#10 - Rebecca Brady -- Accidental American Dream

So then here in Buffalo, when you guys got here, kind of launched into the next phase of your journey with Top Seeds, right? So how

did that get going? Yeah, that was a lot of fun too.

So moved here and got the kids settled into schools and into community, into their sports and everything that they love doing, music.

And then realized I had their teenagers.

They actually don't really want me around anymore.

I'm like, okay, it's time for me to, to dig into, um, doing some work.

So looked around for jobs and actually couldn't find anything big and found it hard.

I hadn't worked for 10 years for money.

So my resume was looking a little dismal.

And now I'm in a position where I'm hiring people and I understand, you look at a resume, if someone hasn't worked for 10 years, you're going to take the person who's most recently worked, right? So it was a tough time.

I couldn't find a job.

So I thought, okay, I have this opportunity here.

My husband has a job.

He has health insurance with his job.

I don't need to stress about those kind of things.

What do I love doing? Do something you love, never work a day in your life, right? So I love good food.

I love the connection between food.

You are what you eat.

And I'd been making crackers and roasting seeds and eating healthily for a very long time, actually.

And people had always loved the crackers.

I thought, oh, why don't I start a seed business or a cracker business? So I did, yeah.

So this part of this, for me, is particularly inspiring because I feel like a lot of stay-at-home parents spend the time raising their children and then get to the end of it.

This is something that's really scary to a lot of people.

when you're going into it and then when you get to the end of it as well, you know, so like I have kids, my wife works, but in the times that we've had short conversations about like, you know, would you ever want to just focus on the kids? One of the big things is like kind of that bogeyman of like, what's at the end of it? Like, how do I get back into the workforce? So like the idea that you, well, maybe you start your own thing.

I think that's going to become more and more prevalent.