Ever wondered if you could risk it all—your savings, your sanity, your entire career—on a food you love? Erin Wade did just that. Fired from her law job and flat-out rejected by banks, she built a cult mac & cheese restaurant that broke every rule and every record. In this episode, Erin tells the unfiltered truth about betting everything, surviving the chaos, and what it really feels like to sell your “baby” to a VC-backed food giant.


01:00 – Fired From Law, Chasing Mac & Cheese Dreams
01:32 – The Crazy Restaurant Gamble: No Money, All In
04:25 – Friends Said She Was Nuts
06:15 – Two Weeks From Total Failure
08:20 – How to Survive Entrepreneurial Panic
10:05 – Betting Everything on One Dish
12:10 – The Secret Sauce: Pricing for Hype
13:55 – Lines Out the Door—But No Profit
15:18 – Outperforming 99% of Restaurants
16:55 – Building a Business People Actually Want to Work At
18:30 – Radical Transparency: Open Book Management
20:15 – Buying Out Her Partner After 6 Years
22:10 – Turning Down Investors—Until Divorce Changed Everything
24:00 – The VC-Backed Tech-Food Takeover
26:05 – Selling Her "Baby"—And Regretting It?
27:42 – What Happens After You Sell (and They Don’t Want Your Help)
29:08 – From Burnout to Bestseller: Writing The Mac & Cheese Millionaire

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