Ira Deshpande

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“Early bread, Sunday kilometres, and a carefully packed bag for every foster goodbye.”

Founder, Oven Mile Bakehouse | Former investment banker | Building a neighbourhood bakery in Mahim · Mumbai · Founder building a second career

LinkedIn (simulated) @ira.runs.and.rises (simulated)

Best fit

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Who they are

Ira is a Mumbai-based neighbourhood bakery founder who prepared for her move out of investment banking through weekend baking courses. Her days combine hands-on recipe testing and production with distance-running commitments, Marathi plays with Mum, and foster dogs settling into her home. She repeatedly chooses reliable promises and manageable workloads over taking on more, and notices care in practical details like post-race dry socks. A match should make room for her established rhythms while offering companionship that feels useful, warm, and unforced.

Needs

What this person needs from a partner, read from how they live.

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Someone comfortable sharing everyday life with foster dogs and their settling-in routines.
Dogs stay for months, receive patient attention, and leave with carefully prepared handovers, making fostering a substantial domestic commitment.
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A partner who can plan around early bakery starts and Sunday long runs, without needing to join every session.
Pre-sunrise baking and Sunday running are explicitly established rhythms, so shared time would need to accommodate them.
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Someone who respects limits and helps protect downtime rather than treating every free hour as available.
She is practising turning down extra orders and deliberately making room for slower mornings.
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A dependable partner who follows through on small, practical gestures.
She explicitly appreciates race support involving a banana and dry socks, alongside valuing promises kept at work.
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Someone willing to make time for local outings and a proper conversation afterward.
Theatre with Mum includes lively discussion, while chai and market mornings feature as pleasures alongside demanding commitments.
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Hobbies

Things they do.

Distance runninghigh
Trains for marathons, documents a rainy 14 km run, and describes persisting through a difficult final 7 km in a race.
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Baking and recipe testinghigh
A craft as well as her profession: she completed weekend courses and documents measured, repeated cake-test batches.
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Going to Marathi playshigh
Makes time for theatre, including a Sunday matinee at Shivaji Mandir with Mum and a debate about the ending afterward.
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Interests

Worlds they care about.

Rescue-dog care and adoption transitionshigh
Her involvement includes daily care, vet visits, helping dogs adjust, and preparing detailed handovers to new homes.
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Neighbourhood enterprisehigh
Building a bakery involves hands-on participation and dependable service, including washing trays when the team is short-handed.
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Workable operations and reduced wastehigh
Uses pre-order windows to improve predictability and reduce unsold stock, and questions whether popular products are sustainable to produce.
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Values

Reliability without overextension
Celebrates getting orders out on time without keeping the team until midnight and is learning to decline extra orders.
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Care expressed through practical detail
Sends a foster dog onward with familiar belongings and a detailed note, and appreciates similarly specific support after a race.
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Participation over status
Still washes trays when needed rather than separating leadership from everyday work.
About
Patient, sustained effort
Prepared for her career change over two years, iterates recipes, and helps a new foster adjust one floor at a time.
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Lifestyle

Routine
Early baking starts and Sunday long runs are prominent commitments.
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Home
Foster dogs share everyday domestic space and may stay for months while settling in.
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Weekends
Visible pleasures include post-run cutting chai, flower-market errands, breakfast with Mum, and a theatre matinee.
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Downtime
A proper breakfast and sitting down for longer than ten minutes are noteworthy enough to document; rest appears deliberately protected rather than abundant.
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Personality

Practical

Responds to production challenges with pre-order systems and joins in with necessary manual work.

Experience 1 About

Persistent

Keeps working through imperfect test batches and a difficult race finish.

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Patient in caregiving

Gives foster dogs time to settle and describes progress in small, concrete steps.

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Attentive to specifics

Remembers a foster's favourite toy and publicly credits the particular things a friend brought to a race.

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Dryly humorous

Uses compact understatement about stolen belongings, damp packaging, and a 'completely reasonable' three-page handover note.

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Social energy

Tentatively ambivert-leaning: visible social time centres on shared activities with Mum and practical support from a friend, but the sources do not establish how she recharges.

Humor

Affectionate understatement grounded in ordinary mishaps: foster-dog slipper theft, a damp cardboard box, and an allegedly reasonable three-page note.

How they communicate

Concrete, candid, and lightly wry: she describes what happened, what changed, and the useful detail. Her professional writing favours checking assumptions and flagging problems early; whether that translates to romantic conflict remains unknown.

Work and ambition

Founder of Oven Mile Bakehouse since June 2023, following investment banking and two years of weekend baking courses before the transition. Her current work includes recipe development, production planning, and hands-on help.

Strongly committed to building the bakery, but her stated choices favour dependable service and workable team schedules over expansion at any cost. She is actively learning limits rather than presenting balance as already solved.

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Green flags

+Shows care through sustained action: months of fostering and thoughtfully prepared handovers.
+Notices and appreciates practical support rather than leaving it unacknowledged.
+Willing to do unglamorous work alongside the people she leads.
+Practises keeping promises without making overwork the price of reliability.

Worth knowing

~Early bakery starts and long-run Sundays may make late or spontaneous plans harder to fit.
~Fostering brings changing domestic routines and goodbyes; it is an ongoing commitment, not an occasional interest.
~She is still practising workload boundaries, so availability should be discussed rather than assumed.

Likely dealbreakers

×Expecting her to stop fostering or keep dogs out of everyday home life. (Likely a significant mismatch given her sustained domestic involvement; not an explicitly stated dealbreaker.)
×Repeatedly dismissing her commitments or pressuring her to override limits. (Potential friction given her training routine and emphasis on manageable promises; her actual relationship boundaries need confirming.)

Who would complement them

Someone dependable and comfortable with a home that includes foster dogs, early starts, and protected running time would fit the life Ira already leads. They need not run marathons or bake, but should enjoy some local rituals and cultural outings, appreciate dry humour, and respect a genuine 'not this week.'

First dates they'd love

♥ Meet for cutting chai and breakfast after her Sunday run, at a time she chooses.
♥ Catch a Marathi matinee at Shivaji Mandir, then compare interpretations of the ending over tea.
♥ Take a short flower-market stroll followed by an unhurried breakfast, echoing her slower Sunday morning.

Conversation starters

“What changed between the too-dense first cake batch and the version that finally made the counter?”
“Which part of that Shivaji Mandir ending did you and Mum disagree about?”
“What goes into a 'completely reasonable' three-page foster handover note?”

What the agent couldn't tell

Two public profiles can't tell you everything. The agent says what it couldn't see.

? What kind of relationship she wants and at what pace.
? Her preferred balance of shared time and independent routines.
? How she handles disagreement and asks for support in a relationship.
? Her longer-term plans for the bakery and whether she expects to remain in Mumbai.
? Her preferences around living together and future family arrangements.

Big Five (estimated)

Openness68

Career reinvention, iterative recipe development, and theatre outings suggest curiosity across craft and culture; this is an estimate from li:exp:1, ig:post:3, and ig:post:1.

Conscientiousness74

Pre-order systems, sustained training, and detailed foster handovers show preparation and follow-through across several settings (li:exp:0, li:about, ig:post:6).

Extraversion50

There are shared outings and supportive friendships, but little evidence about appetite for crowds or how she recharges; the midpoint reflects uncertainty (ig:post:1, ig:post:5).

Agreeableness69

Patient fostering, hands-on help, and protecting team workloads suggest consideration, while declining orders shows that care need not mean automatic agreement (ig:post:7, li:about, li:post:2).

Emotional stability50

Her captions frame setbacks with measured humour, but public writing cannot establish her broader emotional responses; this is a low-confidence midpoint (li:post:1, ig:post:2).

The agent's brief

Voice on dates

Use concrete everyday language, short observations, and gentle understatement. Let humour come from real details rather than polished punchlines. Captions show no clear emoji pattern, so do not invent one; avoid grand entrepreneurial language or claiming to know her romantic communication style.

Looking for

· Comfort with foster dogs as part of ordinary home life.
· Respect for early starts, Sunday training, and time apart for existing commitments.
· Dependability expressed through follow-through and practical care.
· Enjoyment of local outings, theatre, or conversation over chai without requiring identical hobbies.
· A willingness to protect downtime and accept limits.

Must find out on a date

? How would you feel about sharing home space with foster dogs, including settling-in routines and adoption handovers?
? How do you make shared time work when someone has early starts and a regular Sunday commitment?
? What happens when your partner needs to decline a plan or protect a quiet morning?
? What kind of relationship are you hoping to build, and how do you prefer to discuss disagreements?

Based on

LinkedIn notes and eight Instagram posts provide consistent detail across work, routines, caregiving, and humour, but relationship preferences and personality scores remain tentative inferences.

Signal: high

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