{"id":17384,"date":"2024-04-12T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=17384"},"modified":"2024-04-12T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:10:04","slug":"california-family-grieves-loss-by-pouring-faith-into-new-venture-its-dad-and-god-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2024\/04\/california-family-grieves-loss-by-pouring-faith-into-new-venture-its-dad-and-god-with-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Family Grieves Loss By Pouring Faith into New Venture: ‘It’s Dad and God With Us’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A family recently turned its pain into purpose after unexpectedly losing a loved one. The Cooks, Kim, Lindsey, Brittney, and Calin Cook of Sacramento, California, started Something Sweet in 2022. It’s a premium, frozen cookie dough brand that ships nationwide. Fox News Digital spoke with mom Kim Cook, Lindsey Cook, and Brittney Cook about their journey to becoming entrepreneurs and how one particular family member continues to be their “why.”<\/p>\n

Dan Cook, husband of Kim Cook and father of the three girls, unexpectedly passed away in Nov. 2021 \u2014 something Kim Cook said was like a “theme to a country song.” She said, referencing her 20-year career in consumer-packaged goods, “In a very short window of time, I lost my husband and my job.” However, The loss of Dan Cook was a moment that shaped the\u00a0tight-knit family,\u00a0a unit the late dad of three deemed “Team Cook” years ago.\u00a0Kim Cook recalled of her family from the start, “Every time I was pregnant and kept popping out these girls, we all joked that we had a team. We made a lot of decisions on the way we approached life as a team and as a family.”<\/p>\n

The family members, through tears, shared the impact Dan Cook had on their lives \u2014\u00a0and how they’ve chosen to take that pain and turn it into purpose.\u00a0 “This was a dream that we talked about as a family for as long as I can remember,” daughter and sister Brittney Cook said.\u00a0“I know my dad and I would always spark up the different business ideas we wanted to do as a family,” she said. Around the same time that Kim Cook lost her job, Brittney Cook was brainstorming steps the family could take to honor their loved one’s legacy.<\/p>\n