Cooking & Speaking to Change Culture with Katie Kimball
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Today on the show we have Katie Kimball. Katie is a master in teaching children how to cook. This may or may not surprise you but this can be somewhat of a controversial idea. Teaching children how to cook not only helps their health, your health, your wallet, and the whole family dynamics.
There is a lot that we explore in changing and addressing culture and how her entrepreneurial spirit and attitude have really contributed to her success going from a blog to creating a course to becoming a TedX speaker. We are going to explore all of that today on the show.
We discuss:
- [01:54] Katie shares her defining moment when she was in seventh grade.
- [03:36] It is common for many women to have some kind of experience with their father not giving his approval that holds back their creativity for decades.
- [05:51] Katie shares how she is showing up in the world today as an online entrepreneur.
- [08:01] Now they are a totally entrepreneurial family and are raising their four children to think outside of the mainstream too.
- [10:01] It is a tough balance when starting a business at first. Financial padding can help in the beginning.
- [11:11] What you haven’t had in the past feels great when that’s what your next achievement is.
- [13:37] Teaching kids how to cook is a long-term play for their health and independence.
- [16:14] After intentionally cooking with their children for 4-6 months, many families are cooking full meals together.
- [18:47] In the parenting world, everything in moderation.
- [19:52] We can’t feel guilty about what we didn’t know yesterday. We can only do better with what we know today.
- [23:05] They are trying to shift the traditions and cultures around food even just a little bit.
- [25:57] She was getting her influence out in little circles but she just wanted to get the message out there bigger. That is when she decided to apply to do a Ted talk.
- [27:21] After being invited to do a Ted talk it was postponed because of the pandemic. So she rented a stage, did the talk, and released it herself.
- [28:44] We need to teach kids so that it is part of their ingrained habits that they know that they should ask questions, feel curiosity with skepticism, and learn to be flexible because the world is always going to be changing. Then they can be resilient to deal with whatever comes their way.
- [29:52] Pain is where you grow. She has now written three talks.
- [30:46] You have to start with a story. Her goal with the first 1-3 minutes is to help people forget that they are listening to a stage talk and get so drawn into the story that they forget they are supposed to be learning something.
- [31:12] It is really important that you have one idea or one line. You have to make sure you are staying perfectly on topic.
- [32:51] If they didn’t learn something in our talk, we didn’t do our job. We want to entertain and educate at the same time.
- [34:56] Everyone is a story collector. Our stories have the ability to inspire and engage other people.
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