Co-owners of Cloud Nine Brownies
FAMILY:
Sons Anders, 8, and Lars, 5.
HOMETOWN/CHILDHOOD:
Jim grew up here in Aspen, and Jill is from Creede, Colo.
HOBBIES:
Skiing, reading, cooking and eating, playing with our kids, and trying to enjoy the place we choose to live.
ROLE MODELS:
Jill's role model was always Julia Child (with who she got to cook) because she believed that food should be enjoyed not feared.
MOTTO:
There are some things you can only know by creating them for yourself
FIRST JOB:
Jill's first job was scooping ice cream at the Creede Trading Post. Jim's was as a dishwasher at R'Pea's (what is now Pacifica) here in Aspen.
CAREER HIGHLIGHT:
Creating Cloud Nine Brownies and being voted one of the best artisan brownies in the country by USA Today.
BIGGEST CHALLENGE IN YOUR LINE OF BUSINESS:
Trying to balance work and family while trying to run essentially a manufacturing business in Aspen (one of the few).