Cake Therapy
Cake Therapy is a heartwarming and uplifting podcast that celebrates the transformative power of baking therapy. Hosted by Dr. Altreisha Foster, the passionate baker, entrepreneur and advocate behind Cake Therapy, this podcast is a delightful blend of inspiring stories, expert insights and practical baking tips. Each episode takes listeners on a journey of self-discovery, emotional healing and connection through the therapeutic art of baking.
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Tessa's Cakes: Kemi Sanni Shares Her Journey of Navigating Grief and Finding Purpose
Grief takes many forms, but for Kemi Sanni, it manifested as beautiful, fondant-wrapped works of art. After losing her mother suddenly, Kemi reconnected with her childhood passion for cake decorating—a skill she learned at her mother's side in Nigeria. What began as therapy evolved into Tessa's Cakes, a business named after her mother Teresa, honoring her legacy with every creation.
In this deeply moving conversation, Kemi reveals the delicate balance she maintains between her full-time career as a court mediator and her thriving cake business. She poses a question many creative entrepreneurs face: "Is your day job a cushion or a crutch?" For Kemi, it's both—providing security while potentially limiting her creative growth. Her candid reflections on this tension will resonate with anyone navigating multiple passions.
The most powerful moments come when Kemi describes those early days after her loss. With young children asleep, she would turn on gospel music and pray over every cake she made. "It felt like my ministry," she shares, describing how creating something beautiful from simple ingredients became a metaphor for finding meaning in grief. Her story beautifully illustrates how baking can serve as therapy, creating space for healing while honoring cherished memories.
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Welcome to the Cake Therapy Podcast a slice of joy and healing, with your host, Dr Altricia Foster. This is a heartwarming and uplifting space that celebrates the transformative power of baking therapy. The conversations will be a delightful blend of inspirational stories, expert insights and practical baking tips. Each episode will take listeners on a journey of self-discovery, emotional healing and connection through the therapeutic art of baking. There's something here for everyone, so lock in and let's get into it.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone, welcome back to the Cake Therapy Podcast with me. Your host, dr Altricia Foster, and you are in for a treat. You know we always see at the top of each episode that this is your slice of joy and healing. And let me tell you we do have a slice here today. We're joined by Kemi Sani. Did I get that right, kemi? You did, you got it right. All right. She's the owner of Tessa's Cakes. Before we dive into that conversation with Kemi, have you subscribed to our podcast yet? I know you're listening, I can see your, I see your number. You're actually being counted, but you're not subscribing to our podcast. So go ahead and hit the subscribe button and join us here at the Cake Therapy Podcast. So, Kemi, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3:Thank you, Altresha. And if you're listening and you have not subscribed, what are you waiting on?
Speaker 2:Exactly, Thank you. Thank you so much. So K is well-known in the cake world. I love watching her on Instagram. I love her reels. She's a full-time job as a court mediator. She's a mom of two boys and they're both under 10 years old. She's a baker, like I mentioned, cake artist, content creator, and later she is going to tell me how she does it all. How does she do all of this while being an attorney, a mom of two boys, and she's also Nigerian. Let me tell you something. She will tell you in a heartbeat that she's Nigerian because they say this with their chest out. We do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, welcome to my space, thank you. Thank you so much for having me, thank you for creating this amazing platform and for all the work that you do in the cake and the sugar community. We appreciate you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. I usually, you know, tend to hold space because I do have two young children myself To find out from you like how are you doing? You know what's going on with Kim right now. What's that going on?
Speaker 3:Huh, right now I am in a funny space where two weeks ago, I was ready to just give up taping. Yeah, I was, because I haven't been feeling motivated. Sometimes the struggle to juggle, like I like call it um, it was more like a real struggle. You know, yeah, and I think it's important for us to really connect with others and not make it seem like it's easy to do it all, because it isn't easy.
Speaker 3:Um, there are days that you will have mom guilt when you feel you aren't giving enough to your kids, to, you know, your family. You're always busy working on cakes, you know, following up on the admin stuff, and this is after, you know, a full time job. So it's not easy. And there are things that you wonder should I, can I? And so you have to go back to your why. What is the why? What is the reason that you keep coming back to it? You know? So I'm in that space and I go through this multiple times. I would say maybe once or twice every year. Sometimes I find that when I'm going through these periods where I'm beginning to question myself, it sometimes means that I am right on the edge of some evolution. So that's where I am right now, in that space.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so what is your why? Share with our listeners? What is your why and what is the why that you're trying to go back to? Okay?
Speaker 3:So that's an awesome question, because my why and what even got me into caking? I call it caking, you know, cake decorating, cake designing, creating cakes right, I don't call myself a baker because I feel we do much more than bake and I don't like to bake. I don't like the baking part. But what got me into caking was actually an outlet for grief. So my mother passed away very suddenly, before she was 60. Actually, she passed at 59 years old. It was very sudden. I had spoken with her two hours prior and then I get a call Now, when I was a teenager you know, growing up I grew up in Nigeria.
Speaker 3:She baked, she liked to bake cakes and cookies you know, never on a commercial, you know basis. And I picked it up, I helped her in the kitchen and so after high school I started baking. I started working with fondant cakes Maybe that's why I'm so comfortable with fondant and my mom immediately wanted to get me clients and I said no, no, no, this isn't for me, and I stopped. And so when she passed for me, picking up this cake decorating was me reconnecting with her, because I knew that that was something that she had wanted me to pursue and so now became my therapy. So it's so fitting right that you have this cake therapy foundation, because it really is therapy.
Speaker 2:So that was my why.
Speaker 3:That's why my business is named after her.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, yep, and it continues to be your why, seemingly? And first of all, I'm just sorry to hear about your loss because let me tell you something Right now I'm in a place where I am losing. I have not, I didn't have, that quick loss, but I have this quick transition from mental stability to mentally unstable. My mom currently suffers from dementia and I'm just watching that decline. I'm telling you, girl, I feel it, I feel it with my own self and I'm just baking through that trauma and the pain that I'm experiencing from just losing my mom.
Speaker 1:So I get it.
Speaker 2:I completely get your why and why you continue to do this. So you didn't mention your mom, your core introduction to the cake, the cake world. Talk to me a little bit more about that. Growing up in Nigeria, watching her bake like what did that do for you?
Speaker 3:For me, I think it was just nice to see something different. I think I don't know about other cultures, but in Nigeria, at that time, many, many years ago without giving away my age or anything, right, yeah. Now we celebrated holidays like the big holidays Christmas, easter, eid, al-fatihah, you know, big holidays was you would cook, you would cook a large meal, right, and then you give your neighbors and your friends so yeah, like some food to your neighbor, so you would have your whole house filled up with, you know, food from different neighbors. I think for my mom, she wanted it to be something different, not the the rise, not, you know. That's where she said, okay, let me, let me make cookies for a change. So it was different.
Speaker 3:So I loved that she wanted to do something different and it was also just a great way to bond with her. It was like our time. It was like our time, you know, just me and her. So it was really about the experience, and I think that that's part of why, with me, I try to make every cake unique and different, because I want it to be the experience I want it to feel like. You know, it's an experience for my clients, um, it's an experience for me. Making each one, each cake has its own story, so it's it's about the experience really.
Speaker 2:And I absolutely love how you touch on the bonding with your mom as you were baking then, Because that's one of the modalities that we're pushing in the foundation that, listen, this can rebuild relationships Because it's teaching you to communicate with that next of kin, best of kin, your mother, whoever it is that you want to rekindle some relationship with, Like once you get into the kitchen with them. It changes a lot of things. I'm not saying it's going to be the end all be all, but it does evoke those kinds of relationships and the memory of doing them together. It's always so profound.
Speaker 2:And I read somewhere where you said that you actually took a gap year between high school and college and that really helped you on your baking journey. Share with us right. Was that a pivotal point for you where you shifted this from just being a hobby? Or when did you, you know, realize that you could turn this? You said you talked about turning it, giving it a name in terms of Tess's right, In terms of after you've lost your mom. Were you thinking in those moments that I could actually commercialize this or were you just seeing a hobby during that year?
Speaker 3:Hmm, so during the gap year, right was when my mom was trying to get me to go commercial she started promoting the business and I pushed back, I guess like all teenagers.
Speaker 3:If your mom is saying do something, then you don't want to do it, right? Well, I pushed back. I think that at that time I was a teenager, I probably wasn't ready and I, as much as I enjoyed the process of, you know, decorating cakes, I didn't quite feel ready to handle interacting with. So, believe it or not, I'm actually an introvert. I'm shy If I don't have to pick up the until 20 years after. And it started as a hobby. Okay, let me just play around with some cakes, right? And then getting that feedback from family and friends oh, how much, how much did this cost? I'm no, it's free, I what? Come on, you know, and then to sit back and say, hmm, yeah, I can, you know, have my side business doing this. My fear was always the administrative part, the part where you have to you interact with clients just because of my personality. That's what held me back.
Speaker 2:So you know, like I can't believe that you're an introvert, because so am I. Ah yeah, I really am an introvert. When people meet me initially they say, oh, she's snobbish. But really I'm not snobbish at all, I'm just extremely into myself like introverted. You know, I am afraid of large crowds, to be completely honest. So, like you know, I can definitely see that. But you know, as I was like scanning through these articles I was reading, you know, as we're prepping for you, something stood out to me, kemi, when you said you quit, I quit doing my. Those two words stood out to me and it took me and I was like wondering, like why did Kemi quit? But then you answered you know the questions that I have Like I wanted to know what were the fears that you were combating and you talked to me about administrative and you being an introvert. What would you say to that, kemi?
Speaker 3:now, Hmm, I would tell that Kemi to push through anyway. Push through your fears, because I did 20 years later, right? Yes, don't let your fears hold you back, don't, yeah?
Speaker 2:So you said, 20 years later, about three times, and I would love to know do you wish that you would never quit, that you would never give enough, when you know no?
Speaker 3:I feel that if I had stayed on course, I probably, you know, might have advanced, I might have taken a different direction Career wise, I don't know. However, I wasn't ready at the time. I wasn't ready For me. I have two passions, and so when people say, oh, you have this nine to five job and we see you doing this caking, why don't you give up the nine to five? It's not easy for me to give it up because I'm passionate about of two passions.
Speaker 3:I am in a field that I chose to be in, so I intentionally pursued this part of law. You know, I invested a lot in myself, especially at a time where people said you can't make this in America, you're moving here and you think you can keep doing this law thing. No, you can't. And I did and I am, and so it's not easy for me to give that up, as I love cakey, right. So it's a constant clash and I think it's unfortunate to have these two things that I truly enjoy and I truly love to do, but it just makes it harder and it's something that I want to talk about in maybe a reels, because I love reels, and to say, if you have a nine to five and if you have a cake business, have a nine to five and if you have a cake business, is your nine to five job a cushion or is it a crutch?
Speaker 2:Yes, well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Okay, so you're passionate about both. What is it? Is it a cushion or is it a crutch?
Speaker 3:I think it's both.
Speaker 3:For me personally, it's a cushion because, having I work for the federal government, right, I'm challenged daily with what I do and I love it and it pays well, right.
Speaker 3:And so in that regard it's a cushion, because I then have the luxury to pick and choose the number of orders, right. I can say, look, I'm not doing more than two this weekend and I'm fine. I can say I'm waiting on a design that would challenge me. I'm not necessarily going to take, I have that luxury and I do realize that that's a privilege, right. And so in that regard it's a cushion. It's also a crutch, because it can, and it has held me back, I feel, from reaching my full potential, you know, as far as my cake business is concerned, because it can make you too comfortable to where you don't feel the need to be stretched. Sometimes you need that stretch to see how far you know you're willing to push yourself and push your business, and if you don't have that fire, that sense of urgency to do it, I'm not saying you can't and I'm not saying people don't, but for me it's really both a cushion and a crutch.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I'm going to ask. We speak to young girls through this medium, you know, and I'm very intentional about our guests, because our guests have a story and they have stuff to share, things that are pertinent and relevant to the young girls that we're trying to influence at the Cake Therapy Foundation. No regrets about not doing your caking sooner. Absolutely enthralled and in love with this law profession. What life lessons, right? I want you to speak to a life lesson or a takeaway from what would you say to a young person, especially a young girl, who's starting out in a passion and feeling the same pressure.
Speaker 3:What would you say to them? Oh, my goodness, I'm thinking of my nieces, who are 16 and 14, and I see in them a stronger drive, actually, than I ever had, to pursue their passion Love, you know, makeup and nails. They get your nails done and you, you. It's like why would I even pay any money when you girls can do this so well? And then also that pressure right For a lot of African families, there is a high emphasis on education.
Speaker 3:And anything outside of that. A lot of African parents and this is how I grew up they see anything else as a distraction. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're wasting time with that. Just focus on education, right? And so I, hopefully. I believe I'm that auntie. I'm Auntie Kay. I tell call me Auntie Kay, don't call me Auntie Kami. I think Auntie Kay sounds cooler. So Auntie Kay will always push for you and advocate and say pursue those skills, those talents that you have, and also know that school is important. There's no reason you can't have folks. I would tell young girls if there's any, any skill, any talent that you see in yourself, please explore it, explore it. Your education is also important because there's so much from my education, from what I've learned in law, that I have injected into my business.
Speaker 2:Okay, absolutely Great advice. So when you were going into towards your the academic you know academia in terms of pursuing law at the time were you did you bake, did you bake through anything or you just didn't?
Speaker 3:you bake? Did you bake through anything or you just did it? No, I baked a little bit in common, just a little bit for select friends, yeah, but not anything that I did on a large scale. Um, I wish I had but I didn't.
Speaker 2:Why do you think you didn't?
Speaker 3:I think it was. It was fear I grew up and trying to let go of that perfectionist mentality. Right, and we all say it as people in the caking community there's no such thing as perfection, and so if you keep on looking to create the perfect cake, you will always feel disappointed. You'll disappoint yourself because nothing will ever measure up. And that's not to say that we're not going to strive to do the best we can, but um, it's not going to be perfect, and I think there was. I'm my biggest um critic and feeling like I probably wasn't good enough. Why would anyone want to buy, buy this from me?
Speaker 2:not good enough yeah that's probably another thing that held me back isn't it amazing how sometimes we create these barriers for ourselves, these mental barriers, right? Yes, it's so tough to push through them sometimes. So, kemi the perfectionist, tell me about Kemi in the court.
Speaker 3:Tell me about Kemi the court mediator. Who is she Huh? So I practiced as an attorney in Nigeria for about three, four years.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 3:I was always that attorney that will say, can't they talk about this, can't they talk this through? And getting strange looks from my colleagues like why are you in this profession? We're not talking, we are going to court, we are going to battle this out. And so I found for myself my own niche, right, and so it is called alternative dispute resolution. We talk about mediation, even negotiation if you will, where I'm able to bring in my own preferred way of, you know, resolving disputes and having people sit down and I facilitate that conversation. So I've shifted to that and away from the traditional practice of law, which brings me so much joy and, to be honest with you, is more authentic to who I am. I'm big on authenticity. You need to be authentic in everything you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know it's so interesting because we are in this other part, this fourth that we call. You know baking cake, culinary arts, and it's an alternative to talk therapy. We are not you know what I mean. We're in a space where we can explore and experiment with other things, for resolution, in your case, and for healing as well, in as in both our cases, where we're using this art to heal us right? So a defining moment for you, you had mentioned at the top of this conversation, was your mother. Passing. Can you share your mother's name?
Speaker 3:my mother's name was Teresa it's.
Speaker 2:Tessa, right, you say it's.
Speaker 3:Tessa. Yeah, yeah, so Tessa is derivative, you know, teresa.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I'm thinking, like I mentioned, that you know, my mom is currently experiencing a thing I refer to it as a thing right now because it hurts so much so I can only like really imagine the kind of grief and the sense of loss that you experienced in that moment. How was that time?
Speaker 3:for you. It was tough. It was tough Well, first of all, it was a huge shock. So coming to terms with my new reality, when I had zero time to prepare and I don't think it's something one can ever fully prepare for. So there was that shock, there was anger, my faith was shaken, it was shameful. To be very honest and transparent with you, there were a lot of internal struggles.
Speaker 3:At the time my son was he was barely one, so I was a very young kid and so navigating that, thinking about not having my mom present to watch him grow, feeling that she left at a time where I don't feel that I I got to really spoil her and take care of her the way that I truly wanted to, you know. So it was a lot, of a lot of feelings. And I poured all of that into my cakes. Honestly, when I first started, shortly after my mom passed, because the kids were so young, I had to wait till they were in bed before I even started. And so, caking for me, I had gospel music on. I prayed every cake it was pouring into and I never told my kids this, but praying for whoever the cake was for, for whatever event, it felt like my ministry. It gave me purpose, it gave me you know. So it just it was. It meant more than money. It really did yes.
Speaker 2:I love where you say it was your, it is your ministry, it was your healing and it was your purpose, because it's become. It's become all of that for so many of us and so close to you. And, um, I, I talk about this in my book and I speak about this in the foundation, where I'm saying like I'm encouraging people to really, really try it. Try this baking thing, even if if it's for once, just try it and see. Would you recommend this baking therapy as a therapeutic outlet to others, even if they don't have an interest?
Speaker 3:Absolutely therapy as a therapeutic outlet to others, even if they don't have an interest Absolutely. It's about being a part of a process where you have different ingredients and you are the, not the engine, but that what's the word I'm looking for, not conduit, but you bring it all together and you are part of watching that creation, like watch it develop into something from just a bunch of nothings, and not to say that are not important on their own, but then together, just watching what you create. I think, especially for people that that thrive on just that sense of accomplishment, get that regardless of how it turns out.
Speaker 3:It's something that you created. It's something that you created, it's something that you were a part of um, so it's it's really, really therapeutic and would you say what part of this, then the process.
Speaker 2:Do you think that actually soothes you the most?
Speaker 3:or you would say yeah for me, hands down, decorate, hands down, decorate, hands down. Anything that comes after the cake has been crumb coated. That's my jam. That's my jam. If Amazon had awesome people that baked and packaged crumb coated cakes, I would get that and just decorate all day, every day. I'm not kidding, I know. I know there's something that you love. You know those flavor profiles and all of that. That's not me. So it's also important to know yourself, to know the things that drive you, and so once I identified that in myself, it told me I can't, at least not right now, because, remember, you don't want to set limits to yourself. We are always changing, we're ever evolving. So I'll never say never, but I knew that for me, probably best not to have a whole bunch of flavors offered on my menu, just because I know how I am right when it comes to developing recipes, getting things. It's not something that drives me. This then gives me time to just go all out with the design, with the decorating Somebody come and help her please.
Speaker 2:She wants crumb-coated cake milk. I'll shoot to her.
Speaker 3:Is there a service for that Please?
Speaker 2:sign me up. I wish I told you Somebody's gonna do it, Somebody's going to do it. Girl, I feel you sometimes that whole baking it's when you have a packed week like we do, it's tough have a packed week. Like us, like we do. It's tough, but then you just have to get to it.
Speaker 3:It's tough and time management is key. When people ask me you have a 9 to 5 job, you have young kids, you know how do you do it. One if you're not passionate about what you're doing, it can only last for so long really. Secondly, you have to build in a system, a process. I remember starting out and feeling that I had to. I was required to start baking the day of, and that was a recipe for disaster. So I have to space things out, not only because of time, but the quality of your cake is actually better when you space things out. People don't realize that. So those are two things I feel have helped me. You know, juggle time, time management is time. Yes, time management is definitely key. It's important. Yeah, you don't have that in place. With the nine to five, with young kids, it'll be difficult, or more difficult than it already is, if Miss Teresa saw you now, what do you think she would say?
Speaker 3:Oh, she would be so proud. She would be extremely, extremely proud. My dad still lives in Nigeria and he moved from my childhood home. I grew up in that home and he moved, I think last year or two years ago, and I was frantic because I said, daddy, there is mommy's recipe book and I can't find it. And you look for that book for me. And he searched high and low and I finally got that book. But, all to say that I know she's proud of me, I know that she'll say in that motherly African voice I knew you could do it, right, yeah, why did it take you so long? I knew you could do it. So, without, without any doubt, I know, yeah, that she, she would be extremely proud of me and that makes me happy yeah, and what?
Speaker 2:what a tribute, kimmy, what a tribute you, you tribute you've made in our honor to call the business Tessa's Cake. And I know, as you're baking these cakes and you're influencing on social media, people are calling you Tessa, all the time, all the time. Yeah, I'm sure everybody is calling this girl Tessa, right?
Speaker 3:All the time.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm sure you answer with such profound graciousness and pride. What are some of mom's, what are some elements from your mother's baking that actually have stuck with you? What did she pass down to Kenny?
Speaker 3:The one thing that for me stands out is just love. You know there's a lot of love. I remember her baking. Her favorite cake was called chiffon cake. I don't really see that cake around now. I remember that it used only egg whites. It was a really nice, fluffy, like sponge-like you know cake, and it was just her attention to detail. You know, I think that's something that she has definitely passed on to me. I really like to pay attention to those tiny details and I'm sure I got that from her. So that's, if you're getting a cake from me, you are definitely getting a piece of my mom in there with. You know that attention to detail yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:You speak so fondly of fondant though, right, oh yeah, you see, and you watch one of your reels like she is a fondant girl, she's a texture girl. Yeah, what is it that you love the most about working with fondant?
Speaker 3:I love fondant. Fondant is so forgiving. I find fondant forgiving, I find it just easier, super versatile. And that's not to say that buttercream isn't just for me. I have fun with fondant in ways that I don't have with buttercream, and I've tried buttercream. So, um, before I say no to something or before I hold back from doing something, I would at least give it a try, and that's something that I tell people that are, you know, just starting out their caking journey.
Speaker 3:Don't just say no to something before you try it out. You have to try things out in order to know. Okay, I have a flair for this, I'm maybe more skilled at this, I prefer to do this. So it took me some time and it was a difficult decision, because I think fondant is more popular in other countries, like in Nigeria. Fondant is big. In America not so much. Yes, we still have a lot of fondant cake artists, but buttercream seemed to be more of the, and safer isn't the right word. But as far as building a client base, it seemed like I was maybe doing myself a disservice by putting myself out as maybe doing myself a disservice by putting myself out as look, I'm the fondant cake link.
Speaker 3:However, I knew that would be my authentic self.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you have to show up as that every day, exactly In front of the camera or, you know, behind the camera. And this is like a perfect segue into talking about Kemi, the creator. Wow, kemi, the creator in front of the camera, the influencer as it may be, talk to us about the intention around that.
Speaker 3:Hmm. So I joined Instagram a little late in the game. I remember my friend in Nigeria kept saying why aren't you posting on Instagram? Why are you just on Facebook? And I was like I'm intimidated, I don't want to be on Instagram. And she said just give it a try. And so I did. But I was posting just you know cakes, not anything showing my face, because I was shy. I felt that to put myself on camera I had to have my makeup done. I had to go, you know look. A certain way. I tried. I came up with this image. I said, okay, maybe I'll, I'll put myself out as the red lipstick cake. I true story, I thought about it.
Speaker 2:You said you auditioned your persona. I did, I did.
Speaker 3:You know I said look, in real life, I look jacked up when I'm making these cakes and that's the truth, and I'm going to show up how I am and be myself and not even look. This is me, this is how it is, and that was the minute that I began to connect with people, because it really became about community. I very, very rarely promote or market myself by this. I don't. I get 95% of my business from Instagram and I don't do any active marketing.
Speaker 3:The reason that I'm on Instagram is to build community, to interact with others in the cake community, to take people through my journey you know my successes, my failures to learn. When I started out, there wasn't so much of that happening, and I'm glad that we're in a space where it's collaboration over competition. It really is, you know. I mean look at us, yeah, girls, and that's why I'm on social media, and for me, it's again just being authentic. I'm very transparent when it comes to oh, I made this mistake and these are the lessons I've learned and what's your experience, you know, so we can learn from one another.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, absolutely. It's all about learning from one another. And I go back to looking at us. Right, you were in Baltimore. I learned my baking in Baltimore. I'm a Howard grad. I lived in DC for years. I started baking in Baltimore. Wow, baltimore, yeah, oh my God. I lived in Towson, yeah, so I did start baking. You know my baking journey out there and in the spirit of influence you know I'm not in the spirit of an influencer In the spirit of influence, what is your number one baking tip to the girl?
Speaker 3:I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but it is authenticity that never goes out of style. Be yourself, be true to who you are. Even if that might look different tomorrow, it's okay, because you know that you're showing up as you, how you really feel, what you're really going through. It's authenticity All the way we will leave it at authenticity.
Speaker 2:I want to tell Kami Thank you for showing up With your integrity On your face, In your eyes, On your sleep. I want to thank you for speaking to the women and the girls who listen to us on the Cake Therapy Podcast. I want to thank you for speaking to the women and the girls who listen to us on the Cake Therapy Podcast. I want to also invite them to join our foundation. Follow us, listen to us at the Cake Therapy Foundation, and I want that they too can be Tessa's cake. They too can be Kemi the court mediator. They too can be Kemi the court mediator. They too can be Kemi the artist.
Speaker 2:So in life, you have to aspire to impact and make change, and Kemi has done that. Thank you so much for joining us, Kemi. This has been the Cake Therapy Podcast, your slice of joy and healing. I've learned from you today. So thank you, Guys. Go follow Kemi. She's at Tessa's Cake and you can't miss her. She's on Instagram, throwing it down the zone every week sharing her baking tips. You'll definitely enjoy. You'll get more from her. Thank you so much. Today's mindful moment is that every recipe is a love letter written in flavors. Cook with care and savor each word.
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