Interview with Linda Ruffenach, April 22, 2021
Project: Bourbon in Kentucky: Women in Bourbon Oral History Project
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In this interview with entrepreneur, author, blogger, and bourbon lover Linda Ruffenach, she explains her personal experience with bourbon as a child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky and why and when she started enjoying it as an adult. She talks about college and her marketing career at ACCENT Marketing for 20 years. She talks about being a CEO, being an entrepreneur, her company Execuity LLC, her podcast "Wealth Empowerment State of Mind," and founding the Whisky Chicks blog. She explains why and how she wrote the book "How to be a Bourbon Badass." She gives advice on a good work-life balance, mentoring, and shares stories of the people in the bourbon industry that she has met over the years.Interview Accession
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Women Women in bourbon Women in leadership Bourbon industry Kentucky ACCENT Marketing Marketing Mentoring Execuity LLC Wealth Empowerment State of Mind (Podcast) Podcasts Work-life balance Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Whisky Chicks How to be a Bourbon Badass (Book) Stave and Thief Executive Bourbon Steward Bourbon Suppa Club Bourbon food parings Empowerment Minorities Fawn Weaver Uncle Nearest Whiskey Jimmy Russell Jim Rutledge Charity Caleb Kilburn Kentucky Peerless DistillingInterview LC Subject
COVID-19 (Disease) Women in the whiskey industry Bourbon whiskey Whiskey. Whiskey industry Marketing.Interview Rights
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Ruffenach, Linda Interview by Sharah Kling. 22 Apr. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Ruffenach, L. (2021, April 22). Interview by S. Kling. Bourbon in Kentucky: Women in Bourbon Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Ruffenach, Linda, interview by Sharah Kling. April 22, 2021, Bourbon in Kentucky: Women in Bourbon Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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