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E03 - Halima (Halima's Cake Artistry) - Never settle for average and know your worth.

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This week, we're off to Nottingham, England to chat with Halima who runs Halima’s Cake Artistry. An inspiring, articulate, and passionate baker who has really taken her baking skills to new highs by continually pushing herself to cement her own design.

This is a chat that's full of insight considering she's taken her time to build her reputation and business in her area to set herself apart. Halima's skills are varied with her contemporary and elegant designs but her sugar flowers are something quite special.

This conversation is not about getting big on social media but more about focusing on the key aspects of your business as a baker to build your brand in your area and establishing yourself among key demographics. There's so much to learn here!

Fun fact: This was the first episode we ever recorded to kick off this Podcast!

Find out more about Halima here:

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This podcast is produced in London and Madrid by OLBAA.

OLBAA makes the best dessert packaging on the market because it's designed by a baker and not by a spreadsheet. From strong and tall cake boxes, to the game-changing tall cupcake boxes, OLBAA loves to innovate the packaging to make bakers' bakes look the best they can be. After all, you've spent hours making all those amazing desserts, why put them in a cheap and flimsy box? Show it off and make a statement with OLBAA.

To find out more, head over to www.olbaa.shop

Sponsorship enquires (starting at as little as £50) and any questions you may have, send them over to info@olbaa.uk

See you next time on My Baking Journey!
-Haf & Rachel

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E02 - Harry Bakess - the aircraft engineer who throws cakes in the air.

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This week, we sit down with a relative newcomer to the baking world, and our first male guest - Harry. Harry started baking 2020 but has very quickly developed his skills, built an incredible social media following on both Instagram and TikTok, and is now even teaching at a cake school not far from where he lives!

How has he achieved such success so quickly? We find out and also learn that Harry's laid back attitude and ability to balance his day job - an aircraft engineer - with this baking life is definitely not an easy task but he has managed to make it work!

Harry is incredibly easy going to chat with and this episode he takes the time to give healthy insight into how he was able to build his social media following so quickly. Within 18 months he's closing in on 100k followers on Instagram and over 50k on TikTok. This is after Instagrams algorithm changes from 2021 that made this so much harder for many to grow their accounts.

We hope he inspires many of you who are just starting or who have been doing this a while to grab opportunity when it comes and have a lot of fun doing it!

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This podcast is produced in London and Madrid by OLBAA.

OLBAA makes the best dessert packaging on the market because it's designed by a baker and not by a spreadsheet. From strong and tall cake boxes, to the game-changing tall cupcake boxes, OLBAA loves to innovate the packaging to make bakers' bakes look the best they can be. After all, you've spent hours making all those amazing desserts, why put them in a cheap and flimsy box? Show it off and make a statement with OLBAA.

To find out more, head over to www.olbaa.shop enquires (starting at as little as £50) and any questions you may have, send them over to info@olbaa.uk

See you next time on My Baking Journey!
-Haf & Rachel

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E01 - Jane Taylor - Dream big, work smart, and look for the signs.

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Welcome to the first episode of MBJ! This week we have one of the most incredible floral cupcake bakers around - Jane Taylor. Jane started from nothing after having her 5th (!!) child and decided to get to work on something she always enjoyed - baking!

The journey has been a great one but with some help along the way in the form of some some great friends to keep her going, she has built her cake business into something now that looks very different to when she started. An online cake school, mastering the art of buttercream flowers, and teaching and inspiring so many other bakers. She has over 300,000 followers on Instagram who marvel at her work.

Jane is no nonsense, and isn't afraid to say what is necessary. But she's also extremely caring, and full of positive energy. We think you'll get a lot of our this first episode!

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