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Tim Sweet: I am really excited
for this episode of Innovation

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Generation here at Grove City College.

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I would like to welcome my guest, Amy
Mucha, class of 2009, who happens to

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be the founder and owner, and chief pop
artist of Daisy Pops from Kent, Ohio.

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Amy, welcome to the show today.

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Amy M: Thank you so much for having me.

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I'm excited to be here!

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preroll: Welcome to Innovation Generation.

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A podcast of the Center for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation at

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Grove City College, where we hear the
inspiring stories of entrepreneurs and

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explore the hopefulness of entrepreneurial
thinking wherever we find it.

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I'm your host, Tim Sweet and
this is Innovation Generation.

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Tim Sweet: Really glad to have
you in this, in the studio.

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So you're a 2009 grad came here in the
fall of 2005 and as a, as an 18 year old.

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What was your vision
for your life at at that

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Amy M: point?

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Sure.

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I came in as a math education
major and uh, that was my vision.

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I was gonna teach math
cause I was a true athlete.

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Really loved helping people
and I figured the best way to

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combine those was math education.

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So I went through my four years here
and went right back to my high school

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where I graduated from in Ohio.

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And your high

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Tim Sweet: school was, uh, what's the name

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Amy M: of your high school?

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C bca, Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy.

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Tim Sweet: Fantastic.

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And that's, actually Where
you met your husband, Nate,

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Amy M: correct?

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It is where we

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met, yeah.

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Junior year.

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Homecoming.

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Haven't

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Flattened 5: looked

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Tim Sweet: back.

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And you both came here to Grove

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City College.

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Amy M: Mm-hmm.

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. Yep.

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We both came here and then I went
right back to C BCA after my time at

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Grove City to teach math for 12 years.

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See, you love math?

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Oh, I love math.

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Yes.

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Right.

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Makes sense.

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Adds

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up

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. 
Tim Sweet: It does.

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You like the logic of it?

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You like the,

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the beauty of it, the, uh, consistency.

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Yes.

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There's

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Amy M: always a right answer,

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which makes it really nice.

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Tim Sweet: Ah, That's, it's not like

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entrepreneurship, is it?

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Yeah.

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Where there's

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Amy M: never a right answer.

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You got that

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right

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. 
Tim Sweet: Well, uh, tell us a

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little bit about, I, I'm interested
in, in knowing your journey from,

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um, totally sold out

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on math

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and ready

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to launch a, a career as
a, as a teacher in math

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to entrepreneurs.

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So tell us a little bit about how
that journey began to take place.

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You.

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Ended up, you know,

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in the

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teaching profession, tell us a

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little bit about that and how that,

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that

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entrepreneurial journey

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began.

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Amy M: Sure.

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Um, I'm

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very much an

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accidental entrepreneur.

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I was going to teach math
until my kids had kids

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and then retire and watch my grandkids.

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Uh, but well, you

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Tim Sweet: had this all mapped out.

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Like From, From day one.

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Of course, yes.

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So You had the trajectory of your life

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all

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planned, right?

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Yeah.

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Amy M: Once I do something, I usually

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don't, don't quit or don't go
halfway, so I just figured I'd do that

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forever and I loved it.

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I loved my 12 years at C BCA teaching.

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Tim Sweet: Yeah.

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What grade

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levels did

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Amy M: you teach there?

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I had honors Algebra ii,
which were mainly freshmen

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and sophomores, and then
AP Statistics where I

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had my seniors.

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And I feel like I influenced many of
them to come, come here to Grove City.

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Yeah.

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Tim Sweet: That's great.

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We've had a

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lot of grads from ccca Yes.

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Through the year, so That's

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great.

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So you, you loved, I'm assuming
teaching math because it

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instilled inspired students

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to study more

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math

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and

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to discover some skills.

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Maybe they didn't

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think they had.

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Amy M: Yes, I would like to
think it, uh, instilled some

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love of math in students.

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Um, but yeah, it was, it was just

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fun.

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I really like

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seeing the light bulb go
on in my student's eyes.

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I

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love

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the relationships that I

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built.

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Some of them are still my friends,

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you know, they're sure went from

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students

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to friends, which I really,

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really enjoyed.

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Yeah, It's

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a

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Tim Sweet: very fine institution and
they've produced a lot of really great

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students through the years, so

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I'm not

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surprised that you were a
very important part of that.

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Couple of

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years ago, I

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encountered

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one of these daisy pops and I said, Oh

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my gosh, what an interesting product.

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Colorful, fun, engaging.

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, then

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I realized that you were behind
it, and your husband, Nate, who

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also teaches here at Grove City
College, was somehow a part of this.

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But I, I fell in love with the product

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the moment I saw it.

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I didn't even have

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to taste it.

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Right.

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I praised, I, I, I saw

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it and, and thought.

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This

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is amazing.

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Tell us a little bit about

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how these cake pops got started.

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Amy M: Oh,

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that's a good story.

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Um, my, my mother-in-law's

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responsible for it all.

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She got me a cake pop books

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over a

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decade ago.

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I

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was just making them on the side for a

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few years and, um, a.

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One of my students' moms

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saw them one time and offered to buy some.

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I

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was like, Oh, like, okay.

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So that just started about
a year and a half of just

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very much making them on the side, like,

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you know, not

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not a business,

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didn't get an

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llc, nothing like that.

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Just people, you know,

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giving me 20 bucks cash and uh,

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getting their cake pops.

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So

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you're

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Tim Sweet: just having fun.

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Right.

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Just fun.

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You discovered you

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could make cake pops.

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You, you

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kind of learned out of a book mm-hmm.

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and then there was so much more to

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Amy M: it.

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Yes, Yes, there was.

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So yeah, I'd call that the, the hobby time

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of,

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uh, cake popping.

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Ah, yes.

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And then in 2018, uh, one of my
current students and I sat down.

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We like made a Facebook
page, we made an Instagram.

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My husband had already helped
me get a website in llc, so

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that's when it became a side
hustle, I'd say, where we like

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formalized everything.

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Like started really taking orders,
um, and doing some customized

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pops.

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Yeah.

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Tim Sweet: So here you are.

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You're a math

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teacher, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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. 
Um, A lot of times

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we don't

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associate the creative side with

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left brain people like math
majors and math teachers.

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You're very, very strong
in logic and sequence and

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analysis.

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But this is.

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This

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is edible art.

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I mean, it's just a,
it's a, it's an amazing

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experience that

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people

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have with,

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with your

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product.

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Uh, tell us a

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little bit about the,

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the

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creative that got unleashed

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in

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you as you began to.

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Build this business.

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Amy M: Sure.

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I,

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It's funny cuz I always say my husband has
all the creativeness, uh, in our family.

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He's a professional designer.

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Yes.

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Right?

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Yes he

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is.

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I

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mean, he

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needs to have that design.

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Mm-hmm.

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, 
Tim Sweet: he's got

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Amy M: a lot of that.

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Yes.

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A lot

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of that.

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Um, and I would not say I am

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artistic in this slightest.

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Like my, my children

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who are

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10 and under or better at
art than me at this point.

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Hmm.

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Um, but I've

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always had a little like

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creative.

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Crafty bent.

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So I've always enjoyed doing those things.

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Um, always like

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having a project.

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So when Cake Pops became that
project several years ago, I really

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tried

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to

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make it more

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mathematical, honestly.

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So like the

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decorating of cake pops, Wow.

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I wanted processes in place.

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I wanted to be efficient with it.

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Um, because even though it's.

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Right I still wanted to bring
that left Brainedness into it.

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Yes.

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And apply all of those things that
I love so much and came more easily

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to me, to the cake popping process.

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So

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Tim Sweet: math is fun.

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It is fun.

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And

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it tastes good

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Amy M: too.

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. 
Well,

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cake pops tastes a little better than math
does, according to my students, but yes.

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Tim Sweet: Wow.

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Well, it's

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very, very interesting this journey that

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you've had.

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It's, it's a little
unconventional in terms.

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Evolving into the, the amazing

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business that you,

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you have,

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but you really, um,

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you

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just threw yourself into it, right?

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I

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mean,

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just.

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Had developed a passion for this.

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I mean, you didn't start

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out as a, you know, I wanna do cake pops.

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It just

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kinda

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Amy M: happened.

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It

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it just

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kind of happened.

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Yeah.

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People would always ask like,

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Oh,

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like, you

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know what,

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what's the goal for daisy Pops?

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And back in

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the day I was like, Oh, there is no goal.

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It's just, you know, kind of keep

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up with what's thrown at me.

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But yeah,

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it was just

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a side hustle.

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It was always

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supposed to be a side
hustle and now it is not

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a

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side

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Tim Sweet: hustle.

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And, And you discovered.

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An amazing amount of

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demand for

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your product.

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Amy M: Yes.

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Yeah, I mean, the cake pops are always

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fun, obviously.

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Like if Starbucks does it, you know,
it's gotta be, gotta be a good idea.

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Um, but I feel

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for our business it was really,
really covid that took it from

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a side

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hustle to something that demanded

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much more of

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me.

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Tim Sweet: Oh, Interesting.

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So here you are, a

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school teacher

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and everybody's thrown into

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Covid jail for a while,

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Oh, Covid jail

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and, and teaching remotely.

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Tell us about how Kind

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of helped you

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transition into a new
phase of your business?

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Amy M: Sure.

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Uh, when Covid hit, I shut

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down.

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Uh, Daisy Pops for two
weeks was like, well, it's

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been a fun experiment, but

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it's probably done for,

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because people who are

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worried about their lives

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and their livelihood

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are not going to care about
little, you know, cake on a stick.

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Um, But I was actually wrong.

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Um, because Cake Pops turned out

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to be a great way for

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people to

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bring a little joy into their lives, like
in such dark times, dark, scary times.

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It was truly just an easy way where
they could pick it up, you know, in

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a contactless way, cuz

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we had

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to pivot and make it happen that way.

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Sure.

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Um,

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they could pick it up, they

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could even send it to people who they

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haven't been.

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able to see.

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Um, a lot of people
did, you know, drive by

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birthday parties

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where people would drive by their
houses, they'd hand them out, cake pops.

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So it kind of took the
traditional cake with candles on.

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It,

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made it individualized and covid safe.

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Um, and so

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yeah,

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they just got

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really popular, if

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you will, during those deep covid times.

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Tim Sweet: You're really

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good at the dad

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jokes.

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I know you build this into
your brand, it's so, so fun.

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Uh, so

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we'll talk more about

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that

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in

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a minute,

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I'm sure.

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But

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I

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mean, I think

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it's so interesting.

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A problem like Covid

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really created opportunity

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for you

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and a journey of discovery, of

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nuances of

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need that

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people had, and you were able to quickly.

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Meet that need and meet that demand.

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Amy M: Yeah, it was, uh,
I always, you know, think

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of the word just pivot, pivot,

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pivot, which, uh, can sometimes be

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negative.

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But in our case it was, it was all,

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all positive during
covid, all the pivoting

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that we had to do.

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And it was nice cuz I felt like it was
low stakes pivoting for me at the time.

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Yeah.

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Cuz

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this wasn't my,

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my all, you know, I still was
teaching full-time, you know.

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You know, people didn't

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like cake pops anymore.

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Like, so be it.

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But it was nice because
I felt like I was a

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little

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more free at the time to make decisions

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and to

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not, you know, really worry too
much about like, well, what if it

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doesn't work or what, what

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will happen?

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But I could just make

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the decisions and roll with

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it.

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Tim Sweet: Wow.

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So your

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business started to grow.

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It did.

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Right.

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Covid gave you an opportunity

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to build this home based business

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and to

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take

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it to a new level.

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Yeah.

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Even though that's

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strategically not what you were aiming.

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Amy M: Hmm.

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Right, Right.

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Yeah.

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Not at all.

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Uh, I often say that

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without Covid, I would still be happily

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teaching in the math classroom right

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now and maybe still doing cake pops

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on

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the side.

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Maybe not.

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And you

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love

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teaching?

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Tim Sweet: I love teaching, yeah.

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And

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you love students?

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Mm-hmm.

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and in

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fact, I, I think I see the heart of a

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teacher embedded

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in this business.

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Would you Would you say

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that's

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Amy M: true?

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Yeah, I, I

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would agree.

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There are a lot of
parallels to teaching and

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running a business

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like cake flopping anyways,
that I hadn't really expected.

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But it's been really fun to discover
that overlap and see how my skills

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that I used in the classroom can
actually be used in a business as well.

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Tim Sweet: I, Here's

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an interesting, there's two

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part question.

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One, what do you love most
the cake pop business?

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Mm-hmm.

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.And what do your customers love the

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most about it?

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I'd be interested to
know how you think about

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that.

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Amy M: Sure.

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Um, I love

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the most people, Whenever people,

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people ask me what's

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my

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favorite part, I always

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say people,

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um, you know,

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whether it's my, my

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coworkers, I get to work with the other
businesses that we collaborate with.

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Um, the business owners

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that have True friends of
mine throughout this process.

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And of course the customers, the people
who come every week to our Saturday

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farmer's markets and say, Our kids

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talk all

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week about this.

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This is how we

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get them to the farmer's market, cuz

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they know they're going
to get a daisy pop.

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Tim Sweet: Wow.

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So that works quite nicely

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together.

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Amy M: It does, yes.

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Which

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then leads into part two of your question
is what do the customers like, Yeah.

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eating them?

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Of course.

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Sure.

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I would say.

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Um,

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but we always try

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to make it more than

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just

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eating a cake pop.

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We try to give them an experience.

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So not only are you getting a

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tasty treat, but

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you're also like getting more, you're
gaining more joy and more happiness

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because of it.

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Um, so for instance, a

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couple of

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the things that we do

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at our markets

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is when people come up, they have

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a little trail of cake pops
on the ground, which happened.

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Uh,  during covid

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to be social distancers,
but now they, they've stuck

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around.

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So

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Tim Sweet: these were
markers six feet apart

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for social

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distancing.

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Amy M: Yeah,

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exactly.

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Yep.

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But

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now it's like

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candy land.

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The kids

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see the trail of cake pops,

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They like hop on them
and it's a good time.

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So that's one thing.

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Another fun thing is
we have a vending bike

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that we bring to our events.

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And after somebody buys a

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cake pop, I always say,

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Okay, I'm gonna bring the bell.

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You're

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gonna yell cake.

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And so I

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ring the bell, they yell cake pops.

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Um, you know, it's a fun thing.

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It makes more noise too.

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Sure.

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So people know about us,

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but the best thing is I've gotten
so many messages from customers

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and videos

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of their little kids at a
playground or playing with their

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own toys.

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And if there's

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a bell there, they ring the bell and

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then they yell cake pops, which I love.

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Tim Sweet: Oh my gosh, that's,

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that sounds

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like so much

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fun.

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sounds like a,

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brand

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that connects with people of

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all ages.

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Do and

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you say you have

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a lot of stakeholders, right?

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Mm-hmm.

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, 
a lot of

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different kinds of people who
are interested in your business.

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, but kids are a very
important part of that.

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They

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Amy M: tell us

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a little bit about that.

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Yeah.

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Kids, I feel like they're, they're the
ones who really started like driving the

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business and they still, they still do

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um, Kids parties, activities.

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We

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do make your own cake pop workshops, which

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kids come to and love doing.

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Um, even at Marcus, you know,
seeing the kids like their

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eyes

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lighting up

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when they see us and then dragging

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their parents over.

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Um, But yeah, kids drive a lot, which
is just so fun because kids are so

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pure and innocent and just seeing the

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joy and like that they're, the

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light

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in their eyes when they finally
get the cake pop that they've

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been waiting for is truly

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a gift.

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Tim Sweet: And that,

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that joy that you talk about,

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that's

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really at the heart

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of it, isn't it?

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that just

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joyful moment when somebody sees

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this very colorful cake pop
and you make them in so many

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different creative designs.

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Mm-hmm.

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to, to eat it to.

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enjoy it.

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And There's something very wholesome about

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Amy M: that.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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On our, uh, like our

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tagline

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is a little

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pop of

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joy

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because it's a pop and then it's also joy.

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And combining the two of them is great

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and successful

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Tim Sweet: If,

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if Covid

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taught us anything, it's that we

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need a lot more of

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that kind of experience

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in our lives.

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Exactly, Yes.

00:14:18.226 --> 00:14:18.466
Yeah.

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Taking a, a brief moment and appreciating.

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Um, what

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we've been given.

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Amy M: Right.

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And the nice thing

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too,

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and the great thing is that
people have discovered that

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they can get joy

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by giving cake pops, which
has become a big part.

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So people will buy cake pops to gift to
people, and then they're, I like to call

00:14:34.816 --> 00:14:37.276
it spreading pops sensitivity . Um, so.

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so they're just

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continuing to spread the cake, pop joy,

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And it's nice when it's
even a few steps beyond

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me, so like I'm, you know,
responsible for making that

00:14:45.751 --> 00:14:46.411
first step.

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Introducing

00:14:47.326 --> 00:14:49.951
those people to Cake Pops,
and then they do the work

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for themselves

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after that.

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So

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Tim Sweet: it, you, you've got built

00:14:53.286 --> 00:14:54.061
right into it,

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a kind of a shareable kind of

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element,

00:14:57.691 --> 00:14:58.081
trait.

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Mm-hmm.

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, you, you taste this, you eat
it, you experience it, and

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you're like, What can I do with

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this, right?

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How can I impact somebody's life?

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What kind of joy

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can I bring to somebody else?

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And then you don't have

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to talk about that.

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It just happens.

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It does.

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And your, your biggest
season of the year is

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what?

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Amy M: The holidays.

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though, Chris Christmas, woo.

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We do a lot of cake pops and those

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couple months leading up to the holidays.

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Tim Sweet: So,

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um, tell

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us a little bit about

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some of

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the design, because I mean, The
the design work here I think is,

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is

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just so fun

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and so

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fitting for the brand itself.

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But that's a big part

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of your,

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your business, right?

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The design

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elements.

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Mm-hmm.

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, how

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do you think about that?

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Say with,

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um, for

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example, with Christmas,

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how do you

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think about

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creating pops that meet the

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specific needs of Customers.

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Amy M: Sure.

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Yeah.

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We already

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have our, our Christmas pop prototypes.

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They've been done

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for a couple weeks.

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We have the photos edited,
they're up on the website,

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which we have to do and
you know, months early.

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Sure.

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Um, because we have to
get those out there.

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And so my, my best friend who is

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currently a pop artist with

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me, and fun fact, we also
taught together, she was also

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a math teacher.

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Wow.

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So now we get to work together again in
a different environment, which is great.

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But the two

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of us are usually working
together on designing the

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holiday.

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pops.

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So for Christmas specifically, we

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always try to hit kind
of three, three genres.

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We have our

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holiday stocked pops is

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what we

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call them.

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cuz they're always in stock

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so people don't need to give us

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much notice.

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And those are fun flavors like
hot cocoa, sneaker doodle.

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Um, there's a few like peppermint bark

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and another one in there.

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Um, so that's one of them.

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And then another one is the

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Christmas set.

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So very santa oriented.

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Sure.

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Um, you know, gifts, red green.

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and

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then we started doing a

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winter

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set as well.

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For the people that don't necessarily

00:16:46.406 --> 00:16:48.986
celebrate Christmas or don't
want, you know, you know,

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Christmas things, they just want

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a cute little winter
snowflake, snowmans that.

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Sure.

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Tim Sweet: So have you sold those
in the past or are these new designs

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coming up here for this coming

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Amy M: Christmas season?

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last year was the

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first year that we did all three
different types of those, but

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every year it's new design,

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so we, we use maybe a couple of the

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same ones and then try

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to revamp the

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others, just so

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it's

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always changing, always a new little
thing for our customers coming up.

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Tim Sweet: I see

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innovation

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really being at the heart of your business

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as well.

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I mean, cake is nothing.

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cake pops aren't

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really anything new,

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but

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you're always putting a new twist

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on this product.

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And

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a, and not only the product,
but the business model as well.

00:17:33.131 --> 00:17:33.651
Mm-hmm.

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new

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things are always happening.

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So

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who, who designs these?

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I mean,

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you,

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you don't think

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of yourself as a designer necessarily, but

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there are people

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doing this design.

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Amy M: Yes.

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Yeah.

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There are

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people doing the

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design work.

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So I have a

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whole,

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a whole team of pop artists who's

00:17:47.976 --> 00:17:49.261
doing the pop design.

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Um, and it's, we have about

00:17:51.521 --> 00:17:52.951
17 or 18 of us now, and

00:17:52.951 --> 00:17:54.751
it's great to just have trusted people

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around to have great minds.

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I run ideas by them.

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Oftentimes, they'll come
to me with ideas Sure.

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And say, Amy,

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like, What if

00:18:00.931 --> 00:18:01.711
we do this?

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And more

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often than not, I'm like, Oh,

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why did I not think

00:18:04.111 --> 00:18:04.471
of that?

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That's.

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Tim Sweet: So

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it's very creative kind of

00:18:07.951 --> 00:18:08.981
environment that you Yes.

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And you've built

00:18:09.227 --> 00:18:10.231
some community, right?

00:18:10.231 --> 00:18:10.471
Right.

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Amy M: Mm-hmm.

00:18:11.197 --> 00:18:11.501
. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Lots of community.

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And

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then on the other side

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of the design, the part that I don't

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feel very,

00:18:17.131 --> 00:18:18.001
qualified in,

00:18:18.211 --> 00:18:18.511
um,

00:18:18.516 --> 00:18:20.731
like our branding, uh, my husband,

00:18:21.031 --> 00:18:23.311
as you already mentioned,
is a design professor and

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owns.

00:18:23.986 --> 00:18:26.056
Um, His own design business
called each and every,

00:18:26.296 --> 00:18:27.106
and, uh, they

00:18:27.106 --> 00:18:31.696
have been crucial in our
branding and really our voice.

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I feel like I'm the voice, but

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they're the ones

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who make the voice look good.

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Yeah.

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You know, like who

00:18:36.226 --> 00:18:39.976
make every, all of our pictures look
great, who come up with the brochures.

00:18:40.276 --> 00:18:42.706
Um, so I've been so grateful
and I've really grown to

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appreciate the work that they.

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Tim Sweet: If people

00:18:45.181 --> 00:18:49.531
wanted to follow you on Instagram
or go to your website, how would you

00:18:49.531 --> 00:18:50.101
Amy M: direct them?

00:18:50.251 --> 00:18:50.641
Yes.

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Uh,

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Instagram, it's at daisy pops

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underscore

00:18:53.281 --> 00:18:54.121
cake pops.

00:18:54.361 --> 00:18:57.601
Uh, we, we love social media,
so we love meeting new pop pals

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on there.

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And then our

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website is www.daisypops.com.

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Tim Sweet: Yeah, I, I love the brand.

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So tell us a little

00:19:05.186 --> 00:19:06.446
bit about how that started.

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Cause I think that's kind of a fun

00:19:08.306 --> 00:19:08.996
element too.

00:19:08.996 --> 00:19:09.836
Da daisy

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pops.

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Where did this

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Amy M: come from?

00:19:11.396 --> 00:19:11.696
Sure.

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Well, when

00:19:11.966 --> 00:19:12.116
we

00:19:12.121 --> 00:19:12.686
started

00:19:12.836 --> 00:19:15.686
the business, way back when,
I asked my oldest son Peter, I

00:19:15.686 --> 00:19:17.576
said, Peter, what if
we name it Petie Pops?

00:19:17.581 --> 00:19:18.386
He was like, Na.

00:19:18.716 --> 00:19:19.376
So I just skipped

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Charlie, our middle child of
course, and went straight to Daisy.

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Cuz

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at the

00:19:23.051 --> 00:19:24.296
time one of her nicknames was Daisy

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So we actually started.

00:19:26.071 --> 00:19:29.041
off The business as daisy
cakes, which makes sense.

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Daisy's the

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only girl.

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She has an object name.

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Sure.

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It's very cute.

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Yeah.

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Um, so yeah, so

00:19:33.721 --> 00:19:34.171
Daisy,

00:19:34.351 --> 00:19:37.411
sometimes it gets to her head that
she has a business named after her.

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I

00:19:37.801 --> 00:19:37.861
see.

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Yes.

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And

00:19:38.671 --> 00:19:38.881
Tim Sweet: like

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a,

00:19:38.946 --> 00:19:39.721
like a little flower.

00:19:40.081 --> 00:19:40.621
Right, right.

00:19:40.626 --> 00:19:40.681
Mm-hmm.

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Amy M: It's A little

00:19:41.121 --> 00:19:41.441
edible flower.

00:19:41.841 --> 00:19:42.381
Yes.

00:19:42.411 --> 00:19:44.871
Uh, so she definitely takes
ownership of it sometimes too

00:19:44.871 --> 00:19:45.351
Tim Sweet: much.

00:19:45.356 --> 00:19:45.851
That's,

00:19:45.856 --> 00:19:46.161
that's great.

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So the whole family's involved in

00:19:47.781 --> 00:19:47.871
the

00:19:47.871 --> 00:19:48.441
Amy M: business?

00:19:48.471 --> 00:19:49.851
Yeah, it, they really are.

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People often ask like,

00:19:50.631 --> 00:19:51.411
Oh, does, you know, does

00:19:51.411 --> 00:19:52.131
your husband, you know,

00:19:52.131 --> 00:19:52.671
do this with you?

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I'm like, Well, no.

00:19:53.511 --> 00:19:55.191
Like I, I am the only owner.

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But I

00:19:55.611 --> 00:19:55.911
would say

00:19:55.916 --> 00:19:57.296
Nate is, um,

00:19:57.356 --> 00:19:57.686
a.

00:19:57.776 --> 00:20:01.586
Huge part of just the ideas
that the talking me down

00:20:01.586 --> 00:20:03.716
from when something goes
wrong and I wanna, you

00:20:03.716 --> 00:20:05.396
know, be angry about it.

00:20:05.786 --> 00:20:08.696
Um, a he's run his own business
for way longer than me, so

00:20:08.726 --> 00:20:09.536
he is

00:20:09.536 --> 00:20:10.526
just an invaluable

00:20:10.526 --> 00:20:11.486
asset to me.

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Um, just

00:20:12.326 --> 00:20:14.846
full of wisdom and I'm
so grateful for that.

00:20:15.056 --> 00:20:15.356
And the

00:20:15.356 --> 00:20:18.956
kids are getting older now, so they are
actually helping me so the boys can run

00:20:18.956 --> 00:20:21.401
the cash register when we're at markets.

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Um, so

00:20:21.731 --> 00:20:22.361
I really love

00:20:22.361 --> 00:20:22.571
when they

00:20:22.571 --> 00:20:23.321
get to come.

00:20:23.531 --> 00:20:24.071
Daisy isn't

00:20:24.101 --> 00:20:24.701
quite good

00:20:24.701 --> 00:20:27.461
enough at that yet, but
she comes to pop workshops

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and top parties

00:20:28.241 --> 00:20:28.781
with me

00:20:28.991 --> 00:20:29.411
because she

00:20:29.416 --> 00:20:30.851
knows how to make cake pops

00:20:31.421 --> 00:20:33.041
so she can help me like teach other people

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how to

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do

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Tim Sweet: it.

00:20:34.036 --> 00:20:34.456
Wow.

00:20:34.876 --> 00:20:35.626
So that's

00:20:35.626 --> 00:20:36.426
kind of interesting.

00:20:36.426 --> 00:20:36.427
You're

00:20:36.786 --> 00:20:38.866
teaching your kids
entrepreneurship on the fly.

00:20:39.136 --> 00:20:39.376
Amy M: Yeah.

00:20:39.376 --> 00:20:42.706
They, they see a lot from, from
both me and Nate about running

00:20:42.706 --> 00:20:43.576
your own business.

00:20:43.906 --> 00:20:44.056
Tim Sweet: Well,

00:20:44.061 --> 00:20:45.496
that, that's gotta bring you joy

00:20:45.501 --> 00:20:45.976
Amy M: as well.

00:20:46.246 --> 00:20:46.396
It

00:20:46.396 --> 00:20:46.726
does.

00:20:46.726 --> 00:20:47.896
I, one thing about I

00:20:47.896 --> 00:20:49.276
was really sad about not teaching was

00:20:49.276 --> 00:20:51.586
I was so looking forward
to teaching my own kids.

00:20:51.591 --> 00:20:52.876
Like, oh, I would love to have

00:20:52.876 --> 00:20:54.256
them, you know, in honors Algebra

00:20:54.256 --> 00:20:55.516
two and AP Stats.

00:20:55.816 --> 00:20:55.996
Um,

00:20:55.996 --> 00:20:57.046
so that was a little bit of a

00:20:57.046 --> 00:20:57.466
tough pill

00:20:57.471 --> 00:20:57.586
for

00:20:57.586 --> 00:20:58.336
me to swallow when I

00:20:58.336 --> 00:20:58.786
decided

00:20:58.786 --> 00:20:59.086
to not

00:20:59.086 --> 00:20:59.836
teach anymore.

00:20:59.926 --> 00:21:00.016
Mm-hmm.

00:21:00.256 --> 00:21:03.016
. Um, but just what you said is
I'm still still teaching them.

00:21:03.301 --> 00:21:04.981
Right now, you know, at a younger age.

00:21:05.311 --> 00:21:05.821
Um, so,

00:21:05.821 --> 00:21:06.931
you know, even if it's, you

00:21:06.931 --> 00:21:08.671
know, little things, like my oldest will

00:21:08.671 --> 00:21:12.661
see me, you know, upselling people, like
when they buy three cake pops at a market,

00:21:12.661 --> 00:21:13.441
I say, Well, at that

00:21:13.441 --> 00:21:14.281
rate you might as well get

00:21:14.281 --> 00:21:14.311
a

00:21:14.311 --> 00:21:15.691
six pack because your six

00:21:15.696 --> 00:21:17.431
one is free and you get a cute little box

00:21:17.791 --> 00:21:18.211
Um, so,

00:21:18.301 --> 00:21:20.371
I know, he's seeing those
things and I can tell like he's,

00:21:20.491 --> 00:21:21.841
he's learning from them, which

00:21:21.841 --> 00:21:23.311
I hope that, you know, eventually

00:21:23.461 --> 00:21:23.851
the boys

00:21:23.851 --> 00:21:23.971
can

00:21:23.971 --> 00:21:25.711
go out and like do markets on their own.

00:21:25.981 --> 00:21:26.551
Um, I would love

00:21:26.551 --> 00:21:26.911
for them

00:21:26.911 --> 00:21:27.151
to have

00:21:27.151 --> 00:21:28.561
their summer, winter, all the

00:21:28.561 --> 00:21:29.251
time jobs, you

00:21:29.251 --> 00:21:30.931
know, set with Daisy pops when they're

00:21:30.931 --> 00:21:31.291
Tim Sweet: older.

00:21:31.381 --> 00:21:31.861
Right.

00:21:32.501 --> 00:21:34.361
So, you know, the business has,

00:21:34.421 --> 00:21:39.341
has grown and you, you know, you are
always making new packaging decisions and

00:21:39.941 --> 00:21:41.681
doing some amazing things.

00:21:41.771 --> 00:21:44.212
Getting pops into the hands
of people and introducing your

00:21:44.217 --> 00:21:45.401
brand and your product.

00:21:45.431 --> 00:21:45.521
Mm-hmm.

00:21:45.911 --> 00:21:46.421
to people.

00:21:46.421 --> 00:21:47.231
This, this

00:21:47.231 --> 00:21:49.061
what we have here on the, on the, uh,

00:21:49.541 --> 00:21:50.111
table here.

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This is a, a little, Do you

00:21:51.351 --> 00:21:51.591
call that

00:21:51.591 --> 00:21:53.001
a pop pack or what do you call that?

00:21:53.211 --> 00:21:53.511
Amy M: Yeah, A

00:21:53.511 --> 00:21:54.171
little pop pack.

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I like that.

00:21:54.821 --> 00:21:55.141
Mm-hmm.

00:21:55.371 --> 00:21:55.611
. 
Yeah.

00:21:55.611 --> 00:21:57.831
This is the, I always carry cake.

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Pops around with me.

00:21:58.971 --> 00:21:59.031
Yeah.

00:21:59.031 --> 00:21:59.301
People.

00:21:59.301 --> 00:22:03.321
like Joke and say that I'm like Mary
Poppins, you know, the never funding bag

00:22:03.321 --> 00:22:04.671
of, uh, of Cake pops.

00:22:04.941 --> 00:22:05.811
Uh, which is true,

00:22:05.811 --> 00:22:07.701
but I found that, especially when I'm at,

00:22:07.941 --> 00:22:09.711
um, you know, like networking events or,

00:22:09.711 --> 00:22:10.731
you know, if I'm going to

00:22:10.731 --> 00:22:12.351
meet people, um, that don't

00:22:12.351 --> 00:22:13.491
really know about cake pops,

00:22:13.731 --> 00:22:14.721
like I don't really want

00:22:14.721 --> 00:22:15.321
to get into a

00:22:15.321 --> 00:22:16.341
discussion necessarily.

00:22:16.341 --> 00:22:16.822
I mean, I

00:22:16.827 --> 00:22:16.971
would

00:22:16.971 --> 00:22:19.371
like to get into a pop
discussion, Not everybody

00:22:19.371 --> 00:22:22.671
wants to hear about the whole
history of cake pops and Daisy pops.

00:22:22.971 --> 00:22:23.451
But if

00:22:23.451 --> 00:22:23.721
I just

00:22:23.721 --> 00:22:24.291
give them cake

00:22:24.296 --> 00:22:25.372
pops and their interest is

00:22:25.377 --> 00:22:26.751
immediately, you

00:22:26.751 --> 00:22:28.041
know, on the cake pops,

00:22:28.051 --> 00:22:28.531
sure.

00:22:28.536 --> 00:22:32.151
And even if they never order like then
I brought them more joy that day And

00:22:32.151 --> 00:22:32.781
Tim Sweet: success.

00:22:32.931 --> 00:22:33.381
That's

00:22:33.471 --> 00:22:34.041
awesome.

00:22:34.041 --> 00:22:38.571
So, I mean, obviously it's, it's something
that consumers have really responded

00:22:38.571 --> 00:22:38.931
to,

00:22:39.441 --> 00:22:39.891
uh, as

00:22:39.891 --> 00:22:41.751
you've started your business, you've done

00:22:41.871 --> 00:22:45.561
markets, you've done parties,
you've, you've provided all kinds

00:22:45.561 --> 00:22:45.921
of

00:22:46.491 --> 00:22:48.411
Cape Pop experiences to people in

00:22:48.691 --> 00:22:50.121
a lot of different contexts,

00:22:50.601 --> 00:22:50.871
but.

00:22:50.961 --> 00:22:51.171
The

00:22:51.571 --> 00:22:52.731
business has really grown.

00:22:52.731 --> 00:22:55.611
And you, you have kind of
a fun, mathematical way of

00:22:55.971 --> 00:22:56.691
measuring that,

00:22:56.691 --> 00:22:57.141
don't you?

00:22:57.351 --> 00:22:58.491
Amy M: I do, yes.

00:22:58.491 --> 00:22:59.451
We, uh, we have

00:22:59.451 --> 00:23:02.571
something called the pop
counter, uh, which it's

00:23:02.571 --> 00:23:02.751
my

00:23:02.751 --> 00:23:04.846
way of still doing math

00:23:04.851 --> 00:23:06.286
and forcing other people to do math.

00:23:06.316 --> 00:23:08.026
So this pop counter is your,

00:23:08.056 --> 00:23:09.736
like elementary school, you

00:23:09.736 --> 00:23:10.066
know, like

00:23:10.066 --> 00:23:11.986
flip place, value, flip chart.

00:23:12.166 --> 00:23:13.096
And so we have it

00:23:13.101 --> 00:23:13.276
out

00:23:13.276 --> 00:23:13.786
at our event.

00:23:13.786 --> 00:23:16.246
So if somebody buys six
cake pops, they have to add.

00:23:16.246 --> 00:23:17.056
six To the

00:23:17.056 --> 00:23:17.776
pop counter.

00:23:18.166 --> 00:23:18.316
Gotcha.

00:23:18.616 --> 00:23:18.826
Yeah.

00:23:18.826 --> 00:23:19.486
So some people

00:23:19.486 --> 00:23:20.116
like roll their

00:23:20.116 --> 00:23:22.006
eyes and like, well,
hey, I'm a former math

00:23:22.036 --> 00:23:23.506
teacher, so you just have to do it

00:23:24.231 --> 00:23:25.426
. 
Um, but, uh,

00:23:25.486 --> 00:23:25.936
most people

00:23:25.936 --> 00:23:28.186
really enjoy, and it also
gives them some ownership.

00:23:28.216 --> 00:23:28.426
They're like,

00:23:28.426 --> 00:23:28.606
Oh,

00:23:28.606 --> 00:23:30.796
like they've sold, you know,
however many cake pops this

00:23:30.796 --> 00:23:31.066
year?

00:23:31.066 --> 00:23:33.321
And I'm six, you know, 50 of them.

00:23:33.326 --> 00:23:34.311
They're, they're part of that journey.

00:23:34.311 --> 00:23:34.851
Exactly.

00:23:35.001 --> 00:23:35.301
Right.

00:23:35.511 --> 00:23:35.991
Yes.

00:23:36.321 --> 00:23:36.561
Um,

00:23:36.561 --> 00:23:39.621
and so the pop counter has
gone, gone up over the years.

00:23:39.921 --> 00:23:40.371
Um, so that,

00:23:40.561 --> 00:23:41.081
where did you

00:23:41.086 --> 00:23:44.271
Tim Sweet: start in terms of
like, numbers that made you think.

00:23:45.076 --> 00:23:47.056
Oh, there's something to this.

00:23:47.056 --> 00:23:47.236
Amy M: Mm-hmm.

00:23:47.986 --> 00:23:48.316
, right?

00:23:48.376 --> 00:23:49.366
Uh, in

00:23:49.426 --> 00:23:52.576
2018, we, the pop counter hit 13,000,

00:23:52.576 --> 00:23:53.716
which I was blown away by.

00:23:53.716 --> 00:23:54.526
I'm like, Oh my goodness.

00:23:54.526 --> 00:23:56.266
Over a thousand cake pops a month.

00:23:56.266 --> 00:23:57.586
Like, that's crazy.

00:23:57.916 --> 00:23:58.456
Um, and

00:23:58.456 --> 00:23:59.686
it has grown

00:23:59.776 --> 00:24:00.586
over the years.

00:24:00.591 --> 00:24:02.656
So last year in 2021, we

00:24:02.656 --> 00:24:04.456
hit 113,000.

00:24:04.456 --> 00:24:05.586
So just increase

00:24:05.591 --> 00:24:06.046
that first year

00:24:06.046 --> 00:24:06.196
number.

00:24:06.196 --> 00:24:07.186
this is year, year two.

00:24:07.531 --> 00:24:08.121
Year three.

00:24:08.151 --> 00:24:09.341
Uh, that was year four

00:24:09.541 --> 00:24:09.661
actually.

00:24:09.661 --> 00:24:09.901
Year four.

00:24:09.901 --> 00:24:10.101
I skipped

00:24:10.101 --> 00:24:10.521
a few years

00:24:10.521 --> 00:24:11.061
in between.

00:24:11.066 --> 00:24:12.321
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And

00:24:12.351 --> 00:24:12.981
uh, this year

00:24:12.986 --> 00:24:16.461
we're already at a hundred K cake pops,
and we haven't even hit the holidays yet.

00:24:16.491 --> 00:24:17.001
Tim Sweet: Wow.

00:24:17.061 --> 00:24:17.331
Mm-hmm.

00:24:17.451 --> 00:24:17.751
Wow.

00:24:17.756 --> 00:24:22.341
Now, do you do is when somebody
turns over like an important number?

00:24:22.866 --> 00:24:23.496
Do you do something

00:24:23.496 --> 00:24:24.006
special?

00:24:24.096 --> 00:24:24.966
Amy M: Oh, we do.

00:24:24.966 --> 00:24:25.266
Yes.

00:24:25.266 --> 00:24:26.046
That's really fun.

00:24:26.166 --> 00:24:27.336
If somebody flips it to the next

00:24:27.336 --> 00:24:27.786
a hundred Sure.

00:24:27.786 --> 00:24:28.116
They get a

00:24:28.116 --> 00:24:28.956
free cake pop.

00:24:29.196 --> 00:24:29.976
If somebody flips it

00:24:29.976 --> 00:24:30.276
to the

00:24:30.276 --> 00:24:32.526
next a thousand, they get a free,

00:24:32.526 --> 00:24:32.736
like

00:24:32.736 --> 00:24:34.176
six pack of cake pops.

00:24:34.176 --> 00:24:34.336
Sure.

00:24:34.356 --> 00:24:34.896
If somebody does

00:24:34.896 --> 00:24:37.146
the next 10,000, they get a free dozen.

00:24:37.626 --> 00:24:38.166
Um, so

00:24:38.166 --> 00:24:39.126
yeah, and it's always a fun

00:24:39.126 --> 00:24:40.026
thing, like people

00:24:40.326 --> 00:24:41.166
when they get to like

00:24:41.171 --> 00:24:42.006
flip it and they get a free

00:24:42.006 --> 00:24:44.376
cake pop, oftentimes they'll be
like, Oh my gosh, we actually

00:24:44.381 --> 00:24:45.516
got to do this last year.

00:24:45.516 --> 00:24:47.136
So it's something that they remember.

00:24:47.346 --> 00:24:47.436
Mm-hmm.

00:24:47.676 --> 00:24:47.736
,Um,

00:24:47.736 --> 00:24:48.216
and you know,

00:24:48.216 --> 00:24:49.506
it's just a little fun extra.

00:24:49.506 --> 00:24:49.686
thing.

00:24:50.721 --> 00:24:52.881
Tim Sweet: I, I've ordered
these and used them for

00:24:52.881 --> 00:24:53.511
events, like

00:24:53.511 --> 00:24:57.351
when we have student, uh, recruiting
events here at, at the college,

00:24:57.351 --> 00:24:59.091
and people just, they light up.

00:24:59.511 --> 00:24:59.631
Mm-hmm.

00:24:59.931 --> 00:25:00.291
, I mean,

00:25:00.296 --> 00:25:03.141
it, it, it's, it's an amazing,

00:25:03.261 --> 00:25:04.971
uh, bright spot in their.

00:25:05.506 --> 00:25:06.646
In their day, no matter

00:25:06.646 --> 00:25:10.126
what's happening, and it
doesn't matter, you know what's

00:25:10.126 --> 00:25:12.586
happened before or where
they're going, they're

00:25:12.586 --> 00:25:15.286
willing to stop and pay
attention to cake Pops

00:25:15.646 --> 00:25:16.996
take, take a bite, have a

00:25:17.001 --> 00:25:17.866
little bit of joy

00:25:18.316 --> 00:25:19.636
and start a conversation.

00:25:19.696 --> 00:25:20.386
Amy M: Yeah, I was gonna say,

00:25:20.386 --> 00:25:22.066
they are great conversation starters.

00:25:22.071 --> 00:25:22.786
Like sometimes if.

00:25:22.976 --> 00:25:23.846
There's, you know, a

00:25:23.846 --> 00:25:26.126
conversation like, I mean,
for instance, like when you're

00:25:26.126 --> 00:25:27.056
trying to recruit

00:25:27.056 --> 00:25:29.126
students essentially, or
like get them to come over

00:25:29.126 --> 00:25:29.486
to you.

00:25:29.606 --> 00:25:29.696
Sure.

00:25:29.696 --> 00:25:30.746
Sometimes like, it can be like

00:25:30.746 --> 00:25:31.826
a little awkward and like

00:25:31.831 --> 00:25:32.336
pushy

00:25:32.336 --> 00:25:32.636
if you're like,

00:25:32.636 --> 00:25:32.876
Hey,

00:25:32.876 --> 00:25:33.266
like, come

00:25:33.271 --> 00:25:33.926
over here, like,

00:25:33.926 --> 00:25:35.636
let me talk your year off about this.

00:25:35.666 --> 00:25:35.726
Yeah.

00:25:35.966 --> 00:25:36.446
Uh, but

00:25:36.476 --> 00:25:39.206
if you offer cake pops, then
automatically it makes it

00:25:39.206 --> 00:25:40.316
easier for them to come

00:25:40.316 --> 00:25:41.396
into your little area.

00:25:41.486 --> 00:25:44.066
And then also, like, it can
start a conversation, even

00:25:44.066 --> 00:25:46.196
if it's not necessarily
about what you're trying to,

00:25:46.256 --> 00:25:46.976
you know, sell or

00:25:46.976 --> 00:25:47.606
promote to them.

00:25:47.776 --> 00:25:48.056
Right.

00:25:48.061 --> 00:25:50.456
But you can talk about cake pops
and like your favorite flavors,

00:25:50.456 --> 00:25:51.446
which then can lead into

00:25:51.446 --> 00:25:51.626
other

00:25:51.816 --> 00:25:52.136
convers.

00:25:52.786 --> 00:25:52.966
Yeah,

00:25:52.996 --> 00:25:53.566
Tim Sweet: let's just

00:25:53.656 --> 00:25:55.846
cha chat and get to know
you and move forward.

00:25:55.846 --> 00:25:56.686
So for that

00:25:56.686 --> 00:25:57.256
reason,

00:25:57.856 --> 00:25:58.426
I I see

00:25:58.426 --> 00:26:00.286
a lot of business potential here,

00:26:00.406 --> 00:26:00.796
right?

00:26:01.006 --> 00:26:01.486
It's one thing

00:26:01.486 --> 00:26:04.546
to sell to consumers,
which is fantastic, but

00:26:04.726 --> 00:26:06.136
the B2B space is

00:26:06.141 --> 00:26:07.636
also something that's been evolving

00:26:07.641 --> 00:26:08.086
for you, is

00:26:08.086 --> 00:26:08.506
Amy M: that right?

00:26:08.746 --> 00:26:09.136
Yes.

00:26:09.136 --> 00:26:09.376
Yeah.

00:26:09.376 --> 00:26:10.156
We've been doing

00:26:10.156 --> 00:26:12.436
more business to business
and a lot of that

00:26:12.436 --> 00:26:12.766
is due

00:26:12.766 --> 00:26:14.626
to our ability to Edibly print

00:26:14.626 --> 00:26:15.976
logo cake pops.

00:26:16.306 --> 00:26:16.876
So I bought

00:26:16.876 --> 00:26:18.046
an edible printer

00:26:18.376 --> 00:26:18.976
in deep Co.

00:26:18.981 --> 00:26:19.126
It

00:26:19.386 --> 00:26:21.466
as kind of a splurge, like,
I don't know if we're ever

00:26:21.466 --> 00:26:22.606
gonna use this, but

00:26:22.606 --> 00:26:23.296
like, we'll,

00:26:23.356 --> 00:26:24.256
we'll get it now.

00:26:24.261 --> 00:26:24.866
You played a hunch.

00:26:24.896 --> 00:26:25.706
I played a hunch.

00:26:25.711 --> 00:26:26.026
Yes.

00:26:26.026 --> 00:26:26.086
Yeah.

00:26:26.506 --> 00:26:28.396
Um, and so we've developed these logo

00:26:28.396 --> 00:26:29.026
cake pops where

00:26:29.026 --> 00:26:29.416
we print

00:26:29.416 --> 00:26:30.976
out the logos on edible paper.

00:26:31.066 --> 00:26:33.991
We cut them out into
circles, and then Slap

00:26:34.111 --> 00:26:35.331
'
em on the cake pops, put a little,

00:26:35.541 --> 00:26:38.661
um, put some sprinkles
around in the branded colors,

00:26:38.661 --> 00:26:39.381
of course.

00:26:39.471 --> 00:26:40.851
And companies love those.

00:26:40.851 --> 00:26:41.271
So they have

00:26:41.271 --> 00:26:42.651
used them to send out

00:26:42.656 --> 00:26:43.311
as gifts.

00:26:43.311 --> 00:26:43.881
They've used

00:26:43.881 --> 00:26:45.171
them at, uh, like

00:26:45.201 --> 00:26:46.791
conventions and shows they

00:26:46.791 --> 00:26:47.421
go to.

00:26:47.691 --> 00:26:48.231
Um, they use

00:26:48.231 --> 00:26:48.831
them sometimes

00:26:48.831 --> 00:26:49.971
just to, as you

00:26:49.971 --> 00:26:50.061
know,

00:26:50.061 --> 00:26:52.281
in staff meetings to brain up the day

00:26:52.286 --> 00:26:52.881
Tim Sweet: for people.

00:26:53.141 --> 00:26:53.621
Yeah,

00:26:54.161 --> 00:26:55.181
so what kinds

00:26:55.181 --> 00:26:56.291
of companies do you mind?

00:26:56.351 --> 00:26:58.181
You know, maybe talking a little bit about

00:26:58.181 --> 00:27:00.611
some of the companies
you've worked with and how

00:27:00.611 --> 00:27:02.971
they've used Cake Pops in specific

00:27:02.976 --> 00:27:03.521
Amy M: situations.

00:27:03.551 --> 00:27:03.881
Sure.

00:27:03.881 --> 00:27:05.652
I mean, Grove City entrepreneurship and

00:27:05.657 --> 00:27:06.371
innovation.

00:27:06.371 --> 00:27:06.731
I mean,

00:27:06.736 --> 00:27:07.511
you're probably gonna have some

00:27:07.511 --> 00:27:08.321
good students coming

00:27:08.326 --> 00:27:10.121
your way because of having Cake pop.

00:27:10.171 --> 00:27:11.101
That your last event.

00:27:11.481 --> 00:27:11.971
Sure.

00:27:11.976 --> 00:27:14.071
Um, One of my favorite ones is we have a

00:27:14.071 --> 00:27:15.871
minor league baseball team um,

00:27:15.901 --> 00:27:17.401
near Kent called the Akron Rubber

00:27:17.401 --> 00:27:18.031
Ducks, Yeah.

00:27:18.151 --> 00:27:19.531
and so I was at a game.

00:27:19.531 --> 00:27:23.041
last Year and of course had cake
pops, you know, gave them some cake

00:27:23.046 --> 00:27:24.511
pops and then reached out on LinkedIn

00:27:24.511 --> 00:27:25.141
after that

00:27:25.381 --> 00:27:25.981
just saying

00:27:25.986 --> 00:27:28.321
like, Hey, if you're ever interested
in carrying cake pops on your

00:27:28.321 --> 00:27:29.401
dessert menu, you let me know.

00:27:29.611 --> 00:27:30.751
Not thinking they actually would.

00:27:30.811 --> 00:27:31.621
Uh, but they did.

00:27:31.621 --> 00:27:32.311
So this past

00:27:32.311 --> 00:27:33.031
year they carried

00:27:33.031 --> 00:27:34.831
our cake pops in their concession stands.

00:27:35.131 --> 00:27:35.976
They their

00:27:35.976 --> 00:27:36.786
logo pops

00:27:36.906 --> 00:27:37.686
in the suite level

00:27:37.686 --> 00:27:38.316
as well.

00:27:38.556 --> 00:27:39.186
Um, so yeah,

00:27:39.186 --> 00:27:40.446
it was just a great partnership, a

00:27:40.446 --> 00:27:41.766
sweet partnership, if you will.

00:27:41.786 --> 00:27:42.066
Yeah.

00:27:42.066 --> 00:27:42.546
There we go.

00:27:42.546 --> 00:27:44.016
Uhhuh, . Um, so like that's

00:27:44.021 --> 00:27:44.866
one of my favorite,

00:27:44.866 --> 00:27:46.176
See, I could work for you with my last

00:27:46.181 --> 00:27:46.476
name.

00:27:46.566 --> 00:27:46.686
I

00:27:46.686 --> 00:27:47.106
know, right?

00:27:47.106 --> 00:27:47.346
They come

00:27:47.351 --> 00:27:47.646
to work.

00:27:47.646 --> 00:27:47.856
for you.

00:27:48.106 --> 00:27:48.386
Yeah.

00:27:48.391 --> 00:27:48.576
Yes.

00:27:48.906 --> 00:27:49.446
Um, another

00:27:49.446 --> 00:27:52.086
fun little story too
is, um, in Ohio we have

00:27:52.086 --> 00:27:55.206
something called the Akron Marathon,
which is one of the biggest races around,

00:27:55.596 --> 00:28:00.396
and I met the ceo, I went to listen to
her speak and did my homework, and came

00:28:00.396 --> 00:28:01.506
prepared with some of

00:28:01.566 --> 00:28:01.806
the

00:28:01.811 --> 00:28:02.466
logo cake

00:28:02.471 --> 00:28:03.186
pops with the Akron

00:28:03.586 --> 00:28:03.786
Marathon logo

00:28:03.786 --> 00:28:04.146
on it.

00:28:04.511 --> 00:28:05.951
So afterwards I just went up to her.

00:28:05.951 --> 00:28:07.271
I was like, Thanks so much for speaking.

00:28:07.276 --> 00:28:08.111
Here are some cake pops

00:28:08.111 --> 00:28:08.531
for you.

00:28:08.621 --> 00:28:10.331
Like that was, it just, you

00:28:10.331 --> 00:28:11.021
know, came home.

00:28:11.291 --> 00:28:12.191
Then a few days later

00:28:12.191 --> 00:28:13.241
I get a call from her,

00:28:13.601 --> 00:28:14.681
um, saying, Hey,

00:28:14.681 --> 00:28:16.301
like we're having a big 20th

00:28:16.301 --> 00:28:17.711
anniversary celebration for

00:28:17.711 --> 00:28:18.641
the Akron Marathon.

00:28:18.851 --> 00:28:21.731
We were thinking of doing
cookies in our swag bags, but I

00:28:21.731 --> 00:28:23.411
think we need to do cake pops.

00:28:23.471 --> 00:28:23.531
Wow.

00:28:23.591 --> 00:28:23.921
To which

00:28:23.921 --> 00:28:25.031
I said, Yes, you do

00:28:25.751 --> 00:28:27.131
. 
And later that day they placed an

00:28:27.131 --> 00:28:28.511
order for 600 logo.

00:28:28.511 --> 00:28:28.781
cake

00:28:28.781 --> 00:28:29.291
Tim Sweet: pops.

00:28:29.351 --> 00:28:30.761
Wow, fantastic.

00:28:31.196 --> 00:28:33.356
You've, you've worked with sports teams,

00:28:33.356 --> 00:28:35.126
you've worked with corporations,

00:28:35.126 --> 00:28:35.276
you've

00:28:35.276 --> 00:28:35.966
worked for,

00:28:36.506 --> 00:28:36.986
uh, all

00:28:36.986 --> 00:28:37.886
kinds of

00:28:38.096 --> 00:28:40.556
organizations that really want to extend

00:28:40.561 --> 00:28:41.126
their brand.

00:28:41.216 --> 00:28:41.306
Mm-hmm.

00:28:41.816 --> 00:28:43.346
, do you see it as a pretty good branding

00:28:43.351 --> 00:28:43.736
Amy M: tool?

00:28:44.096 --> 00:28:45.476
Uh, yeah, for sure.

00:28:45.476 --> 00:28:48.336
It's a, we've just,
Introduce something called

00:28:48.606 --> 00:28:50.286
QR code cake pops as well.

00:28:50.406 --> 00:28:51.966
So essentially if

00:28:51.966 --> 00:28:53.976
you hand somebody a cake path

00:28:53.976 --> 00:28:54.156
that

00:28:54.156 --> 00:28:55.746
has your logo on the front and a

00:28:55.746 --> 00:28:56.856
QR code that links right

00:28:56.856 --> 00:28:59.046
to your website, or if you're
trying to get people to take

00:28:59.046 --> 00:29:00.726
a survey or something, they

00:29:00.726 --> 00:29:01.206
can just

00:29:01.206 --> 00:29:02.466
scan it on their phones,

00:29:02.856 --> 00:29:03.246
you know,

00:29:03.246 --> 00:29:05.466
do the survey, visit your
website, follow you on

00:29:05.466 --> 00:29:05.946
Instagram,

00:29:05.951 --> 00:29:07.236
whatever you want them to do.

00:29:07.326 --> 00:29:07.506
And

00:29:07.506 --> 00:29:08.466
then once they do that, they

00:29:08.466 --> 00:29:09.396
can eat the cake pop.

00:29:09.756 --> 00:29:10.416
Um, so yeah, it's

00:29:10.706 --> 00:29:11.976
just fun things like that where

00:29:11.976 --> 00:29:12.966
if it just makes

00:29:12.966 --> 00:29:13.476
more of.

00:29:13.786 --> 00:29:15.646
More of an impression on people.

00:29:15.646 --> 00:29:15.766
Mm-hmm.

00:29:16.006 --> 00:29:16.936
, which Kpop do,

00:29:16.996 --> 00:29:18.646
uh, then they'll think more

00:29:18.706 --> 00:29:19.456
highly of your

00:29:19.456 --> 00:29:20.446
brand They'll remember

00:29:20.446 --> 00:29:20.656
you

00:29:20.706 --> 00:29:21.066
Tim Sweet: Sure.

00:29:21.416 --> 00:29:22.106
Kind of a

00:29:22.106 --> 00:29:22.666
sweet connection.

00:29:22.666 --> 00:29:23.666
connection brand.

00:29:23.666 --> 00:29:23.906
Yeah.

00:29:23.906 --> 00:29:24.226
Mm-hmm.

00:29:24.466 --> 00:29:25.846
, 
they just wanna scan

00:29:25.851 --> 00:29:26.146
before

00:29:26.146 --> 00:29:26.476
they eat.

00:29:26.986 --> 00:29:27.916
Amy M: That's, that's the problem.

00:29:27.916 --> 00:29:28.126
That's right.

00:29:28.126 --> 00:29:29.176
So You gotta make sure they do that.

00:29:30.526 --> 00:29:32.746
Tim Sweet: Well, Amy, we're excited
about your business and you're,

00:29:32.806 --> 00:29:33.556
you're

00:29:33.796 --> 00:29:36.436
kind of taking this forward
in a new direction, right?

00:29:36.436 --> 00:29:36.586
There's

00:29:36.876 --> 00:29:36.996
some

00:29:36.996 --> 00:29:39.256
new developments in the Daisy

00:29:39.261 --> 00:29:39.946
Pop story.

00:29:40.126 --> 00:29:40.396
Yes.

00:29:40.396 --> 00:29:40.696
Very

00:29:40.696 --> 00:29:40.876
Amy M: new

00:29:40.881 --> 00:29:41.476
development.

00:29:41.476 --> 00:29:41.986
What's, what's

00:29:41.991 --> 00:29:42.376
Tim Sweet: happening?

00:29:42.381 --> 00:29:43.366
What's on the horizon?

00:29:43.546 --> 00:29:45.676
Amy M: So we've been a home
bakery this whole time.

00:29:46.236 --> 00:29:47.796
Uh, probably outgrown that model a

00:29:47.796 --> 00:29:48.666
couple years ago,

00:29:48.696 --> 00:29:50.826
but, uh, once I decided to.

00:29:50.946 --> 00:29:51.876
Stop teaching.

00:29:52.056 --> 00:29:55.836
Uh, then the conversation began
of, well, do we do a storefront?

00:29:55.836 --> 00:29:56.706
Do we get a commercial

00:29:56.706 --> 00:29:57.066
bakery?

00:29:57.326 --> 00:29:57.606
Mm-hmm.

00:29:57.691 --> 00:29:59.376
because we're running out
of room in our basement.

00:29:59.376 --> 00:29:59.526
Sure.

00:29:59.531 --> 00:30:00.247
Like, there are a lot

00:30:00.252 --> 00:30:01.866
of cake pops and a lot of people.

00:30:02.376 --> 00:30:04.386
Um, and so we have a spot in

00:30:04.416 --> 00:30:05.196
downtown Kent.

00:30:05.196 --> 00:30:08.616
It's .It's actually in the same building
that my husband's design business is in.

00:30:08.616 --> 00:30:10.326
So that'll be very convenient.

00:30:10.626 --> 00:30:10.956
Um, so

00:30:10.956 --> 00:30:12.811
hopefully few months

00:30:12.811 --> 00:30:14.131
we will be moved in.

00:30:14.371 --> 00:30:15.871
Um, it'll be just mostly

00:30:15.871 --> 00:30:16.231
commercial

00:30:16.231 --> 00:30:17.371
bakery, a very

00:30:17.401 --> 00:30:18.181
small store.

00:30:19.291 --> 00:30:19.471
but

00:30:19.471 --> 00:30:23.071
I'm also hoping that it is a place
for community where people can gather

00:30:23.071 --> 00:30:23.431
to do

00:30:23.431 --> 00:30:26.551
cake pop workshops or people can
host their kids' birthday parties.

00:30:26.821 --> 00:30:27.061
Um,

00:30:27.061 --> 00:30:27.631
but just like a

00:30:27.631 --> 00:30:30.361
place where, I mean, as,
as I always say, where,

00:30:30.661 --> 00:30:31.231
you know, joy

00:30:31.231 --> 00:30:35.221
is found and it's found around cake pops
and you're building a community there too.

00:30:35.546 --> 00:30:35.936
Tim Sweet: This is

00:30:35.936 --> 00:30:35.996
an

00:30:35.996 --> 00:30:37.166
exciting time for you.

00:30:37.226 --> 00:30:37.706
It is.

00:30:37.736 --> 00:30:37.946
When do

00:30:38.226 --> 00:30:38.576
you expect to be

00:30:38.576 --> 00:30:38.786
Amy M: into

00:30:38.786 --> 00:30:39.386
the storefront?

00:30:39.536 --> 00:30:40.526
That's a great question.

00:30:40.991 --> 00:30:41.726
. Uh, we

00:30:41.726 --> 00:30:42.776
originally said

00:30:42.776 --> 00:30:44.276
this month, which is laughable.

00:30:44.276 --> 00:30:45.146
Um, so

00:30:45.151 --> 00:30:49.736
I'm hoping the first quarter of
next year, at at some point we,

00:30:49.736 --> 00:30:50.336
we will see.

00:30:50.336 --> 00:30:50.606
But the

00:30:50.606 --> 00:30:51.476
nice thing is,

00:30:51.776 --> 00:30:52.766
is we can still

00:30:52.766 --> 00:30:54.596
make cake pops without being there.

00:30:54.626 --> 00:30:54.986
So Right.

00:30:55.076 --> 00:30:56.786
if it keeps getting pushed back, like a

00:30:56.786 --> 00:30:57.176
little bit

00:30:57.176 --> 00:31:00.866
of a bummer, but it's also
okay cuz it doesn't stop us.

00:31:00.896 --> 00:31:01.436
You'll move all

00:31:01.441 --> 00:31:02.066
Tim Sweet: your production

00:31:02.066 --> 00:31:02.216
over

00:31:02.216 --> 00:31:02.516
there as well?

00:31:02.521 --> 00:31:02.906
Yes.

00:31:03.026 --> 00:31:03.386
Wow.

00:31:04.191 --> 00:31:04.341
Well,

00:31:04.341 --> 00:31:06.231
Exciting, uh, next

00:31:06.236 --> 00:31:07.731
level for your business.

00:31:07.821 --> 00:31:07.911
Yes.

00:31:08.091 --> 00:31:09.831
Can't wait to see what happens.

00:31:09.891 --> 00:31:09.981
Mm-hmm.

00:31:10.396 --> 00:31:13.111
, I, I think that, uh,
you have an interesting

00:31:13.116 --> 00:31:13.311
and,

00:31:14.031 --> 00:31:15.921
um, fun opportunity here.

00:31:15.981 --> 00:31:16.641
Opportunity.

00:31:16.971 --> 00:31:17.811
Opportunity.

00:31:17.901 --> 00:31:18.081
Thank you.

00:31:18.081 --> 00:31:19.461
I, I, I need to get with

00:31:19.461 --> 00:31:20.091
the lingo for

00:31:20.091 --> 00:31:20.511
sure.

00:31:20.511 --> 00:31:22.041
You know, I like a good dad joke.

00:31:22.041 --> 00:31:24.111
So , um, I'm all

00:31:24.111 --> 00:31:24.501
in on.

00:31:25.691 --> 00:31:28.961
So again, if people want to check
out your website, they can go

00:31:28.961 --> 00:31:32.921
to daisy pops.com, daisy pops.com
and their your Instagram account.

00:31:33.431 --> 00:31:35.351
Easiest way to find it is

00:31:35.801 --> 00:31:37.751
Amy M: daisy pops underscore cake pops.

00:31:37.841 --> 00:31:38.141
Yeah,

00:31:38.146 --> 00:31:38.291
Tim Sweet: and

00:31:38.291 --> 00:31:40.481
if they just do Daisy Pops search mm-hmm.

00:31:40.721 --> 00:31:41.051
is probably

00:31:41.056 --> 00:31:41.591
find it that

00:31:41.591 --> 00:31:41.861
Amy M: way too.

00:31:41.861 --> 00:31:41.951
Yes.

00:31:42.131 --> 00:31:42.671
that should work.

00:31:42.671 --> 00:31:43.991
And being on our mailing list too,

00:31:43.991 --> 00:31:46.511
which you can add through our
website, is the best way we

00:31:46.511 --> 00:31:47.321
get our what's pop

00:31:47.321 --> 00:31:48.911
in email, which comes out.

00:31:48.911 --> 00:31:49.331
I love it.

00:31:49.331 --> 00:31:49.931
A couple times

00:31:49.936 --> 00:31:51.221
a month with all the new, new.

00:31:52.186 --> 00:31:52.696
Tim Sweet: Well, Amy,

00:31:52.786 --> 00:31:52.936
you

00:31:52.936 --> 00:31:53.776
have such

00:31:53.956 --> 00:31:56.276
an interesting story and a

00:31:56.281 --> 00:31:57.466
story of entrepreneurship that

00:31:57.556 --> 00:31:57.916
isn't

00:31:57.916 --> 00:31:58.966
often told

00:31:59.446 --> 00:32:00.106
of, of

00:32:00.111 --> 00:32:03.886
moving from, you know, a, a
discipline and a profession

00:32:03.886 --> 00:32:06.886
that you loved discovered.

00:32:07.026 --> 00:32:07.666
A, a, a

00:32:07.666 --> 00:32:11.866
niche need and demand for
a very interesting product

00:32:12.496 --> 00:32:14.116
and have followed your.

00:32:15.311 --> 00:32:18.161
To develop something
that is bringing joy to a

00:32:18.161 --> 00:32:18.941
lot of people

00:32:19.451 --> 00:32:23.531
all over western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio, and hopefully

00:32:24.041 --> 00:32:25.481
a lot farther beyond in

00:32:25.481 --> 00:32:26.051
the future.

00:32:26.171 --> 00:32:26.381
Amy M: That's

00:32:26.381 --> 00:32:26.741
right.

00:32:26.741 --> 00:32:28.931
Spread that pop culture nationwide.

00:32:28.991 --> 00:32:29.201
At least

00:32:30.041 --> 00:32:30.461
. 
Tim Sweet: I love

00:32:30.466 --> 00:32:30.581
it.

00:32:30.581 --> 00:32:32.081
Thanks for popping in today.

00:32:32.141 --> 00:32:32.471
You're so

00:32:32.471 --> 00:32:32.831
welcome.

00:32:32.831 --> 00:32:33.941
really appreciate,

00:32:33.971 --> 00:32:34.931
uh, having you

00:32:34.931 --> 00:32:38.021
here on our show and,
uh, we wish you the best

00:32:38.021 --> 00:32:39.491
as you continue to move forward

00:32:39.491 --> 00:32:40.331
with your business.

00:32:40.511 --> 00:32:40.991
Amy M: Thank you very

00:32:41.171 --> 00:32:41.411
much.

00:32:41.981 --> 00:32:44.751
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00:32:44.911 --> 00:32:47.361
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