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Echoes - Aussie Success

Babe on the Run – Naomi Levine

Based on popular demand (thanks everyone for your email requests), we will feature a hugely successful, unbelievably talented Aussie Expat, here in the USA. Be inspired!

I’m often reminded at the tenacity, courage and drive Australian expats possess. The ability to leave the comfort of family, friends and their local cultural to pursue a dream, push boundaries or explore the possibility of love.

This month we feature Naomi Levine, head chef at TipsyCake.

Q&A with Naomi Levine

Jessica: Tell me how the initial idea to own and manage your own bakery develop?

Naomi: I had enough with corporate world, management and wanted to be my own boss and thought cakes, pastries, and business would be a dream and a challenge.

Jessica: How long have you lived in the USA?

Naomi: Since 1998

Jessica: What do you miss most about Australia?

Naomi: The food, the ocean, the independent shops and the Manly Sea Eagles.

Jessica: What do you love most about America?

Naomi: My family that is here (my partner and my son) and the opportunity to grow a business.

Jessica: What advice can you offer other aspiring chefs looking to start their own business in America?

Naomi: At the end of the day you cater to what the public want not what you love and are passionate about.

Jessica: Top 3 challenges you faced as an expat, running your own business?

Naomi: Accent. People not understanding and thinking that I sound “snobby”

The customer is always right is taken to a whole different level in the USA

Mixing up sports team and sending the wrong logo. Cardinals and Cardinals.

Jessica: Most interesting cake you have ever created?

Naomi: An African monument for the President of Senegal.

Jessica: Most famous client?

Naomi: Mike Ditka, Tyrus Thomas, and Sam Witwer, Kanye West  to name a few.

Jessica: What can an Aussie expat expect from TipsyCake?

Naomi: Tastes of home and our willingness to make them ANY Dessert or pastry they wish.

With love Jessica oxox

PS: TipsyCake is a featured company. Naomi gorgeously donated the delicious caramel slice at our launch luncheon. TipsyCake is a walk down memory lane from lamingtons, sausage rolls, meat pies and of course pavlova.

Winter is the time to bunker down and consume. A time to indulge and let those curves show.