Episode 061 - Blueberry Lemon Sweet Rolls?? Growing a Bakery by Being Nice w/ Amy Lund (The Dough Lady)

06/10/22 • 44 min

What's the best part of Christmas morning? I guess I should clarify and say the best part of Christmas morning after presents. The clear and obvious answer to me is the food! In my family we always have delicious Christmas breakfasts. And one of the Christmas staples for many people are cinnamon rolls. They are delicious.
Amy Lund grew up baking with her mom. In her mom's words, "If you can read you can cook." She took that literally and starting baking as a child with her family, and really loved it. After her husband and her got married in 2020 they were looking for another way to make some money, and after flirting with the idea of salsa and the risks (botulism is bad), she started selling her extremely popular cinnamon rolls out of her house.
These days, she has a rotating menu of sweets rolls (blueberry lemon and fruity pebbles are the best combos) and actually was able to quit her job at the end of 2021 and start spending all her time on The Dough Lady. If you want to hear more of her story, or drool from how good all her baked goods sound, this is the episode for you!
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Episode 060 - Everybody Has a Story That Deserves to be Told w/ Jeanette Bennett (UV Magazine)

Remember how print media is supposed to be dead? Well, Jeanette Bennett knows that MOST print media is, but not hers. She is the creator of Utah Valley Magazine, Business Q, Utah Valley Bride, and many other successful publications. She does a yearly 40 Under 40 that is extremely popular, and she has been an inspiration for many Utahns who know her.
But what caused her to get into journalism? It was a lunch lady she had when she was in elementary school. She got to know her and wanted to share her story with the rest of the school. That's when she realized that everybody has a story to be told, and she wanted to help make that a reality.
Life isn't always smooth though, and she has had multiple times in her career when she had to realize things weren't working and give them up (entire magazines), and overcome the initial struggles of seeing her business start to dwindle with the rise of online media. Yet she has marched forward and regained even more of the market share than she initially lost in that period of time, and proven to Utah, and the world, that she's not to be messed with.

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Episode 062 - It's What's on the Inside (of the Cookie) that Counts w/ Bennett Maxwell (Dirty Dough)

NOTE: This episode was recorded in May 2022 before the #utahcookiewars began. We stand behind Dirty Dough and Crave and the right to an open and competitive market. Cookies aren't meant to be divisive, they're meant to bring people together. Hopefully, we can get back to that as soon as possible and move away from silencing any newcomers.
And now back to the episode summary:
Anybody that knows me knows that I love baking. And I especially love baking cookies! Nothing beats coming up with a brand-new recipe myself and taste-testing it multiple times until I find the perfect flavor and consistency. Sometimes I don't have time to bake my own but still need to satisfy my sweet tooth, and that's where Dirty Dough comes in.
Dirty Dough is the world's newest cookie company, and they are absolutely amazing! Bennett Maxwell is the owner, and he has sold over 100 franchises of his company by focusing on what's on the inside. Their cookies are stuffed with delicious fillings (try the raspberry pop tart), but he also is passionate about focusing on what's going on inside of us as humans and helping the mental health pandemic that we are currently facing.
This episode was so much fun since I was in my element talking about baking. Bennett is an amazing guy, with an amazing business, and the cookies are delicious too! Hear more about Dirty Dough and his story in this week's episode of Freedom to Fail.
PS. If you're an entrepreneur or love learning business specifics, stay tuned next week for a new episode of Year One with Bennett, where he goes into the details of everything he would do in the first year if he started his business from scratch now.
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