People immediately loved the recipes that the Bastians perfected. “That belief is how we turned a little local company into a BOOMing national popcorn brand. Not a list of words that make you tired just trying to pronounce them. After all, when it comes to everyday snacking, what you want is whole grain. Now that they are in college and have spent summers popping and selling, they have grown up with the business.”Īngie's BOOMCHICKAPOP® has a simple belief: That the best way to get out there and crush it every day is by making a better-for-you snack with real, simple ingredients. Even so, “We were determined to create a legacy for our children. “There is a misconception that when you own your own business, you own your own time. “I quickly learned that I needed a flexible schedule to help Angie’s grow,” she recalls. Until 2011 when she retired from full-time nursing, she contracted with Minnesota county mental health clinics serving hundreds of patients. In 2015 Angie Bastian was inducted into the Minnesota Women Business Owner’s Hall of Fame.ĭan Bastian creating outdoors in the company's first kettle.īastian, a nurse who graduated with her master’s degree from Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, practiced and cared for patients throughout her 28-year career. The founders have also earned numerous awards for their leadership and innovation, and appeared on The Martha Stewart Show. This garage-born entrepreneurial venture has since grown into a 280-employee (and hiring) award-winning company that has received top workplace honors. “And it all began in our garage with a great idea how we teach them about the value of hard work and spend time together as a family.” It had to be fun for all of us,” says Bastian. With their sights set on selling at street festivals and events, the goal was to involve their children, then 3 and 5, in the part-time business started to create a college fund. For Angie Bastian 91N, Co-Founder of Angie’s BOOMCHICKAPOP, better-for-you popcorn has transformed her life in ways she never could have imagined.įamily recipes for sweet and salty kettle corn and popcorn prompted Bastian and her husband, Dan, to purchase a kettle online in 2001. But each time a kernel pops, a more powerful metamorphosis takes place: a snack food comes to life that makes people smile. Heat a kernel of popcorn and the water inside the hull will begin to steam, and build pressure until the hull splits open to reveal a crunchy, delicious bite of popped corn. An early festival setup for the Bastian's new kettle corn business.
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