How Jannese Torres Turned Her Food Blog into a $10K/Month Business (SOLOPRENEUR LIFE)

Marriage Kids and Money: Personal Finance for Families

Andy Hill

Investing, Business, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Building a six-figure business as a solopreneur doesn’t happen overnight -- but with the right mindset and systems, it’s absolutely possible. In this episode, we talk with Jannese Torres, a nationally acclaimed Latina money expert, business coach, and host of the Yo Quiero Dinero podcast. Jannese shares how she turned her food blog, Delish D’Lites, into a $10,000-per-month business that allowed her to leave her corporate engineering career and design a life on her own terms. She also breaks down how new creators can find their niche, diversify income through ads and affiliates, and build long-term passive income online. If you’ve ever dreamed of turning your passion into a profitable business, this conversation will inspire you to take that first step. To learn more, check out her Jumpstart Your Blog Bootcamp. RESOURCES & NOTESSolopreneur tools, guest links, and favorite resources to help you build your solo business GUEST LINKS Yo Quiero Dinero Podcast – Learn from Jannese’s money and business insights. Delish D’Lites – Discover her viral Puerto Rican food blog. Jumpstart Your Blog Bootcamp – Jannese’s signature course for aspiring bloggers. SOLOPRENEUR TOOLS WE LOVE Monarch Money – The best app to manage your business and personal budget in one place. Gusto – Payroll and benefits made easy for solopreneurs hiring contractors or employees. Riverside – Record high-quality remote podcasts and videos. Belay – Virtual assistants and bookkeeping support for entrepreneurs. Live Oak Bank – High-yield business savings accounts. RECOMMENDED RESOURCES Visit our full list of partners and deals: Sponsors & Resources Podcast Chapters 00:00 – Stay curious: the mindset that fuels success 00:24 – Jannese Torres on finding freedom through solopreneurship 01:00 – From corporate engineer to creative entrepreneur 02:15 – How her food blog began as a hobby 03:30 – The turning point: making her first $10,000 05:00 – Balancing a full-time job while building her business 07:00 – Quitting her corporate career with confidence 09:40 – Financial prep before leaving a steady paycheck 11:40 – The biggest differences between solopreneurship and corporate life 13:00 – How food bloggers make money (ads, affiliates, sponsors) 15:40 – Diversifying income as a blogger 17:00 – Passive income that continues to pay 18:30 – Building flexibility and time freedom as a parent 20:30 – How to stand out in today’s AI-driven content world 23:40 – The Solopreneur High Five rapid-fire segment 25:30 – Favorite solopreneur tools and apps 27:00 – Lessons from her biggest mistakes 28:45 – Redefining retirement as “work optional” 30:15 – How to start your own food or lifestyle blog today 31:10 – Where to find Jannese and her online resources HOW WE MAKE MONEY + DISCLAIMER This show may contain affiliate links or links from our advertisers where we earn a commission, direct payment or products. Opinions are the creators alone. Information shared on this podcast is for entertainment purposes only and should not be considered as professional advice. Marriage Kids and Money (www.marriagekidsandmoney.com) is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. CREDITS Editor: Johnny Sohl Podcast Artwork: Kayli Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	be curious, be of the mindset of I'm a newbie. My first content's going to suck, but I have to do that in order to get good. And I think if you stay in that perpetual curiosity, you will definitely be successful because that is the abundance mindset that makes all this stuff possible.
0:23.7	More and more people want the flexibility to work outside of a traditional office setting.
0:29.0	If you're interested in owning more of your time,
0:31.4	solopreneurship could be the right path for you.
0:34.0	On our real solopreneur segment today, we're going to interview Janice Torres.
0:39.3	Janice is a nationally acclaimed Latina money expert, educator, speaker, writer, business coach,
0:44.7	and food blogger. She helps her clients and listeners build successful online businesses
0:50.1	that allow them to pursue financial independence and freedom. Today we're going to discuss how she developed her profitable solopreneur business
0:58.3	and the steps others can take to grow theirs as well.
1:01.5	Welcome to the show, Janice.
1:02.9	Thank you so much for having me, Andy.
1:04.5	I always love talking about this.
1:06.7	Absolutely.
1:07.5	Well, hopefully this can provide all sorts of independence and freedom
1:10.6	for some of those people listening right now, as you've had with your success. I'm so excited to talk to you about it. Let's talk about your original motivation for getting started with your food blog.
1:19.4	When I look back, it was very much an exercise in trying to have an identity outside of my corporate career. So I worked in the corporate engineering space
1:29.2	for 15 years. And by about year six, I was like, I don't know if I'm going to do this forever.
1:37.1	It just feels like a grind. It's a very demanding career. You can make a lot of money,
1:42.2	but there's definitely not any kind of work life balance.
1:45.9	And so I felt like I had just been pigeonholed into this is an all-consuming thing.
1:51.6	And I wanted something that could be a hobby that I could come home and do and just have like
1:56.4	a different identity outside of the corporate stuff. So it was essentially an accidental business.
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