"Making the Impossible and Doing the Unthinkable" - Marianne Eaves

What do Bourbon and Broadway have in common? More than you might think. Marianne Eaves, who became Kentucky’s first female master distiller at age 28, shares how through her career and personal journey she’s discovered that both take passion and vision, and patience to see that vision come to life. Both also involve science and art, along with a fair amount of risk. Eaves also explains how risk taking has shaped her life, and why you shouldn’t worry if everyone thinks what you’re doing is crazy. Marianne Eaves was born in Tennessee and raised in Kentucky, so geography alone may have been telling Eaves that her destiny was to be a whiskey maker. However, it was the courage to buck tradition, her creative engineering mind and a voracious appetite for learning that actualized her place in history as Kentucky’s First Female Master Distiller. Whiskey Advocate listed Eaves as “the Next Generation” for the bourbon industry, and she has been honored by Forbes in the 2015 Food & Drink 30 under 30 list. Eaves has also garnered recognition by Wine Enthusiast as one of America’s Top 40 Under 40 Tastemakers.