Digital Social Hour - She Makes a Living Baking Cakes | Alla Driksne Digital Social Hour #107

Episode Date: September 18, 2023

On today's episode of Digital Social Hour, we sit down with Alla Driksne and talk about her rough past and how she has bounced back and made a living off her passion of baking cakes. BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] APPLY TO BE ON THE POD: https://forms.gle/qXvENTeurx7Xn8Ci9 SPONSORS: Opus Pro: https://www.opus.pro/?via=DSH LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalsocialhour/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Where did you get that work ethic from? Because that's rare to find. Yeah, you know, that's a good question. I think it's actually from my dad. My dad's just like really hardworking. We came from like a really poor background. I literally lived in like a tiny room with like six people, you know. Really?

We just, we didn't have anything, you know. Like I think the first time I tried something sweet was like, I think a Mars bar. I was like eight years old. I actually saved a lot of marriages. Do you know that? Really? Yeah, like husband buy the courses for their wives and then they're super happy. They're like, whoa

I fell in love again with my wife Welcome back to the Digital Social Hour. I'm your host, Sean Kelly. I'm here with my co-host, Wayne Lewis. What up, what up? And our guest today, Alaa. Hello. How's it going? Alaa, how you doing?

Hi, I'm good. Good to be here. She brought us a... Power color on. Yeah, right? Yeah, I know, I know. I was like, you know, I love love your dark colors so i have to like fit in i like that she brought us a homemade cheesecake bro where is it it's in the fridge

i need to try it yeah i said to him he can share if he wants to okay i'll share i'm a nice guy i love cheesecake though yeah i know i asked him i was like what's your favorite cheesecake he just no i said what's your favorite dessert he goes cheesecake i was like okay which kind there's many there's a lot but i did you just got a plain one no i got strawberry oh sorry yeah oh i got it it's like it's beautiful it's vanilla basically base with vanilla cheesecake then strawberry cheesecake homemade strawberry jam inside and then top yo we gotta try that like right now we might have to bring it up is it cold yeah it's cold yeah you can definitely try it it smelled good um but how did you get into baking because you've been doing it for a while right yeah yeah uh baking started probably at university a long time ago um and i just started you know just kind

of doing it for fun and just relax and and kind of you know experiment to the kitchen and then when I was 25 I was like you know what I'm gonna quit my full-time paid job I'm gonna go into cooking decided to get a second education as a chef and yeah that from then onwards yeah and now this is my whole time gig Wow and were you baking in Latvia or was this after you moved no i know so i actually um i came to england alone when i was 14 alone yes by myself um i was kind of sent away not like in a bad way just um parents at that time thought it

was a good idea you know to give me a better education i guess wow but i was so extreme you know like i didn't speak english and i went literally on my own like they didn't even come on the plane with me to drop me off you know it was just like here you go here's your ticket see you later it was really challenging you know very very tricky I can speak English very well like I could say my name and you know a couple of sentences to study like business or no business but biology, imagine physics in a different language. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, no, it was very tough times for me.

Like I didn't understand the culture, the food, the people. Yeah, and that's kind of how I ended up in England and spent pretty much half of my life there now. Wow, that's insane. I can't imagine moving to another country, not knowing the language, and then trying to go to school at the same time yeah i cried every day and i was like take me back and they're like you can do this and um i think to be honest that was probably a point when they broke me down like as a person if that makes sense you know like after that like

nothing else is impossible in my head um yeah And then I just kind of went to university. I went to LSE, London School of Economics, did management and business degree. Now, yeah. Oh, he's cut it all off. Wow. Oh, that looks good. I'm happy. Oh, my gosh.

I have to try this. Yeah. You're real descriptive. Wow. This is homemade. Everything from scratch wow oh my god it smells amazing yeah this is good wow i definitely never brought a cheesecake to a podcast you try that yet fire oh my gosh yo the crust is what do it for me yeah i'm gonna hold you this stuff yeah the crust on cheesecake is like everything it's like a double crust it went all the way up

the sides too oh my gosh did you dehydrate these strawberries yourself no no dehydration you need a machine no that that one that was just an added touch i just saw it i was like let's do everything extra how'd you make the crust so it's just uh cookies you bake them and then you mix them you crush them with like oh so you make the crust from scratch too yes yeah wow so it should be i'm glad you like it sure wow bro do you have a ton of long form content that you want to turn into short form or are you looking to make short form out of other people's content? Well, Opus Pro has you covered. It's a website I've used since I've started the podcast,

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Check out the link down below to get a discount on your order and I'll see you guys soon. We're not giving the rest out. I mean, that was so good. to get a discount on your order and i'll see you guys soon we're not giving the rest out i mean i do have actually uh cheesecakes cheesecakes coming out i need to fire them oh i'll buy those do you ship will you be able to ship these or no i mean i don't sell them anymore actually i don't make so this is a special gift to you wow i'm honored i used to sell them in london so you know i did bunch of stuff i've had like five jobs worked 16 hours seven days a week geez because like the the social media side didn't really pay the bills right right i mean i

think that's one of the biggest misconceptions you think like oh if you just have a youtube suddenly you're gonna get your rent paid so i did everything that there is possibly to do man where did you get that work ethic from because that's that's rare to find yeah you know that's a good question i think it's actually from my dad my dad's just like really hard working we came from like a really poor background i literally lived in like a tiny room with like six people you know really um i was born in like soviet union time the country that doesn't actually exist right now anymore so yeah we just we didn't have anything you know like i think the first time I tried something sweet was like, I think a Mars bar. I was like eight years old and we shared it.

We cut it up into small pieces. It was fire, huh? It was insane. Wow. That's incredible. Rags to riches. One room with six other people. That's crazy.

One room. That's crazy. Yeah. It's like grandma, granddad, mom, dad, auntie, my sister. So where are you at now? So right now, actually, I'm a digital nomad. No, I'm saying like as far as where are you, what city, what state you're in? So I kind of live between Mexico and London and Latvia.

Okay. Yeah. Did you say Mexico? Yeah. Wow. Playa del Carmen. Okay. Why did you choose that?

Well, during the pandemic, I mean, it was lockdown. I was like, I need to escape. You know, I need to get out of here. And it was countries that were open. It was Mexico and Dubai. And I was like, I'm going to go to Mexico. And stayed there now for three years. Nice.

I like Mexico. Yeah. Is it safe there, though? It's safe. You know what? I've been hearing little **** in here. A little ****. I don't know.

I'm kind of on the edge with Mexico because because it says a cool spot but then it's like every now and then you hear two americans no one knows who did it it's like who killed these people i don't know like i was just in houston and i was in starbucks and they were like there's a shooting area can you get out and i was like what the hell that never happened to me in mexico he's going to houston tonight Yeah, so I don't know. I feel less safe here than in Mexico. Really? Yeah.

So you haven't had any run-ins with the cartel, any weird stuff? No, I mean, if you stay up late to like 5 p.m. and you're drunk, I guess that's not safe anywhere, right? Right, yeah. Yeah. Wow. So where do you like the most to live in? Latvia, UK, or Mexico?

I mean, look, they all have different benefits, right? I haven't lived in Latvia for so long now, you know, but London I love. I grew up in London pretty much. It has everything but the weather and the food, you know. So Mexico is just a good place for now, but I don't actually know where I want to live yet. Food in London is not that good, you said. It is better now, but I mean, when I lived there, like you know the beginning you know my journey then no but now yeah there's so many restaurants like insane like literally a food capital city i haven't been in london oh what

yeah i want to go i haven't been in london oh my gosh well you have to let me know i'll tell you the best yeah what did your parents think of you getting into culinary because not a lot of people make money with that yeah no it was actually not very a lot of support it was it was literally my dad's phrase was like I paid for university so you can become a cook because you know I went to business school so I graduated in business and nobody actually supported me which is really sad now to think of it my sister Wow so my sister was like yeah you go girl you do it um to be fair like you know i i just very persistent i knew that i didn't want to work you know in a kitchen even though i have that experience that i was like i'm just gonna do something big i wanted to show people you know

teach people about my cuisine because essentially i started with just Latvian food. And then I progressed into cakes. Because I was like, actually, I prefer that more. It's my thing. So what do you feel like, what separates your cakes from everyone else's? Like what, how does, because, you know, I feel like all cakes taste different. Like I've had like, I'm big on lemon cake. I don't know, I love lemon Like, I've had, like, I'm big on lemon cake.

I don't know. I love lemon cake. I don't know why. There's so many lemon cakes, though. There's so many, and they all taste different. I taste them all. Oh, this is fire. I taste another one. Oh, my God, this is fire.

So it's like, what separates your methods and your concepts and your taste? Like, what do you, like, because everybody has a specialty. So what is your thing? Yeah yeah that's a good question you know i just i'm just i realize i'm talented in what i do i'm just really good and i actually draw my takes out on a piece of paper and i design them i like look at like 10 recipes i'm like right i'm gonna have the base here this and that just i don't know how it works in my head i didn't even know i had this talent till later right and um no it's just everyone loves them i create unique recipes right they don't know how it works in my head. I didn't even know I had this talent until later, right? And no, it's just everyone loves them. I create unique recipes, right?

They don't exist anywhere. Like, it's just my thing, you know? Okay, so is it yours flavor-based? Is it spongy? Is it soft? It's everything. Is it moist? Everything.

Yeah, yeah. So what's... So I have mousse cakes, sponge cakes, cheesecakes, French pastry. Yeah, I'm trying to find out, like, what's the focus? Like, okay, so let's say you made me a chocolate cake yeah are you going to focus on the taste is the texture texture taste and how it looks it has to be beautiful wow you know so the cakes need to be like beautiful but tasty because a lot of cakes are beautiful but not tasty yeah

wedding wedding cakes i haven't had a good wedding cake ever really oh have you got to hire her i'll be very expensive now no have you ever had a good wedding cake um i haven't actually been to that many weddings for me there's i haven't been the one it's sad but wedding cakes usually aren't good no because they want to make them look good yeah mine are good i've done a couple of weddings okay but the thing is what i do now is actually I'm teaching people how to have a cake business and how to sell cakes. Because I actually want to empower women, you know, so they, because a lot of them love baking.

And so it's like a side thing that can do at home. They don't need to leave. They can have the kids. So a lot of my work now is actually teaching people how to make cakes. So then they sell the cakes. Right. That's a good course. Yeah. I'm glad you you're doing that i support a local cake maker here actually amazing every month yeah yeah they make them at home yeah you say you could you buy cake from them every

month yeah it's called tasty teas and oh yeah yeah adam's company yeah yeah yeah uh cheese cheese cheese cakes yeah yeah that makes me so happy this is exactly what i do and what i teach and i encourage them and i'm like, do it. The thing is, like, a lot of them find, you know, baking is easier. But then obviously there's the business side to it. You still have to sell the cakes and talk about them. But I teach everything. You know, I'm like, we can do this.

One of my best students, she's making $7,000 a month. A month. Selling cakes? $7,000 a month. Wow, that's good. For making cakes, yeah. Have you seen vending machines that actually sell cake by this license yeah yeah what do you think about those well i had a call with one of the guys he offered me to do this in america so we're talking

about it right now yeah but i the thing is those cakes are sold there they're yeah they're not good how do you get a cake to last that long that's the problem that i'm having right now yeah it's like i because if i'm to put my name to it, I want to make sure it's soft. They have to sell almost within the five-day range. Three days, two days max. I ate those and they're terrible. You're talking about the cupcake one?

They look terrible. The vending machine actually sells it. Yeah, I've seen that. Because they put preservatives to make it last longer. That's why I'm not sure I'm going do it because i don't i want i want to keep my reputation you know like this is quality i would pay extra yeah so it's fresh for sure like i would have ate the whole thing but i would have been speechless no like i just you know i think the baking for me is more than just like a cake or tasty like i mean that mean, that's all great. I think the reason, you know, really it's just so many people were like anxious and depressed, especially during the COVID.

So that's kind of when I started doing better. I was like, hey, let's bake together. Let's forget all the problems. Let's get into the kitchen, put some music on, you know, get in the mood. And, you know, because baking is a science. So when you measure, when you mix and actually relaxes you, it's like a state of meditation. Now, do you want to

create products? As in you mean like... Maybe, you know how... Like retail products? We got Betty Crocker, which you've been using them forever. Yeah.

Like, you know, would you be opposed to a cake in a box with your... Maybe, potentially. I think,

you know what, I'm... My goal is to be the biggest online cooking school out there offering different like cake courses and that's what i do now um i'm actually transitioning right now like i actually want to inspire more people to kind of do what they want to do get from nine to five if they're not happy you know because some people are happy right we don't need to get move everybody um and kind of just become more independent make some side income and be that

yeah exactly so they follow their dream because a lot of people love baking and they're just scared you know and then some tradition to that um in your opinion what are the top cakes like taste wise top cakes uh like i like anything with the salted caramel passion fruit okay passion fruit cake? that sounds good I haven't had it I've had a passion fruit cake it's the best

I'm actually excited I'm going to probably visit some bakeries here in Vegas I know Amory Shaw is here and a couple of others I can never spell the names but a couple of top chefs here I didn't know that i gotta check it out and what what are some unique cake taste ideas that you feel like no one has

touched yet you feel like i'm gonna play with that what's the most craziest idea to play with maybe you maybe use an alcohol or a certain fruit or a vegetable that no one never had yeah yeah i mean definitely use a couple of alcohols and weird flavors like earl grey tea um eat a macho and all that but actually the new course that i'm planning to this summer it's gonna be a tomato dessert a tomato dessert yeah tomato tomato sorry that's the british coming out tomato tomato is that so a tomato dessert yes i would try it thank you i'm trying to figure out how do you make a tomato sweet well like pizza has tomato in the i know but pizza's pizza it still has a tarty pizza has a tarty yeah it's gonna look like a tomato too interesting i wonder how that but you're going to be using real tomato there will be some real tomato yeah i can't reveal all the secrets oh that's crazy i'm never ever yeah no someone ever copied your cake and you're

like oh like that sucks oh you know what i'm sure they do like i mean people steal my profile and pictures like it's just what happens when you grow your social media following right like i don't focus my energy on that anymore i'm just like okay, okay, what's the next thing? I want to do more impactful things. So it's like, what am I going to do next? I love that. Positive. I saw on your YouTube you fasted for eight days. Yes. That video actually got like, I don't know, five or ten million views.

Yeah. Walk me through that. What were you feeling? Yeah, I just decided to go on a water fast for like a couple of days. And then it turned out to be eight days. And I just ate nothing apart from water. Water, yeah. How was your mood?

How what? Mood. Mood. You know, I had a lot of energy. It was kind of up and down. Like the third day was really hard. And then on day five, literally so much energy. I was like crazy.

I was like... Headaches. It felt like I was on drugs or something you know what's happening like let's get stuff yeah headaches in the beginning i didn't i that was the first time i fasted actually the longest one i did is 10 days yes like two years ago now yeah you probably lost 10 days what like nine kilos almost 20 pounds nine kilos nine kilos what's kilos pounds 2.2 right about 20 pounds yeah about 20 yeah 10 10 days of fasting about 20 pounds yeah that's a lot yeah yeah i mean the thing is

with my business and what i do i kind of want to stay in shape so i do yeah because you got to try your food yeah i eat a lot of cake yeah and people always ask me like who eats all the cake i eat that is true yeah that that is true like you're in in shape how do you like manage yeah i work out but you eat a lot of you eat a lot of cake though i eat a lot of and i always try like every time i travel like yeah get me to the restaurants and a lot of bakers no offense are kind of heavier yeah heavier bigger you know i mean a lot of bread a lot of yeast a lot of flour you know um yeah fasting and carnivore diet. Oh, carnivore diet.

Nice. Basically, yeah, like last year I did like six months strict carnivore. I didn't even eat any dessert. Like I would try it and then spit it out. Wow. Yeah. I want blood. I guess you could taste it.

I need my steak. I remember I have a funny story i went on a date right and um you know and at that time i was eating a lot of meat because you know if you've never tried carnival when you start you eat a lot and then you kind of balance it out i'm sorry um we go on a date right and i'm like yeah i'm gonna have a steak ribs and like something else or the three mains because i was just like staring at me it's like well i've never met a girl who could eat so much meat he was like really impressed and i was like i literally ate everything because he thought like i'm not gonna so what is what is the carnivore diet for what does that do just no carbs i'm not familiar with it oh just strictly meat yeah oh well you can have fish see eggs butter oh okay

yeah and meat and meat. And meat. Do you lose weight on it? Do you get stronger? You just feel amazing. You get all your vitamins, testosterone, energy. You sleep less. You look better. Everything is amazing.

It's the best diet, I think, for me anyway. I like it. I know a few people on it. For real? Yeah. I can't give up bread and desserts. The thing is, for me, it's like balance. So I eat that, and then i eat my cakes so it should be water too right no i'm not fasting today no with the carnivore diet it's strictly water oh yes yeah all right all right let's get

controversial here which culture has the best desserts which culture oh god it's tough france i'm gonna have to go with france really yeah what do they have the croissants everything yeah the whole pastry crepes croissants crepes well no there's some desserts yeah it's like croffins muffins all of that stuff yeah france is good i mean that's when i went to do my second education as a french pastry chef. So, yeah, so qualified as that too. What's it like in culinary school? Are they like really hands-on with you or is it a huge class? Like what's it like?

I think it was like 20 of us, maybe more. So it's pretty hands-on. But actually thinking about it now, yeah, I was already top of my class then. For real? She was better than the teacher. Sure, really. I know i never you know it's weird because i actually hated my job like i did so many jobs i literally worked everywhere charity oil and gas recruitment sales uh real estate i even saved tigers on the street like

as in yeah i know like you know wait you say tigers that were living on the streets you know when you have this job like you you stand on the street and you ask people to stop yeah they fill a form so you they save a tiger yeah so you ask for money oh okay i've done wait wait so you i thought she meant physically, too. Oh, no. That'd be cool, though. Although, I would be scared. Yeah, like, I literally done all... I hated my job. You know that gut feeling? I don't know if any of you had it.

You wake up in the morning, and you're like, oh, what excuse am I going to make now? Because I don't want to go to work. For school... For me, it was school. For school. Mine was like that.

I hated going to school. It's like that some days for the gym. But I like the gym. Yeah. I like the sauna more than the gym. You know what I mean? So I'll days for the gym well i like the gym yeah i like the sauna more than the gym you know what i mean so i'll go for the sauna yeah if i don't do nothing else i'm i'm signing someone is like something we do in latvia all the time it's like a thing oh yeah every you know what's realized you know i'm into all this like health stuff myself and all the

biohacking stuff and everything we do in latvia is literally how what's called biohacking now. We have sauna every Saturday. We roll in ice. Wow. We basically do everything what's told now that it's amazing to do. We eat sauerkraut. Everything's homegrown. All of that.

All the food is like healthy and preserved. You grew up pretty healthy then. Yeah, I have a very strong uh what's called immune system i guess yeah i've been to uh jeans been to a russian bath you ever go to those no dude it's sick it's like all saunas and they spank you there huh they spank you well they they hit you with leaves you know oh did you get spanked i don't remember that but yeah i definitely went i don't remember that you didn't get spanked this was like 10 years ago maybe i did oh yeah so like it depends like you go in sometimes you can be

naked uh or you just you know if you're not comfortable you put like pants on you lie down sometimes they rub honey on you it all sounds really weird but it's actually really good for you right and then they just like spank you with like leaves they hit you you know everywhere but it's nice. It's like a massage. Oh. Detoxes. Yeah, it was a fun time.

He doesn't remember. You don't want to remember. You got to look for one in Vegas. I'm down to go. I love saunas, bro. Yeah, for sure. They're so good for you. Me too.

So what are you working on now? You said you got a course coming out? Yeah, so well, my next two courses are cheesecakes, actually. Oh, let's go. I'm in. So I literally teach you in three months how to make courses are cheesecakes actually so i literally teach you in three months how to make the best cheesecakes oh i'm in bro so it's a three-month course it's a three-month course one every week you bake a cheesecake okay i actually saved a lot of marriages do you know that really yeah like um husband buy the courses for their wives and then they're super happy they're like whoa i fell in love again with my wife it's important women have women have to know how to cook now about man really you she's not from america bro

no but her courses are probably full sold out of courses for sure it's actually my audience is american so yeah that makes sense anymore bro do you believe men should know how to cook i think so you know what like in my family dad did all the barbecue and stuff. And the women cooked the rest, I guess. Okay. I'm big on cooking, though. I love cooking. I like when men can cook.

It's nice. I love cooking. People are intimidated to cook for me. I love cooking. Yeah, I was going to say, do you have trouble eating desserts at restaurants? Because yours is way better. Yeah, I'm very picky. I always break them.

Cheesecake factory is like, ew, it's nasty. Nah, that's gross. I can taste everything. I like Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. Nah, it's too sweet. It's okay, it's too sweet, sugary. There needs to be a balance. Like, this isn't too sweet.

Yeah, it has that hint of tart in it. It's like the perfect balance. Yeah, I'm very picky with desserts. But I just genuinely love food. I love all my Michelin-star restaurants. Ooh, you fancy. I love, I michelin star restaurants oh you fancy i love i just don't know you know i guess it gives me inspiration and then i taste all the cool flavors and then that helps although i'm planning not to do that anymore yeah next thing is i'm actually

writing a book right now so wow you're doing a lot i guess yeah book of course cooking cakes every day and educating yeah he's teaching women saving households i am you know what that is actually my favorite like when um so a couple of couple of stories is like when husband kind of was just like oh what are you doing you know and got kind of got into the cooking and then 12 weeks later this like date night every week they go and bake a cake together that's and they just became so close and i just get all these messages and emails you know like we're just so close we love it or they cook with their kids and um yeah so i'm just i love saving the marriages no i'll admit when when my girl makes a good dessert or meal it makes my day you know what i mean like i get really happy about it for sure

it's like language of love oh my god yeah we're literally saving marriages with cakes wow that should be her yeah i just thought about that you better write that down you better get that should be her uh facebook address oh my god maybe oh you better lock that in yeah i'm gonna write out that domain saving marriages that's a patent how do you help people overcome their limiting beliefs i know you're pretty motivational. Yeah, you know, like I've been through a lot of stuff in my life. I have a pretty rough childhood. And my mom was actually **** when I was 16. So it was really, really tough for me.

Took me like 12 years to kind of accept that and survive. I was only 16. So as you can imagine, I was like a kid you know and at that time it was weird like nobody offered like counseling or support it was just like okay we'll just go back to England and figure it out you know um so I feel like I come from a place where I know what pain feels like and almost like people are drawn to me you know people follow me because I share the real stuff I'm always me you know share the good and bad and um yeah there's just been a lot of uh i guess traumatizing things in life and i want to inspire people and i want to kind of give them hope that it is it does get better you

know you can get through everything and life is just a game in a way you know but we create our reality at the end of the day you know that. That's tough. So with that trauma, how did you deal with it? Did you go to therapy or did you just deal with it personally? Yeah, yeah, I went to therapy later, like, when I was, like, 18, you know, and I did therapy for years, and I still do therapy now, you know, I'm not ashamed to talk about it because it's kind of helped me to be, I guess, who I am in normal, I guess, in that sense. It just helps me to just accept that guess, who I am in normal, I guess, in that sense. It just helps me to just accept that. But last year was like probably the toughest year of my life.

And I think, honestly, I didn't think I was going to make it. It's bad. So, you know, it's been like, what, like 10 months now since that time. But I literally, I lost my dad. Yeah. Sorry to hear that. And it's crazy because crazy because you know when you lose a parent like you think that the other parent is going to live forever it's just kind of like i don't know you just think you're like well if that happens yeah there's no way something else i'm gonna lose two

parents exactly like something else bad is gonna happen you know so and then literally i lost i lost money i put money i had like crypto i put money into celsius if you know yep don't even get me started i have a lot there too yeah so you know i was like oh well you know at least i'm not worried about money anymore i've got some savings the staking yeah that was lost my money lost my dad lost my dog my dog died uh lost my relationship. And got like all my belongings got like stolen. Jeez.

The landlord. So literally lost all my belongings too. Like literally, you know. I don't know. You feel sometimes like can this get any worse? It can.

Don't ask that no more. I stopped asking it. It could get worse. I stopped asking it because the universe won't say. Yeah. Yeah.

Watch this. I agree with you. It's literally just answering you. So never ask, can it get worse? I know. I learned that lesson. You have to be like, yo. It's just bad. It's going to get better. You just have to say that.

No, it's like, you know, it's like everything is going against you and they're just trying to break you down further and further and further. And then one of my best friends, he like shot himself he was only like 40 and i think that was my last point and i myself was starting to feel like really suicidal i guess you know it's just like well why am i living in this suffering like yeah why am i here what's the point and um yeah it was just like the lowest of like low and then when was that turning point when did when did you say you want to know what

i have to live not only for myself but for other people yeah when did when did you when when did that uh that turning point happen you know probably like about two months ago oh this is recent yeah yeah this was like in october i felt like that's it my life is over so what what what what was it that was it a song was it a moment did you have an epiphany or it's it's a good question you know it was just i took one day at a time and i was like let me just get through today yeah let me just focus on a couple of things like sleep food and and what else what's the other one you know it's something else just tiger a tiger you saved me well i do have a sister you know and we both lost everything you know so you guys had each other yeah so i kind of was like i can't do that to

her either you know so i think probably she was still my angel in that sense um and then just generally you know i was like i have to get through this and that's why you know i feel like everyone can get through literally the hardest stuff and i started getting to meditation spiritual world i think that kind of probably saved me more you know wow yeah went to joe dispenza you guys know him yeah i love him yeah i know i'm gonna manifest him coming on the show oh amazing yeah i met it i do his meditation actually i know someone who knows him oh yeah yeah there we go i just did it exactly told you it's that fast no you need to look him up bro no i heard of him you heard of him yeah yeah it's changed my life you know i've been meditating now

for a year every day one and a half hours to two hours wow yeah wow i know it's a lot because i used to do 10 minutes a day yeah hours a long time of meditation but that's a lot of growth yeah you practiced a lot yeah i did everything so when you're meditating using his style yeah what are you thinking about and what are you doing exactly so you know i was just i i keep having visions of my future like where i am and like what i want and it's all like positive and beautiful. And I kind of just kept having that vision over and over again. That's kind of now, honestly, it honestly feels like I've entered a new dimension.

Wow. You know, so everything's working out. Everything's great. Like, I feel so happy. Happiest that I've ever been in my life, like content. And like, you know, my next, you you know projects are working out everything's going well amazing to meet my husband and then i'm sorted what's it like dating like because you're from a different culture and now you're living you know

in different places are men worse here you know what i haven't got damaged experience it maybe like went on a couple of dates with american guys yeah but um i i've always been like in a really long-term relationship so i haven't had really i haven't been single for a long time if that makes sense got it but i haven't really dated anyone because i you know i had uh you had to get yourself straight yeah exactly and i was like i want to be healthy before i date anybody you know and i feel like that's finally happened you know and i think you know it's weird because you do so finally happened, you know, and I think, you know, it's weird, because you do so much work, right, and you don't feel better, and then one day

you start to feel better and better, and then eventually you're like, oh my god, I'm actually happy today, life is great, look at the moon, look at the sky, you know, and everything's just beautiful. Well, guys, you heard it there, if you want to go on a date, shoot her a DM. She's healthy now. She's almost healed. Someone watching this might hit her up but i do recommend you know and the thing is a lot of people talk about municipally the thing is it's not like oh you draw it on a paper or you know you imagine it you actually obviously take action you you gotta believe it too like wholeheartedly gotta feel it you gotta feel it taste it smell it and all that live it that's amazing one exercise i did which actually blew my mind i would write down so brian tracy my dad actually told me about

this exercise and it's like brian tracy you write down 10 things that you want the most in your life so it can be anything right what's interesting that you will even struggle to down 10 things that you want the most in your life. So it can be anything, right? What's interesting that you will even struggle to say 10 things. Most people think they want everything, but you can't even do 10 things. And you write that exercise every day like it's already happened. So you say like, you know, I am publishing a best-selling book. Or like, I am in a happy, stable relationship. Yeah, in the past 10, I was. Yeah, and I wrote that.

I did that exercise for like six months straight two years later half of the things that i wrote in reality oh yeah yo i'm gonna start doing that yeah i'm gonna do it again because i stopped and i'm like that really worked i'm gonna do it again tall six five he picked me up we had on this one guest natasha graziano yeah she's super spiritual and she said to just start writing in the past tense when you want to come here she said about what at nine at night i think yeah yeah so i'm sorry you're about a little bit ever since then which a month ago i started doing that nice and it's been noticeable honestly i feel there's so many tools now to make you better feel better um it's just i think people are kind of stuck

sometimes in a negative realm right which i was so i totally get it and you know when you're feeling depressed and down and people like oh just do your gratification yeah you're like just go away like it's the last thing i want to do like i feel like crap but you know what i want to say is that there is the other side like there is and i think so the book i'm writing now is about that it's how to get to the other side you know how to and i use baking as a tool you know but people can use anything whatever you're passionate about you know i love it man where can people find out more about you yeah oh where they can find it oh so alice yummy food.com so i'm all over social media obviously

at the same handle i did it back in the day when you know it wasn't that popular yet and love it any final things you want to say um no just uh i guess you know just stay strong and believe in yourself and i think one of the biggest things is that i never felt like i was good enough and i think most people don't feel that because we're not like told as kids you know like so i just want to tell people that you know believe in yourself you are good enough you're amazing and anything you want will happen for you love it yeah powerful way this cheesecake is good enough um there's not many desserts where i go in for a second slice this is one of them

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