
A newsletter about pastries & personal growth.
...from an ex-financial planner who moved to Paris for baking school.
Hi! I'm Maddie.
For almost a decade, I worked as a financial planner, consulting with clients on their stock options and company IPOs, 401(k)s and employee benefits...
Until, in my late thirties, I began pursuing my passion for baking as a professional path.
What does that look like, exactly?
Leaving my home base in the Pacific Northwest to land in a tiny top-floor flat in Paris, where I’m now a student in the Bread Baking & Viennoiseries program at Ferrandi.
The rest is history—or at least history in the making! Enter Breakfast Club: a newsletter celebrating pastries and personal growth in the company of others.


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