Emily Groden was handling mergers and acquisitions at a Chicago law firm when an episode of Netflix’s “Chef’s Table” got her thinking about a whole new career path.

Ms. Groden, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 2015, had always been interested in healthy eating. “Chef’s Table,” along with a passion for food, inspired her to leave the firm to become general counsel of a restaurant company and then to commit full time to her frozen waffle business, Evergreen, in September.

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