J. Reid
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Chocolate Artisan |
| Location | El Dorado Hills, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a student in the Los Rios Community College system, going for my AA in Culinary Arts Management, so I'll have the business tools I need to get my chocolate company – Whey-Out Chocolate – back up and running. I started the company while living in Georgia back in 2007, so that people with food allergies (like my daughter) would have access to delicious treats that have always been forbidden to them. In 2008, I began marketing my chocolates, which contain no dairy, nuts, soy, eggs, wheat or gluten – and on Easter that year, hundreds of kids enjoyed chocolate Easter Bunnies for the first time in their lives. I moved to California, hoping to rebuild the company, but arrived just in time for the economy to tank. So while I'm waiting for more favorable economic circumstances, I'm going to school at Folsom Lake College and American River College to finally get the college education I've longed for, equipping me for success when I get the chocolate flowing again. |
| Interests | Spirituality, art, chocolate, nature, dogs, cooking, reading, adventure, travel, homemaking |
| Favorite movies | Spirited Away, Mirror Mask, Little Big Man, Sleepless in Seattle, Transformers, African Queen, Totorro, O Brother Where Art Thou, X Men (or just about anything else with Hugh Jackman!) |
| Favorite music | Switchfoot, The Fray, Yoko Kanno, Beatles, Billy Joel, Rod Stewart, Lifehouse, Bonny Rait, Ray Charles, Paul Simon |
| Favorite books | The Southern Vampire series by Charlain Harris, Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, Mrs. Murphy series by Sandra Brown, Anything by Dean Koontz, Harry Dresden Files, Harry Potter, The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey, The Seventh Son and Ender's Game series and by Orson Scott Card |
Which is more important to you and why: flexibility or expandability?
Flexibility is obviously better than expandability: you can't expand if you're not flexible!