<p>What if the best business you build is the one built around your life—not the other way around?</p><p><br></p><p>In this live episode of Renegade Ventures Podcast, Ellie sits down with Toa Green, founder of Crank &amp;amp; Boom Ice Cream, to unpack her unconventional journey from her family’s restaurant to building one of Lexington’s most loved ice cream brands.</p><p><br></p><p>What started with a $60 ice cream maker and a homemade coconut ice cream recipe inside a Thai restaurant grew into a thriving brand with multiple locations, nationwide shipping, and a fiercely loyal customer base.</p><p><br></p><p>But this conversation is about more than ice cream.</p><p><br></p><p>Toa shares the realities of entrepreneurship: taking calculated risks, surviving failed ideas, navigating seasonal cash flow, and learning that business doesn’t get easier—you just get better at doing hard things.</p><p><br></p><p>Ellie and Toa dig into what it really means to scale without losing your soul, why defining your dream life matters before defining your growth plan, and how to build a business that supports the life you actually want.</p><p><br></p><p>If you’re in a season of growth, uncertainty, or reinvention, this episode will challenge the way you think about success, failure, and what’s worth building.</p>