Tianna Gawlak is a mother & baker in the suburbs of Chicago. Baking for her family inspired a series of entrepreneurial ventures, including her first children's picture book “When You Dream of Chocolate Cake” and her business, The Bakery Box. The Bakery Box is a 24-hour dessert ATM with several locations in the Chicagoland. It might sounds complicated, but it’s literally what it sounds like! We’d pick dessert over $20 bills any day!

We sat down for the best part of any meal, dessert, to learn about founding a food-based business in the middle of the pandemic and how that impacted operations. Plus we learn how she keeps the ATM’s stocked with the tastiest, freshest desserts 24/7! We mean, what a dream! And we hear about her darling Children’s book inspired by her children.

Instead of coffee, we finish dessert with a round of rapid fire to discover Tianna’s favorite favorite cupcake flavor, how she likes her cookies, future items she’d like in her ATM’s, and of course, her favorite cocktail!

Tianna also expresses her Thanksgiving gratitude for her local Chicago business partners. And we featured “Stratford Sodas” as our drink of the week!