Krissy Downey | Working for Martha Stewart & The Today Show in Food TV, Culinary School & How to Get Into Cooking
House Guest with Kenzie Elizabeth
Dear Media, Kenzie Elizabeth
4.3 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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This week's episode Kenzie sits down with food creator Krissy Downey to talk about her experience working for Martha Stewart, getting a job at The Today Show, working with Ina Garten, working in food, culinary school, needlepoint and more. Hope you enjoy!! <3
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi y'all. This is houseguess, and I am your host, Kenzie Elizabeth. Think a Gen Z, |
| 0:12.1 | wannabe Martha Stewart, meets Dolly Parton, trying to live in a Nancy Myers movie in her 20s. |
| 0:16.9 | We talk all about life, relationships, navigating your 20s, closing out the bars, or waking up at 5 a.m., depending on our vibe that week. |
| 0:24.3 | Ultimately, living our best lives and figuring it out along the way. |
| 0:28.4 | So coming out, sometimes I have guests on who do really cool things, some of my best friends, or it's just me in my house that I spend way too much time in. |
| 0:36.0 | So let's get into the show. Hi, house guests. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome back to my home. This week, we are off to New York City to record with my current |
| 0:45.7 | favorite comfort creator, Chrissy Downey. I am obsessed with that woman. Found her on TikTok at |
| 0:51.3 | across Chrissy's table. She is incredible recipes, but honest, I do make |
| 0:56.0 | them. They're actually incredible. But just watching her videos, you feel so warm and so calm and so |
| 1:01.2 | cozy. She's kind of like the female version of Harrison, like another like Ina Garden, if you |
| 1:06.0 | will. She is just the girl for the podcast. Like she is just the girl for the perfect winter comfort episode. You guys are going to absolutely love her. I'm unbelievably excited, okay? She is so talented. She works for the Today Show. She's like with Martha Stewart all the time. It's actually insane. I'm really excited to have her on. I hope you guys enjoy. If you guys are watching on YouTube, be sure to subscribe and comment below where y'all are watching from. And if you are not watching on YouTube, be sure to head over to |
| 1:31.1 | YouTube and watch on YouTube. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy and let's get on with the show. |
| 1:36.1 | Wait, I'm so excited. Thank you so much. I'm so much to talk about it. And your outfit is just so |
| 1:40.9 | fabulous. I mean, we can just get going, I guess. No, I'm. This is the most fabulous day of my whole life. |
| 1:46.8 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:47.7 | It's the most fabulous day of my life. |
| 1:48.9 | But, like, I literally couldn't be more excited. |
| 1:58.4 | I'm, like, fan-going. No. Same. No, like, I am obsessed. Well, I was just saying like off air that, you know, I'm obsessed with you. |
| 2:01.1 | And then I texted Harrison and I was like, oh, my gosh, do you follow this girl, Chrissy? |
| 2:04.0 | And of course, he's like, yes, obviously obsessed, you know, which like, did he before? |
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