From Kitchen to Corporate Innovation, Coaching, and AI | Tiffany Poe

Most chefs measure a career in kitchens. Tiffany Poe has measured hers in classrooms, boardrooms, and now, AI chats at 2am.In this episode of Fugitive Chefs, Furqan sits down with chef, educator, coach, and AI trainer Tiffany Poe to trace a 25-year career that moved through restaurants, culinary education, corporate food, professional coaching, and artificial intelligence — including the year she lost her job, and how she rebuilt from there.In this episode we discuss:Tiffany's "Forrest Gump career" and why none of it was plannedGetting unexpectedly "kidnapped" into a culinary education careerWhat's broken about how culinary education is priced and structured — and what's actually changingWhy competency-based, micro-credentialed learning is replacing the four-year degree modelLosing her corporate chef role during COVID, and how that became a coaching careerLetting go of the "hats" she'd built her identity aroundWhy she calls herself a "possibilitarian" — and the story behind itThe biggest misconceptions chefs have about AI, and why she calls it "the most consequential tool" the profession has ever hadHer advice for any chef with something going on their back burnerLearn more about Tiffany's work:🔗 Website: https://tiffanypoe.com/🎧 Fugitive Chefs explores what happens when chefs step outside the traditional kitchen path.🌐 Website: www.fugitivechefs.com📸 Furqan's Instagram: https://bit.ly/4dtiyTv🎧 Podcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/43ndATO🎵 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3F6j25A🍏 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/43vBtbT▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fugitivechefs