Despi Delite Bakery: Succeeding a Family Legacy With Brittany Despi

Brittany Despi is the Co-owner of Despi Delite Bakery, which specializes in Filipino cakes and pastries. Brittany and her brother inherited the family-owned business from their parents, who share a baking legacy that originated in the Philippines. Located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Delite Bakery has been serving up traditional Filipino flavors, including purple ube, for over two decades.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

Brittany Despi reflects on how she entered her family’s business
How Delite Bakery became the epicenter of the Seattle-Filipino community
Brittany discusses taking over the Delite Bakery reins
What does the future hold for Delite Bakery?
Creating the work-life balance you desire

In this episode…

Succession can be challenging for small, family-owned bakeries, as parents may be reluctant to relinquish ownership and knowledge to the next generation. This can make the transition from the parents to the children difficult. What are some strategies for a respectful and painless exchange of ownership?

Multi-generational bakery owner Brittany Despi affirms that the older generation should teach the younger generation all aspects of the business when they’re first hired. This includes teaching them the basics, like baking and decorating, and the specifics like the business model and leadership skills. When parents surrender the reins to their children, it’s vital for everyone to be communicative and receptive to feedback, as the change can be intimidating.

In this episode of the Celebrity Gourmet Podcast, Odette D’Aniello chats with Brittany Despi, Co-owner of Despi Delite Bakery, about succeeding a family-owned business. Brittany shares her memories of growing up in the baking business, Despi Delite Bakery’s history in the Seattle-Filipino community, and the essentialness of creating a work-life balance.

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Episode Transcript:

Intro 0:03

Welcome to the Celebrity Gourmet Podcast where we feature top bakery and specialty food entrepreneurs from around the world and share stories and tips on how to create a successful life in the baking world.

Odette D’Aniello 0:23

Hi, I’m Odette D’Aniello, the host of the Celebrity Gourmet Podcast, where I interview women in bakery to hear how they live creative lives and share their adventures in running a bakery business. I want to encourage you to go back and check out past episodes with Patti Stobaugh of Patticakes, Megan Wagstaff of Lady Yum, Bronwen Weber from Bronwen Cakes, Becky Palermo of Creative Cakes and Deb Tuggle of Bite Me! Cookies. Today I am so excited to talk to Brittany Despi of Delight Bakery located in Beacon Hill Seattle. Delight Bakery specializes in delicious Filipino cakes, desserts and treats. It’s a family-run business that is near and dear to my heart because we all came from the same family of bakers that emigrated from Cebu, Philippines to Guam and then to the US back in the 1970s. Brittany has taken over the reins of her family’s business as co-owner, along with her brother Avery. Her parents known to me as Auntie Susan and Uncle Jen are semi or trying to be retired. And I’m so excited to share Brittany’s story with my podcast listeners. Today’s episode is brought to you by Celebrity Gourmet Ventures, my family-owned and operated specialty bakery and Tacoma. At Celebrity Gourmet, we have been baking joy into all of artistically designed cakes and desserts for 25 years. We are proud to work with a vibrant team of cake designers and bakers who help you celebrate the sweet moments in your lives. To learn more about how you can celebrate yourself, so the ones you love, you can visit us at celebritycakestudio.com, dragonflycakes.com, or email us at info@celebritycakestudio. And now introducing Miss Brittany. Brittany, thanks for being on my podcast.

Brittany Despi 2:28

Of course. I’m glad to be here. Thank you.

Odette D’Aniello 2:30

I’m so glad I stopped by our bakery.

Brittany Despi 2:33

And I was there.

Odette D’Aniello 2:34

You were there. Yeah.

Brittany Despi 2:37

I mean, usually we weren’t so early. It’s like it’s hard to catch me in the afternoon. But she caught me.

Odette D’Aniello 2:42

I did I remember visiting your bakery and just helping decorate because why stand around? Oh, yeah. No,

Brittany Despi 2:51

any extra hands will put you to work.

Odette D’Aniello 2:53

That’s right. So I wanted to talk about your story. So tell me about how your parents are how your family got into the bakery business? Well,

Brittany Despi 3:05

my dad had been working with my aunt in San Francisco with a couple of other siblings. And they decided to branch off and they weren’t really sure where they want to start their own shop. And it was kind of, you know, driving around, where should we go. And then they decided to drive up to Washington, Seattle. And the thing that was crazy is that my mom loves the rain. And my dad’s opposite, because you know, he grew up in tropical areas, and California, always sunshine. But you know, my mom calls the shots. So she loves the rain. So she said Why not settle in Seattle. And that’s where it all started. And then, you know, I have two older brothers and we all grew up in the bakery. You know, every weekend and every time after school, that’s where you know, we met up and put your hands to work, we’re going to do some more work. And then we can go home. You know, it’s kind of like, we didn’t have home chores. It was more like do the bakery and then we go home and then you can relax. There’s there’s always stuff to do at the bakery. There’s not you know, there’s an endless list of things to do. So it’s kind of how I grew up and never turned back or changed ways. It’s kind of the only life I know. So got to do that for the rest of my life again,

Odette D’Aniello 4:20

but you’re really enjoying You’re amazing at it. Yeah, I love

Brittany Despi 4:23

I absolutely love it. Honestly, I don’t know what else. It’s any of us quite as much because you’re born and raised into it really. And obviously like my parents would have loved for us to be professionals. They always kind of was like oh, what do you want to do? Would you like to be a nurse? Would you like to go to college? And all of us ended up doing college we just decided to go the bakery route. Me and Christian did pastry baking and pastry. And Avery did accounting but we all still kept it in the bakery, you know, never left.

Odette D’Aniello 4:57

So your memories of growing up in the bakery. was very fun. Oh, yeah.

Brittany Despi 5:02

Fun and dirty, you know, like, take naps on the pallets of flour and, you know, we have whatever, you know, whatever dessert you wanted at all anything you wanted, you can make you know, or you always have the coolest birthday cakes because you can tell dad exactly what you wanted. Or you know, like any sort of Oh no, we have to bring something for the bake sale. No worries that mom will grab something and throw it in the box that you got it you know, no problem for if you’re like, oh, no, I need a lunch because I forgot my lunch. You know, mom’s dropping off some bread no problem, you know, it’s not a big deal. It’s your our whole lives lit really revolve around the bakery. You know, there’s no, there’s no days off that we don’t go or don’t think about it, you know? And it’s it’s just all i That’s all we’ve ever known.

Odette D’Aniello 5:53

But it’s also amazing, because Delite Bakery is what is the is the center for the Filipino community?

Brittany Despi 6:02

Oh, yeah, for sure. Um, a lot of Filipino shops and restaurants have been opening up a lot lately, especially around the Seattle metropolitan area. And a lot of not only my friends, but a lot of people that I didn’t even personally know they had ties to the bakery, would say, you know, we’ve been shopping with you since I was a little kid. And, you know, they’re either older than me or the same age as me. And it’s crazy. Because when you go through, you know, those awkward ages of, I wish I didn’t have to go to the bakery this weekend, or I wish I could go to like, hang out with my friends or watch a movie. And those were the times that you’re like, oh, I don’t know if like, this life is for me, because I want to do other things. You realize that, you know, you thought that life was your childhood. But the the baker is also a part of a lot of other people’s childhoods that, you know, were Filipino. And they didn’t get a lot of Filipino you know, exposure, because maybe they didn’t have a lot of Filipino foods around or like to be bought at grocery stores because it wasn’t common at the time. But a lot of my friends and like people that I’ve met, just out in the world have said, you know, you guys are like a piece of home, you know, like that, would they they never found anywhere else. Because it was so limited where you can even get Asian foods, let alone Filipino desserts and pastries at all. So it’s kind of when I grew up a little bit older and like, realize that I see pictures of my friends when they were young. And they had cake that my dad decorated. Which is crazy, because my dad doesn’t even really decorate anymore, because that’s mostly my job now. So it’s just funny to me, and I’ll show him pictures. And he’ll be like, Oh, that’s so crazy old, you know, like, oh, like the even the style of design of the cake is just so old school that it’s just kind of like, wow, we really were a part of your family parties or your family dinners. Because they we see their breads on the table, their dinner tables, or people have told me like, they come at come with their moms or their grandmas and every time they come it’s kind of like shooting them back to when they were like five or six years old. Because that’s just how the history of our shop was to them.

You know how long have you been open? It’s been a while. Actually before

even I was born, so they open 1988 And I was born in 1990. So that was even before I was born, so yeah, 35 years now, I

Odette D’Aniello 8:29

believe. Yeah. Wow. That’s incredible. Well, I love going to your bakery because Susan always hooks me up. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Brittany Despi 8:45

A lot of people are like, they don’t know, sometimes they don’t like know who I am maybe or they’ll just meet me by passing but they’ll be like, Oh, Brittany Despi. Despi Delite? I love Delite Bakery. It’s just so like crazy that our name is attached to something that is like so personal to people that they have our bread in their kitchens, or they’ve had cakes over the years, every party that you could possibly think of at their parties always, you know, any occasion. It’s always like, oh, yeah, delight. We’ve had delight for years. But it’s like, we always get delayed. And it’s kind of like humbling almost because it’s kind of like, I didn’t think we were that, you know, like I never knew until, you know, you kind of get older and you like realize that you meet people that you’ve never met before and they know who you are. You know this bakery. They know they impacted by Yeah, yeah. Yeah, for sure. So that’s why.

Odette D’Aniello 9:47

Yeah, I wanted to just explain to listeners just exactly how wide we go into legacy. So like how many? I know on your side of the family, and there’s 12 siblings, your father has 12 siblings. Yeah. And how many of them own bakeries?

Brittany Despi 10:11

I honestly haven’t even counted. So just in my my dad alone, we own two bakery. So my oldest brother Christian has his in Everett, and then me and my brother, the one in Seattle, and then there’s an Auntie Chi Chi and Uncle Ben that have one. And then Auntie Millie now, is that their bakery? Bread? Bread basket.

Odette D’Aniello 10:34

And this is in Northern California. Yeah, golden,

Brittany Despi 10:37

fresh, right. And then there’s Ken, right? Leap bakery. Yep. And then Elaine also has one as well, I don’t remember. I can’t remember off the top of my head where her shop is called. Yes, she has a shop as well. And Tinos, which is my dad’s nephew, also has a bunch of outlets in the Philippines. I have already lost. I already lost count. How many is that? Like, five already?

Odette D’Aniello 11:11

We cannot forget Elite Bakery.

Brittany Despi 11:14

Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. And then Guam Bakery

Odette D’Aniello 11:18

Which is the biggest? Yeah, huge. Yeah. Yeah. That’s owned by our cousin. Yeah, we’re not new to this thing.

Brittany Despi 11:30

No. Me and my brother joke around all the time that the Despi line does not like to work under anybody else. So they just keep making their own bakeries. We don’t know anything else.

Odette D’Aniello 11:43

Yeah, that’s amazing. So now, tell me like, what’s I know that you took over? When did that happen?

Brittany Despi 11:51

Um, so actually, it happened. 2021, officially, we were kind of in the works. But you know, obviously, the pandemic happened. And it was a complicated process, but we decided that we were going to close for a month to transfer everything over. And with all the craziness of the pandemic, we decided that it’s a good time to do it, it’s a little bit easier on us, because, you know, we have this time where we can shift everything over. And then also, it’s not as crazy while we’re open. So, you know, we have a moment that we can, you know, close down for just a little bit and switch everything over, and then kind of like, make a plan of what we want to do. And then so this would be our second year, I’m doing it. Obviously, my parents still work for us. It’s not like they’ve ever left than me and my brother, co owners to the shop now. And obviously, we’re still getting used to it, it’s not an easy shift. Especially, you know, working since we were younger, this is definitely a bigger, you know, bigger responsibility, and a lot of different changes. But it’s been, you know, fun so far, I mean, nothing to complain about. There’s, there’s any, anytime we have issues, you know, our parents are there that to, you know, review, help us out, you know, get advice from them.

Odette D’Aniello 13:23

What is it? Like? How did you manage this transition of decision making, for example, when you are so used to your parents making a decision. And, you know, our listeners, I mean, maybe I just get give a background, a lot of a lot of businesses, small bakery businesses are family-owned businesses. And one of the issues is succession. And times parents don’t want to give it up. And they never gave enough knowledge, they never transferred knowledge down to the next generation. So this transition from, you know, the parents to the children kind of gets messed up. But oh, that one of the things that I loved about the way your parents were on the bakery is that they integrated you with the entire business model itself, and not just you as workers, but they taught you. Yeah,

Brittany Despi 14:15

I mean, obviously, it’s not easy for parents to let go of anything, especially to give this burden to their children. Because I know that it’s such a big responsibility, and it’s almost like a child of its own to, you know, hand it off, you know, and they obviously are not fully out of the picture. It’s it’s nice to have them transition and when they’re good and ready. They, you know, they can let go. But I think over the years, they knew that it was coming, and they can’t fight time. So you know, it’s me and my brother kind of always worked well together, in the way of we start Talk to each other a lot, we’re very communicative about what we each of us want. But also in the sense where we kind of give each other courage as well say, you know, there’s a line where this is what we want for the future. And mom and dad have this is what we are in right now is the future that they gave us. So this is kind of our time, you know, this, this is where they had, you know, set their goals to be able to pass that on to us. And now that it’s our time, now, we can make those decisions. And obviously, they always, they’re always, we’re always open to their feedback. And if we ever need them, they’re always there. But I know that times, there’s, you know, it’s hard to break out of that. We want it this certain way, you know, but at the end of the day, my dad and my mom are both, you know, this is your time, they’ve kind of, they’ve said that to us, and I, not everybody’s family is that way, but you know, you can’t fight time, you know, it’s they need, you know, they need to step down as well and realize that this is what we’ve been training pretty much all our lives or, you know, and hopefully, that we have enough experience to take that on and be able to be responsible enough to, you know, take care of that investment of all of our, you know, time and money, you know, we all care for this business. And in the longevity of things, we have to be able to pick up where

Odette D’Aniello 16:36

they left off. I think that’s just so incredible, and amazing that not only did Uncle Jonah, and Auntie Susan, you know, create this incredible business for the past 35 years in Seattle, and that has such legacy. But that taught you and your brothers how to run a business, not just that, but to remain family. Because what I do is that there’s a lot of sibling, raucous, you know, solid, for sure. And the fact that you guys all get along and you feel fulfilled within the bakery is an incredible testament to the kind of parenting that, you know, you’ve experienced, and it is to be commended. Oh,

Brittany Despi 17:24

yeah. Obviously, I know, in anybody’s family that fighting and you know, bickering is always you know, can be an issue, you know, and trust me, we’re not, we’re definitely not a peaceful family, we, you know, we’ve had our, you know, moments and, but the idea of continuing the business, and, you know, doing it as not just for us, but you know, for future generations. And, you know, a lot of families are not always going to be taking over, you know, past businesses. And it’s, it’s very hard to because sometimes, you kind of feel locked into that. But luckily, we are, I don’t know, I don’t think it’s the same for everybody. But I feel like we all kind of decided on our own, that this was the life we chose. And I know not everybody is that way, there’s a lot of businesses that close because children don’t want to take over, which is, you know, it’s perfectly fine. But when you decide to make that your choice, you know, it’s a part of working together and like realizing that, you know, we’re not just partners in a business, but we’re family to make an even stronger bond. Right? I don’t I don’t think that you can say that one person wants it more than the other because you know, it’s a team. You have to work together as a team. Right.

Odette D’Aniello 18:46

That’s incredible. That’s amazing. And you and your brother have a huge age gap. Yeah.

Brittany Despi 19:00

So Christian, 12 years and then a Christian 13 years and then at 11. Yeah. Wow.

Odette D’Aniello 19:08

And that’s amazing. You know, that you’re the little sister you have equal power. And you have made the, you know, the same. You have same level of responsibility. Yeah.

Brittany Despi 19:20

The youngest sister, but my might be the loudest sibling who knows, you know.

I hear you. Yeah. You know what? You are? You’re the visionary. Yeah,

I mean, you know, just because I’m the youngest doesn’t mean, you know, I don’t know how to square up with the boys. You know.

Odette D’Aniello 19:40

You took boxing for a time. Oh, yeah.

Brittany Despi 19:42

And my mom, I feel like my mom’s trained me that way. She said, don’t let the boys run all over you so.

Odette D’Aniello 19:49

So now what are your plans? Are you your, what are your plans for next year, for example?

Brittany Despi 19:56

We’re just kind of continuing to just Trying to build, we want to push out more product, we’re still kind of trying to keep up with the amount of business we have right now, still having a little bit of a hard time hiring and keeping people because, you know, bakery training is not easy. And it takes a while for people to be able to, with the skill to do some of the jobs we have. But eventually, we still, we’re still pushing out more product, but maybe one day, possibly doing, you know, like, a warehouse or some sort of place that we can do more of the production and then have smaller locations that distribute. That’s kind of our future plans, nothing in the works yet. But that’s something that me and my brother have definitely talked about, and something that, you know, we want to work towards. We’re still kind of getting our bearings on, you know, on just like, having everything under control. And all our employees are like, you know, fully staffed and everything. I know that a lot of people right now are, you know, trying to find jobs and everything like that. But because of the type of training this would take, it’s not an easy fix, where you can just bring somebody out here and just, you know, type something up or anything like that takes a little bit of time for the skills that we need. So yeah, that’s what we’re working on now. Hopefully, in the future, we’ll have bigger plans. Yeah.

Odette D’Aniello 21:27

Was it that? How was it for the employees when the when the ownership switched? Was it kind of like, Wait, hold on Brittany’s now uur boss?

Brittany Despi 21:35

I actually don’t think it was that big of a deal for them? Because we worked so much. And we’re so hands on. I think it was more of like, oh, okay, well, this pretty much the same when we see the same people, you know, every day. And I think that that is a big testament to the family, too. You know, like, even though you see my parents there every day, me and my brother are also there every day working just as hard. And if they have any questions for my parents, or if they’re not around, or they don’t know, the answer to they can always come to us too. for that. We it wasn’t really a big issue when we transferred everything over anything, it was kind of like it’s about time really.

Odette D’Aniello 22:20

Yeah, so when I, when I saw you, I walked out to the when I was leaving two weeks ago or something. I saw your mom in the parking lot.

Brittany Despi 22:32

Ya know, she, she’s always in and out, you know?

Odette D’Aniello 22:38

Nice to catch up with her. So, know that we I know you’ve been traveling a lot. So you have a good balance.

Brittany Despi 22:45

I’m trying Yeah, I’m trying, you know, owning a business is so hard, because I feel like a lot of people, when they see it from the outside, it’s like, wow, you own your own business, you get to make your own hours, you get to, you know, go in whenever you want. But I really feel like it’s the opposite. You know, it’s, it’s constantly something that’s always on your mind. And you know, like, you’re always need to worry about it, even though it could be fully functional. When you’re not there. It’s still in your mind, you know, but I also feel like, we need to have other hobbies, not all just constantly surrounding the business because I feel like we live in a very stressful world. And it’s already hard as it is. So I feel like, especially now, if you have the time and you have the money and you have you know, that you Why not experienced these things, why not get away if you can? Obviously, I work all the time. But you know, getting to step out and experience different worlds and like, you know, anything else that’s different from your constant schedule? I feel like it’s good for your health and even give you more creative energy really to see things differently and

Odette D’Aniello 24:01

see a different perspective of how Oh, yeah, for sure. Is going back to just a thought, right? Like we’re talking about the whole having a manufacturing plant. And then so that’s called the hub and spoke model. And that’s one that I saw was at Porto’s Bakery. I’m sure you’ve been there. Oh, yeah, for sure. Oh, my gosh. So if you ever get down to California and meet the family, they’re super friendly. And they just like gave us a backdoor tour of their facility. And it’s, it was amazing. It’s amazing. And it reminds me of you and your siblings, right, because there’s three siblings there and of that model, so I thought, maybe let some something that you could reach out to them. I actually have their number I could connect you.

Brittany Despi 24:55

Oh, yeah, I would love to. Yeah, that’d be great. Yeah.

Odette D’Aniello 24:57

I mean, it’s it’s a great it’s a great Rate model and I think that could really work with delight bakery because your products are delicious if thing if you’re ever in Seattle, South Seattle, go look up delight bakery. The food is so delicious. And just some savory, some sweet, but overall just amazing and the cakes. Fantastic. That’s okay, so I grew up making guava. And, you know, dough bash. Yeah. Yeah. So that’s that it’s always breezy back. I’m like, oh my god, I used to decorate like that. No. Other than like, I know you we talked about travel and all that, like how do you manage your like regular life and your business life. Um, it’s,

Brittany Despi 25:49

it’s, you know, toss up sometimes. I’m like, I’m having an easy life. I don’t have kids, I’m single. And the only one that depends on me is my dog. She just waits for me at home. But I also feel like it’s very important to have, you know, time to yourself, you know, I want to be a inspiration for single women as well, not just, you know, not just a woman-owned, but just because you don’t have kids or you don’t have a family doesn’t mean you can’t do things on your own. And it’s, I guess, with my age and millennials, I feel like it’s more common. But I feel like you can still have a fulfilling life without, you know, maybe it’s just not my time yet. But I think everybody can still have other interests and travel and you know, just have a business and have your family there to support you and still feel fulfilled.

Odette D’Aniello 26:49

And have a friend and have lots of friends and oh, yeah, lots of

Brittany Despi 26:53

friends. I have a lot of friends that love to come over and play module on the weekends. I have no shortage of friends that want to hang out always. Yeah.

Odette D’Aniello 27:03

But I must just say if you own a bakery, it’s easy to make friends.

Brittany Despi 27:07

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I think those are the those are the people that I have to, you know, say like, Oh, okay. People ask me like, Oh, you want a bakery? Oh, you know, I love you know, cakes. I love chocolate. Oh, okay. Well come by, you know, I’m always there, always. I’m always I’m always there to be found. So,

Odette D’Aniello 27:27

how many times people come in, like, I

Brittany Despi 27:29

know the owner. Oh, yeah. They’re always like, hey, it’s Brittany here is bringing the back and speak to Brittany.

Odette D’Aniello 27:36

That’s so funny. It’s, it’s really fun. I mean, gosh, it is the best business to have.

Brittany Despi 27:42

It’s not like, I mean, it’s very inviting. Like, there’s who doesn’t love to eat right? Like, anything, anytime someone like, you know, comes by just to say hi, they weren’t even really like, obviously, they were coming maybe to buy something. And, you know, I always have to force feed people. You know? That definitely. tradition there. So whether you like it or not, you’re gonna know.

Odette D’Aniello 28:08

When I’m there. Like when I dropped by your bakery? I come home. It’s like all kinds of goodies. All kinds of shop out there. Yeah. When he saw there’s plenty cocoa. Oh, yeah, for sure. It’s yeah. Feast?

Brittany Despi 28:22

Oh, yeah. Especially when people come out of town and visit because we have family or friends that say like, Oh, stop by my family’s bakery, you know, and they’ll always come by and I’ll always have like a bag for them to take home. You know, I always say like, leave some space in your packet there have to pack some bread away, because you’re gonna need. I was

Odette D’Aniello 28:43

just thinking about. I was like, we’re like I told you we’re opening up a place here in Arizona. And I was just thinking about, like, how am I going to bring this to Arizona? So I’m hoping you come?

Brittany Despi 28:56

Oh, yeah, I’ll pack a bag just for you.

Odette D’Aniello 28:59

Be amazing, too. So as we wrap up, I wanted to just ask one question, one last question. If you were to talk to your younger self, Brittany, what would you tell her?

Brittany Despi 29:15

I would tell her to not be so hard on herself. I feel like we want so much all the time. Even now. You know, everybody’s so I need this house or this car or I need my life to be this or that, you know, anything, that we’re always reaching for everything. When there’s so much to love, right where you are, you know, I feel like we don’t give enough gratitude to the life we already have. Because for so long. You are in a constant rat race to reach a certain goal or catch some sort of prize But if you think back to where you were five years ago, even maybe a year ago, the life you’re living right now is most likely what you wanted so badly. That the Yeah, exactly that you want it so badly. And to think that your past self wanted this, but yet, you’re still not satisfied and you’re still reaching when you could give gratitude for the life that you’ve wanted. Because you’ve already have it. And

Odette D’Aniello 30:28

you know what, that’s beautiful, because gratitude really is like acknowledgement that you received what you wanted. Exactly. That you received this blessing.

Brittany Despi 30:40

Oh, yeah, for sure. Right. Yeah. And I feel like, we don’t need to reach any more than we already have. Because we’re so blessed with so many things that we forget, you know, we forget that we have so many things that we’re blessed with. Oh, my dogs yelling at me.

Yeah, she’s whining. It’s it’s couch time for her. She’s wondering why I’m not on the couch with her.

Odette D’Aniello 31:21

Have couch time with your puppy. And I am so grateful that you came. And you, you know that I went to visit you and you said yes to being on this podcast. Such a pleasure talking to you, Brittany, thank you so much. I look forward to following up with you and seeing if you would come and visit.

Brittany Despi 31:45

Yeah, I would love to. There’s so much fun. Yeah, that’d be so fun.

Odette D’Aniello 31:48

Thank you so much.

Outro 31:54

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