You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen.

And this week, we're sharing listener questions that we collected from a recent survey.

So thank you to the more than 1,000 of you who took time to respond to our survey.

In this episode, we're going to share answers to questions in the categories of business, art and writing, home decor, family life, and unhinged personal stories.

You know who you are who left those unhinged personal questions.

I love it.

Why not?

Me too.

I couldn't resist that category.

I feel like if you're putting it in like a survey that you know

just us is going to read, and it's not even like a public comment on the internet, I'm like,

yeah, you just really want to know. It's nice. I like it. Yeah. All right. So the first section we have up

is business. So I did like three or four questions from each one. And I just like honestly put the

questions that amused me. So I think this will be pretty fun. And yeah. Okay. So we're starting on

the business theme. The first one is it would be interesting to hear how and why you morphed more

into a food blog. Okay. I can easily explain that in one word. Let me hear it. Money. We do have to earn money and that is our, it still is our primary income. So a few years back, our stats got so small. And that is like the stats, the reason why we talk about that is because

that is directly correlated to how much money we earn each month because we have CPM-based

ads. So the higher your stats, like the more people visit your site, the bigger the check you

get each month for just your site traffic. And we don't have sponsors anymore. We are not social media influencers

anymore. We don't have any product lines. We only have those CPM ads. And about, I'd say,

three years ago, when I was still living in Tennessee, we started like trying, just like

experimenting with really aggressively food blogging.

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