Episode 230: From Donut Shop to Digital Empire | Mayly Tao | Donut Princess, Author & Brand Consultant
Mayly Tao, known as the Donut Princess of Los Angeles, is a brand consultant, author of An American Dream, With Sprinkles, and host of the podcast Short N’ Sweet. In this inspiring episode, she joins Kara to share how she transformed her family's 24-hour donut shop into a social media phenomenon and then used that platform to launch a multi-hyphenate career rooted in joy, service, and community. They talk about grief, burnout, and honoring her Cambodian refugee roots, as well as what it takes to show up authentically online. Mayly unpacks how she helps others tell their stories, build their brands, and reconnect with purpose, one bold move at a time.
This episode is packed with mindset coaching for women, female entrepreneur stories, and insights into personal development, leadership, and redefining success on your own terms.
“There’s so much to do, so much to share and leave behind for the next generations. We have to take action every day to make it all happen. There are so many opportunities waiting for us.”
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Chapters:
(00:00) Growing Up in a 24-Hour Donut Shop
(03:00) Refugee Roots and Family Entrepreneurship
(05:00) From Communications Major to Social Media Pioneer
(07:00) Building DK’s Donuts Into a Global Brand
(10:00) Life After Selling the Shop: Identity, Grief, and Growth
(12:00) Writing Her Book: The American Dream, With Sprinkles
(14:00) Launching a Podcast to Uplift API and Women Leaders
(16:00) Mayly’s Philosophy on Taking Action and Seizing Moments
(19:00) Creating a Balanced Life After Burnout
(22:00) Her Digital Marketing Strategy for Modern Brands
(25:00) Why Storytelling and Community Matter More Than Algorithms
(28:00) Finding Joy in Work and Reconnecting With Inner Purpose
(30:00) Embracing the New Chapter and Staying Curious
(33:00) What Makes a Powerful Lady
(36:00) Mayly’s Manifestation List and How You Can Help
I am working in a donut shop at the age of six years old. My parents, they worked countless hours. We had a 24 hour bakery that we operate in, and that's DKS Donuts in Santa Monica.
That's Mayly Tao. I'm Kara Duffy, and this. Is the Powerful Ladies Podcast.
My eye robot is vacuuming. So just give it like 20 seconds. Okay. It's good.
That is the first time that we've had to pause the going forward with the podcast because of a robot. So that's exciting. I have been looking forward to this conversation ever since I watched the Donut King documentary, and I love documentaries. I love finding ones that are quirky or interesting.
I've lived in Southern California for over 10 years now, and saw the donut shops was like, something's going on here. Never thought about the story behind it, and it was such an interesting story. And your story in particular was really interesting to me because you're bringing so many parts of the legacy and the heritage and the story with everything modern, hence the iRobot that's currently vacuuming into the picture.
So that's what I'm excited to talk to you about today. Let's dive right in and tell everyone your name, where you are in the world, and what you're up to.
My name is Mayly Tao. I'm in Los Angeles, California, and I'm super excited to be here and chat with you.
So let's tell everybody about your, you're doing so many things.
Where do you wanna begin? Where do you think we should begin this story? Of all the things that you're up to.
I think before we begin to, what I'm up to now, I think we have to dive into what I've done in the past, and I always say that because you have to know your past in order to guide your present and future.
I was born here in Southern California just. Another Southern California girl. My parents were both refugees and they came over here because of the KH Rouge. Essentially the genocide that happened in Cambodia displaced them, and they sought asylum here in America. Luckily they were granted the asylum here and realized that there were another set of problems.
When you're going to a whole new country, you don't know the language. You are coming with all your friends and fam all your family, and you've just survived this war that just very traumatic. And my mom, he, she started off working off as a seamstress. She worked for a penny of peace. My dad, actually, he was picked up at LAX by Uncle Ted, who in the Donut King documentary, and there were maple bars in the backseat.
So you see how this is set up for my mom. She saved up enough money with her brothers and was able to lease a donut shop. That donut shop ended up being it from my dad's family. And my dad, he went straight into donuts, that was just on my dad's side. Everybody had a donut shop.
My uncle even started a bakery supply company. My, my auntie has a croissant factory, so it's all in my family of this, these family of entrepreneurs that are into donuts and baked goods. And my parents, they met ranged. They came here and they had me. And lo and behold, I'm working in a donut shop at the age of six years old.
My parents, they worked countless hours. We had a 24 hour bakery that we operate in, and that's DKS Donuts in Santa Monica. And. I spent afternoons there. I spent weekends there. I went to Costco. I was riding on the back of an orange cart with my dad getting supplies. This is what a little bit of my childhood was like.
I went away to college. I was like, I'm never coming back to this bakery again. Like I, this is plan B. If it gets really bad, I will just come back, but. I'm gonna study really hard. My mom's you know what, you should be a news reporter. People love your personality. And I was like, all right mom, I'm gonna do that.
So I am studying communications at UCSD. I'm also commuting back and forth to help my parents still on the weekends because they need help. And essentially I graduated. But the month before I graduated, I actually interned at a news station and I realized that I absolutely hated it. And in despair, I was just, again, so confused.
You're going to college and you study for this one thing, and then at the end you decide, actually, I don't wanna do that. So in September I came back and helped and came back and helped my parents at the bakery again. And I remember dragging my feet through the bakery and just being like, what am I doing here?
I wasted so much time and so much money and energy, but this time I had a different outlook and I had a vision that I don't think my family really believed that it could become, and I, my vision was. I believe that we have a great product and a great service here. I want to make this the most popular donut shop in the entire world.
How I was gonna get there, I wasn't sure at that point, but it was all tiny baby steps and within the next 10 years, I blew up the business to over 90 K followers worldwide Attention. We have the Donut King film. We were doing donuts for. All sorts of large companies like Netflix, Hulu we even delivered some to like nasa.
We were just everywhere at all at once. And I did that through the power of social media. And I did that through marketing and really just perseverance and working really hard. And after 40 long years, my mom decided to retire and we decided to sell the donut shop, which was so much of my identity for so long.
And the Donut King film had just come out like a few years before, so we were getting people that would see us on a airplane, they, and they'd come and visit us, and we were getting so busy with what we were doing, but, I think it was really time for my mom to take into account her health.
And she essentially was like, I'm ready to sell it. And I said, that's okay with me. I hope I fulfilled your dream of this donut shop. For me, I physically could not stand on my feet anymore. I developed plantar fasciitis in my foot because I was standing for eight to 20 hours a day working at the donut shop, so I physically couldn't take it over.
But I believe we had a really great run. But that's how I came up with the name Donut Princess. And so I spent the next year I don't know, struggling with my identity. Who am I? Like I'm not, I don't have this donut shop anymore. Am I still the donut princess? What? Who am I?
And so much of my identity was attached to the shop. So I definitely feel like I struggled a little bit with the mourning of. Letting go of a small business. And so I spent that year traveling and I also wrote a book. It's about my mom's journey over here from Cambodia to America, and also our legacy through donuts.
And just to see my mom hold that book in her hands for the first time was an insane and incredible experience, just to know that. I thought that her story was worthwhile and worth telling, and I always believed that representation matters. So I spent the next year going on a book tour, talking public speaking, and really sharing the story because I've always.
Wanted to write this book since I was eight years old. But my mom was like no. You're not gonna be an author. You're gonna be a business person. Yeah. And I was like, okay, mom. I'm just, and I, it was very, for me and my culture, like respecting my parents was such a big thing.
Yeah. And because they went through a whole genocide and didn't get to have an education. That was like their thing. They're like, please just get an education like we wish we could have, but we didn't. And so now we're here, we're in the present, and I I started a podcast and I've just been really gravitating towards things that spark joy.
Things that I wanna explore that could potentially be my passion. And so currently I have my podcast. It's the Donut Princess Podcast. Short and sweet. I uplift a API Leaders, I empower women and I share small business tips. I just had wished that there was a podcast. When I was younger, that could explore different careers, different entrepreneurial stories, and share that.
I wish those resources were available when I was younger, they weren't. But now I wanna create that. I wanna memorialize these stories and uplift these people. I make content for brands. So that's been a great journey too of like really sparking that creativity of being a woman and again, finding the topics and the niches that really speak to me.
I what else do I do? I feel like I do a lot. I'm, I've got some really exciting ideas for content for my personal brand that are coming up. And so I've just been diligently working on that. On the side, I help I consult for brands with social media because that's essentially what I did with my business.
And I either, tell them exactly how to grow and what type of content to shoot, or sometimes they'll hire me on to create content for them. But I'm gonna be releasing a, like a little content course later on this year. And again, I just think because we live in such a digital age, there's no reason why we can't.
Still, memorialize or just keep these pieces of information for the next generation.
Yeah, absolutely. I think what I find most interesting about your approach is that you have an idea and you're like, okay, let's start it. Let's make it. And there aren't a lot of people who have that confidence.
I think there's been more people on this podcast that have that confidence than not based on who we're bringing into the conversation. But where did that come from? Was it from your, what you saw your family doing? Was it from a, there's nothing to lose approach. Because so many people get stopped in the, I have an idea now what?
And they never take that first or second step. So where have you learned to just try it, keep going. If it's a good idea, let's test it out.
I believe I got that trait actually from my mom because in everything that she does, she always says. Don't wait too long, and I translate that to strike the iron when it's hot.
And it's, it occurs in so many things that she's taught me. For example, really small things like, hey, if you, if somebody gets you a Tupperware of food. Make sure you wash the Tupperware and return it back to them really fast. Or if you see there's a lot of boxes around, make sure you clean up fast because otherwise it's just gonna be there.
And when she needs something to be done, she wants it done five seconds ago. And. I think that's really trained me to not sleep on an idea especially to see what she's been through and the preciousness of life in general. And I feel like there's just such limited time. I know that we, when we were in our, like when.
Teens and twenties were like, we have the rest of our life ahead of us. But now that I'm like, in my thirties, I'm like, there needs to be more time in the day. There's so much I wanna get done. There's so much I wanna leave for this next generation. And that just starts with taking action every day. Yeah,
it's, there's so many things that, people, I think, like you and I who are in the, let's make things and let's build it and let's, like, why not space?
We always have a list way bigger than what we're actually working on. And I from, I'm so am an impatient person by nature. I've been working on it. It's one of the things I've been working on most of my life. Me too. But it's like the, why are we waiting? Whether it's to go to a great new restaurant in that opened or to start an idea or it's like, what are we waiting for?
Like there. We can spend our days in the regular routine of wake up and work out and go to work and make dinner and go back to bed and dishes and laundry, but none of that is filling up at least my soul.
Yeah. In
the same way that doing things and doing things with people is in the same way. But a course that also leads to finding balance.
What do you do to find balance in bringing your new ideas to market and also maintaining your own health and wellbeing?
So I would say I had, like before we, when we had the shop, there was no sense of work life balance. It was work. A hundred percent of the day. Okay. And it was really hard to turn it off.
But now that the shop is done and I've been really filling my cup with like different activities and different things that I really enjoy, what I found that really helps is. One thing that I always do is, like I used to do, is overbook myself. And sometimes I catch myself doing that again because again, I want it to be a productive day.
I wanna just get it done. But what I realized, which is that the result of that is burnout. And. The lack of time to participate in self-care and I really love self-care things like I love taking baths, I love working out, I love going on walks. I love like listening to audio books. I love just de connecting from my work and my phone for a little bit.
And I feel like that has really helped me to learn balance. Another thing that I. I learning more and more as I go along is if I wanna get a project done, instead of putting all this pressure to do it on one day, I'll break it up in different days. I'll break it up in like different, sections. So it's more digestible for me.
It's actually more I feel more prepared instead of frazzled. And I'm really able to get it done and feel less stressed. That's just been like a really big thing, like a big breakthrough for me because I wanna do so many things all at once.
I wanna spend a little bit of time talking about your kind of digital marketing approach.
You, you know how Elise is laid out in the donut. King is your family shop was following a very traditional model. And you what you saw, opportunities to really have fun and be competitive and to bring so much marketable storytelling into it. Were, was it a matter of like, why aren't we doing this? You mentioned before you wanted to be the, most well-known and biggest donut shop in the world, but like it was such a creative approach to things.
Were you be, who were you being inspired by? Where were you thinking we should do that? Oh, here's something else we could do, because you really were transforming it into something so much bigger than the traditional approach.
I believe that my approach was, I wanted something for everyone. It was inclusivity and diversity.
And to be honest, I did not actually have that vulnerability at first with my brand. I actually hid behind my brand for a really long time because I was like, I don't wanna be associated with it. But as time went on, I was like. Oh no. I have to be the face of this company. I have to speak out and tell the story that maybe other brands aren't doing right now.
I just like, for me, I always wanna be the first at things, and I wanna be really different, and I wanna really approach it from a different perspective. And I don't know if it's because I know that my parents went through so much and I just feel so lucky to be here that I'm like, I don't have much to lose.
Or if it's more. This like spontaneity creativity that I have in me that it's let's just try it. Like it's not gonna hurt. Let's just try it. And with that though, it comes with a lot of persistence and a lot of consistency, but I feel that with my brand. I just wanted to have fun with it.
I just wanted to figure out. A different way to solve this issue. And yeah, like just really enjoy and enjoy my own growth with that. Because if it was successful, I'd be like, oh my gosh, I did that. And if it was a failure, I'd probably be sad about it for a little bit. But I'd be like, okay, what else can we do?
And there's just so much fun brought into it. Like even though you were trying and testing new things, there just seemed to be a level of. Of bringing joy back into it as well. Whether it was like the crazy donut ideas or the different themes there. I saw you having like bringing joy back into a business model that was a lot of copy paste for different people because that model worked.
People are going in and wanting the same thing often, so you're like, great, we're gonna keep our regular customers happy. But you saw that missing opportunity to bring in people who are looking for something more. And who wanted excitement in this kind, in this everyday space? How are you translating that into the accounts that you're working on today for social media and marketing?
It's pretty crazy how much the algorithms have changed. The structure has changed, even the favorability in how we consume media. And when I started back in the day, it was like photos, maybe carousels, and that was. And then stories came in, more video content became more popular. And what I feel that is, is the most fun and creative part of creating with brands now is not, it's not, oh, it's not donuts, it's, it could be, burgers.
It could be dentistry, it could be Pilates, it could be a nonprofit. It could be anything. The thing is. On social media, now your business has the opportunity to live as an entity. It ha it. It has its own platform that you can talk about whatever you want, but you also have a more informed audience who knows that they're getting bombarded with, by this.
Subscribe to this, join this. And so that's where I feel that the storytelling aspect and the branding really will set brands apart. Aside from also having an amazing product, service and ambiance. And. I feel that the reason why I enjoy it so much is because it's always a new challenge, and there are a lot of things that are stored in my head that I know have worked before.
And what I always come back to is creating your community, finding your audience, and speaking to them and showing them that you hear them and you're here to solve that issue. You're here to solve that pain point.
It is. There's not enough. I think focus on, to your point, the community and the storytelling that you wanna do.
I think everyone gets so sucked into the science of digital marketing and they're not thinking about the art and the actual relationship side, because that's really what allows everyone to be their own unicorn as well. Like I wanna hear about you and your story and what makes you interesting and unique and less about.
You know what you're doing to optimize the current algorithm. And I think it's been so frustrating for so many of the businesses that I work with where they just want to know that they can set and forget like an Instagram plan. And I'm like, I wish we could and. We can, if it's like you just need one to function, but we really can't if you want to grow.
Yeah. And for small business owners it's overwhelming because there's so many things to do as and it's one of the biggest pain points. Do I have to get on TikTok now? Do I have to go to video? Do I have to add this next new thing? And of course you don't have to. It's all what goes back to your plan?
I think we, in all of the things that we think we should do that we see other people doing, we forget to even ask basic questions like, is our audience even there?
I definitely agree. Yeah. I agree with that. And I think there's just, yeah, some small businesses think it's like a cookie cutter thing.
It's okay, I'll, pay for your consulting or I'll pay for you to make content and, but it's it needs soul. It needs the driving factor. It needs vulnerability, it needs. It needs more than just a picture or a video. It needs to strike a chord with someone. It needs to show emotion, it needs to show hard work.
There are so many different angles you can take with social media, but again, it takes time and work and planning, and a lot of small business owners just. Simply don't have that time. They're too busy putting out all these other fires, which I understand. Like I was there putting out the fires and doing the social media, and that's why I always think that, finding the right person to handle your social media, if you're a business owner out there and you really want someone who's informed and passionate and dedicated to your story and brand and everything around it.
That's the type of person you want. You don't really want somebody who's just gonna take a few pictures, do a few videos. There's more to it. There's way more to it. Yeah.
And there's a bigger holistic marketing story that needs to be told. Yeah. I've had so many clients call and say, I need a Twitter strategy.
And I'm like, I don't think you have a product yet. Maybe we figure that out first. Yeah. Let's go back. Yeah. When you look at the, how your life has evolved, obviously I think I've asked a lot of people on the podcast, would 8-year-old you be surprised of where you are now and I think 8-year-old you, based on what you've said, might have been thought your two choices were donuts or anything else.
If you really look at it, what about 8-year-old you do you see showing up in what you're doing now?
Absolutely 100% 8-year-old me is out and thriving right now. She wrote the book that she's always wanted to write, even though her mom said no probably a million times before. She said yes.
She's getting to create content and make magic every day, either with brands or with. My personal brand and really discovering who that inner child is again, and I'm having so much fun right now. I am just in this state of discovery and it's also just again, a little bit more balanced than how life was before, even though it was so rewarding to, get up at 4:00 AM and make sure everything was great and fill these large orders and be the face and do all that.
That was awesome and that was a great chapter, but 8-year-old me is having the time of her life right now. Just trying to figure out again and letting, I think the big thing is that I'm letting myself explore and that is a new thing, right? Because. Before I, before all of this, I was like listening to my parents.
I was trying to be a good girl. I was trying to just make them happy, and now I'm really discovering that I'm, I have my own path of happiness and that's okay.
When you think of the words powerful and ladies, do they mean something different to you when they're separate versus when they're next to each other?
Yeah, I believe that. They have different meanings when they're put together and separate. Powerful on its own. I don't know. I grew up where it's a, it's still a masculine dominated society, but like when you think of powerful, you're thinking like more masculine power, like physical power or political power.
Something of that when you think of ladies. Ladies just like. Gentle and it's feminine and it's polite. And it could refer to if you think of the, like the image of ladies, it could be any, a lot of different images. But when you put the two together, powerful ladies, those two is like a force you can't reckon with.
Women are the backbone of our society and they hold so much together. They are so powerful. They have so much inner strength that I see just again. Being a little bit older now and seeing what women have to go through, especially through their career, balancing their spouse, pregnancy, having kids, and I haven't even embarked on these two chapters yet, so I am extremely terrified, but to see what women can do and create and be is. An incredible thing to see. And I that's why on my podcast, I primarily interview women because I'm obsessed with what the women are doing out there. Yeah. And all I wanna do is also help them in the way that I love, which is storytelling and. I think that Powerful Ladies is an incredible and a amazing addition to any team.
Like if there's a women leader, like that it's going down and I respect powerful ladies so much.
When you think of someone who has grown up in LA who's the typical California girl. You don't think of someone who is waking up at 4:00 AM how was your California experience different than maybe your peers or the people you're going to school with, and how did that impact how you view the world today?
My days waking up at 4:00 AM spending a lot of time at the shop spending. Overnight shifts at the shop, doing deliveries, picking up supplies. There were a lot of things that I was doing that my peers were simply not, my peers were like at tech companies, they were at, corporate.
There was a different flow to their lifestyle and to, to the way my life was and my Southern California experience growing up here. I always felt different because I was doing activities that just really my peers were not up to. They were gonna the beach, gonna the mall gonna, the movies, they were just, they were chilling or they had a corporate job or a tech job.
And for me, I was really like hands on with the business. I was waking up at 4:00 AM I was doing deliveries, picking up supplies dealing with a lot of worker drama. The list goes on and on. I was like answering calls like while, while at dinner and putting out fires all all throughout the day.
And I would say that, my friends, I think my younger friends would tease me about it and I was always really stuck between these two worlds. I still feel like I am, but my college friends and beyond, I think that they were really compassionate and understanding their, like how? How are you doing this?
Whoa. Like mainly this is some crazy stuff you're up to, like this is not normal and we respect you for that. And I'm really glad that I got to have those types of friends in my life because what that looked like is, as the business grew, either I was super busy, but sometimes I would get to go to the beach with them.
Maybe not as often as they went to the beach, but I did get to go to the beach with them. I did get to go on trips. There's definitely. Memories of me at a Vegas beach club where I'm like posting on Instagram and like answering phone calls. But that was like my idea of balance is like I would love to still hang out with my friends, go on trips and explore, but still come back and work really hard and plan for the next day, the next week, the next month.
So my experience is very unique. I actually even used to write poems as a kid and talk about this. In between world that I was in. And the Robert Frost poem of taking the world less traveled. I'm so glad I did that. And I'm also really glad that I had and developed friends that really understood me and really respected what I did for me.
I always would. Know what the struggles of people are going through. I might not know exactly, but I do have an idea of it. And for me, my contribution to them is acknowledging and recognizing them for it. And that goes such a long way of showing that compassion of I know you had a rough week, like you deserve this, or This is for you.
I got this for you. Like you've been working so hard and I know how hard it's to juggle and I just. I, there's something that really calls me to keep doing that for a lot of my entrepreneur friends because you just need that little boost to keep going sometimes. And I know because when I was working at the shop.
Some customers would come in and they'd acknowledge me, and that went so far for me. It gave me more energy and more boost that someone out there could understand what I'm doing and just look at me like a human being. Because in entrepreneurial life, you're not seen as a human being. Sometimes you're seen as a robot or a overruling ruler.
Again, I feel like compassion is such a big root of this human connection and, the entrepreneur journal, the entrepreneurial journey is tough. It's, it gets lonely and it, you get misunderstood. But again, I think it's way more worthwhile and you have more or less control of how your life is gonna go.
We ask everyone on the podcast where you put yourself on the Powerful Lady scale. If zero is average everyday human, and 10 is the most powerful lady you can imagine, where would you put yourself on the scale today and on an average day
today? Today would be like, today is an eight. It's a good day. I think on average it's a six or seven. And that's just because I'm just hard on myself. That's that's again, something I'm working towards. And something I know a lot of us are dealing with. I'm just hard on myself because I just want to do so many things. But I'm slowly learning that I need to make myself happy, make sure I'm taken care of, and then go out there and share my gifts with people.
But yeah, that would be my scale for today and for average. What are you looking forward to for the back half of this year? I can't believe that it's almost the back half of this year, but I'm really looking forward to getting to know myself. I'm really looking forward to this new chapter, these new ideas that I have, and I'm excited.
I am also gonna get married next year and congratulations. So personal things are happening, and that's really exciting and. I'm just excited to deepen my relationship with my mom. I think that before it was like business, and most of our conversations were about that, but really showing her this love and creating this space for her where she can feel loved and spend time, like actual quality time with each other.
I think I'm really looking forward to that. And I've got. Again some upcoming things that are secret right now. So again, I'm really just excited for new beginnings, new chapters, new identity, and just growth overall.
I love asking everyone what do you need? What's on your to manifest list, your wishlist.
This community is powerful and connected and loves to collaborate and support each other, and I really believe that you never know who has that. Next key that you're looking for. So what are some things that you need that we can help you create right now? I
need. I need an editor for, to edit the content that I'm doing.
I'm doing it right now and it's great and I obviously, every entrepreneur wants to put every little touch on everything, but that takes up the most of my time. So an editor maybe looking for a new podcast editor just because. It's just a little inconsistent for me. I'm looking for more brands to work with, so anything with the health and wellness space, Asian Americans, food anything in that realm.
And I'm really just looking for the community of women that is super supportive and i'm just, I just wanna find those types of women who will see what you're up to and go, bam, I wanna connect you with this person because I know this person has a lot of knowledge. And why? Because I would do the exact same for anybody in my network.
And personally, I just need to, again, practice more balance and learn to love myself more.
Okay. Amazing. And for the first editor that you need, is that video content editing? Okay. Yeah. Video content. Content or YouTube editing. That would be amazing. Okay. I have some people I can send you away already.
Yay. We, I love what you're up to. I love your energy. I love the, like really just heart led pure space that you come from and what you're trying to create. It's. Who I, why I started this podcast and who I wanna be surrounded myself with as well. And I just wanna say thank you for doing the work you've done and being so dedicated.
It's what you've taken on and created everything on its own is such a big thing. And you've done so many of them. Writing a book is a huge issue, not a huge issue, a huge deal. Transforming your family business and what you did with social media. Huge deal. Having your own consulting agency, huge deal, and now adding the podcast on and everything else that you're doing, having, being a multi entrepreneur is not, you're in a very small percentage of people in that space.
So I wanna acknowledge you for believing in yourself and making it happen, and maintaining the energy to keep saying yes when things are crossing your path. 'cause it can be easy to get defeated or overwhelmed. I am. Yeah. I'm happy that you haven't, you keep seeing the possibilities of everything.
Thank you so much.
That means a lot to me. Seriously, and that's just exactly what I need to hear today.
Oh, yay. Now a nine. For everyone who wants to support you, hire you, work with you, be on your podcast, where can they find, connect and follow you?
You guys can find me on Instagram at maly Tao. That's M-A-Y-L-Y-T-A-O. I also have a business Instagram at donut princess la D-O-N-E-T-P-R-I-N-C-E-S-S la also donut princess la.com.
You can order a donut bouquet. So that's another thing I forgot to mention. That's a little side thing is we make and deliver donut bouquets as well. But that's a site where you can also find a link to the book. And a little bit more about me and my Donut Princess journey. I have a podcast called Short and Sweet, a Donut Princess podcast.
You can find that on Spotify, apple Podcast, Stitcher. And if you haven't watched the Donut King film already, definitely watch it so you can educate yourself on Southern California donut shops and what Cambodians contributed to that. And that's my great uncle who, who started and pioneered that. And yeah, send me a message.
I would love to connect. I, again, there's always so many room for possibilities. I love networking and connecting. And I just wanna say thank you for your time and for letting me tell my story here with you and for all the amazing affirmative. Words that you gave me today. More energy to you.
All the links to connect with Mayly, all the things she's up to. Her book, her podcast, and the Donut King documentary are in our show notes@thepowerfulladies.com. Please subscribe to this podcast wherever you're listening, and leave us a rating and review. Come join us on Instagram at Powerful Ladies, and if you're looking to connect directly with me, visit kara duffy.com or Kara Duffy on Instagram.
I'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Until then, I hope you're taking on being powerful in your life. Go be awesome and up to something you love.
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