How SHE Built This: Lisa Tran of Tan Tan Foods
03/25/21 • 30 min
For this How She Built This episode, it is our honor to present to you . . . Lisa Tran! First, for us, our recent friendship with Lisa is the embodiment of the benefits of networking. TLo met Lisa on Clubhouse, and TLo subsequently introduced us all to Lisa. We have become enamored with not only Lisa, but we have also become enamored with her story, her family, and her family’s story. In this episode of HSBT, Lisa regales Chuk with her journey of turning vision into action by developing Tan Tan Foods sauce line, which she did with the goal of being able to generate consistent income while also being able to spend substantial mommy time with her precious twins. Lisa also discusses how Tan Tan’s sauces were created with her mother’s recipes and gained popularity amongst the customers of her family’s restaurant – Tan Tan Café & Delicatessen! More importantly, Lisa shares her own story of being born as a Vietnamese refugee in Indonesia, how her mother refined her sauce-making skills in the same refugee camp, and her parents’ love story that was borne during their escape from Vietnam – all of which laid the foundation for Lisa to create Tan Tan’s sauce empire and to introduce the wonder of her mom’s Vietnamese recipes to the American general public. (Tan Tan’s sauces are carried in major grocery store chains like New Seasons Markets, H Mart, and coming soon to Safeway/Albertsons – she is kind of a big deal.) We could go on and on, but you should really just listen to the episode! We cannot wait for you to learn more about Lisa! Find her at @tantanfoods and tantancafedeli.com. You can also learn more about her in her features in @entrepreneur and @bonappetit magazines!
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For this How She Built This episode, it is our honor to present to you . . . Lisa Tran! First, for us, our recent friendship with Lisa is the embodiment of the benefits of networking. TLo met Lisa on Clubhouse, and TLo subsequently introduced us all to Lisa. We have become enamored with not only Lisa, but we have also become enamored with her story, her family, and her family’s story. In this episode of HSBT, Lisa regales Chuk with her journey of turning vision into action by developing Tan Tan Foods sauce line, which she did with the goal of being able to generate consistent income while also being able to spend substantial mommy time with her precious twins. Lisa also discusses how Tan Tan’s sauces were created with her mother’s recipes and gained popularity amongst the customers of her family’s restaurant – Tan Tan Café & Delicatessen! More importantly, Lisa shares her own story of being born as a Vietnamese refugee in Indonesia, how her mother refined her sauce-making skills in the same refugee camp, and her parents’ love story that was borne during their escape from Vietnam – all of which laid the foundation for Lisa to create Tan Tan’s sauce empire and to introduce the wonder of her mom’s Vietnamese recipes to the American general public. (Tan Tan’s sauces are carried in major grocery store chains like New Seasons Markets, H Mart, and coming soon to Safeway/Albertsons – she is kind of a big deal.) We could go on and on, but you should really just listen to the episode! We cannot wait for you to learn more about Lisa! Find her at @tantanfoods and tantancafedeli.com. You can also learn more about her in her features in @entrepreneur and @bonappetit magazines!
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TITT Talks: How SHE Built This series continues with foodie dynamo, Jessica Levison, of Peekaboo Ice Cream (@eatpeekaboo)! This spin-off series is meant to intimately discuss the journey of building a business as a female entrepreneur in a 20-ish minute segment. These types of conversations inspire us here at TITT Talks, and we hope they do the same for you as well.
Jessica Levison, mompreneur of THREE chucked a law career to be the purveyor of delicious, craft ice cream that has even been featured on the hit show Shark Tank. Bridging the gap between yummy and healthy, she has created a delectable ice cream empire through the power of determination and positivity. Tune in today as we follow her story, challenges, and wins in the past few years.
You don't want to miss this one! Not only does TCha take you behind the scenes but Jessica so graciously drops a special 20% off TITT Talks promo so that you too can try the amazing and unique flavors of PEEKABOO Ice-cream + Hidden Veggies at www.eatpeekaboo.com.
It has always been our mission to connect with other modern womxn through the lens of our experience. We hope you enjoy this new series as much as we do!
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The womxn of TITT Talks knew that this void was one they could fill by sharing their voices and experiences through their casual conversations, which were already taking place on a routine basis.
Thank you for the positive feedback we have received since our launch in early June 2020. We are delighted to hear that we are bringing you content that you can finally relate to as mothers, professionals, millennials, and Asian Pacific Americans.
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Legacy Stories - A tribute to TCha's father, Luis Alberto Chavez-Tay
We start our next episode of TITT TALKS with a message from the co-founders of Fertility Rally. They are hosting a virtual celebration for the infertility community for anyone and everyone building modern families and seeking empowerment, education support and community. More details available on their IG @fertilityrally.
Welcome back to our second episode of Legacy Stories brought to you by TITT Talks! This series is a tribute to our heritage through storytelling. Stories preserve culture and pass on family history and tradition from one generation to another. In essence, stories keep cultures alive. In them, we learn much about ourselves and those that came before us. These stories deserve a platform to be showcased. If we don’t do it, who will? In this series, we’ll be paying respect and honoring our families. Join us and learn part of our history as we each share individual legacy stories of our own families.
Today, TCha is your host and she will be paying honor and tribute to her father, Luis Alberto Chavez Tay. A person we each admire for his entrepreneurial spirit, resilience, good humor and example of a great father and grandfather.
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Please check-in with your #aapi friends. We are not all okay. Please take care of yourselves and know that you can talk to us. If you need support, a helpful resource is stopasianhate.info. We stand with our Asian American Pacific Islander community in the face of racism, and we are committed to taking action against it.
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TITT Talks was “conceived” in January of 2020 during one of TITT’s many friend/family (“framily”) get-togethers. In conversation, it came to light that there was a lack of representation of women like TITT in, among other forms of media, the podcast world. In particular, there was no podcast that TITT could subscribe to that would enable them to feel seen, heard, or understood as modern Asian Pacific American working mothers.
The women of TITT Talks knew that this void was one they could fill by sharing their voices and experiences through their casual conversations, which were already taking place on a routine basis.
Thank you for the positive feedback we have received since our launch in early June 2020. We are delighted to hear that we are bringing you content that you can finally relate to as mothers, professionals, millennials, and Asian Pacific Americans.
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