- I never fixed an ice-cream machine before or had to fix a dishwasher.

I sat behind a desk with a computer, I was never in a kitchen, so lots of challenges, things that I've never done before, but I love growing.

I like being challenged every day.

(upbeat music) Hi, my name's Nicole Dauria and I'm the owner and 'popreneur' of Pop Culture CLE.

Pop Culture is a gourmet dessert shop with an emphasis on frozen desserts.

And we are known for our gourmet ice-cream on a stick in the shape of a popsicle.

I love running my own business, I like being creative, it's just been in my genes and come to find out my biological father also was an entrepreneur his whole life, so it came full circle.

I was able to come up with some of my favorite desserts and create them into frozen desserts.

One of our best sellers is a S'mores Popsicle.

It's a chocolate custard, and then it's slathered with homemade marshmallow cream, and we roast that as you would a marshmallow for a s'mores and then we roll it in Graham Cracker crumb.

(upbeat music) The Creme Brulee, somebody nominated us in the Cleveland Magazine and we won best Dessert-on-a-Stick, and they did create a category for us.

When you're making the frozen desserts, you take a liquid base and we put it into a bucket and blend it.

Then you pour it into these molds, and each mold has 28 cavities.

And then you take three molds, which is 84, put 'em into a machine that has glycol propylene and water mixed together and gets down to a negative 22 degree Celsius, and it flash freezes, so we could produce 168 popsicles every hour.

We came up with the word Pop Culture, and my daughter at the time was 10 years old, she's a budding artist, so I thought it would be a really fun way to tie in art and the passion of the food together.

There's a piece of artwork, Lady Liberty, which is a Keith Haring picture, but we affectionately call it 'Lady Lickerty.'

We've got Peter Max, Man and the Umbrella, but it's actually Man and the Popsicle.

We have the Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

It's my happy place.

I want to share my happy place with everybody.

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