Talia Pollock brings humor into the world of wellness. She’s an author, storyteller and a plant-based chef. In this conversation recording during the COVID-19 pandemic, she shares her story of building a wellness platform,, how she used her podcast to get a book deal with a top publishing house, and her journey of pivoting her identity as  food blogger.

Talia’s beautiful, funny and recipe-packed book, Party in Your Plants: 100+ Plant-Based Recipes and Problem-Solving Strategies to Help You Eat Healthier (Without Hating Your Life) is out on April 21, 2020.  

We discuss: 

• What’s been helping her during the quarantine
• Putting human connections first on social media 
• Coming out of a social media burnout
• The magic of the “mute” button on Instagram 
• How she makes money with her wellness platform, Party In My Plants
• How Party In My Plants allowed her to bring together comedy and plants
• How she got a top publishing deal 
• How she got on Dr. Oz
• Why podcasting can be a huge turning point for your business
• How not having IRL social life brought her to social media
• Loneliness as a side effect of becoming plant-based
• Work and identity 
• Pivoting your identity is as a food blogger 
• What is success? 
• Pivoting as a food blogger 
• Why now it’s more important to show up fully in your light 
• How Ksenia got her Instagram account verified 

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