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Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

The Messy Middle of Building Something You Believe In

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8543 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Christina Tosi built an iconic dessert empire on sugar, grit, and a relentless drive to bring joy. This week on SUPERWOMEN, I sit down with the award-winning chef and founder behind Milk Bar to talk about the parts of her story you don’t always see.  You may know Christina as the mastermind behind cereal milk or from her time on MasterChef, but what stuck with me was her honesty about the chaos of building something from scratch—and the even harder part of staying in it once the buzz dies down. We also talk about staying creative under pressure, what it feels like to be copied without credit, and why Christina still finds joy in baking after all these years. Episode Guide: (00:00) Meet Christina Tosi, Founder and CEO at Milk Bar (05:41) Christina’s emotional connection to baking (08:19) Milk Bar’s first month and the non-stop grind (12:43 ) The reality of being a trailblazer (17:02) Baking to impress vs. baking to create (19:37) What it takes to stay passionate after success (25:53) Falling in love with the messy middle (30:25) Carving out space for motherhood, relationships, and creativity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.2

When opportunity knocks, you have no choice.

1:06.0

The food industry is not that dissimilar to the fashion industry.

1:10.5

If you are competing at the top of your game, you're there all day, every day.

1:11.7

Hey, everyone, you're listening to Superwomen. Today's guest is the endomital Christina Tosi, the founder and sugar cookie confectionaire

1:18.4

extraordinaire of milk bar. You do it because you believe in yourself and you believe in it because

1:24.0

you're like it needs to exist in the world. I'm not a dummy. I know what's happening

1:28.1

in my industry in my world. I'm going to get in there and do it bigger and better than somebody

1:33.1

else has or that somebody else is doing. I was so grateful to be able to have this raw and honest

1:37.9

conversation about the messy middle. Founders can really just always end up at what happens at the end, what happens at the outcome,

1:45.5

what happens if you're building and you continue to build and build and build, sometimes you can feel a bit lost.

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