Today we are interviewing the Michelangelo of the baking world.  Food Network Cake Wars Winner, Shantal Der Boghosian sets big goals, and meets them, using her business acumen, and her extreme creativity.  We talk to her about her engineered cakes that move and spin, baking for Gordon Ramsey, Ron Ben Israel, and spirituality.

New Segment - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

New Segment - Thinking vs Action

Welcome Shantal to the This Is Yu Podcast!

Thank you to Shantal of Shakar Bakery again for your time and connection. I can’t wait to meet you to get my coffee grounds read!

Make sure you take a look at her guest chef blog on www.ThisIsYu.com.com where she shows us first how to do some pandemic cooking, and second, we provide a slide show with all the details on the giant Harry Potter cake that took her 300 hours to build.

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We leave you with one final thought from 

Albus Dumbledore  as he said to Harry in The Chamber of Secrets

While coming down from his battle with Tom Riddle and the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry fears the similarities between his immense powers and that of Voldemort. However, Dumbledore assuages and disproves Harry's fears that Harry might become evil one day by explaining that one's intentions are the bedrock of one's identity, not one's capabilities.

"It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."