Hi! I am Lisa Johnson,
the Y’Ambassador at Yummy Yammy.
I have chosen the business name and my corporate title to celebrate how delicious and fun sweet potatoes can be.
I LOVE SWEET POTATOES BECAUSE:
- Sweet potatoes are delicious
- Sweet potatoes are gorgeous, with their sunny orange color
- Sweet potatoes offer great mouth-feel, velvety texture, and smooth creaminess
- “Yam” is a fun name to work with
- Sweet potatoes are so undervalued in our busy, hectic, and fast-food culture, and…
- Sweet potatoes are so incredibly healthful for us to eat!
Whether you already love sweet potatoes, or have never liked them, or don’t even know what they are, my goal is to help busy people eat better, so we’re making it easier for you to enjoy sweet potatoes.
Many people enjoy yams with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and marshmallows. That’s certainly how we had them when I was a kid, exclusively at Thanksgiving dinner.
But here’s what I do differently: they are already sweet! I have a hundred new, different, and exciting ideas for making them savory, and taking them from the side dish to the center of the plate.
My background includes:
- 12 years at natural food stores in Vermont & New Hampshire
- 10 years helping people find fresh farm products and build meaningful economic relationships with farmers (for instance, we helped Dartmouth College buy more local vegetables for their kitchens)
- lots of stints working at restaurants when I was younger
- cooking for 36 hungry apple pickers
- several years of work on organic farms: planting, weeding, harvesting fruits and vegetables
- living all over the U.S. and in Mexico
- gardening and cooking with my husband and two daughters
Mostly, though, what you want to know about me can’t fit on a resume or list of accomplishments. I am irrepressibly entrepreneurial and my mind is constantly filled with possibility. People have told me I’m a leader and a visionary, and I can at least say that all my life I have desired those qualities.
This business is possible because my husband cheers me on constantly (and does a lot of dishes), my kids draw delightful artwork and taste all my food, and I am surrounded by skilled and inspired friends and professionals who guide me and give me lots of feedback. My experience tells me that there is no such thing as that theoretical “self-made man”. We are supported and sometimes carried by the ones who love us, and without that, no business idea ever sees the light of day.
I hope that our products add to your life in some way. If they do, please let us know. And let us know if we can do better, too! We truly value your thoughts and experiences.
One last thing: please tell your friends about us!
We appreciate your support of entrepreneurship, innovation, and health. Your choices really do make a difference.
Your positive experience is the absolute best marketing there is.
So spread the word — that makes YOU a Y’Ambassador too!
Y’Ammily yours,
Lisa & family
lisa@yummyyammy.com • 802-291-1718
www.facebook.com/yummyyammy • www.twitter.com/yummyyammer
