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.
Cake Therapy
Rosa's Cakes: A Mother-Daughter Legacy of Craft, Resilience, And Purpose
Beauty lives in the smallest details, and sometimes those details become a life. We welcome Gabby from Rosa’s Cakes in New Orleans—a self-described non-cook who transformed a love of clay miniatures into intricate fondant toppers, sought-after treat sets, and a thriving home-based bakery with her mom, Rosa. While preparing for an approaching hurricane, Gabby opens up about resilience, family legacy from Nicaragua, and the practical choices that keep their creative business strong through real-world storms.
You’ll hear how clay beads turned into cake toppers, and how event-planning experience evolved into stellar customer service and efficient production systems. Gabby breaks down her design workflow for cupcakes and sets, where three variations per dozen keep creativity structured and timelines sane. We dive into how she sources molds and materials, why she favors treats over towering cakes in sweltering summers, and how Instagram became their storefront—proof that consistent, thoughtful posting can elevate a neighborhood favorite into a regional go-to.
What stands out most is her definition of success: showing up for her kids, protecting quality, and shipping work she loves regardless of likes. She offers grounded advice for emerging cake artists—be patient with yourself, invest in presentation, and let motivation carry you through slow seasons. This is a warm, candid look at building a legacy of work ethic and craft, turning detail into identity, and finding freedom in a business shaped by care, culture, and grit.
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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 to the therapeutic art of baking. There's something here for everyone. So lock in and let's get into it.
SPEAKER_03:We are in for a treat today, a great slice of joy and healing because we have one of my favorite treatmakers out of New Orleans that's gonna join us for a conversation. As she is preparing for another hurricane, um, yes, she so kindly um, you know, gave up her time to have a conversation with us. So today we're being joined by Gabrielle O'Connor. She's from Rose Cakes LLC out of New Orleans. We've been internet friends for a very, very long time, and I'm excited to talk to her as well. Um, first I wanted to thank all of our new subscribers, new listeners, um, new followers on our YouTube channel. Thank you so much. Big up Stephanie for really going hard at getting those um platforms of YouTube and TikTok and all that other stuff that I definitely am unable to keep up with. Um, but I want to say thank you to everyone who's um decided to join us um on these digital platforms. So, like I'd mentioned that um today we're talking to Gabby, which is the daughter of Rosa, who actually started Rosa's Cake because Rosa is the baker. You know, I mentioned she's out of New Orleans. Um she brings her own creative flair to this family business of theirs because she's been in artistic platforms and other artistic arenas. Um, she is the full-time cake decorator and treat maker there. She is um the business manager at Rosa Cakes. She really does have a passion for the details. When you see her treats, if you follow Rosa's Cakes, you will see her knack for intricate details. Um new heights. And we are really excited to dive into her journey from her initial role of reluctance, like she mentioned on Instagram, for um that reluctance to join the family business, um, to her current role as the driving force behind um Rosa's cakes. She does have a background in clay, jewelry making, and working on miniatures. And you will see that too shining out when you look at her um the treats that you know she produced for her clients. Like she is sought after. When I say she's a big deal, she's a big deal. Um, I want to talk to her about the day-to-day operations um of Rosa's Cakes because she seamlessly blends her um business side, her art side um into this business. And in you know, it's flourishing, it's growing. And I've uh clearly her dedication to art itself um shines through in her work, and I can't wait to to really you know chat it up with her. So let's get started, see how Gabby is doing, see how she's preparing for this hurricane, and um we're just hoping that her story can delight, you know, all of us, and we can learn from her. I'm excited. Welcome, Gabby. So, yes, um, let's welcome Gabby from Rosalie's Cakes back to the show. Hi, Gabby.
SPEAKER_00:Hey, good morning.
SPEAKER_03:Good morning. So tell me what you're up to. What's going on in New Orleans that the people need to know about?
SPEAKER_00:Right now we're getting ready for a hurricane. That's what we are. So hopefully it's not gonna be anything, you know. I'm hoping it dissipates because um, what three years ago already, you know, it says, Oh, we're not gonna get hit, and then it ends up moving and we're directly hit, and now it's kind of the same thing right now.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:So we're up in the air. But I'm working as if it's a regular work week.
SPEAKER_03:Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So to me how it is that, okay, when you hear the news, right, from the meteorology center, that's like, oh, a storm is coming. Like, what's the mindset? What's the instant mindset for you? Like, what are you built to panic?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, panic. Um, because this is you know, three years ago was the second time that we had gotten damaged from hurricanes, so it's like not our first rodeo. Um, now um ever since Katrina hit New Orleans, you know, years ago. Then the levees weren't built, so the water comes. Like, you know, the more the levy you build levees in New Orleans, the water comes where it's closer, and it's us. If we build levees here, then it's gonna go up more, you know. So um the first thing is panic, you know. And this one, I feel like it was kind of like last minute. Um, they say it wasn't, but I felt like I I guess I wasn't watching the news. I just was thinking, oh, we're gonna have a good hurricane, quiet season, and then it just got us. So um, but luckily, Sunday before everybody started panicking is I my usual day of like groceries and getting me ready for the week. So I had to hit my groceries at least in a calm manner, but yeah, everybody, like the gas stations, everything were just packed, and so but yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Well well, I'm just hoping that you guys are are speared. I know.
SPEAKER_00:I just kind of we don't want to do the cleanup. I mean, like I said, three years ago, we spent like almost two months in Texas um before we were even able to come back home. So um we just we're just you know kind of like ready for it, but at the same time, it's just like I don't want to I don't want to go without electricity or having to do the cleanup again.
SPEAKER_03:I know. What is that cleanup like, um Gabby?
SPEAKER_00:It's it's crazy. I mean, you know, like we thought that we were spared three years ago. We were like, oh, we're fine. And then we had not having electricity for so long. Like the mold, like the whole, like it had a hole from the roof, and then the mold just starts creeping up on you. So it it was different. Uh for Isaac, um, like I said, about 11 years ago for Isaac, it was the flood. The water came in, we flooded, we had to, you know, sh take gut the house pretty much. Um, last year, like I said, thank God it was mainly just like the living room in the kitchen area. But that kind of, you know, with the business being at home, yeah, you know, that just is really a strain on it as well because we don't have a kitchen, you know, to work from. So it's it's a lot, but I'm just hoping. We're just hoping that we we could ride it out.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. So you mentioned the the business being from home. It's called Rose of Cakes, but we have Gabby on screen. Tell us this Tell us about your earliest memory, um, you know, with cakes.
SPEAKER_00:Um well I'm 40. My mom has been making cakes since my first birthday cake, since you know, my aunt my mom comes from a um, you know, a baking background. Her mom owns a bakery in Nicaragua, so she just had that. Um, and she just started making cakes, you know, for family, friends, and she's just been doing them since then. So, and since her name is Rosa, everybody used to be like, oh, I'm gonna go get a cake from Rosa, you know. So everybody already knows they're like, This is Rosa, Rosa's cakes. I need a cake from Rosa's. So um, but yeah, that's like my memories. I mean, she's made, I remember my Barbie cake that she made. I used to have like a Barbie Superwoman cake, ninja turtles, like for all my siblings. She made our cakes. Um, so cakes has just been part of our life, you know, forever. Um, and like I said, since our first birthday, so yeah. That's yeah, that's how it started.
SPEAKER_03:So you mentioned that cake, cake has yeah, so you mentioned that you know, cake has been a part of your life, but then you know, I I'm a fan, I'm a fan, I'm a fan, right? And um so I'm on your Instagram page all the time, and I'm seeing where you you posted once that you were resistant, you had no interest at all in cakes or baking. What was the turning point for you where you decided to join your mom in this business and for it to, you know, to transition into what it is today?
SPEAKER_00:I mean, well, I'm gonna be 100% honest with you. It's still not my interest. You know, it's it fell into my lap, it fell into my situation, but it's never been like my I want to be this cake person on TV and that everybody knows my name or that sees me, you know, I didn't. Um, so um I got divorced um what like almost 13 years ago now, and um I was I had my second son um like 11 years ago, and I just I was paying a lot for daycare. Um because my mom, she still was working. Um, my mom used to clean houses, and so she still has like a couple that she's still she's very, very close to, and she still helps them, you know, and she goes and cleans, so she's always still like worked out the house, but worked in the house. And I just kind of was like, my um ex-husband, he lives in Europe, and so I was like, my kids are not gonna have both parents at home. Like, I was working all the time, and I'm like, that's just so sad, you know. To me, I was like, my I want to be the mom that like I could go on field trips or in case of emergency, I'm there for them. Like all their sports things, and so um I always had like a little hobby of working with clay and stuff, and my mom was making cakes, and she had just like about like 13 years ago, she that's the first time she has started really working with fond it, like cakes, fondant cakes. She always did like buttercream cakes, she never really did too much fondant, and so she was saying, Hey Gabby, can you start doing um like the toppers for me, like the little lions, or like, you know, she had like a little safari cake, and I was like, Okay, I'll make them out of fondant. It's just like clay, you know. Um, so in between like that, like I said, getting divorced, and in between doing things for my mom in my 40-hour work week, and then the big thing of cake pops and the big thing of cookies was coming around. So she went and she took classes um for cake pops and she took classes for cookies. Like, I never was the one like, oh, let me go and learn how to do this. She was the one like, oh, this is popular, and then she was doing it because she loves it, you know, not because um she was like, I'm gonna introduce it into our menu. She just loved it. And then people were like, Oh, but we like the cakes. Oh, we like the cake pops. And so she would sit there and say, Hey, can you put a little bit, a little decor on my cake popper? Here, help me with the icing on the cookies. And it got to the point where she would be like, Babe, you do it better. So I'm just baking it, you do it. But I was working 40 hours in my office and then coming on Friday, you know, Thursday, Friday, starting to do stuff for her, and it was like, what are we doing here? Like, I want to be home. I want to be with the kids, let's just go on a limb. I was living with them, so I said, you know, I'm not I'm not paying rent. I was like, let's see, you know, I mean, hey, we'll get whatever we can out of profit here and make it work. And I mean, it just literally like I started off like I did like one princess cake and like a package for somebody, and then it just started growing from that. Then it was known as the princess cake lady. You know, I was doing so many princess cakes, everybody was like, we want, you know, that's the lady who's doing all the princess cakes or the prince cakes, you know. So and and it just grew from there, you know. Like I yeah. So that's that's how that's how I got into that. But like I said, I was I've never been like passionate about cakes. It's just I was passionate about spending time with my kids, and I said, food salves, and let's make it, let's see what what we can make out of it.
SPEAKER_03:I know. I mean, but to hear that you actually don't have a passion for it, but then to be so like but then to be so good at it, right?
SPEAKER_00:Like I am obsessed with like miniatures, like you, like you said, with the clay stuff. Like I am I like so I love like the little details. Like people are like, oh no, I want the cakes, but I'm like, no, give me the little details.
SPEAKER_03:So we were talking about your passion um as opposed to your passion for clay as opposed to cakes. Tell me about that, your passion for clay, how you got into that.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I I just got into clay, so I um I to be honest, I don't even know how I got into it. I I saw somebody I think like maybe Pinterest, and I saw some beads, and I wanted to get into jewelry making, and I'm alright, oh I can make my own beads out of clay. Um, so I started just doing that as a hobby. Um, and then in 2010 I moved to Nicaragua, and my ex-husband actually um used to do jewelry. Um, and so it was kind of like, oh my gosh, you know. So we got into I was doing beads and he was making um the jewelry and things like that. So that's that was like my passion as far as clay. Um, and then when I got pregnant um of my son, my mom did the cake, and I I did a what was it called? The Humpty Dumpty and like the nursery rhyme theme. And I said, I'm making my my cake toppers, you know. So I made them out of clay um at that time for the cake. So and that's how I got into my mom. I was like, oh well, you could do that, and you could probably do them out of fondant. And like I said, and then that's how she started, like, oh, make me a little elephant or make me a little giraffe, yeah. And that's just how it started, and um, and with the clay. But like I said, but the clay wasn't anything, and I am into like dollhouse miniatures, and I wanted to make food for like my dollhouses, and so that's that was my play um you know, passion. But it wasn't, I I never, you know, my mom was like, You're making it, but you're not making any money out of it. Um, but you can make money off of the bonded toppers and stall those while you want, you know, that's how we find out with that.
SPEAKER_03:Well, your your gift is definitely shines through in that. And and you're right, making those miniatures, you have this unique ability to bring those things to life. So I really, really love that uh about you. But I want to know like where do you draw your inspiration from? You make these amazing cakes, you make these amazing toppers, and these amazing just sets. Where does your information your inspiration come from?
SPEAKER_00:Um I'm very like I love the fact that like I feel like Instagram, to be honest, was like the opening of everything because Instagram was like one of the main first things when we started of like just pictures, right? Like it was just pictures, and so you're like, oh my gosh, like you could go do the hashtag and like a world, like you see everybody's pictures, you know, and then Pinterest was a big thing at that moment. So to be honest, I do I will go and Pinterest, and sometimes I'll get like a mural, like you know, I it'll come up a mural, like if I have a theme that nobody's ever really done before, and it would just be like a painting, or I'll see um a statue, and so I'll tell my mom, mmm, okay, maybe like if I could kind of like incorporate a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And I mean, so there's and there's other sugar artists too that you know they might do something. I might have a cake, and I'm like, okay, I like this tier from that cake, and I like that tier from that cake, and let's just make each tier, you know, that way to make it different. Because you know, sometimes I get the same theme over and over again as well. So you're like, how do I make it different? And that's how it is, you know. You're like, okay, well, I did it this this way this time, but this time I have wanted to try this new technique, so yeah, and there's always new techniques coming out as well. So I'm like, let me just try out this new technique. Yeah, um, and the good thing is, like, before I used to be, you know, handmaking. I always tell people, I'm like, I've always been handmaking my little dolls and stuff, but now people are making molds, and like I'm gonna tell you, like the uh Brazil, you know, Brazilians, they coming out with so many different molds, and it's like it's time saving, but they're also so cute. You're like, I just want to do it because now it's easier, it's in one piece, saves me time. Um, so that's just really where my creativity is, and I always have like a um a system, like if I have a dozen cupcakes, let's say, I have a system where it's like I have three different designs. It's four cupcakes are gonna look like this, four cupcakes are gonna look like that, and four like that. Um, and then I just go back and I say, okay, they send me the invitation, they send me the backdrop that they're using, their colors, and I say, Okay, what do you? And I tell my client, what do you want to see? What do you want? You want dolls, you want this, you want that. And you know, sometimes they don't, sometimes they send me literally one picture and colors. And they're like, It's a baby shower, these are the colors. Good luck, you know, and I'm like, okay. Um, so I just but like I said, I'll what I'll write down and I'll say, okay, four frames with an initial, and then I'll just add a different little mold, you know, to go with whatever the theme is, um, or whatnot. Because I tell people I have to have details, because if you tell me, oh, it's gonna be no theme, it's just colors, that I'm not your girl. Because I don't know, I don't know how to not keep sticking something onto the topper. I'm like, I don't know how to what do you mean it's just white? Yeah, I don't know how to do all white. You know, I'm not into the aesthetic of like all one color. I don't know that.
SPEAKER_03:What is the favorite thing about being in the kitchen with your mom?
SPEAKER_00:Um, my mom and I have always had a close relationship. Be me being the oldest. Um I think my favorite part is the fact that she never I I don't cook. Okay, I'll tell you that. I don't cook. I don't like to cook. She's always, and my mom has always been close to me to where she always used to be like, I'll bring you something to eat, or I'll, you know, make so I never so she knows that like I said, my passion is not in the kitchen. Um it's like seeing her like watch me like take it to another level because it's her it is her dream, it is her passion. And so I think that's what makes me even like happier, like to say that she's like, man, like I've been doing this for 40 years, and now you done made it because she's an introvert, you know, she's so quiet, she doesn't talk, and she's not gonna get on social media and do this. She's not computer savvy, she didn't grow up in the computer era. Um, and so she's like just to see that I just used to be the lady that they called, like to do my neighbor's cake, you know, to now we're going and delivering, bringing, and then like. Being a part of that team. So I think that's like my favorite part. It's just that we are best friends. I mean, and to be honest, we have our little like she'll be like, I like this for this. And I'll be like, no. And so she's like, no. Well, you're the boss now, so I guess you're just my ghost. You know, she'll be like, I saw this on here, and I think and I'm like, no, don't like it. And so she's such a pushover. She'll let me get my way. And so I guess that's why we work really well too. Yeah. Um, because if it was somebody else, they'd probably be like, This girl, she doesn't never let me do with you know what I want. Yeah. Um, but it's just working with your best friend, and I mean, we just we're do we're together all the time. You would think that, you know, we get sick, but I'm I enjoy it. Um, and like I said, just to see what how I brought, you know, what she loves to a different level, so that she could see it, you know. And um, like I was telling you before, my grandparents own a bakery, they just do mainly bread and pastries, but I think for her it's very like a proud achievement that she's continued that um, you know, inherited that from my grandmother and is bringing it down to us.
SPEAKER_03:Yep, she most definitely passed that down to you. What what do you think are some of the things that you did differently, Gabby, as opposed to to Mama Rosa, that has elevated the business as much as it has?
SPEAKER_00:Well, I think I'm more talkative, I'm more customer service-wise. I used to work at hotels and I've always been like the, you know, I used to do catering and event planning, funny enough. Uh, that's what I used to do um before. So I've always been in the food industry. That's true. I see. Even if I didn't like being in the kitchen, I really was always in the kitchen, you know, talking to chefs and stuff like that. Um, so the only thing I feel like I made a difference is the fact that I'm more like, let's put a picture. I am on social media all the time. I am um, you know, talking to people more and saying, oh, well, we could put that here or we could do that here. I am like more into, you know, like researching where we get materials, where I get boxes, where we get this for wholesale or that, you know. So I think that's where like I elevated. Because to be honest, I will tell you, she does have like a 60%. She'll I'll give her, you know, events and she'll be like two weeks, okay. So what is the theme? And she'll say, Look, I found this kind of picture that kind of looks like it, and I found this and this. So sometimes I'll be like, Oh, okay, okay, yeah, you're you know, you're doing your research. Um, but like I said, I think it's just more the social media, more uh putting her out there because she was not online, she was not, you know, she had she she still does, she doesn't have Facebook, she doesn't have social media like that. It uh Rosa's Cakes is her only Instagram, she doesn't have a personal page. Um, you know, so I think just getting online and and especially because 10, 11 years ago, everything started being more social media based. Um it it it's what it's kind of like what picked it up. And like I said, I'm always she's always like, oh, they said that we need to go do this, you need to go talk to them. I'm like, okay, let me go call them on the phone, you know. She's she's the she's the one that throws me to talk to people or you know, just be um the face of it all the time. Yeah. Um, so I think that's like that's where I uh changed it for her because to be honest, the flavor-wise, the baking, it's it's all her, you know. It's all her, yeah. Yeah, it's all her.
SPEAKER_03:I know because if you don't cook, you don't bake.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I mean, and I will bake, you know, like um every summer she does. She used to go to Nicaragua to take it, so I now would still be doing like so. I could still do the baking aspect um of it. I just prefer like I wouldn't do the cakes um without her being here. And it's not necessarily so much the baking, but it's like the putting together and having to deliver, and then the weather here is just in the summer is crazy. Yeah, um, and so that's why I don't um do the cakes. And to be honest, you know, I've been trying to take a step back um like from the cakes, and it's not like I tell people, yeah, I I can make them and they're nice, I like them. But if the cake messes up, it's like, oh my gosh, like how am I gonna fix it on time? Whereas one of my smaller things, I lose a cake pop, I lose an Oreo, I lose a Rice Krispie, you know, we're good to go. Um, so Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So um, you know, my this podcast started out of my foundation, the Cake Therapy Foundation, and spreading word and introducing people to cake makers and artists from all over the globe. And, you know, some of the girls who we come in contact with don't have as much confidence, but they do have like a purpose. They see themselves becoming entrepreneurs in their own right. What kind of advice would you give to a girl who wants to enter the cake industry, especially if they're balancing other responsibilities?
SPEAKER_00:Be patient with yourself. You know, that's like the main thing. Be patient with yourself, don't beat yourself up about it. Um, you know, everybody thinks that roses' cakes happen from one moment to another. Like I said, we've been on Instagram for about 11 years now. And look, to be honest, we don't even have a big following compared to most people that have been online at the same time we have. Sometimes I tell people, don't worry about the following, don't worry about the likes. You gotta worry that you're putting out what you love. If I am happy with what I'm delivering, I'm like, I mean, I I I'm not gonna sit there and say, well, I don't care if the client doesn't like it, but I'm like, I loved it and I'm bringing it to you. You do what you want with it, but when it came out of my hands and out of my kitchen and out of my house, I loved. I liked it all put together. So I think it's just to say, like, if you feel like that you did your best and you love it, don't worry about what other people are gonna say about it, or you know, like I said, so if you're starting off, like it's okay to start off slow and steady as long as you love what you're putting and you're taking time to take care of your content, take care of like presentation-wise, um, and things like that. So, because I to be honest, I'm not gonna sit there. I was not confident because I guess I've never worked, I had never worked with baking, I had never done anything. You know, I don't want to say I'm like the confident, but what I am is that I'm I'm just very interested and I want to have an experience for you, and so I love, I love what I was giving you. So, like I said, if you love what you're giving your client, then you're good, you know, like you don't need somebody to boost your ego or sit there and tell you, oh, you're the you know, or like thousands of likes. Yes, that helps. That makes you feel so special, but um, like I said, um having two different um attitudes, like I said, my mom being an introvert and maybe a little bit more of an extrovert, uh, I just it's slow and steady. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:One moment. Excuse me. So, um, Davi, looking back on your journey, right? From divorce, single mom of two, your spouse is now in Europe, your mom's running Rosa's cakes, and now you enter into the space and start helping her. What are you most proud of today?
SPEAKER_00:Um, I think the most thing I am proud of is the fact that like for what, like nine years consecutively, like um this has been my only income, and that I've been able to continue um being like a stay-at-home mom and at the same time a at-home business, you know, it's a full-time business. Um, so I think that that's what I'm most proud of is the fact that I'm like, I've been very responsible in the like keeping it, you know, um, to where I haven't had to go back to the workforce, which is not anything bad. Um, because I am deciding to go step into the workforce back um little by little right now. Um, and not necessarily because of the economy, but I think that's what I'm the most proud of, and the fact that like I have been able to spend so much, I'm not saying like time with my kids, but like I said, I've been because the weekends when they're home, it's like they're like, you're working, you're working. Um, but I haven't missed the game, you know, for any of their sports. I haven't missed a field trip, I haven't missed a sick day when I have to go pick them up. Um, so I think that that's like the most proud I am. And the fact that like in this economy, not just from COVID, but even before, like when we first started, the fact that I could be a single income household with my two kids and still like continue with the cakes and then continue with my personal life. Um, yeah, I think that's like what I'm most proud of.
SPEAKER_03:Um, Rosa is her mom and dad's legacy. And so, and so is Gabby. Gabby is Rosa's legacy. Legacy. What do you want your legacy to be?
SPEAKER_00:Um, I would love. I would love for like one of my kids, one of my sons. It maybe not necessarily be in the baking business, but to be honest, the legacy that I think that my grandma the most that she gave to my mom is the hustler working mentality of building something with your own hands and not necessarily coming off of her parents. You know, like she made her own way as well. Like, even though her parents gave her the the steps and and and put her in the right direction, she's made her own thing. I've made my own thing. So I just want my kids to be like, if you work hard, like you can have this. You know, like I just want them to have that mentality, inherit that. Um, and also inherit the if it doesn't work out like this, like let's hurry up. What's the plan? Like, it's okay, we could make another plan. It's just it's something else, you know. Um, but to just continuously um be motivated, be motivated, be, you know, um create something, build something of your own if you have to. But if I would love it, and I think somewhere down the line, whether it's an accountant that I have in my household that is working in the bakery or you know, decides that actually, you know, my mom came from just selling to her neighbors and now we're selling out and I have a home-based business. I don't know, maybe my kids will actually open the storefront. And you know, even if they're not the ones making it, but they have somebody who's running it. So yeah, that's that's my hope um for my kids. But like I said, just having that mentality that um they can build off of what I taught them, but not they don't have to, you know, live off of what I build, like that they need to learn to that they could, you know, make a name for themselves as well.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, absolutely. Like every mother, every mother dreams for their kid to to build something for themselves and to become a total success. And here's here's a parallel that I find. My mom too was a housekeeper, she cleaned um people's homes um back in Jamaica, and her dream for me was to become bigger than she was. Um, and she did have an artistic side too, because she sows clothes. But here I am, fine later finding out that someone who couldn't cook or couldn't bake later found out I had the gift of baking. So I truly find parallels in your story and my story. But I want to say to you that I am extremely proud of what you built with Rosa. You know, um, it moves me. Um, I I tell you this all the time behind the scenes and on the podcast that you are one of my favorite people on Instagram. You're one of my favorite people in the virtual world. And um and I connect with you and I see you, I see you, I see you, I'm proud of you. And I'm hoping that the girls who are listening ultimately will hear some strength and truth and purpose in your story and will be able to step into it. So if you haven't been following Gabby's story, follow her on Rosa's Cakes on Instagram. That's the only social media platform. You will see Gabby on there talking about her mom's cakes, her treat, and creating the most magnificent miniatures. I want to thank you, Gabby, for joining us today.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you so much for having me. And like I said, I you know, like you said, to give the the young the youth watching and stuff like that, like I said, is just motivate, like be motivated for your life. Like just you just want to have motivation. You know, I tell my I was telling my mom that about my kids, you know. I said, you could have everybody in the same situation, but there's just the one that's gonna be like more highly motivated, and that's like what I feel like in this industry, just be motivated to continue to do better, like and just find the ways and not um come crashing down and just yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So yep. So Gabi is telling us to find ways to be motivated, find find ways to uplift yourself, find ways to build and find your own purpose to be able to build and become successful. Gabi has done that, she's done that with her mom Rosa, and I want to thank you so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you so much. You know, I appreciate it. I love you so much. And um, like you said, you know, I try to stay as close as possible to all my social media friends with even if we haven't met in person. I do appreciate all of y'all and I appreciate all the love we get all the time.
SPEAKER_03:So yeah, we love you right back. And I'm gonna I'm hoping that you guys weather the storm if it comes. I'm hoping that I know. I hope you guys are definitely spared because I wouldn't want you to go through what you've been through because I I I've been here watching from afar when you have to do that cleanup. So thank you again for joining.
SPEAKER_00:All right, thank you so much, and I appreciate you.
SPEAKER_03:Of course, I appreciate you more. So, this has been your slice of joy and healing with me, Dr. Altricia Foster, on the Cake Therapy Podcast. See you next time.
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