We were lucky to catch up with Tristan Evans recently and have shared our conversation below.
Tristan, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s jump to the end – what do you want to be remembered for?
I hope one day to pass my business on to my children and then to their children. I want them to go further in the business and gain the understanding of the business. Generational wealth and knowledge is something that I hold dear to me.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers
So Hello my name is Tristan Evans and i am 35 years old, I am a wife and mother of 4 amazing children. I own a business called Evan’s Heavenly Sweets LLC. I have been in business for about 11 years now. I make anything cake, cookies, pies, and etc. my family calls that baker chick and i love it! Okay so let me rewind and give you a history of how this business came to be. I started baking when i was about 7 years old I loved to bake with my aunt Tonya, from there baking has never left me. every holiday I was always baking for a family gathering when we had one especially for a birthday. I started my business in 2012 my first professional cake was my son’s first birthday cake I posted a picture of his cake and then my business started taking off based off that one photo. I enjoy my business it’s a passion of mine. Over the years I have taken a lot of training classes and I even studied at scottsdale’s Le cordon Bleu of culinary arts to perfect my business in every way that I can because i love what i do and i want to succeed in life.
We’d love to hear the story of how you turned a side-hustle into a something much bigger.
I started as a stay at home mom. I struggled to find work in traditional workplaces between the rigid schedules or lack of creativity to keep me engaged. I had bounced around different passion projects until i ultimately started baking. I come from a long line of great family bakers in my family and started with simple creations for my children’s birthday parties. I quickly fell in love and started learning more about the craft to fine tune my skills. I attended Le Cordon Bleu for a short time and started very small. Once I committed to making this into a business I started the process to get trademarked and registered. As I learned from school I worked to implement those things in my business.
We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?
Growing up in the church one thing I had to unlearn is to stop treating my business as a charity. Having a large church family a lot of my first clients were members of my church. Having my first customers so close to me led to some initial conflict around providing services within those communities. The pastors in my immediate church family were very understanding and never asked me to compromise my price and not only encouraged me to charge my price but to ensure they never received charity from me. Now outside of my immediate church community there have been people who have asked me to compromise on my pricing. I had to learn my business was that, it is a business not a charity offering deep discounts for favors was not going to keep my business funded.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.evansheavenlysweets.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evans_heavenly_sweets_llc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evansheavenly.sweets.1/
Image Credits
These are the cakes and cookies photos that I have personally taken and I have done for clients. except for the professionals photos were taken by Kirstyn Blake.