Hi, my name is Chelsea and I’m an entrepreneur in Trinidad, my company is called Doughbomb Donuts. It’s truly my pride and joy, I’m cleaning the world with donuts. I’m a lawyer and project manager by trade.
While studying abroad in Ireland, eating donuts, especially on cold winter nights, always made me feel a deep sense of love and warmth from my Caribbean homeland. After returning home during the COVID pandemic, I was busy looking for a job and didn’t know what to do next, so I decided to try one donut recipe after another until I found the perfect one, which is what we use today. This led to the growth and huge success of Donutbomb two years later.
Food is a big part of Caribbean culture. In fact, everything we say “lime” is closely related to food. “Lime” in Trinidadian means hanging out or spending time with family and friends. Guess what? We often “lime” with food.
You might be thinking, “Donuts? What’s the big deal?” As Caribbean people, we have always enriched our culture by taking the essence of other cultures and making it truly our own.
For example, we have familiar flavors like crème brûlée or double chocolate marshmallow sandwich cookies, but what can be better than a sorrel donut? Like the hibiscus donut, or even the coconut donut. It’s delicious, full of flavor, and of course, full of love.
Saint Josemaria’s message touched me deeply because I can sanctify my work, sanctify myself, and sanctify others. A friend of mine who helped me make donuts when I started my business always reminded me to always keep someone in mind, or every customer, when making donuts: whether rolling the donuts, cutting the donuts, filling the donuts, decorating the donuts, and of course delivering the donuts to the customers. I do these things to the best of my ability, serving others and serving God.
So we help people do their jobs better by building community and teamwork in the workplace. Food is a huge motivator, and many of our customers love to enjoy a delicious dessert in the office during the workday (or weekend) and share it with each other.
At Doughbomb, our goal is to spread love and joy with every bite of our doughnut, and that’s exactly what I’m doing, from my sister island of Trinidad and Tobago, sanctifying the world with a doughnut.
My aunt used to tell me that the experience of eating… like, if she was going to make blueberry jam, she would just do it that way because that’s how she made it at home, you know? It’s fresh, you know. It doesn’t… it doesn’t have that many preservatives; it’s fresh. She always said that.
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