Put more 'bread' in your pocket and more happy in your heart! ❤️

Here's what to Expect:

Engage 🎯

Feel like you’ve come home to your people, even if you often work alone – and the discover the single best way to connect through time and space

Get Your Hands in the Dough 🙌

Remember everything you learn, without even trying – and unlock the power of learning like a kid again

Embrace Your Front Row Seat ⭐️

Get the individual attention you need to rise, even if you’re used to doing all yourself, and learn the secret to owning your unique charisma

Join the Party! 💃🕺

Connect like you're in the kitchen at a good party, even if you’ve been stressed out, and discover how to build meaningful friendships without ever leaving home

During our day together, you'll:

• Align with your purpose 
• Develop our intuition for picking people
• Transform difficult conversations into  opportunities.
• Connect with like-minded quality enthusiasts.
• Bake your very own sourdough bread! 🥖

This is for you if:

• You are a start-up founder growing your company 🥱

• You are a solo entrepreneur dreaming of creating your dream team 🕺 (←dancing alone)

• You sometimes feel like you are on the moon 🌛

•  You are doing 80% + of the work – because you can’t find anybody else to do it right 😣

• The people side of business is harder than it used to be 🤦‍♂️

• At least once a day, you think dealing with people just isn't worth it 🏝

• You need to cultivate new contacts, but the thought of networking exhausts you 💤

• You’ve noticed little incivilities creeping up in life – secrets, lateness, abruptness, talking over, or worse 🤬

• You LOVE to multitask/double up/get more for your moment, and can totally dig learning how to up-level your com skills while you bake bread 🥖🤝

• You're a FOODIE! Duh! You're someone who values quality, appreciates the real deal, and fills your life with lovingly made things 👊 

I see you! Come to hang with us in the kitchen.

The Breaking part: 

Breaking Bread is...

Kindness and mutual respect.

Acceptance and belonging. 

Understanding and supportive community.

The business friend you can call to celebrate a win 🙌 or hash out a challenge.

The friends who pop in for dinner with a bottle of wine 🍷- and not a care in the world about how tidy your place is. And you're cool with it.

When you’re breaking bread, you can relax and be yourself.

Stress can make that kind of connection near impossible.

That’s why, through the magical metaphor of this process, you’ll also discover:

• What derails connection and communication (and what to do about it)
• How to connect more clearly, more deeply, and more effectively with the people around you – no matter what the stress level.
• How to share what you have learned in creative ways

Learn the secrets to Breaking...

Breaking down the barriers to connection, even when you’re tired and overwhelmed, and the one thing you can do to keep disagreement from escalating 🎯

Breaking through to great communication, even when you don’t really like the other person, without feeling like you’re kissing … 🤝

Breaking old habits that cause miscommunication, even if they seem normal, and the secret to creating your new connection style 😝

Breaking into a new experience of community, even if your circle has been shrinking, and the super secret key to having vibrant social and professional networks 💃🕺

The Bread part:

(oh! There's bread, too!) (It's more than a metaphor!)

Your baker's kit will arrive in the mail ahead of time, including your starter, so you can bake along. 

When we bake together, you'll...

• Learn how to consistently make great sourdough bread - the kind people drool over, the kind that will get you in for a haircut when there's no room on the schedule, the kind that gets you special treatment at the dealership when you get your car serviced
• Discover what makes sourdough better and healthier than other bread - so you never have to eat the fake stuff again
• Use your gorgeous loaves to connect in new and fun ways - online and in person

The facts!

a.k.a why connection and communication are SO important for you as you grow your business!

$7.8 trillion dollars - worldwide cost of lost productivity due to unengaged or actively disengaged employees in 2022

$300 Billion dollars - amount US businesses lost to incivility (rudeness) in 2009 (um, probably a lot more now!)

57% of Americans who quit their jobs in 2021 did so because they felt disrespected at work. 

71% of Americans were willing to accept a pay cut for the right cultural fit.

76% of over 2000 survey respondents in 25 different industries reported experiencing incivility once a month or more 

When employees have been on the receiving end of incivility/rudeness/disrespect:

• 48% intentionally decreased their work effort.
• 38% intentionally decreased the quality of their work.
• 80% lost work time worrying about the incident
• 78% said that their commitment to the organization declined
• 63% lost work time avoiding the offender
• 25% admitted to taking their frustration out on customers 

Meet Nancy Hand

My communication expertise is based on over 35 years of real-world experience and formal training in contract law, mediation, dispute resolution, negotiation, and coaching as well as a passion for communication, learning, and behavior.

But it’s also rooted in my own culinary heritage as a south Louisiana daughter of a food scientist, a foodie (know thyself!), and sourdough baker.

Bread connects. Every culture in the world has a unique bread heritage they celebrate. Breaking Bread brings people together. 

No matter where you are in the world, sharing a meal is an act of community and peace. It's where people communicate, connect, relax, create, and celebrate.

That's what my Breaking Bread events are all about! All of that - and a drool worthy loaf? That's a good day!