about me

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i'll try to summarize myself and the bakery in 10 pics. let's go!

outside of the bakery and vet life, i love collecting house plants (60+ plants and hopefully more hehe), woodworking, and playing tennis. some other random facts are: i auditioned for "crazy rich asians," used to be obsessed with beatboxing, and love talking about every component of a movie. also, i'm an aries and an ENFJ 

fast forward to november of 2020 when i saw a local plant market listing applications for vendors. being a new plant daddy, i knew i wanted to attend the market but also thought how fun it would be to be a vendor. seeing as how i always wanted to share my baked goods, i took the chance and applied. andddd the rest was history! people seemed to like my stuff and online vet school allowed me to schedule time to bake and do markets. that was pretty cool. so at least once or twice a month i did a market or pop up and continued to experiment with different desserts!

Brian's Bitchin' Bakery est. November 2020.

from August of 2020 - August of 2021, i was a vet student at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine! i did most of my first year online due to covid-19 and so i just made time to do the bakery stuff every now and then while i was still in TX. in may of 2021, BBB had to take a big pause as i moved to the island of St. Kitts & Nevis (east of Puerto Rico for those of you wondering) to attend in person classes. so the picture above is actually me after my white coat ceremony haha. while I felt like i was getting one step closer to my dream of becoming a veterinarian, something felt off. i'll explain in a second but after living on the island for a few months, i decided to withdraw and reapply to vet school within the states. i knew if i wanted to take care of my mental health, i needed a change in the environment.

while i'm grateful for my time in vet school and wouldn't change a thing, the bakery was constantly on my mind when i wasn't studying. i avoided logging onto my bakery's social media account because i would get sad seeing how my friends' small businesses were growing. don't get me wrong i was 100% happy for them. but it reminded me of the potential and endless ideas i had for the bakery that i felt suddenly was taken away from me. i actually burst into tears explaining my internal dilemma when i was on the island facetiming my bff who was in the states. she then tells me that whenever i was running the bakery, she saw how i was thriving like she had never seen before at every market and pop up. and that she was so proud of what i had built and felt like this was my calling. (pictured is the one and only time i baked while in vet school. cookie butter cupcakes with a biscoff whipped cream filling that kept melting cuz i had no a/c in the living room)

i DEFINITELY could not have made it this far without the support of my family and friends. from prep day of baking and packing 400+ cookies in one night to the lines of the crazy market/pop-ups, they've been my rock. they've also stayed up with me till 4am on a few occasions. never. again. i love y'all so much and thank you thank you thank you (love you mom <3)