No Stranger To Tragedy - What It Takes To BeBOLD with the Founder of Stacy’s Pita Chips and BeBold Bars, Stacy Madison

The Jake Dunlap Show

Today’s guest has been through it all in life, the ups and downs, and is the definition of resilience. From overcoming breast cancer to building both a Pita Chip and healthy snack empire, this week’s guest learned over time what it takes to be Bold.

After beginning her career in Social Work, she took her first company, Stacy’s Pita Chips, which my wife is obsessed with, from $1M to $65M prior to being sold to Pepsi and she has a bold and innovative snack taking the health food industry by storm.

Stacy Madison, the Hardest-Working Woman in the Healthy Snack Industry is this week’s guest on “The Jake Dunlap Show.”

Stacy grew up with her father who was a psychologist who was very entrepreneurial, as well as with her mother who was a teacher. After moving to Sharon Massachusetts at 13, and after being hit by a car at 16, Stacy went on to study Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. She later went on to receive her Master of Social Work at California State University, Long Beach.

She started her career as a social worker for pregnant women with drug addictions, and later left Boston to go to Hawaii for a restaurant startup. Instead of a bonus for hard work, she was fired to avoid being paid, and decided to take a leap of faith to buy a food cart.

Stacy’s Pita Chips began when she was selling Pita Bread sandwiches out of their food cart to avoid the waste of over-ordered pita bread from a local bakery. She purchased a Sealy Mattress factory for production, and transitioned to selling pita chips full time.

She grew Stacy’s Pita Chips to $65M in Revenue before selling to Pepsi in 2006. She later owned Stacy’s Juicebar, where Bars that had nuts, oats, chia, chocolate chips, maple syrup, and wildflower honey. This later became BeBOLD Bars!

Enjoy this week’s episode with Stacy Madison.

Stacy’s Rise Project:

• Help women gain access to start and grow companies
• Matching donations to the program up to $100,000

https://design.pepsico.com/case-studies/stacys-rise-project

Stacy’s Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-madison-09430a7/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stacymadison/?hl=en

Jake Dunlap:

Personal Site - http://jakedunlap.com

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Skaled:

Website - https://skaled.com/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/skaled