Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the counter of her mother’s health-food store and roaming the floors of her father’s burgeoning snack empire, Cape Cod chips. She would eventually follow in their footsteps as a founder, but Dawes’ first job was a management consultant for food and beverage clients. It was a short-lived career that Dawes tells Fortune she didn’t enjoy. Then, in what felt like perfect timing, she was p ...