How To Become A Full-Time Blogger | Vanessa Mota | My Dominican Kitchen®
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Episode 251 features Vanessa Mota of My Dominican Kitchen®. We talk bout how to become a full-time blogger. Listen now!
Vanessa Mota is an award-winning food photographer and content creator. Her love for food led her to create My Dominican Kitchen®, a bilingual blog sharing traditional Dominican recipes and Latin-inspired meals for home cooks.
She was born in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic, and grew up in a matriarchal household surrounded by amazing cooks. Her interest in food began as a child visiting the farmer’s market with her mom and watching her grandmother and aunts cook delicious traditional Dominican meals. But it wasn’t until adulthood that Vanessa learned how to cook, while pregnant with her first child living in New York City and missing her family’s home cooking.
She started her blog as a way to preserve her family’s recipes and share with the world the flavors of la comida criolla. She has been recognized as a top Food Photographer and Creator by Hispanicize, BlogHer, and Mom 2.0, and is a member of the 2021 fall class of Cafe Media’s Remarkable Voices.
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| 0:00.0 | Tell me about the moment that the blog went from a hobby to a business. Because I feel like for a lot of us, this shit happens completely by accident. You don't even know you're creating a business when you start this. At one point, I had issues with daycare and stuff like that. And I was very frustrated with my job because I was getting home really late all the time. And I decided to leave my job until I could figure out how to find a job that fit better for me to be able to care for my kids. |
| 0:24.5 | I decided at that point because I had already seen other people that were making money with blogging. |
| 0:30.1 | I had no idea how they were doing it. |
| 0:31.7 | I decided while I figure this job situation out, I'm just going to dedicate my time to try to see if I can make |
| 0:38.7 | something happen with my website. So that's when I started to rebrand and focus it on food |
| 0:44.2 | blogging. And then I just started to do that for some time. I was doing contract work, freelance |
| 0:48.9 | on the side. I started focusing more time on my blog and being more intentional about actually making money with it. |
| 0:56.5 | I still didn't know how to turn it into a business. |
| 0:58.3 | I still didn't know how that was going to pan out and how that was going to work. |
| 1:01.8 | But little by little, I started figuring out and I monetized my blog within three months of starting it. |
| 1:10.5 | You're listening to Joquiero Dino, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm your host, Janice Torres, award-winning Latina personal finance expert. |
| 1:21.3 | I didn't always have my financial shit together, but when I started looking for POC-friendly |
| 1:25.9 | personal finance podcasts, I couldn't find any. |
| 1:28.9 | And so Yo Quiero Dino was born. On this show, I'll show you how to make dinero, how to keep |
| 1:33.7 | your Dinero, and most importantly, how to make it grow. Each week, I'm connecting you with the |
| 1:38.6 | most brilliant minds in the world of money and business. So you can learn about investing, |
| 1:43.4 | entrepreneurship, and building |
| 1:44.8 | wealth. The best part, I'm dishing up all this knowledge with a sassy side of sason. So if |
| 1:50.9 | you're ready to be Poderosa with your dinero, you've come to the right place. Let's dive in. |
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