EP 19: Artist Obsessed With Baking Chats Opening A Pastry Business During Pandemic

Sip Bite Go with Jenna Passaro

You are never too old to change the direction of your life. Of course, if you don’t believe that, you will always be too old to steer your life in a new direction.

Approaching 40, when others may feel stuck in their ways, today’s guest quickly pivoted careers at the start of the pandemic. She was living life as an artist, commissioned by interior designers to create art for Portland hotels and businesses. As projects were put on hold, she found the opportunity to reconnect with her experience as a baker and fall back in love with the art of baking pastries.

So join me as I chat art, pastry, Portland restaurants, feeling mediocre but knowing your moment is going to come, and everything in between with today’s guest, Lisa Hildebrant. We chat about how innovation comes from failures and how she was always destined to become owner of French Kiss, a micro pâtisserie located in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• What is a micro patisserie?
• How French Kiss came to be.
• The secret to opening a successful business amidst a pandemic.
• Celebrating and learning from failures.
• How it all began: Lisa’s French pastry journey.
• Managing instability as an entrepreneur.
• How the pandemic made way for her new business.
• The joys of baking and being in the kitchen.
• Creating nuance and depth in pastries.
• Lisa’s current pastry obsessions.
• What’s next for French Kiss?
• How to get started on baking as a hobby or career.

QUOTABLES:

“Innovation comes out of problems. We don't get progress unless we have a problem and that's how it works, right? You don't find solutions unless there's a problem to find it, and that's how creativity works.” - Lisa Hildebrant

“When you work in a kitchen and you love the work, it's like time travel. I get in at six in the morning then I look up at the clock, and it's 5pm. And I don't even know what happened.” - Lisa Hildebrant

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WHERE TO EAT IN PORTLAND, OREGON - https://sipbitego.com/pdx-lunch-spots/

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