Find Your Rhythm, Love What YOU do Part 1 w/Tonya Wilson

This one's a throwback. Before Season 2 of The Milky Ministries Podcast, there was a different project a series of

"Activate" interviews built to spotlight mompreneurs and creatives. This is the very first one ever recorded, and it felt

right to finally share it.

In this conversation, Chef Tonya Wilson of Custom Chef of North Carolina a Mebane, NC-based personal chef

who builds fully customized meals around her clients' dietary needs talks through how her business was born out of necessity (one income, two kids 18 months apart, and a love of cooking that grew out of farmers-market trips),

the self-taught lessons that shaped how she runs things, and the biggest thread running through the whole episode:

finding your own rhythm instead of chasing someone else's.

It's a slower, more reflective conversation than usual equal parts business talk and faith talk about loving what

you're called to do so much that you stop counting the hours.

In this episode you'll hear:

How a season of being a broke stay-at-home mom turned into a custom cooking business

The self-taught business lessons Tonya picked up working for other small businesses first

Why "custom" means staying small on purpose instead of chasing scale

Her vision for the brand teaching families and other cooks how to get more real, non-processed food onto

kids' plates

Why she believes if you truly love what you do, you stop counting the hours

The idea that opens the episode's theme: everyone has their own rhythm, and finding yours (not copying

someone else's) is what lets you relax into the work

How she works through fear using faith, and what she leans on when she feels uninspired

Her definition of success and why writing your goals down matters so you can actually recognize when you've

hit them

A real, unfiltered walk through a typical day: mornings, kid logistics, deciding what's a "fire" and what's a

distraction, and protecting a little space to breathe

How she parents five kids differently on purpose, and what that's taught her about giving people what they

actually need instead of what's easiest to give

Where she's pouring into other women locally, and what her business looks like today, including a peek into her

home canning process

Connect with Chef Tonya Wilson / Custom Chef of North Carolina

Website: customchefnc.com — please confirm this is current before publishing

Location: Mebane, NC (serving the Raleigh–Durham area)

Instagram: not confirmed — hold until verified

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