Mompreneurs S05E02: ‘Choose Your Hard’ — How Erica Tuggle Built The ‘Uber For Personal Chefs’ Revolutionizing Home-Cooked Meals

This week on the Mompreneurs podcast, Erica Tuggle shares how she left her successful career in corporate to pursue her passion: helping people access nutritious, home-cooked meals. The mother of two founded Livin—the “Uber for personal chefs”—to connect families with whole, nourishing food while creating a sustainable career pathway for professional chefs. In this episode of Mompreneurs, Tuggle joins host Nancy Redd to talk about building her company and how motherhood changed how she prioritizes her time between work and family.

“It was an incredible journey, but it wasn’t everything that I wanted and needed.”

Before Livin, Tuggle built an impressive resume, ascending the corporate ladder at American Express and General Mills before ultimately rising to Brand Director at Coca-Cola. Still, she had always felt the pull toward entrepreneurship. “I had this inkling, this thing inside of me that was like, one day I want to build something. But I didn’t know what it was or what it would be.”

Ultimately, the Harvard Business School alum made the leap from her 9 to 5 and decided it was time for her next chapter. “It was an incredible journey, but it wasn’t everything that I wanted and needed,” Tuggle said. “Some people run away from corporate, and I had my reasons for leaving, but it wasn’t because I wasn’t enjoying myself.”

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