Video Features & Commercials
Brand collaborations, original series, and commercial productions featuring Yasmeen Tadia and Make Your Life Sweeter.
Yasmeen sits down with luxury retail and experience expert Chuck Steelman of Trademark Property Co. Filmed in the Aston Martin DBX and Bentley Bentayga Hybrid at the Tower Club Dallas, this episode covers a decade of friendship and career transformation.
The official trailer for INTERSECTIONS Season 1, Episode 4, featuring Yasmeen Tadia and Chuck Steelman in the Aston Martin x Bentley Avondale collaboration series.
Yasmeen Tadia is featured in this Aston Martin DBX commercial, produced in partnership with Avondale Dealerships. Designed for the creative, the innovative, and the inspired.
A featured video episode spotlighting Make Your Life Sweeter's all-natural, vegan cotton candy and the artisanal process behind Fluffpop, the brand's signature gourmet mini cotton candy experience.
Yasmeen shares her most powerful advice for women in business at Local Profile Magazine's annual Women in Business Summit, covering relationships, emotional intelligence, mentorship, and leading with purpose.
Part of Vari's Elevating Women in Business video series. Yasmeen shares insights on productivity, working while parenting, and what it takes to build and lead as a single mother and CEO. Also available at vari.com.
Podcast Appearances
Conversations on entrepreneurship, identity, brand building, and the journey behind Make Your Life Sweeter.
Yasmeen discusses bootstrapping from zero, landing elite clients like Meta, Rolls-Royce, and Neiman Marcus, and the role of mentorship in scaling a brand with purpose. One of her most recent and comprehensive business conversations.
A candid conversation on how Yasmeen transformed standard carnival sweets into gourmet indulgences, her outlook on spinning experiences together, and what drives her as an entrepreneur, speaker, and philanthropist.
A conversation about faith, identity, and entrepreneurship, exploring what it means to build an elite company while staying true to your values and heritage as a Muslim woman in business.
Yasmeen shares what she learned planning events for top brands like Facebook and Forbes, how those lessons shaped Make Your Life Sweeter, and how she created an immersive candy-cafe experience at Galleria Dallas that became a destination in its own right.
One of Yasmeen's earliest podcast appearances. She tells the full story of leaving corporate America to start Fluffpop from scratch, risking everything to build something she believed in before anyone else did.
Also available as a podcast. Yasmeen and Chuck Steelman of Trademark Property Co. explore pivotal career lessons, the realities of wearing every hat as a founder, and a decade of parallel growth.
Watch on Avondale.comPress & Editorial
Television segments, magazine features, and editorial coverage from regional and national outlets.
NBC 5 DFW covers Yasmeen's pivotal COVID-era story: how she transitioned from a 100% event-based business to opening a retail location at the Galleria Dallas, keeping her all-women team employed throughout the pandemic.
Watch on NBC 5 DFWA full editorial profile on Yasmeen's journey from corporate HR director to CEO of a multi-brand experiential dessert empire, with candid advice on being a woman of color in business, mentorship, and building with intention.
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In this episode, Yasmeen Tadia, a former HR professional turned Confectionary Visionary & Mom of the Year exchanges pivotal moments, lessons & learnings, and fond memories from nearly a decade of friendship, with Dallas’ own Luxury Retail & Experience Guru, Chuck Steelman of Trademark Properties.
The vehicles featured in this episode are the Bentley Bentayga Hybrid and Aston Maritn DBX, courtesy of the Avondale Premier Collection in Dallas, Texas.
ABOUT OUR FEATURED GUESTS:
MEET YASMEEN TADIA: Make Your Life Sweeter Founder Yasmeen Tadia has transformed carnival-style cotton candy and popcorn into gourmet indulgences with her signature line of sweet sensations, including Fluffpop Gourmet Mini Cotton Candy, Hotpoppin Gourmet Popcorn, Sugaire Organic Cotton Candy, LeMod Macaron, and ModSweets. Now considered the queen of confection, this wasn’t Yasmeen’s original career path. A Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business grad, she spent 10 years in corporate America before embarking on the Make Your Life Sweeter journey. However, her time spent in a variety of management positions, and later as the corporate director of human resources for a large hospitality company based in New York City, did give her the confidence kick she needed to turn her sweet dream into serious business.
“Make Your Life Sweeter,” a motto Yasmeen lives by, works to make a sweet and lasting impact on the lives of others by supporting a variety of charitable initiatives. This passion for giving back inspired her to create her own non-profit, Random Acts of Sweetness which launched in 2017. Yasmeen’s son, Zain, often works alongside his mother, providing inspiration and input on new flavors. When Yasmeen is not crafting confections or giving back, she is likely guest speaking on a number of topics including entrepreneurship and leadership, or happily creating memories with Zain by traveling with her son to instill a sense of adventure and global citizenship.
This Episode of INTERSECTIONS, an Avondale Original Series was made possible by:
Guests: Chuck Steelman & Yasmeen Tadia
Location: The Tower Club (Dallas)
Cars: Bentley Bentayga & Aston Martin DBX
Concept: Admirable Devil
Production: Muddy Shutter Media
Post-Production: Mothership Media
Art: Stephen Selzler
Women leaders need to hear these 5 important tips from Yasmeen Tadia, CEO of Make Your Life Sweeter. | Local Profile | Women in Business Summit | October 2021
DBX is designed to drive the creative, innovative, and inspired. While curating a FUN, driving experience unlike any other ultra-luxury SUV.
That's why we collaborated with innovative Dallas-Fort Worth Entrepreneur, Yasmeen Tadia, founder of the sweet treat empire, Make Your Life Sweeter: a curated dessert experience, (also) like no other.
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I share these not because they are popular. I share them because they moved me. Each one shifted something in how I think, how I take care of myself, how I lead, and what I believe is possible.
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Your energy, your sleep, your metabolism, and your longevity are not separate from your success. They are the foundation of it. These are the episodes that gave me the science and the permission to make my health a non-negotiable, not a nice-to-have.
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My story, told in full. Host Claudy Beeny and I go deep on what it really took to leave corporate America, become a single mother, survive a pandemic with an all-women team on my own payroll, and pivot from events to a 21-course dessert omakase at the Dallas Galleria that became profitable within months.
"The pivot is not a failure. It is proof you are still in the game and willing to evolve. Someone in the room always needs to hear that you can lose everything and still rebuild into something that matters."
Mental Health & Mindset
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AI & the Future of Work
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