Everybody likes to feel good. For some people that's simply the absence of pain. For other it's chocolate cake.

As consumers we all like to splurge from time to time. Even if we’re pinching pennies, there’s always going to be a special something we’ll make an exception for because it makes us feel good, mentally, physically or emotionally. If you’re that entrepreneur, who can intuit what customers need, you just might have hit on the secret to success.

Liz Anderson is owner of Honey Hive Treats, a locally owned sweets boutique in baton rouge that specializes in homemade pastries and desserts, including cakes—and wedding cakes—cookies, pies and brownies. 

Condoleeza Semien is founder of Beluga Bliss a company that sells handcrafted blends of aromatherapy oils and products suffused with aromatherapy oils. The blends are all natural and are designed to help with insomnia, sinus issues and pain cause by a variety of conditions ranging from arthritis to autoimmune diseases.

Beluga Bliss is getting a lot of publicity for a small baton rouge startup, not least because Condoleeza was just 14 when she founded the company! She is all of 17 now and is a senior at University View Academy, an online charter school, where she is also two years into her college degree. 

Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by Erik Otts at itsbatonrouge.la.

Everybody likes to feel good. For some people that's simply the absence of pain. For other it's chocolate cake.
As consumers we all like to splurge from time to time. Even if we’re pinching pennies, there’s always going to be a special something we’ll make an exception for because it makes us feel good, mentally, physically or emotionally. If you’re that entrepreneur, who can intuit what customers need, you just might have hit on the secret to success.
Liz Anderson is owner of <a href="https://www.honeyhivetreatsbr.com/">Honey Hive Treats</a>, a locally owned sweets boutique in baton rouge that specializes in homemade pastries and desserts, including cakes—and wedding cakes—cookies, pies and brownies. 
Condoleeza Semien is founder of<a href="https://belugabliss.com/"> Beluga Bliss</a> a company that sells handcrafted blends of aromatherapy oils and products suffused with aromatherapy oils. The blends are all natural and are designed to help with insomnia, sinus issues and pain cause by a variety of conditions ranging from arthritis to autoimmune diseases.
Beluga Bliss is getting a lot of publicity for a small baton rouge startup, not least because Condoleeza was just 14 when she founded the company! She is all of 17 now and is a senior at University View Academy, an online charter school, where she is also two years into her college degree. 
Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at <a href="https://www.mansursontheboulevard.com/main/home">Mansurs on the Boulevard</a>. You can find photos from this show by<a href="https://www.instagram.com/acreaux/"> Erik Otts</a> at <a href="https://itsbatonrouge.la/2023/01/18/feeling-good/">itsbatonrouge.la</a>.

OUT TO LUNCH finds Baton Rouge Business Report Editor Stephanie Riegel combining her hard news journalist skills and food background: conducting business over lunch. Baton Rouge has long had a storied history of politics being conducted over meals, now the Capital Region has an equivalent culinary home for business: Mansur's. Each week Stephanie holds court over lunch at Mansur's and invites members of the Baton Rouge business community to join her. You can also hear the show on WRKF 89.3FM.

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