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Becky's work combines: Food, Entrepreneurship, and Problem Solving
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Nutrition Sciences
Cornell University
Here's the path I recommend for someone who wants to be a Chefs and Head Cooks:
High School
Bachelor's Degree: Restaurant/Food Services Management
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Life & Career Milestones
My path in life took a while to figure out
1.
Wrote an ice cream shop menu at age 15 but didn't identify it as a possible career path.
2.
Took a nutrition course in college and felt incredibly inspired, but Marquette didn't offer a major.
3.
Transferred to Cornell University where I studied nutritional and food science.
4.
Moved to San Francisco and took a job in client operations because I thought I should learn business.
5.
Was miserable at job and started volunteering at the Farmer's Market, which led me to pastry school.
6.
Started a business called Be.Baking while working at a bakery, then a restaurant.
7.
Took job as Facebook pastry chef and made hundreds of desserts daily. Went home and made ice cream.
8.
Opened an ice cream shop in Palo Alto called Tin Pot Creamery.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
You should look perfect and be nice.
How I responded:
I started doing what I loved and working hard, which sometimes meant getting dirty and doing things that weren't always "nice". I didn't have time to care about what I looked like or who liked me...that was when I fell in love with myself and began to blossom.