Hometown: New York City, NY
Occupation: Natural Foods Chef

Bethenny, 34, is a natural foods chef with a custom food delivery service providing healthy meals catering to celebrity and high-profile individuals with unique needs. Bethenny is also a consulting chef for Boca Burger and attended culinary school where she studied food and healing. The NYU graduate owns bethennybakes.com, a lowfat, wheat-, dairy- and egg-free cookie company in New York. Prior to becoming a chef, Bethenny produced large-scale entertainment events for Merv Griffin Productions in Los Angeles and founded In Any Event, a company dedicated to producing high-profile celebrity events. She also started Princess Pashmina, a pashmina shawl importer, selling to celebrity clients and stores around the world. Bethenny, whose active lifestyle includes yoga, snowboarding and rollerblading, lives in New York City with her dog Cookie.

When will you consider yourself "a success"?
I will consider myself a success when and I am married with a child while maintaining a successful career at something that I love.

How would you describe your leadership style?
I choose people according to their strengths and weaknesses and I encourage them to do what they do best without micromanaging.

How do you deal with personal and professional challenges?
I deal with all of life's challenges head-on with honesty, communication, and I carefully analyze the problem to determine its solution

What, in your opinion, is the most important quality to have in order to succeed in Life and why?
To succeed in life, we have to love what we do, maintain positive energy, create our [own] luck and know how to go after the things that we want.

What's more important: College Education or Real World Experience?
Every experience is important. What is really important is taking the circumstances you have and maximizing them to their fullest potential. For me personally, my real world experience has been far more influential. I very well could have skipped college and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. My life has defined me. For some, their college years have defined them.

Have any previous Apprentice winners motivated or inspired you?
I respect Bill Rancic for being the first winner. The apprentice is an exhausting, grueling process, and at his time, he had absolutely no clue what he was getting into or how the interview process worked. I respect how he remained calm and calculated and maintained composure ultimately prevailing. I have a lot of respect for Kendra's drive and her creativity. She is also very young and had a tremendous amount of maturity in very challenging circumstances.

How do you combine your creativity with your business savvy?
I find "the hook" or the "big idea" and then I strategically figure out how to implement that concept.

Faves;
Music: Elton John
Books: The Prince of Tides
TV: The West Wing, The Barefoot Contessa (Food Network), The Apprentice, all HBO shows
Movies: Wall Street, The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, The Big Chill, American Beauty

Quote: "Lika Martha, I have a strong work ethic. I will never ask anyone to do anything that I have not done or am not willing to do. My drive is unstoppable, and I never give up. I always make lemons into lemonade, and I strive towards a certain standard, quality and trust in all that I do. Good enough is never good enough."