Leadership Capacity with Hilani Ellis
Sep 22, 2026 · 33 min · 9 segments
What does it take to build a business for 15 years, and keep expanding your own capacity to lead it? In this episode of Leadership Capacity, I sit down with Erin Fletter, founder of Sticky Fingers…
What immediately I'm thinking about is what did you feel responsible for getting right
beginning? In that first year, kind of tied to your comment there about things are revealed year over year.
What was it that you felt really responsible for getting right in that first year? That's a fantastic
So something that I'm very proud of that I wanted to focus on was not being – Everything to everyone.
I believe that any business that has a simple directive and that is excellent at one thing has the best shot at succeeding.
So being, you know, when I started Sticky Fingers Cooking, I mean, people want it.
They're like, oh, you should be partnering with farms and you should be selling products.
And what about prepackaged foods? What about, I mean, we would have gotten nothing.
And so back to your question, first of all, not being trying to be perfect, putting one foot in front of the other, knowing that...
What immediately I'm thinking about is what did you feel responsible for getting right
beginning? In that first year, kind of tied to your comment there about things are revealed year over year.
What was it that you felt really responsible for getting right in that first year? That's a fantastic
So something that I'm very proud of that I wanted to focus on was not being – Everything to everyone.
I believe that any business that has a simple directive and that is excellent at one thing has the best shot at succeeding.
So being, you know, when I started Sticky Fingers Cooking, I mean, people want it.
They're like, oh, you should be partnering with farms and you should be selling products.
And what about prepackaged foods? What about, I mean, we would have gotten nothing.
And so back to your question, first of all, not being trying to be perfect, putting one foot in front of the other, knowing that...
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