“A lot of bakeries, especially cupcake stores, look like you just walked into a K…” — Elizabeth Chambers

If not managed properly, owning a company and running a business with multiple locations can make you feel constantly overwhelmed.

Shifting gears from my journalistic work to bakery life allows me to step away and see things from a different perspective. Some of my most creative ideas or biggest aha moments have come when I was immersed in one job while thinking about the other from a slightly removed point of view.

We don't have a no-dessert rule, but we do have a no-bad-ingredient rule. Everything from scratch.

Whether I'm pursuing a story or conducting an interview or I'm at the bakery implementing policy and procedure, I have a team who is looking to me. I think my persona is the same for both jobs - perhaps a little bit more in command with the bakery. I say that only because we have so many more employees, and ultimately I make every single decision.