Life’s Recipe: Mixing Work, Home, and Peace to Create the Rise

She mixed chaos with courage—and found her flavor. “In this episode, Lisa Vasquez sits down with Rhodes Gabriel the founder of Pinched & Sugared Pastries, a woman who left the chaos of nurse staffing and payroll to reclaim her rhythm through baking and reinvention. Together, they explore the emotional toll of aging, menopause, body image, and cognitive shifts—how life’s ingredients begin to crumble, and the final product no longer resembles who you used to be. This is a recipe for renewal: mixing workplace burnout, home life overwhelms, and the hunger for peace into something structured, sweet, and soul restoring. A powerful conversation for every woman navigating her second act.