New Year... Same BADASS you!

Well friends, it's the FINAL episode of Season 2 and we are going out with a BANG (and maybe a little treat too)! Today we welcome Non-Diet Nutritionist, Sturdy Girl, and Mayor of the Little Treat Life, Maria Sylvester Terry to the pod! She is one of my FAVORITE content creators ever ever on IG, and if you're looking for someone to pump you up and tell you things you need to hear (lovingly) with big BFF energy, Maria is your girl!

Today we're chatting about:

• Maria's journey to find healing and self acceptance after years of dieting, uncertainty, and burnout.
• drowning out urgency culture and the importance of tuning into what your body and mind need instead
• how to survive New Year, New You marketing (and how to avoid trying to sell to your own clients in that way)
• how to navigate working in a industry that glorifies good food and hospitality while living in a world that demonizes sweets and pleasure
• Maria's tips on how to use food neutrality to shift your perspective on your body, food, and even how you work with clients
• Maria's life living and working in New Orleans

Connect with Maria: -On Instagram -Through a class with her -Through one-on-one coaching -Through group coaching -Join her (free!) Sunday Brunch newsletter

Other awesome accounts mentioned in this episode: -Dalina from Your Latina Nutritionist -Lauren from Lauren Leavell Fitness -Rest Days Podcast Follow Blayre's journey setting her biz up in NH!

Today we welcome a true wedding cake chameleon to the pod, because she can DO IT ALL!

Sugar flowers? Yes. Modern, colorful fondant cakes? Yes. Buttercream ruffles, petals, Lambeth? YEP. Baroque classical beauties? You know where I'm going with this.

Jenna Jenkins is the face behind ButterSugarFlour, 2024 winner of Best Wedding Cakes at the American Cake Awards, AND the Executive Cake Designer at Philadelphia-based Cescaphe Events.

Today we're talking about:

• Jenna's experience working in a high-volume cake design environment by day, and running her solo cake biz by night
• The importance of communication with your team, employees, and clients when working with tons of details
• Jenna's thoughts on how to be a lifelong learner and building long-term client relationships
• The excitement of working toward and finally WINNING Best Wedding Cakes at the American Cake Awards
• Jenna's tips on how to hack your workflow and how to find a cake design job that will improve your skills

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN WHISKTAKERS!

It’s become a thing on the podcast to have a fun episode for Halloween. After filming Halloween Baking Championship Season 8 in 2022, Halloween has become a super meaningful holiday to me! Last year I welcomed two past HBC winners for a fun roundtable. This year, I knew I had to go even bigger… so I invited HBC JUDGE, Pastry Chef Extraordinaire, and the entrepreneur behind the infamous Piecaken, Zac Young, to join us in the studio!

This episode has ALL THE THINGS:

• Hear about Zac’s unique journey from a musical theater career to somehow finding himself enrolling in culinary school
• Zac’s adventures working as part of the opening team at Bouchon Bakery, as the pastry chef for Alex Guarnaschelli, and consulting for (and ultimately becoming a partner at) The David Burke Group.
• The story behind the creation of the Piecaken, Zac’s foray into large-scale production desserts for wholesale, and the opening of his newest venture, Zac Young’s Sprinkletown
• How Zac landed his “night job” doing Food TV, and how he balances his crazy schedule
• ALLLL of the behind-the-scenes tea about Halloween Baking Championship, what it’s like to be a judge on Food TV, and a fun round of HBC-themed rapid-fire-questions!

Support Zac! Follow him on Instagram

Check out Piecaken Bakeshop on Goldbelly or visit Zac Young’s Sprinkletown Watch Food Network's Halloween Baking Championship, now streaming on MAX

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