Christina Tosi: Building Milk Bar From Cookie Dough to CEO
Post Run High
iHeartPodcasts
1.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
How Christina founded Milk Bar from her passion for baking
Christina Tosi joins us for an open conversation about discovering her passion for cooking and baking, and the journey that led to the creation of Milk Bar. She shares how a love for cookie dough turned into a lifelong career, the challenges of starting a bakery from scratch, and the lessons learned during her early years in NYC kitchens. Christina reflects on the creative process, building a brand, and the persistence required to turn an idea into a business. From the joys of dessert to advice on resilience, this interview offers an authentic and behind-the-scenes look at Christina Tosi’s life, work, and the story behind Milk Bar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, welcome back to Post Run Hi. I am so excited to get into today's episode with Christina Towsy. |
| 0:11.2 | If you guys don't know, Christina is the founder of Milk Bar and Milk Bar is an iconic bakery here in New York City. |
| 0:18.1 | She is one impressive woman and I am just so excited for you guys to |
| 0:22.4 | get to know her. This is going to be a little bit of a short episode and that's just because |
| 0:26.1 | Christina had around 25 to 30 minutes with us after our run to sit down and do this podcast. |
| 0:32.5 | And if you like founder stories, especially female founder stories, then I think you're going to love today's |
| 0:39.2 | episode. So excited for you guys to listen to it. Let's get into today's episode with Christina. |
| 0:48.2 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:58.9 | Christina, welcome to post her and hi. Oh my gosh. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm feeling amazing. |
| 1:00.9 | Well, I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 1:02.5 | Guys, Christina and I just ran a couple miles in Williamsburg and we ended at her |
| 1:07.8 | infamous milk bar location there in Williamsburg. There's like no greater feeling than going |
| 1:13.5 | on a run and then eating cookies and then being like, cool, let's just hang out in some lounge chairs |
| 1:18.7 | and talk about life. Yeah. Well, you know, it's so funny. I've been telling you this since we've met |
| 1:23.3 | this morning. I've been a fan of milk bar for so many years. You guys, you started Milk Bar in 2008. |
| 1:29.3 | It's so impressive what you've built. And I love knowing that you're a long distance runner. |
| 1:34.5 | That's something I never knew. And I feel like I wish I had known. Can I just say about long distance |
| 1:39.5 | runners? When you found another long distance runner, you're like, I can see into your soul. I get you. |
| 1:46.1 | Thank you for you. And also, we're going to be connected forever because we're both crazy |
| 1:50.5 | enough to love the same thing. It's like, now I know why you're so successful. Also, have you ever met? |
| 1:57.2 | Yeah, truly. I mean, one of my things is like, I wish I could ask in the interview |
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