Encore Presentation:

Katherine Harvey is the Co-founder of Bare Bones, a San Diego based nutrition company offering a full menu of protein-infused products including ready to use bone broth, collagen protein powder, and instant bone broth beverage mixes. After three years as a business reporter at the San Diego Union Tribune, Kate left journalism and took the leap into the food industry to run Bare Bones along with her husband Ryan Harvey.

Bare Bones quickly became one of the top innovators in the bone broth industry by pushing the limits of how to deliver bone broth to consumers with a focus on maximum convenience and top quality. Kate's words to live by are 'May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears'.

Kate talks about her husband's transition from being a fine dining chef to a bone broth maker

How Kate transitioned from being a reporter to writing a cookbook and entering the food industry

The difference between bone broth and bone stock, and benefits of taking bone broth

Why the new business decided to move to Oregon and how they landed their first investor

Kate talks about the process of getting into retail, the challenges they faced and what they learned from that process

How the company's first frozen product line was shipped and how they changed it to shelf stable

How customer feedback prompted the company create a less expensive and more convenient product

Where to find Bare Bones’ products

How selling on Amazon has impacted the company's sales

How Bare Bones’ broth products fit in with different lifestyle diets

Challenges faced in marketing to people in different consumer groups and demographics

Bare Bones’ plans for the future and new products coming out soon

What Ryan Harvey has been upto and what he does in the company

Why the company decided to move back to California

How attendants of Expo West were affected by the health crisis

Kate's advice to fellow entrepreneurs on managing through failures and resiliency

Where to learn more about Bare Bones and get their cookbook

It is ironic that a good number of chefs live unhealthy lifestyles despite working in restaurants. They rarely get the time to sit down and enjoy a good meal. Many times they drink stock to sustain themselves through service, and if this stock is store-bought, it is often not very nutritious.

Katherine & her husband Ryan are in the business of creating 100% organic bone broths to provide nutritious protein alternatives to people. Ryan was a fine dining chef who faced the same challenge many chefs working in busy restaurants face regularly. He & Kate launched their bone broth side business out of a local food delivery service and soon grew to not only selling in supermarkets but also in online marketplaces.

Katherine Harvey joins Steve Cleere in this week's episode to talk about her journey and her husband's transition to the food industry. She also talks about the benefits of her company's bone broth over common stock products found in food stores, how the company found its first investor and entered the retail market, and how selling on Amazon has impacted sales. Stay tuned.

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