Happy September! Welcome to episode 2070-2070-7070. Here we are moving into fall, or it may

be spring, depending on where you are in the world. But wherever that is, I am grateful for you,

glad you're tuning in. I hope this series is helpful to you. Today's particular segment,

throughout back Thursday, also known as Where Are They Now, where we take an in-depth look at

someone whose story has evolved since we first featured it. Now, last week we heard from the founder

of a baseball training academy. He is sliding into growth during the pandemic. He opened an

additional business selling training gear on Amazon. He's still operating that baseball training

academy while going back to work as a teacher. Today in our latest feature, we'll hear from

Kauri Becker, the founder of Kauri's Kitchen, dot com. Kauri is Japanese-American. I believe her

mom is Japanese, so Kauri is half Japanese. She started teaching mochi-making classes together with

her mom in the Bay Area. But as you'll hear, she pivoted to a new business selling mochi donuts

locally in Ohio, where she now lives. So from one mochi monetization to another, I like mochi,

who doesn't. I'm not sure I've had a mochi donut, but I would love to try it. Anyway, let's hear

directly from Kauri about this transition, a couple of other updates as well. I'll be back at the end

with a quick wrap up.

My name is Kauri Becker. My side hustle is Kauri's Kitchen cooking school, and I was featured on

episode 976. We actually pivoted due to the pandemic to doing online mochi classes,

so that's kind of a shift from what we were doing before. I do teach classes still. My mom is

also teaching classes online, mochi classes, and I also run a mochi donut shop here in Columbus,

Ohio. We go to the farmers market about two to three times a month and make about 350 donuts each

time. And then we usually sell out where we have few left, but yeah, it's a pretty good market here

in Columbus. I started helping out for free at the season farmhouse cooking school, and I was

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