23: Not a Cake Walk: My Interview With Kim Daisy

Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

If you think having a big night on “Shark Tank” is a guarantee of instant success, you don't know the real story! Listen in as I chat with one of my favorite – and most successful – entrepreneurs, Kim Daisy of Daisy Cakes. Don’t let her Southern charm and fun backstory (her mom is her partner!) fool you – nine years in and she works her buns off! She’s had her share of big breaks and almost catastrophic setbacks, and you can hear all about it in this special episode. Got a business question you want to ask me? Tweet it @BarbaraCorcoran and I may just address it in a future show! Follow Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran on iHeartRadio, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	If you're going to build something from nothing, you've got to know what really works.
0:07.0	I took a thousand dollar loan and built a five billion dollar business, and now I make smart investments in new businesses on Shark Tank. This is Barbara
0:15.7	Corcoran and you're listening to Business Unusual. This week on Business Unusual we have a special
0:22.4	treat. You're going to learn the lessons
0:24.6	firsthand from one of the great entrepreneurs of the century and also someone you're
0:30.3	going to fall in love with. We're talking today with Kim Daisy of Daisy
0:35.4	cakes. Makes the best damn cakes in the nation, but more important than that,
0:40.7	she is an amazing individual and a great entrepreneur listening.
0:45.8	I first met Kim Daisy on the set of Shark Tank and at the time she stood there with her
0:51.2	million dollar smile looking like a southern bell with a little
0:54.8	starched apron on holding a cake out to all the sharks. She explained she was selling 2,000 cakes a year to which the other sharks yawned and just continue to taste
1:06.3	their cakes. Well while they were tasting I was bidding and closed out that deal in
1:11.4	probably two seconds flat because I thought I had never
1:14.6	seen the sharks enjoying food which we are fed all the time on the set. I never
1:19.5	saw them enjoying food so that they were unable to speak once the bidding started and
1:25.6	I took full advantage and grabbed myself a share of one of the best businesses to
1:31.0	date on Shark Tank.
1:32.6	Kim Daisy of Daisy Cake.
1:34.7	How are you doing today?
1:35.6	Hey, I'm doing great, Barbara.
1:37.3	Just took my hair net off, came out of the kitchen,
1:39.1	and I'm ready to answer all your great questions.
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