Today we’d like to introduce you to Cherokee Town.
Hi Cherokee, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I started my journey in food as a medical assistant working for an Holistic Health doctor. I learned the power of nutrition, and how it healed people, and changed their lives. I began to teach myself how to cook anti-inflammatory food at home because I always had gut issues. My newly Husband, and I started feeling better, sleeping better. Then I thought, there’s something to this. I eventually left my job working for the Holistic doctor, and took all that I’ve learned and starting teaching mommas at my church how to cook delicious meals in their instapots, that would postivitly affect their gut health. Eventually that snow balled into taking on personal chef clients. I was a full blown Holistic/performance chef. I started working for families, and also starting teaching down at Billie’s Grocery every Friday night since 2020 in Robin’s cooking school. Before I knew it I was cooking performance meals for PRO athletes. I landed myself into sports. Watching athletes get better sleep, run faster, recovering faster through my food was so rewarding. Anna Sorge who is the founder, and previous owner of Housewife, and Truman General Ice Cream was so kind to me, and would pull me on catering jobs, encourage me in the food space as an entrepreneur, and would cheer me on. I got a call from her this past January as I’m recipe testing down in Billie’s Grocery for a cooking class. I opened my phone to a message form Anna that she was selling, and could not get me off her mind, and she wanted to sell Housewife to me. I was in shock. I wanted to keep the name the same, the staples of the restaurant the same because we shared similar values. Hospitality was the staple of Housewife, and the community was built around it. I also loved the name Housewife, because that’s how I got my start in food. A new wife, not knowing how to cook .. learning how to cook my family back to health at home.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
HA! It’s never a smooth road. Honestly, the biggest struggle I found in business is imposter synrdome. The up, and down, the ebb and flow of working for yourself/owning your own business. It’s a risk owning your own, business, and a lot of work. BUT so so rewarding.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
Not only am I known how I started out making healthy food for people, and making it approachable, but it’s how I make people feel. Food is communal. Food has the ability to make people relax, open up to strangers. Food has the power to heal, food has the power to really hear someone across the table you wouldn’t normally agree with. It’s powerful, and what I love most about owning Housewife is,… anyone can sell a coffee, or croissant, but when every person who walks in that door feels seen, cared for, or helping the momma out who has a toddler on her hip, and one in the stroller, or remembering a spouse that got sick etc. it makes strangers feel like family.
How do you think about luck?
Honestly may Faith has played a major roll in my life, and business. I remember driving down Main Street Grandview years ago, not knowing where I was going in food, or business, and I said a little prayer …” God, I really want to own a business on this road, and to serve, and teach people about food,” When I tell you jobs, and opportunities have fell into my lap, they really have. Evening buying Housewife.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://housewifekc.com
- Instagram: housewife.kc
