Hey Passion Nation! Welcome to the first ever episode of Feeding Your Passion! This is episode 00. This is the precursor to all other episodes. Feeding Your Passion is a podcast for the Entrepreneur and the Food Connoisseur. This episode will be about 15 minutes long and it's just you and me today. Starting in our next episode, I’ll be interviewing amazing Restaurant owners week in and week out.

Today, my goal is to share with you my vision & inspiration for the podcast and then wrap up by telling you a little bit about myself.

Before you get rolling on the next episode, I would love for you to visit my website FeedingYourPassion.com where you can sign up for our email list so that we can deliver the podcast to your inbox every week. By going to our website, we can connect and work together to build PASSION NATION….. Now, prepare to be FED! (transition sound effect or music)

Hey everyone, Eric Martin here and I want to thank you for joining me for episode 00 of FeedingYourPassion.com. Every week I will be interviewing the most exciting and inspiring Restaurant Owners of today. Each interview will be captivating in its own right as it will be a virtual VIP dining experience where you join the head-table with our celebrity guest restauranteur in their establishment. I’m excited about producing a new 25-minute episode for you each week. So what this means for you is that Feeding Your Passion will be awaiting you, at the beginning of the week, for your commute to work, your morning jog or any weekly activity that requires an extra dose of inspiration.

We will follow a clear concise format on every show so that you will know exactly what to expect day in and day out. Have I got your attention? If so, then keep listening and I’ll dive into the interview flow before moving on to tell you a little bit about myself, your host, Eric Martin.

Ok… Food Connoisseurs pull up a chair, this part was designed for you. We start with our Front of the House virtual VIP Dining Experience where you will personally get to know the spotlighted Restaurant Owner, you will hear in their own words what inspired them to open their restaurant and what they feel sets them apart with the dining experience they’ve created for you. Next you’ll learn, with mouthwatering detail, their most popular, must try and favorite culinary creations! Whether it’s your next date night or dinner with a client, I want to facilitate a connection between you and these amazing Restaurant Owners.

The next segment is geared toward the entrepreneur but stick around for the entire show and you just might receive a VIP ticket with a special offer directly from the owner of the restaurant. (Free Dessert)

Whether you’re a current or aspiring Restaurant Owner, manager or Chef the Back of the House segment was designed with you in mind. We will now take a deeper dive to learn more from our guest by asking questions like:

1.     What is one thing you feel like you have done really well in the development of your Restaurant(s)

2.     What is one thing you NOW know that you wish you would have known when you started your foodservice journey?

3.     And much more!

All of these questions let us learn from their valuable experience as a Restaurant Owner. Then, as we walk through their challenges, we will have the opportunity to benefit from what they learned and what they did to overcome.

At this point, we’ve reached my favorite part, the Final Crumb (from the table of a winner)! One of my favorite quotes is that “I’d rather eat a crumb from the table of a winner than to eat a full meal from the table of a looser” The final crumb segment is a lightning round segment that probes deep into the mind of the restaurant owner to extract priceless nuggets