On today’s episode of Embrace Your In-Between, we are in conversation with Adriana Urbina - an award-winning Venezuelan Chef, the Founder of Tepuy Collective, + 3x Winner of the Food Network’s “Chopped.”

In addition to her 12 years of restaurant experience, including Michelan star restaurants,  Adriana founded her company “Tepuy Collective “- a platform that connects minority owned food businesses with brands and corporations to create unique culinary events.

In our conversation, we get courageously vulnerable on her journey – and the internal and external transformations that have led her to where she is today. We talk about following those heart-led nudges and dreams, overcoming the fear of rejection and really putting yourself out there, her experience in approaching motherhood, our driving forces behind our motivations, and much more.

In this episode, we connect on:

06:45 | The importance of being open to receive

07:30 | Adriana’s background + upbringing

11:00 | How at 18 she moved across the world to train with a Michelin star chef

12:15 | How to move forward with our dreams even without full confidence or clarity

21:00 | Tools for moving beyond Imposter Syndrome + how she utilized them while competing on Chopped

23:00 | The power of putting yourself out there; she reached out to Eater multiple times before getting her feature, which led to Chopped

25:15 | How to deal with rejection and getting a “no”

38:30 | On motherhood + what insights she has learned so far

48:30 | How to get clarity on our needs

52:30 | On the power of saying no

More on Our Guest - Adriana Urbina:

Where to Find Her: @adrianaurbinap and her website 

Adriana Urbina is an award-winning Venezuelan chef, entrepreneur and wellness consultant based in New York with over 12 years of experience in the restaurant industry.

She also completed her studies in Holistic Nutrition and Gut Health at the "Institute of Integrative Nutrition" in New York City.

Driven by her mission of empowering others to pursue their craft, Adriana founded her company Tepuy Collective - a platform that connects minority owned food businesses with brands and corporations to create unique culinary events.

In addition to building Tepuy Collective internationally, Urbina has competed in multiple national cooking TV shows like Bobby flay’s “Triple Threat” and Food Network’s “Chopped”. She is a three-time winner of “Chopped Champions” and the only Latin-American female chef to have won the title so many times. Her work has been featured in publications like Forbes, Vice, and Refinery29. You can catch her on her last digital cooking show for Verizon Media called “Zero Waste Kitchen.”

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