THE AMBER WEITZER PODCAST SILHOUETTES OF SUCCESS
JULIE SWIFT| EPISODE 90 | SHOW NOTES
FEATURED GUEST
Introducing our V.I.P. Featured Guest Julie Swift Having spent time on each side of the manufacturer-broker relationship in senior and executive leadership roles across sales, marketing, digital, business development and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging) Board service, I treasure just over thirty years in foodservice. From my father’s supermarket business to senior and executive leadership positions in foodservice manufacturing and brokerage, it’s an industry I love, that’s dedicated to providing families and friends with opportunities to gather, celebrate, and enjoy one another. Those years also, though, included functions I wasn’t invited to, conversations that didn’t include me, meetings I was excluded from, times when it felt as though the industry itself wanted me to remember I didn’t fully belong. Somewhere along the way, I counted the toll that years of sexism’s nicks and cuts, and of hiding my disability, had taken on me. I became very determined to call foodservice back to its own hospitality and generosity. Full transparency: there came a time in my career when not budging my values cost me my job. My position now, independent of any company or firm, allows me to work more effectively toward the flourishing, profitable future I imagine for our foodservice industry. From maximizing sales and broker effectiveness, to marketing and DEIB, I help companies identify where they are and where they’d like to go, and then map a solid process for getting there. All in an environment where each of us gets to bring our full selves to work, so that both individually and as an industry, we come together at the table authentically.
CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS
A-Game: Determination has fueled Julie to dig in and turn the table of negatives into a movement and mission. Based on her experiences and workplace encounters, she knew early on in her career that her path was not going to be a straight path.
Julie shares day to day best practices; she is a list maker with prioritization and the eye on the goal. She has many special skills, one being the ability to see the potholes in the process. Julie talks about her values and boundaries with entering partnerships with clients and prospective clients. Tune in to find out about dust bunnies!
Great Questions: She’s not afraid to try something different. Julie sees getting stuck or a potential roadblock as an opportunity. She talks about the negative nicks and cuts throughout parts of her journey that have given her an authentic and fundamental understanding of how she can help champion a turnaround, more specifically her within her treasured foodservice industry. Julie shares exciting news of a passionate pursuit that has her all fired up! She is a fireball of passion and shares a sneak peek of a collective that will be unveiled soon (if not by the time this episode drops!)…look it up FWA…check it out!
Resolve: Julie has deep resolve in her voice and tone as she shares her Silhouettes of Success journey. It’s invigorating! Her strength and dedication to help support, bring light to and proactively to bring light to their mission. Julie’s pure and absolute admiration for the foodservice industry shines vibrantly. What else is crystal clear is her gleaming integrity, sophisticated grit, and laser focused of being a consultant for the client, industry and even the consumer. She is golden!
INTENTIONAL INSPIRATION
Be 100%authetically you in all you do.
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JULIE SWIFT
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