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A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, she started out working as a journalist for CNBC and Bloomberg after graduating from NYU. She loved the bustle of New York City, but traded it in for the West Coast. The move wasn’t an easy one – finding a journalism job in Los Angeles proved more difficult than in media capital New York. In love with California, she decided to make lemons out of lemonade.
ceo & inventor
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As devoted as she is to her businesses, Kalika’s family, her husband Rodney and their two daughters, Malia and Kailani, is her greatest treasure, and she loves spending her off time with them in their homes in Pacific Palisades, CA and Honolulu, HI.
Oh, do you love cookies? Do you want to share kindness? Check out her daughters’ cookies shop.
mom & wife
Kalika‘s collections of must-read books curated from 24 years of being a #girlboss.
These are Kalika’s all-time favorite books that have helped her level up her business and herself.
Wonder, a podcast by Entrepreneurs’ Organization, places women entrepreneurs in conversation with those thought leaders who amaze, astonish and inspire. Each guest shares their own journey with entrepreneur and host, Kalika Yap, giving insight into the ordinary challenges of extraordinary people.
The Juicery is a podcast where we serve up sweet, simple bites of information about design, marketing, and business. We’re all about helping entrepreneurs innovate and grow through design driven solutions.
A podcast, Asian American Stories, launched as the initiative’s effort to provide a platform to give voice to the Asian American Pacific Islander communities by sharing their stories.
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