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Myers said she succeeded because she didn’t have a choice. Her husband, Matt, lost his financial industry job in 2008, and she had two toddlers at home. What began on an afternoon spent picking strawberries turned into an income for Myers during the worst of the recession. Her family still depends on it, she said. “I tell people literally, when they buy jam I can pay for my kid to go to soccer,” Myers said. “There’s a “I personally love to cook, direct correlation between my abillove to entertain. I’m ity to do things for my family and passionate about food how successfully this company is.” and healthy lifestyles, and Her company, Emily G’s, has exthis product fits within panded to include sauces and releverything i believe.” ishes. Emily G’s products can be – Jaime Foster, NaturAlmond found at 180 stores nationwide. Myers had worked as a souschef in Ohio, so making jam wasn’t O’Dempsey’s finances and nava challenge. The hard part was igates the maze of state alcohol missing her kids’ soccer games, regulations standing between the working late and learning how to product and retailers. Every state make money off her ideas. In some is different, she said. ways, the job was harder than be“One of the key things is doing a mom, she said. ing enough research to make sure “If I screw up, my kids will forthat you choose good distributors, give me,” Myers said. “The bank because once you’re tied to a diswill not.” tributor you’re kind of stuck with Dempsey has brewed them for good or bad,” beer at home since the Smith said. Co v er 1980s. In 2009, he wanted Both O’Dempsey’s and St o r y to step up from bottling Emily G’s manufacture small batches at home to their products elsewhere. putting six-packs on store O’Dempsey’s production shelves. His first test batch debuted facility is in South Carolina, and at the 5 Seasons Brewing CompaEmily G’s is in south Georgia to ny in Sandy Springs and went over keep production costs under conwell. Milestones flowed: in April trol. 2010, O’Dempsey’s shipped its Big Foster operates her commercial Red Ale to Savannah Distributing, kitchen in Chamblee because sharfollowed by Inukshuk IPA in Seping a kitchen could potentially extember 2010. Today O’Dempsey’s pose her homemade NaturAlmond is sold in five states. almond butter to gluten and pea“One of the unexpected pleanuts, she said. She produces the sures is, you brand as a prodgo into a bar, uct of her comYou can learn more about the you sit down pany, Hinsdale products featured in this story and I order my & Foster Proviby visiting the following links: own beer and sions. I pay for it,” The comEmily G’s: Dempsey said. pany officialwww.emilygs.com “I’m buying my ly opened in O’Dempsey’s: beer and paying April 2012. Foswww.odempseys.com retail price for ter said she left Hinsdale & Foster Provisions: it happily. For the lucrative www.naturalmond.com some reason, I and exhausting get a kick out of world of medit.” ical sales beBoth Smith and Dempsey still cause she wanted to focus on what hold day jobs. Dempsey designs was most important. trade shows and Smith runs an“I traveled a lot,” Foster said. “I other small business, CFO Adviwas gone all the time and had two sory Associates. Smith handles small children. My mother’s sick