About

Hi, I’m Raina.

I’m the founder of Sprinkle Me Sugar, a macaron boutique in Jackson, Tennessee. Before the storefront there were two years of baking macarons at three in the morning in an alley kitchen with cracked tile and cabinets coming off the hinges, while three small children slept upstairs.

Nobody tells you how lonely that part is. That is what this show is for.

Proofed is real conversations with women building baking businesses with heart. No hustle talk, no shortcuts, just the honest version from people who are actually in it. New episodes weekly, made to be listened to while you bake.

Raina Shults
From the host
bkd local

Built by a baker, for bakers.

Everything Emily said about being a professional from a home kitchen is the reason Bkd Local exists. I built it because cottage food bakers deserve a real place to sell, not a marketplace that treats us like a hobby and not a social feed where orders get lost in the DMs.

Notes from the kitchen

A short letter most weeks: what I’m learning, who I’m talking to next, and the parts of this work nobody warns you about.