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Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Britney Saunders and welcome to Big Business, the

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Speaker 1: place where business is far from boring.

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Speaker 2: And today I'm recording on gaddigall Land.

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Speaker 1: Now, I somehow managed to build an empire from the

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Speaker 1: garage underneath my house and I'm here to share it

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Speaker 1: all with you, from the winds, the mistakes, the challenging

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Speaker 1: times and the funny moments in between. So, whether you're

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Speaker 1: in business already, perhaps you're not in the game at all,

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're just looking for some inspo, or you simply

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Speaker 1: just want to hear the tea, this is the podcast

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Speaker 1: for you. Coming up on today's episode, I am joined by.

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Speaker 2: A very exciting guest that has managed.

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Speaker 1: To get herself into the studio in kind of a

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Speaker 1: really interesting way. Today I'm joined by Pipper, the owner

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Speaker 1: and founder of Pipper's Pantry, which you may have seen

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Speaker 1: blowing up on Instagram and TikTok. She is the mastermind

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Speaker 1: behind the famous vegan bakery up in Brisbane, and she

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Speaker 1: posted a story a little while ago saying that her

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Speaker 1: listening to Big Business was one of the main reasons

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Speaker 1: why she decided to open a storefront earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: Piper from Pipper's pantry. Welcome to Big Business.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Now, this is funny how we've gotten you on the pod?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Like, did you was it you reached out to us? No,

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Speaker 2: how did it happen that? Wait, we've got producers Xander

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I should jump in.

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Speaker 2: So what happened? Hello?

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Speaker 4: Everyone, producer ex here. What happened was I saw an

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Speaker 4: Instagram post that Pepper posted, and it basically said that

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Speaker 4: she's a listener of the pod and she listens to

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Speaker 4: us all the time. And you had been contemplating open

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Speaker 4: up a storefront and you were amy and a ring

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Speaker 4: and listening to the pod actually gave her the confidence

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Speaker 4: to just be like, fuck it, I'm just going to

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Speaker 4: open up my storefront. And she did and a business

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Speaker 4: is booming, and I was like, we need to get

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Speaker 1: So like, basically, you owe all of your success I

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Speaker 1: need to give you.

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Speaker 2: I'm just joking, but I will take a little bit

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Speaker 2: of credit.

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Speaker 3: No, seriously, you could take all the credits because I

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Speaker 3: only started. I don't know how long Big Business has

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Speaker 3: even been going.

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Speaker 5: I've listened to them all now, No, but I think

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Speaker 5: we've been a year in a bit now a year

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Speaker 5: and a half we've been doing the post, so I

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Speaker 5: probably started listening mid last year, so a bit a

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Speaker 5: bit old, like a bit behind. Yeah, And I being

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Speaker 5: a baker, I'm constantly by myself in the kitchen, so

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Speaker 5: all I do is podcasts and watching movies and shows.

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Speaker 5: And I was just listening and listening and listening, and

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Speaker 5: you made opening a shop not seem easy, don't get

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Speaker 5: me wrong, because it's not, but seem like a possibility.

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Speaker 5: And I've been in business for In October, it will

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Speaker 5: be eight years that I've had my business, and I've

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Speaker 5: been like full time. Like I quit my job within

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Speaker 3: It and honestly, listening to you just made me think

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Speaker 3: I'll sort it out. Like it's not the end of

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Speaker 2: I'll do something else.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And seriously, having my business full like seven and

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Speaker 3: COVID came, I'm like, suckers, Thank god I didn't open

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Speaker 3: Like put on the pink boots because it's showtime. And

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Speaker 3: then like my parents or my friends when I told them, like,

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Speaker 3: there's no what I've always said, like I will never

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Speaker 3: I documented the like a series of like build my

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so ever since then, every weekend is sellout,

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Speaker 3: Yes, and so yeah, best thing I've ever done. I

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Speaker 1: For anyone listening and they're like, who on earth is

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Speaker 1: this girl that is in my ears right now? Can

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Speaker 1: you give us a rundown? What is Pipper's pantry? What

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Speaker 3: I am Pipper, owner of Pippers Pantry, and it is

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Speaker 3: a vegan a few things like it started off as

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Speaker 2: Whereabouts in Brisbane?

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Speaker 3: Is it in camp Hill on Old Cleveland Road? So

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Speaker 2: How good? How do you get to visibility? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: There you go come in and use a code big

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Speaker 3: But yes, so I started my business when I was

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Speaker 1: Now would you say that when you first started out,

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Speaker 3: Yes, I look back and I feel sick.

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Speaker 1: But I go to every business owner, no matter what

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I look back and I try to like reuse

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Speaker 3: Yes, So I started by doing my first ever vegan

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Speaker 3: So my first ever vegan market was at as the

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Speaker 1: And how long did it take you to prepare all

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Speaker 3: Like I can't, Like I need to go part time.

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Speaker 3: And I think I was part time for like two

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Speaker 1: I think that's good as well, like to be so

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Speaker 2: But watch your blunder.

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Speaker 1: Why did we all have a get fit page at

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Speaker 3: Mine was like the Kayla it signs Bikini Body Guide

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Speaker 2: Like, canceled.

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Speaker 3: We don't need a bikini body buy cupcakes. But when

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Speaker 3: Tip of the Week yet.

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Speaker 5: Okay, but what I'm about to say, yeah, that's at

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Speaker 3: But when my Tip of the Week resonates with this

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was seeing quotes like my caption of like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, never be too careful. But I love that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if you start doing it.

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Speaker 1: And you start posting, and like you said, I think

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Speaker 2: But if you can just act like you've got.

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Speaker 3: Not yet. Every time I'm thinking, because you know how

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Speaker 2: Yes, I love He had all acting debut last night.

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Speaker 1: Did you see our video where he is fully but

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Speaker 3: The standing on the v can is like lives literally

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Speaker 2: That was so hard, you know, that challenge with everyone's

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Speaker 1: So get out there and do content is what everyone

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Speaker 1: it before you change your mind? Moving on to you

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Speaker 2: Do you call it? Do you call it retail store

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Speaker 1: So you decided to do that at the store. Well,

442
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Speaker 1: you've opened in April this year. Yes, How long did

443
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Speaker 1: it take you to get to that point of opening?

444
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Speaker 3: MG? Literally like not even two months?

445
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Speaker 2: So you did click.

446
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Speaker 3: So I contacted one of my real estate friends and

447
00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,560
Speaker 3: was like, do you have any like, yeah, like retail

448
00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 3: spaces available. She was like, oh, like, I'll have a look.

449
00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:36,840
Speaker 3: And I think in like two days, like in forty

450
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,840
Speaker 3: eight hours, I'd found one and then went for a

451
00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,480
Speaker 3: look in it and just signed the lease. This sounds

452
00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:49,720
Speaker 3: really this sounds really crazy. But I hadn't got an oven,

453
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Speaker 3: like you know, the big commercial oven around. I didn't

454
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Speaker 3: have anything. I hadn't even thought about signage.

455
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Speaker 2: I hadn't.

456
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Speaker 3: I knew I wanted to like fully rebrand before opening

457
00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:02,520
Speaker 3: the shop because obviously I needed to do the you know,

458
00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 3: front banners and everything, and I just signed the least

459
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,240
Speaker 3: because I was like the quicker. If I have that

460
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Speaker 3: stress behind me of like, you've signed the least, you

461
00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,440
Speaker 3: need to start right now, then I'll do it. Otherwise

462
00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 3: I felt like it was going to be one of

463
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Speaker 3: those things where I'm like, well, i'll rebrand, then I'll

464
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Speaker 3: get this, and that could take a year.

465
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Speaker 1: Like you're delaying on purpose almost. I think that's really

466
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Speaker 1: good as well. I'm all for that, Like even if

467
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Speaker 1: you only feel you know, seventy percent, ready, jump in

468
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Speaker 1: and figure out the other thirty percent as you're going yeah,

469
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Speaker 1: because I think it's the fear of starting if you.

470
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Speaker 3: Overthink it, Yeah, and you're gonna yeah, you know, I

471
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Speaker 3: just need to do it quick while I've got like

472
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Speaker 3: the momentum. And then it's like I think I was

473
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Speaker 3: literally in there, I'd gotten the keys, and then I

474
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Speaker 3: drove home, change my clothes, got my golden retriever Poppy.

475
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Speaker 3: You picked her up, you took her there and started painting.

476
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Speaker 3: Literally that day when.

477
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Speaker 1: You walk did you feel like so when I go

478
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Speaker 1: see like have seen my stores for the first time.

479
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Speaker 2: When I walk in, I'm like, yep.

480
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Speaker 1: This is this door.

481
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Speaker 2: Did you have that same feeling? Yes, yeah with this

482
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Speaker 2: I only.

483
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Speaker 3: Looked at one place, but it just so happened to

484
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Speaker 3: be the right way standards. No, but I walked in

485
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Speaker 3: and I was like, I know exactly where everything's going

486
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:15,280
Speaker 3: already almost and the front area. I just thought, this

487
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,560
Speaker 3: is such a good start, and I know what I'll

488
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Speaker 3: do if it gets really big, or I know what

489
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,800
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do if it doesn't really get busy, Because

490
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 3: in my head, I was like, well, if it doesn't

491
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 3: work out, I'll make a commercial kitchen space. All my

492
00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 3: small business baking friends can like rent a few hours

493
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Speaker 3: at a time from me, you know, like that, and

494
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Speaker 3: it can be like a little like baking hub and

495
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 3: to like throw ideas off each other. That would be awesome.

496
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Speaker 3: That was kind of like my if no one shows

497
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Speaker 3: up on open day and I kind of need to

498
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Speaker 3: like make money to pay this off, yeah, then that's

499
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Speaker 3: what I can do.

500
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

501
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Speaker 3: But I didn't really think much into it because it's like, oh,

502
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 3: if it doesn't work, it doesn't.

503
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Speaker 2: Work, you'll figure it out.

504
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Speaker 1: I think that's the best mindset to have. And now

505
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Speaker 1: that you've been open like haven't even been open for

506
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Speaker 1: that long, like just like what four months? Yeah, what's

507
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 1: been your biggest lesson so far?

508
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Speaker 3: Oh? First one is these are contradicting each other.

509
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:08,560
Speaker 2: Okay.

510
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,160
Speaker 3: First one is you have to spend money to make money, yes,

511
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 3: and when you've been a very small bakery business for

512
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 3: so long, it's scary to be investing in all this

513
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 3: stuff in hopes that when I could have just stayed

514
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 3: what I was doing and I was going sweet yep, unintended.

515
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 3: Second second is if you don't have it, don't spend it.

516
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 3: Almost so hear me out, Okay, I like you fully

517
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 3: self funded and everything like that. The idea of getting

518
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,719
Speaker 3: a business loan does really scare me because I just

519
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 3: don't want that over my head. I would just rather

520
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,280
Speaker 3: work really hard, like I'll do a quick sell if

521
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 3: I need to make something to pay something off. And

522
00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 3: I think people go too big and get themselves into

523
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 3: too much kind of like business debt, and then they're

524
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 3: like forced to go to work, whereas I'm in no

525
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 3: debt right now. If I want to not open the

526
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Speaker 3: shop for two weeks or and open the shop, because

527
00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 3: it's like as long as I can just make the rent,

528
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 3: I didn't want to get all this fancy equipment. I

529
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:17,640
Speaker 3: didn't I could have gotten an architect in and doing

530
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 3: all of this stuff, but I just thought, how about

531
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Speaker 3: I just do it how I want to a little

532
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:26,240
Speaker 3: bit like DIY with my partner for the first few years,

533
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Speaker 3: and then then I can go bigger. I can always

534
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 3: go bigger, but I just need to start, yes, And

535
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,160
Speaker 3: I just, like, you know, some of my business friends

536
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 3: lent me tables and silver benches to work off to

537
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Speaker 3: begin with, because I just didn't want to go into

538
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 3: too much debt and have that stress when I already off. Yeah,

539
00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,359
Speaker 3: when I was already stressed enough, thinking like this is

540
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 3: such a big change, like I can't couldn't even believe.

541
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Speaker 3: I had to find my rent money, which isn't even

542
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 3: that crazy, but like I had to find that rent

543
00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,959
Speaker 3: money every week. That's new. I hadn't had that before.

544
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,640
Speaker 3: And so on top of all these other things, I

545
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,959
Speaker 3: just was so happy to open my first day and

546
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 3: be like, I'm okay, if not one customer comes, I'll

547
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:10,080
Speaker 3: work it out.

548
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Speaker 2: Does that make sense? And what day of the week

549
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Speaker 2: did you open?

550
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Speaker 3: So I opened on a Saturday. I did a huge,

551
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Speaker 3: like big open grand opening, I actually only posted that

552
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 3: I was opening like three days earlier because my boyfriend

553
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 3: put up the big front signage in the pouring rain

554
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 3: like two days before.

555
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Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, should I better post about this?

556
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, oh, like everything's together, I guess

557
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 3: I could open. And I really wanted to be open

558
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Speaker 3: before Easter, and because I'm you know, Easter and then

559
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 3: Mother's Day kind of like oh, come quite quick. I

560
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 3: knew I want to be open my favorite times of

561
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Speaker 3: the year. And yeah, I just posted.

562
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Speaker 2: Now was it? How was the opening day?

563
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 3: It was insane in Saturday, Like I feel like my

564
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,919
Speaker 3: feet are still numbs. So I worked. I left the

565
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 3: house the night before open, no, like two days before

566
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 3: opening my house at like five am, went to work,

567
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 3: didn't come home, and then kept working through the night

568
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Speaker 3: until the next day.

569
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

570
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Speaker 3: And then I came home at like seven pm. Like

571
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Speaker 3: this is like forty eight hours later.

572
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Speaker 2: You're working like two days straight, getting baking everything.

573
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I do it all myself.

574
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Speaker 2: Wow.

575
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,639
Speaker 3: Even still yeah, well do you have anyone working in

576
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Speaker 3: the shop. Well, my mum and my boyfriend just like

577
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 3: serve customers to help me. But I do it like

578
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 3: all the baking.

579
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Speaker 1: Wow.

580
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you don't have a helper yet.

581
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 2: No, but you're ready for one.

582
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't start emailing your resumes.

583
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: You're gonna have job application at me.

584
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 3: Well I did try a few years ago, and I

585
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 3: wasn't ready for it. I just I'm such a perfectionist.

586
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 3: And I know it seems like you.

587
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 2: Just make a cupcake.

588
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 3: Anyone can make a cupcake, which I guess they can.

589
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 3: But I do wedding cakes like I do, like you know,

590
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 3: three forty your wedding cake. And I do catering for

591
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 3: the casinos and for A and Z and all these

592
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 3: huge cooperations. Like those orders.

593
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 2: Freak me out. I need to make sure they're perfect.

594
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,440
Speaker 3: I can't deliver something that's not perfect. The only way

595
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 3: I know not to be perfect is I'm micromanaging. And

596
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 3: I know this is a headache to you. This is

597
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 3: like you're probably like, this is crazy, bitch.

598
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: No, But I think if that works for you in

599
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: your business, then by all means you need to get

600
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,360
Speaker 1: to doing those things. I think moving you know, into

601
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:27,199
Speaker 1: the future, if you are wanting to grow, you're going

602
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:29,159
Speaker 1: to have to grow your team at some point, and

603
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: that could just be by having one person coming in

604
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 1: and helping out, and it would be giving them tasks

605
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: that you're confident in giving to them, where it's not

606
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: like putting together the final cake, but maybe it's like

607
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 1: mixing up all the batches and like those easy things

608
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 1: that you know that you can trust someone to do.

609
00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: And I think, I think as well, what you'll learn,

610
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Speaker 1: because you're reminding me of me right now. When I

611
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: first started Fate, and when I first started Fate, like

612
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: you listen to the pod, I hired AJ's mum's family friend,

613
00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,639
Speaker 1: like a young girl, and she was just coming to

614
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 1: help me two to three days a week, just casual hours.

615
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: And I remember feeling the same even though the business

616
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: had just started, I guess because I'd been in control

617
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: of everything, and you know, she was coming in and

618
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: helping me with the emails and helping me pick and

619
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Speaker 1: pack the orders.

620
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 2: And going down to the post office.

621
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: And even then I would feel myself going, that's right,

622
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: I'll do it, like it's just easier to me. But

623
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: at some stage, if you want to grow as a

624
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 1: business owner, you have to let go and you have

625
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: to just learn to trust people, even though it's the

626
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: hardest thing in the world, and when it's your own

627
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: business and your little baby that you've worked on for

628
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,160
Speaker 1: so long, it can feel so close to your heart

629
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: and like you kind of want to be like a

630
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: control freak because everything works perfectly when you do it.

631
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 2: But if you want to grow and.

632
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: Also if you want to grow yourself personally, if you

633
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: just kind of let those gates down a little bit

634
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 1: and let someone in and trust them, you'll thank yourself

635
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: for it a million times over. And I know it

636
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: feels really hard to do. Not me just giving you

637
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: advice in this episode.

638
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 3: This is like all I listened to with all the

639
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 3: other episodes going. I know I should be.

640
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 2: I was scared.

641
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 3: I was like, I can't tell her I got no stuff.

642
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: But if that works for you now, but just thinking

643
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:17,480
Speaker 1: like into the future, like you could turn this into

644
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: something massive, but you have to learn to step back

645
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: and you have to get out of the way of

646
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: your own business, because you're in the way of your

647
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: own business right.

648
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 3: And I can feel it because I get into work

649
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 3: and I've got my list of things to do and

650
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 3: then I'm like, oh, but I said I was going

651
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 3: to like post it and.

652
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: See it could even be starting out actually by hiring

653
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: someone to be a content creator.

654
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 3: That is what he gave someone else the advice. And

655
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Speaker 3: I was listening to the pot and I was going, could.

656
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 2: Who also helps you ordering supplies, doing.

657
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: Mixing and like all the little basic stuff like I

658
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: don't know how cakes work, but mixing the.

659
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 6: Flower and eggs, you know, just there's no eggs, no eggs,

660
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Speaker 6: no eggs followers vegan eggs.

661
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Speaker 3: But like that's I guess another reason why I delayed

662
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Speaker 3: it so long, because being vegan, I have trust issues.

663
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: And I'm not even a crazy vegan. I choose to

664
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Speaker 3: not eat it because I like animals. If you agree, agree,

665
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 3: if you don't, you don't. I don't hurt you eat,

666
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 3: you don't hell it I eat. That's literally like my mentality.

667
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 3: When people come into the shop and they're like, I

668
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 3: didn't even know it was vegan, I'm like, that's a compliment.

669
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 3: If vegan say it, that's a compliment, I'm so grateful,

670
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 3: exactly right. But I guess when people are like my kid,

671
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 3: my kid, my beautiful son is turning it's turning one

672
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 3: and they've never ever tried a cake in their life,

673
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 3: and I'm going to order a cake. This is a

674
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 3: huge deal. They are severely anaphylactic to you know, eggs

675
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: or dairy or this, like can you do this? Can

676
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 3: you guarantee like this?

677
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, absolutely, I know that you're responsible for that.

678
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: But the thing is as well, like you can still

679
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: trust staff to do those things. And that could come

680
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: down to, like all the processes that you have in

681
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: place when you have people working for you, the training

682
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 1: that you provide them, and the ongoing training, and hiring

683
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: people that have a high attention to detail, and hiring

684
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,959
Speaker 1: people that are passionate about what you're doing. Like you

685
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: can find those kinds of people that you can try.

686
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 3: A boyfriend his trading job work, mister pantry, missus trust me.

687
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: Like the way that your business is running now is

688
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: obviously working fantastically and you can one hundred percent keep

689
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: it going this way. But if you want to grow

690
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: it into something big, you've got to move out of

691
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: the way of your own business to allow the business

692
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: to do its thing, and you need to trust people

693
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: and see them as.

694
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 2: An investment in your business.

695
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: You'll bring them in, they'll take all those little tasks

696
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: off you that you don't really need to be doing,

697
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: so then you can focusing Yeah, like washing up, the

698
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: cleaning up, the cleaning, Like you can have people come

699
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: in and do all those little tasks so then you

700
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: can focus on actually growing the business instead of right

701
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: now you're in the way of the business because you're

702
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: in the middle of it and you're controlling every single part,

703
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: which is great.

704
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm literally listening to twenty of ye Other episodes,

705
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 3: which is what I listened to and go.

706
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: I know, like I so you need to just do it,

707
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: even though you don't feel ready, even if you're sixty percent.

708
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: Get someone in and figure out the other forty percent

709
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: and work with them, and you know, build systems that

710
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: make you feel good. Train like you train them yourself,

711
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: so then you can trust that you know they know

712
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: what they're doing because I've thoroughly trained that.

713
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm at this crossroads of like I

714
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 3: can go there or I can just keep doing what

715
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 3: I'm doing, which is like been very fruitful and very funny.

716
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 3: And some mornings I'm like, oh, thank God, I'm going

717
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 3: this way easier, and then other mornings I'm like, should

718
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 3: have gone this way. I've got so much to.

719
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 2: Medical that I need to go to it. I know

720
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 2: that's the thing.

721
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: You know, you could stay the way that you're going

722
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: and absolutely love it, but then you could also be like, oh,

723
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: what if you know, in the future, if i'd if

724
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: i'd maybe hide someone else, and where could we be now?

725
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: And it's I think it's something that you have to

726
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: be very aware and mindful of. Is like, if you

727
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: are going to grow your business bigger than what it

728
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: is now, it's going to become challenging.

729
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: It's going to become harder.

730
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: That's just a part of life and business, especially when

731
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: you're bringing other people in. It's going to come with

732
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: its challenges, but it can obviously also be the most

733
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: rewarding thing ever. And if you find people that can

734
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: work with you and help you grow your business to

735
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,959
Speaker 1: that next level, like you're going to get a lot

736
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: of enjoyment out of that as well. Like that's what

737
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: I feel with Fate and our team is like I'm

738
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 1: so proud every day watching my team just show up

739
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: to work every day and absolutely kill it and they

740
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: love it and they're thriving.

741
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 3: That's even more rewarding than like.

742
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, But it just like all comes down to,

743
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, where you want to take this thing. Obviously

744
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: you've had so much success in you know, such a

745
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: short time. Well you've been doing baking for a really

746
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: long time. But in terms of the shop, yeah, and

747
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to rush it at all.

748
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: I think you've got plenty of time, and you're young,

749
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: and you're excited about it, which I think is the

750
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: most important thing. You can never be running a business

751
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: that you're not excited about. But I think it's good

752
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: to be like, where do I want to take this thing?

753
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: Do I want to go massive and open multiple bakeries?

754
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 3: Do I There is not going to be a franchise,

755
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 3: But you've.

756
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 2: Got it as well.

757
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: I said the same when I had my one Fate

758
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: store for the first three years, and I said never, never, never,

759
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: and our customers would go, please come to Sydney, please

760
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: come here.

761
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 2: Now we've got five and we're in three states.

762
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: And back in the day, I was like, I'm never

763
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 1: opening another one because that would be too hard to

764
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: figure out how to have something in another location.

765
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 2: And I did it anyway, and I'm so glad that

766
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: I did.

767
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 3: People to comment the other day come to Perth, I'm like,

768
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 3: I haven't even been to Perth myself.

769
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: Never say never in business because you never know where

770
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: it might take you. But also like if you're loving

771
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: the way that you're doing things and it's succeeding, which

772
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: it obviously is, it's doing amazing for you, then like

773
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: enjoy that.

774
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 3: I really I love going in and I just put

775
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 3: my summer. I turn a pretty new episode and I go, yes,

776
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 3: I got Matt and I got Brits podcasts to listen to.

777
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 3: I don't know have to talk anymore. This is so good.

778
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: This is the perfect little life. Listen to my podcast cakes.

779
00:33:58,520 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: That is my whole life.

780
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 3: But then I do think of like the stressful days

781
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 3: almost if I just got someone in just h if

782
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 3: you have a part time not that's the other thing too,

783
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 3: like having having someone else there you know to lean

784
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 3: on and you know when things go wrong.

785
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: It's nice to be surrounded by a team, even if

786
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 1: it's a tiny team, where you can problem solve together,

787
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: you know, and just even just I guess like the

788
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: social side of it as well, it's nice to just

789
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: be interacting with other people within your business and just

790
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: having fun together the same goal, especially with like a

791
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: business like yours where you're creating so much fun content

792
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: like there's so many opportunities there to have more fun

793
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: and you know, create more content. So yeah, it's definitely.

794
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: It's good that you're like mindful of it already.

795
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:46,239
Speaker 3: No, like, definitely, everything you're telling me is like.

796
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 2: I know, I know I have about that.

797
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 3: That's perfectly. You'll have to down and listen.

798
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 2: I've got to mixed flower and water.

799
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 3: Sugar maybe if they're lucky.

800
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: You currently only open two days a week, and those

801
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: two days are big and you do it well, what

802
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,759
Speaker 1: is the reasoning behind that and are you always going

803
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: to keep it that way or are you open to

804
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: opening any more days?

805
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 3: Yes, so I am only open Friday and Saturday nine

806
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 3: am till midday both days. So I'm open six hours

807
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 3: for my entire week.

808
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 1: I mean that's good for you, but obviously you're working

809
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: a lot behind the scenes.

810
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, of course, and it is just like madness

811
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 3: start to finish for the six hours basically every week.

812
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 3: It's honestly the best decision I could have made in

813
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 3: the terms of I'm sure I could make more money

814
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 3: if I open seven days a week, because I'm there anyways,

815
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 3: I'm there practically seven day coffees no, no, but but

816
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 3: I'm on this really nice strip of all of the

817
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 3: neighboring people like do coffees, and I feel like you.

818
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: Should bring in a coffee machine and a barista.

819
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 3: Well maybe that's another thing.

820
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 2: Yeah again, get the boyfriend shob yep.

821
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 3: I could definitely open seven days and I could make

822
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 3: so much more money in this you open all these hours,

823
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: but that's not I want to be a pop up

824
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 3: kind of hole in the wool little bakery. If you

825
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 3: make it, you make it. If you don't, you don't

826
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 3: because at the end of the day, I love doing

827
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 3: my wedding cakes and I love doing my custom cakes

828
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 3: and that is something I'll never give up. So this

829
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 3: is what I could do while still making sure I'm

830
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 3: doing what I love and I love opening the shop

831
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 3: as well. But I much prefer baking a wedding cake

832
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 3: than like kind of having a stressful like putting out stock.

833
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 2: You know. This is again.

834
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: This is again like you need a higher staff so

835
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: they can be the one serving the customer and you

836
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: can still be there.

837
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 3: Who wants a cupcake on a Monday?

838
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: But you could do three days a week. You could

839
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: do four days a week and extend the hours a

840
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: little bit. Beyond midday and again like you being like

841
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: I love the wedding cakes, like that's where my passion is,

842
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: and like I don't really want to be stressing about

843
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: putting all the stock in the cabinet and getting it

844
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: ready blah blah blah.

845
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 2: That's where staff come in.

846
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 3: I find what's really hard. And this could be a

847
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 3: cop out and just an excuse, but like because I

848
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 3: started when I was seventeen, yes, like I was, some

849
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: people that came to that first Sunshae Coast Market still

850
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 3: come to my shop.

851
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 2: It's so nice and.

852
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 3: Like I have done, you know, like a baby shower,

853
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 3: then a first birthday cake, then the wedding cake, then

854
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: the second, third and fourth birthday cake. How family, And

855
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 3: I know them all and I see them all and

856
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 3: I talk to them all, and I know that I

857
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: just love being there to be like.

858
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: Oh hi, hi Anita, Oh I know you're getting a

859
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: choc chip croissant.

860
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 3: I just know that I love the baking side, but

861
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 3: I love that side as as well.

862
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: You just need to duplicate yourself basically, That's what I'm

863
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: saying that. But even still like thinking to you know,

864
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: you having those loyal customers that you love seeing. I

865
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: think if those loyal customers have been on your business

866
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: journey with you, and you've been with them through moments

867
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: in their life, the birthdays, the babies and everything, I

868
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,320
Speaker 1: think they would be genuinely happy to see your little

869
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: business growing and they forget to know, Yeah, they would

870
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: love it and support that. They'd love to get to

871
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: know the people that are working at your bakery the

872
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: same way, like yes, like I'm the owner of Faith.

873
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 2: And yeah everyone everyone knows me as the owner of Fate.

874
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: But also like in all of our stores, our customers

875
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: have such good friendships with all of our store teams.

876
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: They know them by.

877
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: Name, like yeah, and I'm not there every day in

878
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: our stores, but people aren't going to be like, oh,

879
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go in because Britain is not

880
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: going to be there.

881
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: It's because like there's other amazing crazy people.

882
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an opportunity for other relationships to form. And

883
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: I think those loyal customers of yours would be the

884
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: number one people to support you in growing your business

885
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: because you know, I've got like seventy or eighty employees

886
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 1: and like, so it's big that you feel sick just

887
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: thinking about it, even though, like it's not because it's

888
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: like it happened gradually, you know, I didn't just all

889
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: of a sudden have seventy people working like me.

890
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: Imagine just like two people's like salary.

891
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, but on my shoulder, I'm like, that's the way

892
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 1: I felt. But you've felt those ways so many times

893
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: already in your business journey, when you were like, oh,

894
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to open a shop, I'm scared of I'm

895
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: going to go to the market. Oh I didn't make

896
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: enough money. Yeah, it's just the same thing. Yeah, it's

897
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: the same sort of thing when it comes to hiring staff.

898
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, I wouldn't.

899
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't let the fear of like your customers not

900
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: seeing you every single time hold you back from something

901
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: that you might want to explore.

902
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

903
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my another piece of advice. You're welcome.

904
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the most challenging custom order that you've ever done?

905
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: Do you have like one cake that you think back

906
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: to and go, oh, that was almost a nightmare, or

907
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: have you ever had like a nightmare? Have you ever

908
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:11,959
Speaker 1: had something go really wrong with a cake?

909
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 3: In my first few years, I was delivering a wedding cake, and.

910
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 2: That's a lot of pressure.

911
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: By the way, I can't work in the wedding industry

912
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: because I would.

913
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 2: Feel the pressure of it. If it's not perfect, it's

914
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 2: all my fault.

915
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 3: If especially all these you know, two hour away once

916
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 3: if something goes wrong, I don't I can't spake the road.

917
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 2: And the cake like flies in.

918
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 3: The cattle grid when you go into venues and they

919
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 3: have like you know, the.

920
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm driving cake in my hands.

921
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 3: And so basically it was on like do you ever

922
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 3: been to Brisbane Kangaroo Point. It's you know, everyone in Brison,

923
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, you can't really drive to this venue.

924
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,840
Speaker 3: I'm not saying the venue because I don't scare other bakers,

925
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 3: but it's terrifying. And basically I had to walk like

926
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: the three tiered cake down and it's along like a

927
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 3: running walking path and like bike path, and I had

928
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,400
Speaker 3: to walk like it feels like the Kakoda track. It

929
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 3: was probably only five.

930
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: Hundred meters, but it felt like you were going on

931
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 1: a track, felt like it.

932
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 3: And we're in the car and like you put like

933
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 3: stability inside wedding cakes, and the cake kind of started

934
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 3: to like the flowers were kind of coming to one side.

935
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 3: The stability started to poke up the top, which means

936
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 3: the cake is sinking, you know, And so I'm thinking, oh,

937
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 3: what's going on here?

938
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 2: What's going on here?

939
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,919
Speaker 3: It's like Queensland weather as well hot, and like being vegan,

940
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 3: I can't use some products, so I have to use

941
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 3: other ones, so it's not stable, can't use jelatin blah

942
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 3: blah blah. And so I'm walking it down and I

943
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: have to keep like leaning it against the handrails and

944
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 3: then like keep going. It's so heavy leaning into handrails.

945
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 3: Get there, set it up all as well. Ninety nine

946
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 3: point nine percent. Sure go home thinking, oh my god,

947
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 3: I'm and here's something I'm gonna go, here's something going

948
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 3: to They contacted me, perfect cake was amazing, everything ra ra.

949
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 3: The scary part is that like two or three years

950
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 3: later they came to one of my like markets or

951
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 3: pop ups and they got divorced. And so I think

952
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 3: that's like my one real like bad cake. Sorry, So

953
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, do you think that was a sign? Was

954
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 3: it me? Was it them? The rashit like? Was it

955
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: the wedding? Bad jujus? That that just made it bad?

956
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 3: So that's my only real like I mean.

957
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:33,800
Speaker 1: I don't like it was your fault or the cake

958
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: for the cakes fault because the divorce.

959
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 2: Rate is quite high. This is true, Like I think

960
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: it's like sev more.

961
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 3: That is concerning. I can happily never get married to

962
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 3: my partner Joey, and we're just.

963
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: Like people say, when are you and ag gonna get married?

964
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: And maybe one day, but also like we're just happy

965
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: the way we are, you know.

966
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, well at least I can make mariwn cake one benefit.

967
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: Very save some money on that. Make your own cake. Yeah,

968
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 2: I love it.

969
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: So we've spoken a lot in this episode about where

970
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: I think you should take this business if I see

971
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: the things that I'd be doing. But where do you

972
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: see yourself in five years? What's an ideal world for

973
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: you and Pipper's Pantry?

974
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 3: I have two years left of my shop, please, right, and.

975
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,440
Speaker 2: I know I've only had not even.

976
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 3: I think in two years I will keep my shop

977
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 3: for sure, but I'll close the front because I would

978
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 3: like to have babies and take that root route. Can

979
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 3: you say, yeah, I don't know the correct have babies

980
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 3: and sorry, and so I would love to do that.

981
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 3: But I will still take on my custom cakes. And

982
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 3: it's just because I really want to be a very

983
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 3: involved mom, like, oh I want I can't wait to

984
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 3: have kids. And I know, like some people, I.

985
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 2: Think that's like the worst thing in the world secretly.

986
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 3: But I can't wait to be really like involved. And

987
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 3: so for me to just be able to do a

988
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 3: couple of custom cakes a.

989
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 2: Week, I think that would be perfect.

990
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 3: That is like my dream. And then come I'm going

991
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 3: to just keep my place so you know and so,

992
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 3: and then when I choose to, I can open it

993
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,480
Speaker 3: again or I can then fully hire five people to

994
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 3: just pull.

995
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,960
Speaker 2: Out run around again. This is when staff could come

996
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 2: in handy. You can have that working even when you're off.

997
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,680
Speaker 3: So and that I think I want to be just

998
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 3: like a really involved mom. That's why I'm working so hard.

999
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 3: That truly is is because I want to set myself up.

1000
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 3: I love my business and everything, but I don't want

1001
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 3: to get so involved in my business that I wake

1002
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 3: up in ten years and be like I have a

1003
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 3: really big, popular bakery. But like, do I like my life?

1004
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: Like do I like my family and my partner and everything,

1005
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 3: And so I really do think that I'll always have it,

1006
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 3: but I will definitely like have a little dip and

1007
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 3: then hopefully everyone will accept me back and some base

1008
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 3: so mastermind hasn't come, and by then.

1009
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: I can envision it. You're gonna have staff working for

1010
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: you anyway. You're going to be able to take a

1011
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: step back anyway and trust them that they'll keep it

1012
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 1: running while you're having your time off and you can

1013
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: pop in when you need to.

1014
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 3: Well, that's my dream. Imagine me just had a baby

1015
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 3: looking stunning obviously, not that that's unrealistic or anything. My

1016
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 3: little stroller going to visit my shop to a treat

1017
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 3: for my kid. You know that would be awesome, But

1018
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 3: I genuinely have no idea where it's.

1019
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: Got a pretty good idea, like I think you've got

1020
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: a solid answer already. If you ask me where i'd

1021
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: be in five years, I couldn't tell you wherever the

1022
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: wind takes me. If you all of a sudden, I've

1023
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: got one last question for you. This is just a

1024
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: bit of a random fun one. If you all of

1025
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: a sudden couldn't do what you're doing now and you

1026
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: had to go and work for someone else, are we

1027
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: going to give it this an that you can't bake. Yeah, okay,

1028
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: let's go real hard you can't do baking. Okay, you

1029
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: can't do any of it. It's all gone tomorrow and

1030
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: you had to go and work somewhere else for someone else.

1031
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 2: What are you picking?

1032
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 3: Okay, this is going to come out of nowhere. Like

1033
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 3: I feel like lots of people listening will be like,

1034
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 3: why would you want to do that?

1035
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1036
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 3: But like I just love to be like a property

1037
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 3: manager a real estate agent. But hear me out, hear

1038
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 3: me out. I want to like help businesses find places

1039
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 3: to like kind of start slash. But I don't know.

1040
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 3: Maybe I want to be like a business development manager

1041
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 3: for a business, like because like real estates don't have

1042
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 3: a good rap.

1043
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 1: Sorry guys, they really don't, but they're changing slowly. Yeah, surely, Yes,

1044
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: I did listened to.

1045
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 2: The Yes, he was amazing.

1046
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,479
Speaker 3: It was so good. And I also just like love.

1047
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,280
Speaker 3: I really love house. I love like properties and stuff

1048
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 3: like that. Or I feel like I would love to

1049
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: be a business manager, but not that fancy. I just

1050
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 3: love talking to people and I love love like tell

1051
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 3: me your problems and let's just like spitball, you know, yeah,

1052
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 3: that kind of vibe. But honestly, I can't see I

1053
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 3: could never work for someone else, Yeah, I could. I've

1054
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,919
Speaker 3: never had like a real, like a real real job.

1055
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 3: I've never I you know, I've been like a barista

1056
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 3: at two places. Yeah, and that's like I don't have

1057
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 3: any formal education. I don't have any formal like qualifications

1058
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 3: other than like my home ch in grade twelve, So

1059
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 3: I don't have anything to show for it other than

1060
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:36,919
Speaker 3: doing my business.

1061
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: I feel like you learn the most ever when you're

1062
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: in business, So I think that's an amazing thing.

1063
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 2: And I think what you've done is absolutely amazing.

1064
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: Your story is certainly very inspiring, and we just love

1065
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: to see a young woman getting out there and giving

1066
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: it a red hot crack, even when you feel like

1067
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,360
Speaker 1: you have no idea what you're doing, because that's pretty

1068
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: much all of us. To wrap up our big business episodes,

1069
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: as you know, because you've been dying to tell you screenshot,

1070
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: we've got a tip of the week coming from you,

1071
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: Pep waiting a tip of the week for us.

1072
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 3: Does this count if it's like a quote? Yeah, okay,

1073
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 3: of course we love a quote. The quote is and

1074
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 3: I feel like I have to explain it because mum goes.

1075
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 3: People gonna know what that means. So the quote is

1076
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 3: to fall asleep, you must pretend to be asleep first,

1077
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 3: and that's how everything works. Yes, and I love that,

1078
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 3: Like when you go to sleep at night, you close

1079
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: your eyes and.

1080
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 2: Then pretend for a lit and then then you fall.

1081
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 3: Asleep, whereas that is literally in business, pretend to be

1082
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 3: a freaking influencer and post and then you might be

1083
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 3: go viral in this And I love the thing you

1084
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 3: said about posting is like doing the lottery. You might

1085
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 3: win it, you might not, like just post it and

1086
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 3: you could go viral, or you could just you know,

1087
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 3: still get like two hundred years, which is still a lot.

1088
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that mindset.

1089
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: I also saw a TikTok literally just last night and

1090
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: I reposted it. It's the little trend happening at the

1091
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:56,919
Speaker 1: moment where people are singing to this song but they're

1092
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: making up the words and it's got auto tune. Have

1093
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 1: you seen people doing that trend in the last twenty

1094
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: four hours? Anyway, this lady was saying, if you can

1095
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Speaker 1: overthink the worst in every scenario, like you know how

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Speaker 1: you dwell and think of the worst, why don't you

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Speaker 1: also do the same to the best possible outcome, like

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Speaker 1: the like be delusional because we're always like thinking of

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario and freaking out over that. Why

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Speaker 1: don't we do the same also for the best, the

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Speaker 1: best possible scenario.

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Speaker 2: Do both?

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Speaker 3: Do both?

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Speaker 1: So I absolutely love that tip of the week. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for sharing, and thank you for coming all this

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Speaker 1: way to being on the pod.

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Speaker 2: You've literally come all.

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Speaker 1: The way ever Brisbane and now you're flying back up

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Speaker 1: and gone straight to making cakes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this weekend I have the Brisbane Vegan Expo and

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Speaker 3: my shop opening.

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Speaker 2: So, oh my goodness, and you've just thrown in a

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Speaker 2: trip to Sydney just to.

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Speaker 3: That's why I've got to go to all the bakeries

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Speaker 3: and get treats keep me awake while I'm working overnight.

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Speaker 3: So you're staying here for the night, No, oh, you're

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Speaker 3: going back. I'll probably have an all nighter at the shop.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah right, iemen and all night a like staying here, no,

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Speaker 1: and all night of baking yep, doing my favorite thing.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 3: A new episode of my show Come literally comes out

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Speaker 3: five pm, so I've got to make sure.

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Speaker 1: I'm home perfect well, Peter, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: coming on. Thank you for getting it. Amazing you didn't

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Speaker 1: get in touch with us like Xanders or a post.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna say I was scouted.

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Speaker 1: Scouted obviously everyone would by this point in the episode,

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Speaker 1: nowhere to find you, But just in case, tell us

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Speaker 1: all your Instagrams and where your shop is again.

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Speaker 3: So Instagram is at Pippers dot Pantry p I P

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Speaker 3: P A S P A N T L Y. My

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Speaker 3: shop is in camp Hill. So it's five six five

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Speaker 3: Old Cleveland Road, camp Hill.

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Speaker 1: And if anyone goes within the week that this episode

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Speaker 1: comes out on a Friday.

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Speaker 2: Or a Saturday from you.

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Speaker 1: Only got your six hours, Yeah, then you need to

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Speaker 1: go in and save big business.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, say big business, and you can have a free

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Speaker 3: brownie or a free cupcake. How's that you heard it here?

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Speaker 2: First, I'll be interested to see if anyone actually does.

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Speaker 3: I know, I'll be posting, be taking photos of them.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming on they and

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Speaker 1: keep up the amazing work and I'm so keen to

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Speaker 1: see you in a year or two from now.

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Speaker 3: Same time next year, we need like five.

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Speaker 1: Set a calendar reminder and I need to set one

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Speaker 1: to be like, go check out what pipp has done

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Speaker 1: in the last four months.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, thanks so much. Do you won't do you, I'll

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Speaker 3: do you proud.

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Speaker 2: I'll do you proud. I won't do you proud.