Ellen Bennett | Crafting Aprons for the World's Best Chefs

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  So growing up in LA, Ellen Bennett had no idea her summer spent with her grandma in a small town in Mexico would end up playing a huge role, not only in how she saw the world and related to people, but also in the career that she'd eventually pursue and the company she would end up building.

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  Describing herself as half Mexican, half English, born and raised in LA by a fiery mom, and having never met a color she didn't like, she's the founder of Headley and Bennett, a company that crafts some of the coolest, most beautiful kitchen tough aprons worn by this lineage of many of the top chefs in the most iconic restaurants and kitchens in the world.

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  But she didn't start out that way.

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  Coming out of high school without a strong sense of direction, she got on a plane to Mexico City alone and vanished into the culture, building a career and a life before feeling this sense that she was being called back to LA to make a mark, cooking under the guidance of two legendary chefs and restaurateurs.

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  But a single fateful moment in the kitchen when she heard one of those chefs ask a simple question and then made a promise that at the time, she had no idea how to keep, led her eventually out of the kitchen and into launching and growing her own company.

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  The adventures that followed are kind of the stuff of legend.

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  Many of the learnings and tales are shared in her wonderful new book, Dream first, details later, and we dive into it all in today's conversation.

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  So excited to share it with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

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  Growing up in Glendale, kind of north ish.

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  La ish?

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  Yep.

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  Sounds like you described your upbringing there as like you were the kid that never quite felt like they fit in.

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  Yeah, totally.

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  Tell me what was going on there.

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  Well, you know, I had been raised with a amazing single mexican mama, a little bit different than a lot of my peers at school, which was totally fine.

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  It just simply made me, I guess you could say, stand out a little bit.

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  And it was a different journey because maybe a lot of the kids had both parents and they had, you know, big, giant, beautiful houses up in the hills.

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  And, you know, we lived in a totally modest little condo apartment in the middle of Glendale.

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  And my mom was a nurse, so she worked all day, all night, you know, twelve hour shifts as an RN, and we didn't see her until the evening.

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