Rise Up! The Baker Podcast with Mark Dyck

After more than seven years and 220 episodes, it's time to draw a line under the Rise Up! Podcast.  

In this episode, Mark shares his reasons for stopping the show, discusses what is next for the pod…

There are times when family is bigger than career and you need to figure things out.  And often, bread and baking becomes the way forward.  That's what happened to Mark Gavigan and Kristin Ryall, who…

Arlo Brandl returns to Rise Up! after seven years, still in Tecumseh, Michigan but in a new location on the main street and with a brand new book! 

In this episode, Mark and Arlo talk about the big m…

Laura Fessenden dreamed of being a record executive, but food nosed ahead of music at Moxie Bread Co. in Boulder, Colorado.  Starting as a barista, Laura took on more and more responsibility until he…

Kevin Masse started a small bakery in a small state, but he didn't stay small for long.  These days, Small State Provisions has two locations in the Greater Hartford, CT area, is open seven days per …

Scott France travelled extensively before settling down in Seattle, starting in the food business and joining Macrina in 2016.  Now he spends his days leading a team of over 200 employees and serving…

Travis Gerjets is back on the podcast and holy dinah, he's got a five year old bakery now! A coffee shop, cafe and airstream trailer full of awesomeness too.  

On this episode, Mark and Travis dig de…

Lisa and Nic Romano had careers in food and hospitality, and got into market baking so Nic could stay home with his young family.  But when business took off and they had a chance for a Big Leap, the…

Tim Kastner loves bread and he loves the solitude of bread baking.  He also loves working at the Bread Lab, a wholesale bread bakery in St. Paul, Minnesota.  

In this episode, Tim shares the origins …

When Chris DiPiazza needed a break from his IT business, he took a cooking class with a bread baker.  That class opened up a portal that changed his life and career.  From small beginnings, Chris slo…

Erica Leahy was working in an office job when she realized she had missed her calling.  So she gave up her stock options and health plan, left the office and set off for the life of a pastry chef.  A…

Gillian Lundgren was lured to the Bay Area by her favourite aunt and has never left.  Through a long and varied career as a baker in San Francisco, from bakeries to pop ups, she founded Black Jet Bak…

Carly Rossmeissl wants to experience everything baking has to offer.  Since graduating from baking school she's travelled from New York to Austin to Wisconsin, working with bread, cakes, desserts and…

There's something special about small town bakeries.  And when your bakery is on the main street of a small town in the heart of Sonoma, California and you're baking stellar bread from a massive bric…

When Mark Hart decided to go out on his own, he built a commercial baking space, but not for his own production baking.  Instead, he and his partner Luis Cabral started Rise Baking Lab, a teaching an…

Jonathan Stevens new book, The Hungry Ghost Bread Book, is a throwback to the first wave of books on artisan baking in the 1990's.  And for good reason, because Jonathan has been part of the North Am…

Holly Showalter was a pastry chef in Virginia when the big skies of Montana came calling to her.  After several years working different jobs and settling into the local community, Holly opened Wild O…

Today Mark is joined by Karen Bornarth of the Bread Bakers Guild of America and Martin Barnett of the Baking Association of Canada to talk about the state of the baking industry in North America. 

Th…

Once Lyndsey Bell realized that the corporate life was not for her, she and her partner Jay Valeri dove into the world of donuts and coffee.  Since they found their sweet spot and opened Bigfoot Donu…

When we get tired and frustrated as bakery owners, we often fall into the trap of thinking of our employees as expenses and not assets and partners.  Luckily, there are resources like the Good Jobs S…