Behind the Scenes of Being a Black Food Blogger w/ Fit Men Cook

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re chatting with our good friend Kevin Curry about the ups and downs of being a Black food blogger. Kevin started Fit Men Cook over 8 years ago, and has developed a loyal community of over 1 million followers online. Today we’ll be diving into all the behind the scenes tea, from recipes to dating in quarantine. In This Episode We’ll Cover: • Our experiences getting paid less than our white counterparts to do the same work • Frustrations of being a black person in a predominately white food industry • Transitioning your brand from a passion project into a business • Where Kevin gets recipe inspo from • What Kevin’s DMs are looking like (wink, wink) & MORE! 3 Ways You Can Support This Podcast: • Rate • Review • Support our sponsors using our unique ‘HOOKUP’ codes below HOOKUP CODES: • Urban Movie Channel: Visit UMC.TV and use code FOODHEAVEN for an extended 30-day free trial. After that, it’s just $4.99 per month. • Buffy: Buffy.co with code FOODHEAVEN For our resources and shownotes, visit foodheavenmadeeasy.com/podcast. Produced by Dear Media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.8	Welcome back.
0:24.0	Another episode.
0:25.3	Another episode of The Food Heaven Podcast.
0:27.3	I was trying to think of a more innovative way to intro the episode, but
0:33.1	yeah, it's all like a peace world.
0:37.0	Hey everyone, welcome back.
0:39.6	It's like, help us out.
0:41.0	Please slide into our ideas.
0:43.4	Slide into our ideas.
0:44.8	Slide into our DMs and let us know some cool ways to intro the episode.
0:49.1	But yeah, we're back.
0:50.3	Jess, how are you?
0:51.3	I'm so good.
0:52.8	Yeah, I've been making the whole food sandwich.
0:55.9	T-T-L-A.
0:56.8	I've hosted it.
0:58.1	It's so good.
0:58.7	Tim, we're making tomato lettuce avocado.
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