We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Gomo Masilo. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Gomo below.

Hi Gomo, thanks for joining us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

I have always grown to be the youngest everywhere I go. I started school early and therefore my friends and peers were always a bit older than me.
More than anything I love to learn from people’s mistake and put that to my drive.
They say “show me your friends and I’ll show you your future”, I had seen how much everyone was always driven and striving for success.

Being on my early twenties now and already have achieved all that I have, it came from one goal, to have freedom.
More than anything the mission is to be able to have the freedom to live life the way we are supposed to, enjoying and experiencing it.

Gomo, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I started baking at a very young age, and it is not something i knew I wanted to pursue as a career.
When I was 10th grade, being born and raised in South Africa we had an opportunity to do hospitality in high-school as a subject. I then studied Professional cookery and kitchen management in college.
I have always known I wanted to do business though. I then started my first home bakery, Royal bake in 2019 and thereafter started an online sports brand and few other online brands Innie Minnie Desserts, and now currently published kitchen journal ‘Desserts made simple’ available on Amazon.

Am more proud of my firmness to still try and continue even when something fails. Giving up has never been an option. The great things take time and success is all about trial and error. If one thing doesn’t work you try a different route.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

Putting pressure on myself. To be driven is one thing but putting pressure on yourself makes you more stressful. We are constantly raising the far for success forgetting to look back and seeing how far we have come and appreciate all the achievements. This results to feeling like you are never getting to the end yet you keep expanding without realizing it.

Can you open up about how you funded your business?

I started my first business with my lunch money. Saving up lunch money at school to help for startup ingredients and materials.
It was a scary experience to start but a part of me knew it was something I wanted to do and even to this day i am proud i took that step.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: gomo.masilo