Twenty years ago, Carolyn Foley, executive chef at WanderLinger Brewing Co., was a two-year resident in the mother-child program at Bethel Bible Village surrounded by people looking to help her with life decisions, including which career path seemed the most interesting to her.
“I was stuck between becoming an art teacher and going into food service,” she says. So she decided on a career that combined both.
“I went with food service because it is an art you can be completely immersed in,” she says.
After graduating from Hixson High School with a baby in tow in 2004, she set her mind and heart on attending Johnson & Wales University.
“I thought as a young, single mother, it was best to get my schooling finished so I could focus on building my career and raise my daughter,” she says.