From Hollywood Love Story to Baking Empire with Audrey Dunham
About this episode
Audrey Dunham shares her journey from a Hollywood love story to building a baking empire while navigating motherhood and business challenges.
Ep. 211 - Kimberly is joined by lifestyle entrepreneur, author, and fitness expert Audrey Dunham for an intimate, hilarious, and inspiring conversation about motherhood, marriage, and the realities of building a business from the ground up. Audrey reveals the quintessential Hollywood story of how she met her husband, famed comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, while working at a restaurant in Studio City—and how she ended up touring the world as his fitness trainer for seven years. And she opens up about her whirlwind IVF journey and the surprise of naturally delivering her fraternal twin boys, Jack and James, 5 weeks early. She shares the raw (and exhausting) reality of navigating the first two years of raising twins all while building her business: Autumn Sons Baking Co. Chapter Timestamps: 01:04 – IVF, Natural Twin Birth, and Surviving the Early Years 04:39 – Hollywood Meet-Cute: Meeting Jeff Dunham 06:04 – Touring Logistics with a Celebrity Husband 08:18 – Pivoting into the Allergen-Free Food Industry 11:24 – Rebranding Peanut's Bake Shop to Autumn Suns 14:52 – Sourcing, Tariffs, and Scaling across the Border 16:47 – The Manufacturing Nightmare: 7,000 Defective Cookie Mixes…
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