Talia Pollock Of Party In My Plants: Showing Up Fully And Pivoting As A Food Blogger
Talia Pollock brings humor into the world of wellness. She’s an author, storyteller and a plant-based chef. In this conversation recording during the COVID-19 pandemic, she shares her story of building a wellness platform, how she used her podcast to get a book deal with a top publishing house, and her journey of pivoting her identity as food blogger.
Talia’s beautiful, funny and recipe-packed book, Party in Your Plants: 100+ Plant-Based Recipes and Problem-Solving Strategies to Help You Eat Healthier (Without Hating Your Life) is out on April 21, 2020.
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We discuss:
- What’s been helping her during the quarantine
- Putting human connections first on social media
- Coming out of a social media burnout
- The magic of the “mute” button on Instagram
- How she makes money with her wellness platform, Party In My Plants
- How Party In My Plants allowed her to bring together comedy and plants
- How she got a top publishing deal
- How she got on Dr. Oz
- Why podcasting can be a huge turning point for your business
- How not having IRL social life brought her to social media
- Loneliness as a side effect of becoming plant-based
- Work and identity
- Pivoting your identity is as a food blogger
- What is success?
- Pivoting as a food blogger
- Why now it’s more important to show up fully in your light
- How Ksenia got her Instagram account verified
Connect with Talia:
- Partyinmyplants.com
- Please do yourself a favor and enjoy Talia’s FAQ page
- @partyinmyplants
- @itsmetaliap
- Party In My Plants on YouTube
- Book: Party in Your Plants: 100+ Plant-Based Recipes and Problem-Solving Strategies to Help You Eat Healthier (Without Hating Your Life)
Mentioned:
- Amy Jo Martin’s Renegade Brand Bootcamp
- The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
- Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting by Wayne Dyer
- Tapping therapy on YouTube
- Ksenia on Party In My Plants Podcast #106: When Breakfast Is Way More Than Just Breakfast
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Quotes by Talia Pollock:
- “I don’t want my purpose to stop in the kitchen.”
- “Fully express yourself and show up as yourself, and care less about your title.”
- “When you show up fully, you empower others to show up more fully in their own lives.”
