The Missing Piece in Entrepreneurial Success Started With a Can of Baked Beans

I discovered it when I coached an 18-year-old university student through heating baked beans.

Like everyone else I lived with, Chris's parents had equipped him with a laptop and a car, but forgot to teach him how to feed himself.

That moment—watching a privileged young adult panic over basic survival—sparked an 18-year mission. But it was watching my own child that showed me what was actually possible.

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My Eldest Started Cooking at Age Two

By 17, they had:

  • Brand deals with 2.9 million Instagram views

  • An invitation to cook in a Jamie Oliver Kitchen in Central London

  • Run multiple successful businesses

  • Stepped up to manage our entire household when I became deathly ill - did the shopping, budgeting, and cooked every meal for me and their two-year-old sibling with ease and joy

The kitchen gave them agency. Confidence. Capability. Resilience.

Everything social media, convenience foods, and modern schooling were designed to strip away.

And I knew: This is what the world needs.

I Was Done Being "The Help"

For years, I'd been a Tech Concierge—good at what I did, but always working behind someone else's scenes. Undervalued. In the shadows.

I was ready to build something of my own. Something I wasn't just good at, but truly loved.

Cooking was my thing. It always had been.

And I'd already seen firsthand how those kitchen skills had created the capable, confident, resilient young person standing in front of me—someone who could handle their business and their life.

Everyone told me I was crazy. "You can't mix tech work with cooking! That will never work!"

But I knew something they didn't.

I Was Looking at a Broken World

Parents hustling too hard, burning out.

Spending obscene amounts on takeaways because they're too exhausted to cook.

Tech tool overload making their backend systems chaotic (when simple would work better).

Finding their kids obstacles to overcome instead of allies to build with.

Kids rotting away on social media and destructive games, eroding in confidence, growing up lacking basic life skills and direction.

I knew there was a better way.

Simple backend systems + real nourishment + kids in the kitchen = sustainable success for entrepreneurial families.

So I built Empire Kitchen.

What Most People Don't Understand

Getting kids in the kitchen isn't just about teaching them to cook.

It changes everything.

For your kids:

  • They develop CEO skills: problem-solving, creativity, initiative

  • They gain real-world confidence and capability

  • They become your helpers, not your distractions

  • They learn resilience and responsibility

  • They're actually prepared for life beyond school and screens

For you:

  • Mental energy returns for your business

  • Clarity replaces brain fog

  • Time comes back as kids take on real tasks

  • Health improves for everyone

  • The family unit becomes your secret weapon

For your business:

  • Tool overwhelm is disappears giving you more profit

  • Simple systems run on autopilot

  • You can actually focus and scale

  • You build sustainable success without the burnout

One client told me:

"I have renewed energy and clarity in my business that I just didn't have before when I was living on oven crap, coffee, and being ref between my bored kids."

The Problem Empire Kitchen Solves

You can't build a sustainable business when:

  • Your kids are always hungry, eating empty calories

  • You're running on coffee and convenience food

  • Brain fog makes clear thinking impossible

  • Every dinner is a battle or an expensive takeaway

  • Your kids are bored, on screens, disconnected

All of that steals your time, energy, and mental capacity.

But more than that—what are you teaching your kids about the future?

In 6 years, 10 years, 15 years—will they be like Chris? Adults who can't heat baked beans? Who think real food comes from apps?

Or will they be capable, confident, ready to build their own empires?

Empire Kitchen Is Your Rebellion

Against doing it all alone.

Against junk food delivery apps and endless screen time as parenting tools.

Against the lie that exhausted, disconnected families are "just how it is" for entrepreneurs.

Against raising another generation of adults who can't feed themselves.

We're preparing the next generation for sustainable success—while giving you the foundation to build your empire without sacrificing your family or your sanity.

What Parents Are Saying

"I have renewed energy and clarity in my business that I just didn't have before when I was living on oven crap, coffee, and being ref between my bored kids."

"The children have enjoyed getting involved in the kitchen more too and they are trying new foods and eating a wider variety as a result."

Start Here: The 3-Day Kitchen Confidence Challenge

Prove to yourself in just 3 days that you CAN create delicious, nourishing meals with your family.

This isn't just recipes. It's a complete confidence-building experience with:

  • 3 family favourite recipes with age-appropriate tasks (chicken and fish based)

  • Kitchen anxiety meditation

  • Meal planning template

  • Telegram accountability group

  • Kids kitchen confidence certificate

Investment: $7

Take The Challenge

Ready to Go Deeper?

Empire Kitchen offers complete support for entrepreneurial families who want to build sustainable success:

Explore Membership Options - Weekly meal plans, live cooking sessions, community support, and tech systems training

Work With Lace 1:1 - Kitchen confidence intensives and personalized support

Lace Flowers

Founder, Empire Kitchen, Co Founder of The Flavor Room and Co Author of cookbook Made with Love vol.2

Mother, Entrepreneur, Kitchen Confidence Coach