How can pure, simple and joyful dedication to your craft become a business big enough to outgrow the version of you who started it?

For Ong Jing Ting, founder of Puffs and Peaks Bakery, that question has shaped every chapter of her 10-year journey. What started as a small Instagram side-hustle she ran with her mother slowly expanded into two physical bakeries, a growing team, and a life far bigger (and faster) than she ever imagined.

But scaling a dream isn’t the same as living one.

In this episode of the Clean Your Toilet Podcast, Jing Ting sits with anchor speaker Kat Aziz to revisit the quieter truths behind her success:

the early years of selling trinkets, the strange clarity of realising recipes made more sense than textbooks, the blessing of finding passion young, and the emotional whiplash of becoming “a businesswoman” when all she wanted was to bake, connect, and create joy.

They talk honestly about the turning points many creators face but seldom admit:

✨ When passion meets pressure — which one wins?

✨ When your business grows faster than you do, how do you keep from shrinking inside it?

✨ When money enters the picture, can joy survive the spreadsheets?

✨ What happens when you wake up one day and realise the thing you love now comes with payroll, leases, systems, and expectations?

Jing Ting shares the moments she wanted to rewind everything, the fear of losing joy to responsibility, the bittersweet nostalgia of “simpler days” working alongside her mother, and the discipline it takes to build a business rooted not in expansion, but in quality, community and feeling.

Because for her, success isn’t how many shops she has — it’s whether the people who walk through her doors feel seen, nourished, and a little more confident than when they arrived.

If you’ve ever:

Turned your passion into a job and wondered if you broke something along the way

Struggled with the fear that growth might cost you yourself

Tried to balance joy with responsibility

Questioned whether your dream still belongs to you

…this conversation will feel like a deep breath you didn’t know you needed.

🧼 Your joy is the spark.

🚽 Your responsibilities are the clutter.

💩 The overwhelm is the mess in between.

Clear it, understand it, and maybe — like Jing Ting — you’ll remember why you started in the first place.

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