IN THE SPOTLIGHT YVONNE LANGEN
Spotlight: Tell us a little about yourself, where you grew up, what you like to do in your spare time when you are not entertaining people online or working your full-time gig. Are your parents outgoing like yourself? Yvonne Langen: I’m a real card, just ask my mother. Growing up as an only child in Cambridge, Ontario, I always had a captive audience with my parents and their friends. I quickly learned to love being in the limelight and would seize on any opportunity to steal the show. My parents are entrepreneurs, and my mom has been helming their logistics company for the past 25 years. As business owners, they often worked long hours and needed to find creative ways to keep me occupied over summer holidays. They signed me up for every variety of day camp imaginable, from tennis to drama camp and everything in between – I even spent a week participating in a bowling camp (sadly, bowling isn’t a highly trans- ferable skill). My love of sport that was first nurtured in those early years and has since endured. When I’m not cooking, shaking up drinks or discovering a new restaurant, you’ll probably find me in the gym, on the yoga mat, or hitting winners on the tennis court.
FOOD & COCKTAIL CONTENT CREATOR, MEDIA PERSONALITY & HUMORIST by Lee Ann Atwater
“I’m a real card, just ask my mother.”
W e sat down with Cambridge, Ontario native now Capital City food and cocktail content creator, Yvonne Langen, about following her passion from the early age of 12 and her journey to now being an entrepreneur, media personality and the businesswoman in front of the camera and behind the scenes of the Taste & Tipple brand.
Spotlight: You are extremely comfortable in front of the screen and have a unique ability to connect and engage with your viewers. So, tell us about your education, experience and professional background that build this confi - dence to entertain and educate people at the same time. Yvonne Langen: I have a Bachelor of Journal- ism with Combined Honours in Women’s Studies from Carleton University and a Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies from the Universi- ty of Toronto. Journalism school helped me get comfortable working both behind and in front of
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JUNE 2021 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JUNE 2021
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