Anna Myint, one-half of the brother-sister group behind Worldwide Market, has been named to the 2025 fall cohort of the James Beard Basis’s Girls’s Entrepreneurial Management (WEL) Program. WEL is a prestigious 11-week digital program through which house owners and co-owners of brick-and-mortar meals and beverage companies in the USA get to sharpen their management expertise and develop a star-studded skilled community.
Myint is the third girl from Tennessee to be named to a WEL cohort and the one one in 2025. Sarah Gavigan (Otaku Ramen) was a part of the group in 2019, and Henrietta Crimson’s Julia Sullivan was a part of the 2024 class. The 21 ladies chosen collectively personal 42 companies and have a mean enterprise income in 2024 of greater than $2.9 million. Myint is thrilled, she says, to get to study from these ladies, noting that as a result of not one of the different members are native, there’s no sense of competitors.
“I had a bodily response once they advised me I used to be chosen,” Myint says of her pleasure in being named. She has utilized and never been accepted up to now and is thrilled to be a part of the group this 12 months.
Over a three-month interval, the cohorts will determine options to enhance operations and inside processes and develop sustainable methods to scale and enhance income along with supporting each other.
Different contributors chosen for the competitors program this 12 months embody Lawren Askinosie of Askinosie Chocolate in Missouri, Lavanya Mahate of Saffron Valley Eating places in Utah and Pei Shan Wei of Zaab Zaab in New York.
Myint has an MBA from Vanderbilt College’s Owen Graduate College of Administration, so she’s no stranger to enterprise administration, aggressive environments or receiving deserved accolades. In 2023 she was a part of Nashville Rising Leaders in addition to Management Join by means of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce.
Together with her brother Arnold, Anna Myint is overseeing the fiftieth anniversary of Worldwide Market, the restaurant their dad and mom based. It was the town’s first Thai restaurant and Asian grocery when it opened in 1975. The unique closed in 2019, after their mom handed away, and in 2021 the 2 reopened the enterprise throughout Belmont Boulevard from the unique’s location.
Their Thai restaurant is open for lunch and dinner, and so they honor their mom’s recipes and supply fashionable takes on Thai dishes and eating. At IM, Myint oversees front-of-house, funds and communications for the enterprise, whereas her brother oversees the kitchen and back-of-house.
