 once again yeah it's been a long morning and we are almost approaching the tell end of the show but we can't close the show before we celebrate one amazing woman with us over here we have Sandra who's the chef or the owner of sandy I'm forgetting the name but she'll tell us about her company where she deals food so tell us your name and what you do my name is Sarah Sandra I'm a self-taught chef and owner and founder of sandy bannis delicacies sandy bannis delicacies that was the name I was looking for sounds yummy what tell us about sandy bannis delicacies before we get to the story behind it so what is sandy bannis delicacies sandy bannis delicacies sandy bannis delicacies is an online business whereby I get to cook for people they call me cook for them I also do catering services I do mail plans I also cook during tour tours where people get to call me when they have tours yes basically just cooking okay it sounds interesting when you you bring up the aspect of online you know it's an online business yet it's in about cooking someone might wonder how how is it you know cooking you know associated with online is that you market it online and then you do it I'm a how does it I'm about you see I make it it online through Instagram what's up so people get to call me then I go cook for them I don't have a physical job yeah okay and how's that how's that working for you so far going to cook would you want to have your own restaurant I'm that's working for you very well having my own restaurant that's a goal a future goal but for now it's I like it this way because I get to travel to different places I've been to so many places in just one year I've traveled to different places with two companies and it's also saves a lot because I don't have to use so much resources okay they see your you're clearly you know proud of your business the top they have written sandy sandy bunnies delicacy yes all right so you've said the online bit of it helps you save money but you want to have a restaurant in future and you also travel the world with tour companies so you said in your bio I read you are an overlanding chef with tour companies so how far have you gone with the tour companies well I haven't reached I said Kenya yet but I've just been around Kenya been to Samburu, Masaimara, Bosele, different parks in Kenya and my goal is to start going Wow must be nice I mean doing what you love and traveling the world at the same time did you ever envision this when you know when you were thinking about being a chef if at all it was a dream for you to to be a chef well all this is just planned from God because I didn't envision my business to get here because I started by hooking food and one day I just called called we need you to come and cook for us you know we are going to Samburu and I said okay tell us tell us about that journey from where you started because I'm getting that you started hooking so how how did you start to take us from the very beginning even the conception of the idea to start cooking and being a chef well starting this business basically I just wanted to get the money it was a form of survival and I said let me do what I can do what I do base that's cooking so I started by hooking food I used to pack food in packages then just sell blindly to people who did you sell to business owners people in the street people in the streets business owners students just I used to put the food in a bucket and sell then I started selling eggs into my eyes wow how do you how do you feel now that you know looking back from where you came from and now you know traveling there were you know the the world in future yes you're traveling Kenya now with two companies looking back how do you feel about it I feel so proud of myself in a span of one year I've really done a lot and I'm looking forward to growing more and more what keeps you motivated my kid your kid wow mother's a mother's just the best you want to to make sure that you have them is it she I see her name is crystal wow wow she should do you know the accent that you're going just to make her to create a future for her and my mother too she was a chef but she passed in 2016 so I want to continue the legacy because she also had a restaurant and I want to make it a reality for her even though she's not here well she she must be so proud of you where she is I mean you're doing great great things you didn't see yourself getting to where you are now yeah and where do you now see yourself from where you're standing from the things that you have managed to accomplish so far what do you see yourself in future what is your vision my vision first I want to be an inspiration to people out there who this they think that they'll not get there I want to assure them that they will get there because my story I have a very long story that even if I start thing now let's not get time and I see myself as a very renowned chef I want my company to grow to grow into I want to have a very big restaurant and be a big name in the overlanding world wow amen to that I mean I can already see see you you're getting to where you you want to be before you talk to us about of an oval being an overlanding chef for those that don't understand take us through your journey you've said you have a story maybe it'll inspire someone just not the whole story bits of your story yeah four times six for someone who wants to know okay my story I'm an orphan and I have a kids and through ever since in 2017 my life has been a journey because I must have a I try I had five suicide attempts because I was just tired with life but I had I had a vision God told me that I've repaired a lot of things for you want to miss everything so since then I've been trying to to a card and move closer to God and also through this journey ahead people who helped me through the journey my aunt her name is my Lacey and my friend his name is Andrew Kimani and a lot of people who helped me in this journey I didn't walk alone I'm happy that one thing I'm happy is God gave me good friends to help me through this journey and reaching here it's let me just say it's a blessing because I didn't see myself get here it's like a new life even coming here is a blessing amazing you see what God can do I'm always getting into preaching and it's so moving that from God saved you from five suicide attempts and this was because you had given up on life thinking I'm not working for you did you have a baby then yes in 2017 2017 I also act I also act as a house help for my friend her name is mama mama Brooklyn she helped me through and even told me that this is not your line of work and you are destined for greater things and I'm so happy for her and my aunt her name is Jackie too she also helped me through like if I start mentioning people so many people and names of women and this are the people that we are celebrating today yeah that's strength of a woman who you're celebrating you what are the names that you've mentioned Jacqueline Jacqueline Akini my Lacey my aunt her name is my Lacey and my aunt her name is Liliana Teno mama Brooklyn we are celebrating all the names that she's mentioning even those that you often mentioned but have been with you through the journey we definitely celebrate them because see look at you now look at you now what would you say to someone who's going through what you went through you know looking back in 2017 that you wanted to give up on life because things were not going your way or things were not just working out what would you say to them to encourage them what I like to tell the people struggling out there is just go to God and tell him all your all your troubles because no giant is greater than God and he'll there he'll be there for you and be focused have a plan in life and have big dreams because a dream will make you focused in what you want and you started very you started small and it didn't define you because you started as a household you also are you hooked food and now you are doing great so tell us about being an overlanding chef what does it entangle for someone who doesn't know what it an overlanding chef is you get to travel to many places and cook on site like cook in the forest it's not for the Finch at it as many challenges but it's full of adventures okay so you love the adventure bit of it but now that what are some of the challenges apart from you know cooking in the forest you don't know what animal will pop what are some of the other challenges that you have encountered challenges I've encountered is weather the weather has been so has been the greatest challenge yeah and what else can I say just a lot of challenges and what about when you started the business did it just peak immediately now after someone you said someone invited you to cook in samburu yeah did it now just peak from there or was it a genuine is a process to where you are it was a process because I wasn't aware I just started doing the business blindly because I didn't know the pros and cons of the job during the calculations of foodstuffs and everything but I get to I got to learn from my friend he's an overland chef his name is Remax Raymond Mwangi he helped me through the journey because I can say I really learnt a lot from him and he's the one who has guided me through and yeah what are and that so what are some of the things for someone who wants to get in the same light of duty what are some of the things you wish you knew before you started the business because in the tour company is not all are genuine so you have to know you have to know the in and outs of the people are going to work with because you'll work with someone and they end up not paying you later on and also study the people that you're going to work with the clients because people have dietary issues and yeah study also the place that you're going to cook from so that you can know if the area is a rainy area or heat the high heats yeah and I also know that you didn't study for the profession that you're in but now you're you're a chef so how does it work for someone who also wants to be a chef does someone have to go to school would you advise someone to go to school just pursue their dream well I can say if you have the passion and the the zeal yes you have to go to school but for me I did a short course in front-line Institute it's in Nandani a short course just to familiarize with the Gomez different Gomez also for the papers but I think cooking is is in one it's like a talent let me say talent because you can go to school and yet you don't somebody who hasn't gone to school cook better than you yeah yeah I think just creativity cooking is that is an art it's an art so creativity should be in there yes so this is what do you say this is a profession that parents should also consider to you know to to help their children get into because parents mostly look into their white color jobs it's being a chef you know a good job of course because people people will depend on you to eat very important yes eating is very important and I can say it's a very good business because I get to work on mostly on weekends and I get to pay my bills and everything so it's a really good business food business is one of the leading businesses in let me say the world and it's really pays I know I haven't reached there yet but it really pays really pays and people say you can never go wrong with food exactly yeah so because people not stop eating yeah we eat to live yeah yeah we each live we don't live yeah we each to live mm-hmm so what are some of your greatest wins from where you're sitting now what are some of the things you can count as you win so far my wins we are joining the overland world that's that really great win and getting to know different people through my work getting to know to go to places through my work and I can say I've gone to school I wanted to go to school I've gone to school even though it's just a short course but I'm hoping to to go to study more about this job and my greatest win is my life changing from where it was that's my greatest your life changing from where it was amazing and it's truly a great win from even where I'm sitting now and how can people get you just in case someone wants to hire your services okay I'm in Instagram Sunday minus delicacies and just afford I'm just a phone call away okay so it's only on Instagram Instagram I I'm also in YouTube but unfortunately it goes really hakiwa copyright issues I used someone's song making a video okay so it was suspended so I'm setting a new one very soon okay so I in your YouTube you do vlogs as in do you do the tutorials yes okay tutorials yes and also the recipes I've invented show people that they can trade them out I wonder how people invent a recipe how do you come up you know and I know it's part of creativity it's just about building flavors yeah adding just mixing up things just to get a certain flavor and then you give it a name exact but and giving it a name give it a name according to what you've put in the food okay not just getting a name but you should also be creative about it okay so give us a name or two of some of the recipes that you've come come up with well there are so many I guess the day I made I made chicken I tried mixing different sauces to come up with a variety of flavor a special flavor about it I haven't given it a name yet but I know it's in it will I will come up with that because yeah so it comes from like a name like chicken curry but you're an a joint already yeah you can't use tandoori chicken because it's somebody's name but it's it's just in that area but the secret isn't it is the sauce I made and what you say is unique about your business compared to any other what is unique about sandy bunnies delicacies something unique about my business I think my food is different from other people yeah I think you'll you'll taste my food and you'll taste somebody I'm not saying that other people can't cook well but I just know my food is different from other people from other people's food yeah from what I've heard from other people from people who have tasted my food yes I mean I would like to take to try it I wish we had something you know get cook up something in here and then I do the testing you know parts tuna tuna for a younger you know as journalists to know on John John then we say oh this is good you know tuna tuna then they are very anyway that's all for next time next time hopefully you will come and cook something up for us yes yeah so now did you I'm asking you again this one you are kid did you see yourself becoming a chef or was it a dream that you realized when you already grown up after your mom passed on or when exactly did you know growing up I wanted to be an artist drawing artist drawing artist train they go to Kwa Damu either way whether whether this or any other it's just plus I come from a family of chefs yes my family is also based in art because some are chefs some are singers so it's either you either be a chef or you either sing okay but on cooking it's a recent recent passion the since growing up also I tried cooking because of my mom she always cook like all the time till she opened up the restaurant so that's where I got the inspiration from okay so would you say that your daughter also coming up in the same line according to how she behaves when I'm cooking yeah I think so I wish I could tap into that but I can cook I can cook but on a professional level well we are slowly getting okay so I let me just read some of the responses that we have on today's question before we sign out and we had asked you me what are some of the ways that you think people can manage competition can have healthy competition and some of the comments that we have here let me take a look at what you guys are saying boy boy boy child mavela Anna summer high in a pride dinner flint Anna Lisa is she single who can know Anna summer cinema we need well DJ profi Anna summer good morning good morning to you and the imudals Anna summer 0.01 and thank you guys for tuning in we have so many people there mother math mathematics I'm trying to mathematics opaque and most of it in you want to opaque one or one longer thank you thank you very much for participating the conversation feel free to continue the channel is why 254 that's where you can continue the conversation and the hashtag is WCW and here on in studio we have been talking to Sandra to Sandra bannies Sandy bannies sorry we have been talking to Sandy bannies I think the spellings the name or you can just get me through my number yeah or your number you do you want to share your number yes okay you can this is your camera say where people can get you once again okay you can get me through Instagram Sandy bannies delicacies bannie with the B U R N I E S Sandy bannies delicacies S A N D I E B U R N I E S delicacies and my number give me those food mannies 0 7 68 19 53 50 okay send Sunday has said how food is different it's unique it has a different taste a bust of flavor in your mouth a bust of flavor in your mouth ah I mean who can resist that was a mouth they bring all their money yeah okay thank you very much Sandra for sharing your story with us and I believe you've encouraged someone there wants to be a chef or someone who is giving up on something and that's why we celebrate it today because you never gave up and you are where you are today because you took the first step and you are here but before we close I just want to to ask you something people say that use what you have to the same use what you have to get what you want would you say this has been true in your life exactly because cooking is it has really taken me far so you've used your skills to get to where you are now exactly all right so if there's something one should take from this conversation what would that be this is your camera again your closing remark use what you have to get what you want and just believe in God that he will get you to where you want and still as he believe in yourself and yeah believe in yourself for work out thank you and have big dreams too and have big dreams okay I'm taking that home with me that has been sandy bunny's delicacy that is the company by Sarah Sandra who's a self-taught chef running an online business and also an overlanding chef with tour companies she has been sharing with us her journey in in this line of duty if you are if you want to be a chef I hope you have been encouraged by this or something from her story has encouraged you well now it's time for us to beat you goodbye because it's that time where we wrap up the show and on behalf of sakwa and the team behind behind this production we thank you for tuning in and staying with us it's always a pleasure having you with us you can still continue with a conversation on y254 channel across all social media handles using the hashtag wcw or y in 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