Christina Tosi: Milk Bar Founder and CEO

Second Life

Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Before Christina Tosi started Milk Bar—the trendy bakery known for its covetable, playful desserts—she was studying math and Italian in college with dreams of becoming a mathematician, a UN translator, or a perhaps a truck driver (yes, really). "I like to be uncomfortable," the entrepreneur tells Hillary Kerr on this episode of Second Life. Drawn to restaurant life with a passion for baking, Tosi moved on from her mathematical endeavors to pursue cooking at culinary school and (with a lot of hard work) went on to found her very own wildly successful bakery. Here's how she made it happen.

Originally broadcast on November 19, 2018.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Hillary here with a quick reminder for you.
0:04.6	This week we're going to be re-broadcasting one of our absolute favorite episodes while we're working on our next round of truly inspiring interviews.
0:14.4	It's definitely worth a second listen or a first if you missed it the first time around.
0:19.1	And we'll be back with new episodes soon.
0:21.9	Now on to the show.
0:24.2	I'm Hillary Kerr and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:36.9	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears,
0:43.2	and what happens when they embark on their second life.
0:46.5	Today I am so excited to have a legend in the studio with me, chef, CEO, and founder of Milk Bar Christina Toci.
0:57.2	She is a hugely influential, devastatingly cool, next-level pastry chef who owns and operates a 15-location company with over 250 employees and a crazy cult following that includes me, by the way.
1:13.7	Ever heard of serial milk soft serve? That's Christina.
1:17.3	Birthday cake truffles all her.
1:20.1	She is inventive and brilliant and also the recipient of two James Beard Awards.
1:26.4	She just opened her first-ever bakery in Los Angeles and she also just came out with her third cookbook all about cake,
1:34.2	which is on shelves and in bookstores everywhere right now.
1:39.0	But Christina did not always dominate the wonderful world of pastries at least not officially.
1:45.8	Before she became the industry trailblazer that she truly is, she actually used to work on the business side of things where she ran operations for David Chang's Momofuku Empire.
1:57.4	We're going to get into all of the nitty-gritty of how she made that switch and what she did and how she did it, and I am so thrilled to do so.
2:06.3	Now on Second Life, it's Christina Toci.
2:11.2	Christina? Yes. Tell me, what did you study in school and what did you think you were going to be when you grew up?
2:17.3	I went to college to be an electrical engineer because that makes sense.
2:24.4	I love math. I've always loved math and I thought I might like science, but I really went to engineering school because it was competitive.
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