The Nut Place: Bringing Healthy Affordable Special Diet Food Options to Nigeria with Chigozie Bashua

<p>Meet <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chigozieonyekwelubashua/" target="_blank">Chigozie Bashua</a>, the founder of <a href="https://thenutplace.com.ng/" target="_blank">The Nut Place</a>, a nut processing company in Nigeria that processes edible nuts into gluten free products for middle and low income earners and helps people that are on a special diet to have access to healthy and affordable food options.</p> <p>In the interview Chigozie shares about:</p> <ul><li>How she came across the idea while grocery shopping during a vacation abroad</li><li>How she launched the business from a corner in her mom’s kitchen </li><li>And how by developing processes and SOP’s for her staff she manages to continue her 9 to 5 job as an engineer in tech while at the same time growing her business </li></ul> <p>She also talks about the benefit of pursuing a purposeful idea, how she got a practical education in how to process nuts by visiting processing plants in the UK and what her advice for young Nigerians is. </p> <p>There is a lot of gold in this interview and we hope you’ll enjoy the conversation as much as we did. And now, without further ado, enter Chigozie Bashua.</p>