We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Gomo Masilo. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Gomo below.
Gomo, so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.
Everyday we become a different version of ourselves, who we are today is not who we were yesterday. Accepting the personality growth and expressing myself through my craft has grown with me, and that’s no better way to keep your creativity alive.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I’m a GOAT aspiring pastry chef, born and raised in South Africa, Johannesburg and I currently reside in the states.
I always say the ‘P’ in pastry stands for patience. Being able to apply the concept in both my life and career has brought me this far. Patience has always been the key to every door that was opened for me.
Being given the opportunity to work internationally, learning from great chefs and cooking for super stars and big names was something I never thought I’d see myself do.
With the midst of it all I have a big interest in entrepreneurship. At the age of 19, I started my first registered home bakery, started a sports apparel brand and published a kitchen Journal ‘Desserts Made Simple’ that comes with recipes and perfect book for jotting down some of your own personal favorites and kitchen notes, available on Amazon and i am currently working on releasing another amazing kitchen journal for chefs.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Consistency, planning and execution. There is a quote, “saying you are going to do something doesn’t mean you are actually doing it”.
It is always great to have ideas but not executing them is just as good as having nothing, and for every idea, working on it to keep it alive requires consistency. That way the growth will be inevitable and to begin it all you need to have a good plan, go with it and stick with it.
Awesome, really appreciate you opening up with us today and before we close maybe you can share a book recommendation with us. Has there been a book that’s been impactful in your growth and development?
Emotional intelligence habits by Travis Bradbury.
Success all comes from decision making. Whether you choose to get up and go to the gym for the body you want or choose to get in a fight at work for something avoidable, and ruin your whole day, it all comes from decision making. Leaning how to control your emotions and how to react, when and why, is a very important skill one should master.
With that you are able to control and take charge of how most of your day goes, and therefore every decision made is solely based of well thought and not emotions that are all over the place.
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