ABOUT LISA

Entrepreneurship can be very difficult. Ask any business owner. But when you couple your passion with something you must do to survive, now that is a side hustle worth pursuing. In 2013, with an education in and passion for nutrition, I combined my formal training as an executive pastry chef and years of working within the culinary ecosystem, to teach my clients about cooking food that leads to a healthier and more balanced diet.

Women business owners contend with a myriad of challenges. But using experiential learning experiences and raw instinct, I turned my passion for food into an award-winning, female-owned company that offers nutritional education, personal cooking, and meal prep training to private, corporate, and fitness community clients across Massachusetts. For as long as I can remember, I have always been in love with food. This passion was also born as a result of experiencing a parent’s chronic illness. Whether it was cooking as a young girl or obtaining a B.S. degree in Nutrition, I found myself in flow, lost in the textures, fragrance, and combinations of individual ingredients that promised flavor and solid nutrition. This focus on healthy eating became a business model, albeit a lean one. And as a successful solo proprietor, I am the boss and the staff.

Who could have imagined that years later, the world would endure a global pandemic, creating a seismic shift in the way people lived? For business owners like me, it created rivulets of opportunities. I quickly adapted to a business model that lent itself to a virtual platform, continuing to help clients with diet-related or auto-immune compromised diseases find a balanced approach to maintaining a healthier diet during an unprecedented time in the world’s history.

My company, Your Kitchen Confidant, has partnered with some of Boston’s most distinguished organizations such as the Massachusetts Hospital Association, Tufts University School of Public Health, Google, Microsoft, and Tufts Medical Center on nutrition education. And as an athlete, I have also conducted nutrition clinics at rock-climbing gyms across the Boston metro area. These opportunities enable me to share my expertise, deep knowledge and increase awareness of how simple foods and a basic concept of nutrition can contribute to a person’s overall health and athletic performance. 

For more information about my private chef services, corporate wellness classes or cooking classes, you can find me at Lisa Caldwell Your Kitchen Confidant on Facebook, LisaYourKitchenConfidant on Instagram, or feel free to contact me directly at kconfidant@gmail.com.

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