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Jul 2018
55m 59s

Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown

Guy Raz | Wondery
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For many of us, chicken salad is just another sandwich filling, but Stacy Brown turned it into a $75 million business. In 2007, she was a divorced mother of three looking for a way to make ends meet. So she started making chicken salad in her kitchen and selling it out of a basket, door-to-door. She eventually turned that home operation into Chicken Salad C ... Show More
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