Kent

It was at an agency that I was at before.

Long story short, I met him years ago, kind of, at a bowling alley in Kent, Ohio.

Okay.

I think he was there something with LeBron, to be honest with you.

I live in Ohio.

And I grew up in a town right next to Kent, Ohio.

And so, you know, when I was growing up, if you want to go to the movies, you got to drive over to Kent.

If you want to go to one of the nice department, you know, the nice department stores, you go over to Kent.

My city was the county seat, but Kent was the happening town in the county.

And I don't think I ever knew until pretty recently that you had started your career at Kent State.

So I was talking to somebody earlier who's from this area, and I mentioned that I was going to be having this discussion with you.

And they looked like, they're not a parapsychology person, but they kind of looked like, wait, I've heard that name before, got their phone out, looked it up, and they go, Kent State, would you indulge me and share with me? How did you end up at Kent State? What were you doing there? And And why did you move on from there?

So we decided to open our brick and mortar pop shop in 2023.

So April of 2023 was when we opened that and we moved all of our operations out of my house, out of everybody's house into our commercial bakery in downtown Kent, Ohio.

And so that was great.

And then with that, too, came a lot of the Like, you know, all of these processes that I had everybody doing, everybody was doing them, like, all together.

We have a, I have a third business and called what's popping con.

And so we have a cake pop conference.

So we bring all the cake poppers to Kent, Ohio once a year.

So we're planning our third one this coming April and, But that's like a, you know, a fun way to just bring the whole cake pop community together as well.

I always love to feature someone in business or in the media or a story where someone... decided i'm just gonna go for it and did it anyway so i featured amy we've known her for so long and she was a high school math teacher the fast version of this she was incredible and decided i'm just gonna start making cake pops and it kind of just blew up and she decided she's gonna go all in you can see the full story in my email but she's really really incredible and decided After being a teacher for 12 years, I'm going to make this Daisy Cake Pop business.

And now she has a beautiful store in Kent, Ohio.

And we give away these Daisy Cake Pops every week.

She ships to anywhere in the country.

Around nine years ago, it is the fall of 2017.

I am a freshman at Kent State University, which in my opinion is the greatest journalism school in the country, located in Kent, Ohio.

It's where you get all my wonderful journalism skills.

I bring them as transit in the ITP.

I went originally for TV, found out how hard TV is, and said, I don't want to get into TV.

Um, so I found radio.

And so this is where the story comes in because that fall, uh, for our local radio station there in Kent on campus, black school radio, which was all student ran.

I tried out to be a sports DJ or RJ radio host, whatever you want to call it.

I loved it that much.

Like, how did you have to prepare for that? Like, what did you like wear? Because I'm in Kent, Ohio, and it was negative degree weather.

And I really, my first year of college, I thought I was going to lose it.

What is it like up there?

And I can see we have video.

You guys can't see it, but you're at the seed campus, right? In Kent, Ohio.

That's

right.