building a company together. Soon, Primal Kitchen was born.

Morgan is so open about what it's like to launch, grow, sell, and run

a company and I am truly excited for her to walk us through it all. Now on Second Life, it's Morgan Zanotti.

All right, Morgan, you ready to do this?

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