Episode 6: Starting a Business is No Cake Walk
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Like so many food industry workers, Meg lost her job during the pandemic. And instead of going back on the job hunt in this historically challenging environment, she decided to gamble on herself. She launched Das Butterhaus (https://dasbutterhaus.com), named for her love of German pastries - and now she's baking in a local kitchen and selling her delicious concoctions for pickup and delivery. Learning how to be an entrepreneur - bookkeeping, marketing, etc. - at the same time she's standing up her new business has been all consuming, but she's relishing her newfound contact with her customers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is On The Job, a podcast about finding your life's work. |
| 0:10.7 | On The Job is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. |
| 0:14.4 | This season, we're bringing you stories of folks following their passion to carve their |
| 0:18.2 | own career path. |
| 0:21.3 | During the pandemic, the restaurant and service industry have changed immensely. |
| 0:24.8 | And in the wake of these changes, tons of wait staff and cooks and managers and caterers |
| 0:29.9 | have all lost their jobs. |
| 0:31.6 | Well, today, we talked to a baker who lost hers. |
| 0:35.0 | But instead of looking for a new job, she's creating her own. |
| 0:45.0 | The sound you're hearing is the start of a new business. |
| 0:49.9 | Just getting sort of. |
| 0:50.9 | It's the sound of a standing mixer making chocolate chip cookies. |
| 0:54.6 | So they're just salted chocolate chip cookies. |
| 0:56.7 | It took me like two months to get this right. |
| 0:59.5 | Am I allowed to try some here? |
| 1:01.4 | They are not just salted chocolate chip cookies. |
| 1:04.2 | They are a masterpiece, lovingly and maybe obsessively concocted in Meg's kitchen. |
| 1:10.4 | Meg Dawson, I'm 30 years old. |
| 1:12.8 | I am a baker and I own, operate and bake at Dawson's butterhouse. |
| 1:19.3 | Oh my God. |
| 1:20.6 | I know it's not good to eat on an audio, but this is one of the best cookies I've ever |
| 1:27.6 | had. |
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