Why Conscious Eating Habits Create a Healthier Lifestyle - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 14 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares why she strives to raise food consciousness - an awareness of what we eat - in her fresh food advocacy, writing, and cooking pursuits. Simmons sets a priority on educating and communicating food nutrition and ingredients to help transform an American culture long on fast food and dining out and short on culinary nutritional understanding and acknowledgment. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

Why El Bulli Alum Jose Andres Inspires Culinary Careers - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 13 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares how El Bulli alum, Harvard educator, and Washington D.C. restauranteur Jose Andres has inspired her own fresh food advocacy. Simmons shares how Andres provides a great model of how to approach life and relationships all the while making a difference within a chosen career field and community. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How to Live in an Empire State of Mind as a Modern New Yorker - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 12 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares why she feels New York City living truly presents an Empire State of Mind, per the Jay-Z song. Simmons highlights personal experiences building a food career that showcase why, while not always easy, New York City is a land full of opportunity.

What Do Entrepreneurs and Food Professionals Have in Common - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 11 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares common approaches between entrepreneurs and aspiring food professionals. Simmons, who left a digital marketing career for one in food, shares how commitment and perseverance help both sides through the long work hours and bootstrapping process. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

Why Your Biggest Competitor Should Be Yourself - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 10 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons competes against herself by setting micro-goals and stretch goals. Leaving a retail digital strategy consulting career behind to follow her passion for food, Simmons uses micro-goals to complement her enthusiasm and curiosity to progressively structure a career path. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How Journalism Education Applies to Food Writing - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 9 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares how her journalism education has proven useful building a food career. Simmons not only applies skills such as writing to your audience on projects for Bon Appetit and her personal blog, but also finds the education useful when writing recipes. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

Why Not to Pursue a Harvard MBA - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 8 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares why she decided against pursuing an MBA after being admitted to Harvard Business School. Simmons takes the GMAT and applies to appease her parents. Upon being accepted to Harvard Business School, she determines an MBA is not the optimal investment at the time and continues her career in retail digital strategy consulting. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How to Commit to Making a Career Change - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 7 of 16 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares her career change story. Accomplished but unfulfilled, Simmons leaves behind her 10-year career as a retail digital strategy consultant to become a food professional. She highlights the challenge, and importance, of making a complete commitment to the new path and turning down retail strategy client project requests. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How to Be a More Creative Cook - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 6 of 16 of her 2010 interview with Capture Your Flag host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine Magazine 2010 Home Cook Superstar, Bon Appetit contributor, and entrepreneur Sarah Simmons boosts her cooking creativity by collecting and curating recipes and using them for inspiration. Gathering recipes and filing them in an excel spreadsheet help Simmons stay organized and make inspiration accessible, for example when referencing a Jean Georges lamb recipe when concocting her own Easter lamb angle. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

What Questions to Answer Planning a Cooking Career - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 5 of 16 of her 2010 interview with Capture Your Flag host Erik Michielsen, Food and Wine 2010 Home Cook Superstar and Bon Appetit magazine contributor Sarah Simmons shares the questions she asked and answered before deciding to leave consulting for a professional cooking career. Simmons first asks if she can make money, then identifies how she can stand out in a saturated market. Finally, Simmons, who has suffered from eating disorders much of her life, plans an approach to avoid getting fat doing what she loves. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How Cooking Makes Life Meaningful - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 4 of 16 of her 2010 interview with Capture Your Flag host Erik Michielsen, food writer and entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares her perspective on food as a memory inducer and happiness generator. An award-winning home cook and Bon Appetit magazine contributor, Simmons lives to watch other people eat the food she made them and focuses on creating memory making experiences through the tastes and smells her food brings to her guests. This goal provides Simmons purpose and has been central to her professional transition from business consulting into cooking and fresh food advocacy. Learn more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How Home Cooking Helps Overcome Eating Disorder - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 3 of 16 of her 2010 interview with Capture Your Flag host Erik Michielsen, food writer and entrepreneur Sarah Simmons discusses her health battle with an eating disorder and the associated physical and mental challenges. Simmons turns to home cooking, focusing her attention on pleasing others with food, to help her regain a normal relationship with food. Keep up with Simmons, an award-winning home cook and food entrepreneur, at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

Why Science Matters in Cooking - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 2 of 16 of her 2010 interview with Capture Your Flag host Erik Michielsen, food writer and entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares how she has learned to appreciate the science of cooking. Simmons, Food and Wine Magazine's 2010 "Home Cook Superstar", finds cooking a continuous learning environment, citing examples across the dairy pendulum of milk, yogurt, and cheese. Read more about Sarah at http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How Life Experiences Provoke Food Career Ambition - Sarah Simmons

In Chapter 1 of 16 of her 2010 interview with Capture Your Flag host Erik Michielsen, Bon Appetit magazine contributor and food entrepreneur Sarah Simmons shares the life experiences, from a mother's catering business to childhood obesity to a rising national nutrition consciousness movement, that have shaped the narrative arch behind transition from business consultant to food professional. Read more about Sarah on her site http://sarahmcsimmons.com.

How to Train New Leaders as Baby Boomer Generation Retires - Steph Redlener

In Chapter 10 of 10, creative talent agent Stephanie Redlener shares approaches to bridge the talent gap between technology-savvy young leaders and the retiring baby boomer generation. Redlener emphasizes the importance of establishing trust, especially given hiring baby boomer managers are often unfamiliar with younger generation technology expertise. To address skills or experience shortfalls, Redlener proposes young leaders opt not for one mentor but rather a board of directors mentor team. Redlener is an advertising industry recruiter for The Talent Business (http://www.thetalentbusiness.com).

Why to Hire Talent You Respect But Do Not Necessarily Understand - Steph Redlener

In Chapter 9 of 10, creative talent agent Stephanie Redlener shares why companies should hire candidates they respect but do not necessarily understand. Redlener believes the world is in need of innovators and changemakers given the speed of change. By hiring the same type of people, organizations face difficulty thinking differently. Redlener finds companies who hire on shared values, not viewpoints, do well building innovative cultures and superior performance. Redlener is an advertising industry recruiter for The Talent Business (http://www.thetalentbusiness.com).

How Definant Cultures Create Competitive Advantage - Steph Redlener

In Chapter 8 of 10, creative talent agent Stephanie Redlener discusses how companies with clearly defined cultures can better position purpose. This more detailed purpose allows them to take a stronger stance on identity and, as a result, frame identity as different or defiant. Redlener, an advertising industry recruiter, shares how this definant messaging benefits a company by attracting better talent. Redlener is an advertising industry recruiter for The Talent Business (http://www.thetalentbusiness.com).

How to Champion a Cause Using Non-Traditional Marketing - Steph Redlener

In Chapter 7 of 10 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, creative talent agent Stephanie Redlener learns creative marketing from her father's efforts co-founding and marketing Children's Health Fund (www.childrenshealthfund.org) with artist Paul Simon. Redlener's father uses non-traditional approaches to build cause and issue awareness around bringing medical care to homeless and indigent children. Stephanie applies these non-traditional approaches in her own efforts both in advertising and non-profit work.