Mastering Your Craft: Scaling Production with Teresa Velazquez & Stephanie Long (LIVE)

10/26/23 • 43 min

The Tidbit is live! In this special episode, Kim hands over the host mic to Tessa Velazquez, coach and facilitator at Cureate. Tessa moderates a conversation with Teresa Velazquez, owner of iconic D.C. bakeries Baked & Wired and A Baked Joint, and Stephanie Long, owner of home-based artisan bakery The Cake Occasion. As bakers and entrepreneurs, Teresa and Stephanie have both successfully scaled their small businesses thoughtfully, even during the busy holiday season, and they share some tidbits of knowledge they’ve learned along the way.

Host: Kim Bryden, Tessa Velazquez

Producer: Gabriela Saldivia

Guests:

Teresa Velazquez: Baked & Wired and A Baked Joint

Stephanie Long: The Cake Occasion

Host: Kim Bryden, Tessa Velazquez

Producer: Gabriela Saldivia

Guests:

Teresa Velazquez: Baked & Wired and A Baked Joint

Stephanie Long: The Cake Occasion

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Mastering Your Craft: Oyster Sommelier & Co-Founder of The Oyster Master Guild, Julie Qiu

It is no surprise that individuals in the food, farm and beverage industry are masters of their craft. Through this mastery, they are able to differentiate themselves in the marketplace and provide education to consumers about their highly specific goods or services. On this episode of The Tidbit, Kim speaks with oyster sommelier Julie Qui about why she got interested in oysters, what it took to hone her craft and how she eventually went on to co-found the Oyster Master Guild. Julie leads master oyster classes worldwide, teaching people everything they need to know about this sometimes controversial product.

Host: Kim Bryden

Producer: Gabriela Saldivia

Guest:

Julie Qiu: https://instagram.com/inahalfshellist

The Oyster Master Guild: https://www.oystermasterguild.com

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Leadership & Emotional Resiliency: Finding the Words with Colin Campbell

On today’s episode of The Tidbit, we don’t want to do “business as usual." With everything transpiring in the world today, between global wars, the rise of hatred and vitriol, and overall mental health crises at an all time high, we thought it important to have a discussion around complex and profound emotions like grief, sorrow and loss. Kim speaks with Colin Campbell, author of Finding The Words, Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose about his story and his work to make grief less frightening, lonely and mysterious. Colin says that an important part of processing grief is to talk about it with a community that gets it.

Host: Kim Bryden

Producer: Gabriela Saldivia

Guest:

Colin Campbell: https://colincampbellauthor.com/