What Nobody Tells You About Shifting Careers With Layla AlSharif

Women Power Podcast with Wafa Alobaidat

Layla Alsharif is an entrepreneur, consultant and trainer. She started off her career as an E-marketing manager in Gulf Air moving on to manage the in flight entertainment content and planning. After seven years in Gulf Air, Layla decided to follow her passion and started baking by taking up cake designing courses and eventually setting up Sugar & Lace. With Sugar & Lace, Layla was able to live her dream of being a creative in the cake industry by wanting to curate something that was unique and exquisite and rare in Bahrain. Presently Layla is a consultant and has established one of the first successful online start-ups in the Confectionery Arts industry after deciding to leave behind her cake business. For Layla, the focus is always on delivering a high-end product, through a unique business model no matter what she ventures into.
In this episode, Layla talks about being comfortable with who she is and the choices she made in life. She takes us through her widely relevant experiences from her professional career in Gulf Air to her therapeutic love for baking turning it into a successful business. Layla talks about finding closure in accepting when a chapter has to end and to part on a high, freeing your mind and soul from the burden of stress and dissatisfaction. She easily has the most positive and optimistic aura which without coming across as strenuous holds on to its virtue to be inspiring. Listen to her wisdom-filled episode now!