On this episode of Controlling Your Chaos, Cortney sits down with Monica Nino and Bryan Gonzalez, co-owners of The Board Couple, to talk about how a charcuterie board on their kitchen island during late-night dates turned into a full-blown business, a wine club, culinary workshops, and a nationwide shipping operation.

Monica and Bryan share the moment a local publisher told them their concept would "never really be a business," how they opened their café doors just weeks before COVID shut everything down, and how they pivoted almost overnight to shipping boards nationwide for companies like Dell and Spotify while becoming the food source keeping Hill Country wineries open.

They open up about running two businesses while staying a couple first, why "controlled chaos" and staff structure keep them sane, how becoming certified sommeliers became their favorite excuse to travel and teach for the Napa Valley Wine Academy, and the advice they'd give anyone thinking about becoming self-employed: no one is coming to save you, so you have to figure it out yourself. This one is for every couple building something together and refusing to let anyone tell them it won't work.

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