{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"STL Hustle Insider","title":"Rahn Williams on Food Safety, Brand Standards, and Building Black Excellence Through Systems","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2666,"description":"Rahn Williams on Food Safety, Brand Standards, and Building Black Excellence Through Systems\nA good business does not grow by accident. It grows when the systems, standards, people, and leadership are strong enough to operate beyond the owner.\nIn this episode of STL Hustle Insider, Cortez Hustle sits down with Rahn Williams, founder of Stokeswill Consulting, for a conversation about food safety, restaurant operations, brand standards, Black excellence, community networking, and the systems that help businesses grow.\nRahn shares his St. Louis story, from growing up with chronic allergies and asthma, using creativity as an outlet, graduating from Hazelwood East, attending Southeast Missouri State, and learning from early experiences that shaped his worldview.\nThe conversation then moves into business, where Rahn explains how working with his father in McDonald’s operations helped him understand systems, leadership, people, and the difference between working in a business and working on a business. Today, through Stokeswill Consulting, he helps food service entrepreneurs, restaurants, and community partners strengthen operations, meet food safety requirements, improve brand standards, and build toward growth.\nIn This Episode\nCortez and Rahn talk about:\nWho Rahn Williams is\nStokeswill Consulting and the work Rahn does\nGrowing up in St. Louis and graduating from Hazelwood East\nLiving with chronic allergies and asthma\nCreativity as an escape through writing, short stories, drawing, poetry, and hip-hop\nTouring as a spoken word artist and releasing music\nHow his mother helped him stay on track in school despite missing days because of illness\nAttending Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau\nExperiencing racism in North County and Southern Missouri\nHazelwood East, Black awareness, and the Black Awareness Support Group\nHow exposure to African students helped expand Rahn’s worldview\nWorking for his father at McDonald’s\nWhy he did not appreciate restaurant work at first...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6RVt-BKuHUDpqnW2pjHJQNyi-e3ue1psZpoYkFxYe3Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NmNi/Y2E5NTc0ODhjZDUx/ZmVhOWIxMThmOWJm/NjY3Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}