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Apr 2017
50m 43s

Lessons from My Favorite Contrarian Entr...

Codie Sanchez
About this episode

Her name is Mary & Her Motto is: Eat, Play, Crush

(You are going to like her, and her stories even more).

There are four people’s Instagram I actively follow and check, four. Mary’s is one of them. I don’t think I’ve told her that before (our little secret). Most have heard of Mary as @PaleoChef on Instagram, twitter and the web. Or you may know her as a private chef to more celebrities and athletes than I can list without being a shameless name dropper… but let’s just say if they write books, have the biggest platforms in the world, play sports, have millions of followers, are frequently on a big screen near you, she probably has cooked or coached them on Paleo. Oh and she has a Youtube Show on Mixed Makeup. NBD.

 

You might also know her because she’s a fudge packer. Say what? She came up with one of my favorite brands as a healthy traveler, PhatFudge, which is all organic, paleo goodness on the go. While I follow her for those reasons, my favorite part about Mary is her completely contrarian approach to business.

While everyone is out talking about life hacking and leveraging everything from technology to personal networks, Mary mostly turns left when others go right.

You see she has never taken a dollar of funding for her now crazily growing company. In fact, she didn’t have a credit card a month ago. Straight cash baby. While everyone is out talking about life hacking and leveraging everything from technology to personal networks, Mary mostly turns left when others go right. On this podcast, she opens up about where creativity stems from for her, how she handles moments of doubt, her transition from corporate to entrepreneur, what Paleo means to her, and everything in between.

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I reveled in recording it with her. Stay tuned I guarantee you'll be hearing big thangs from this lady.

 

***Bonus - Scroll below to see my favorite posts from Mary on Instagram. They are all time. 


 

My Top 5 Favorite Posts from Mary: 

 

 

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And a bonus picture.. Because we are really really ridiculous looking and I thought you guys would like to end that way.

That's all. 

Cheers my animals,

Codie

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