Myles Powell: From Engineer to Comfort Food CEO

About Myles Powell: Myles is a business leader and problem solver with 10+ years of experience scaling companies, managing multimillion-dollar projects, and coaching entrepreneurs. As Founder & CEO of Myles Comfort Foods, he built a national brand distributed in 700+ retail locations and raised over $1M in capital. His background also spans utility project management, financial services as a mortgage loan officer, and fitness coaching.

Myles thrives in roles where every day is different—combining his analytical skills with his passion for people, business development, and strategy. Whether building growth playbooks, managing cross-functional teams, or supporting clients with financial and fitness goals, he brings energy, adaptability, and a proven track record of advancing quickly and delivering results.

In this episode, Gary and Myles Powell discuss:

• How Myles walked away from engineering to build Myles Comfort Foods from scratch
• Turning a homemade barbecue sauce and food blog into a retail-ready CPG brand
• The scrappy early days: shared kitchens, farmers markets, and bootstrapping into Whole Foods and Target
• Why relentless learning, risk-taking, and “hunger for more” drive Myles’ vision for clean comfort food everywhere

Key Takeaways:

• You don’t need the perfect plan to start—just keep stepping into the next obvious move and learn the rest on the fly.
• Side hustling can be the real MBA: from filing trademarks to renting kitchen space and hand-delivering product, the best CPG lessons often come from doing.
• Listening to the market can change everything—the shift from sauce to frozen comfort foods came directly from real customer behavior at farmers’ markets.
• Being obsessed with progress and lifelong learning turns every job, failure, and pivot into a license to learn, not a finish line.

“I always had this entrepreneurship spirit, and I wanted to figure out what to do with it, and I knew food had to be involved.” — Myles Powell

Connect with Myles Powell:  

Website: https://www.mylescomfortfoods.com/ 

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