What starts as a food blog for family recipes doesn’t usually turn into a career—but Melissa Griffiths is not your usual story. With Bless This Mess, she flipped simple dinners into serious business, proving that sometimes the thing you do “for fun” is actually the thing you were built for. At 40, she’s mixing entrepreneurship with everyday life—and reminding us all that midlife is the perfect time to rewrite the recipe.

(00:00) Meet Melissa: Mom, food blogger, and the entrepreneur you didn’t see coming 👩‍🍳

(06:15) How a food blog began as a side hobby and grew 📝

(09:30) When Bless This Mess started gaining traction 🚀

(11:00) Pulling back the curtain on food content creation 🎥

(14:45) Inside the Bless This Mess editorial calendar 📅

(16:20) Has she had her Rachel Green Friends cooking moment? 🍳

(18:30) When a successful online business flips gender roles 👏

(21:30) Melissa’s real Little House on the Prairie moment 🌾

(23:30) Facing imposter syndrome as a midlife entrepreneur 😅

(25:15) Wanting more than the cultural script you were sold 📖

(26:20) Let’s talk money, honey 💵

(27:50) Looking back at old content (and cringing) 🙈

(30:50) How AI is reshaping the content creator landscape 🤖

(33:45) How to support your favorite creators (instead of bots) ❤️

(36:45) My massive recipe fail from Allrecipes.com 🍲

(40:50) Turkey, Italy, Israel, New York… chasing the world’s best food 🌍

(42:20) The true meaning of food 🍽️

(43:30) What Melissa would tell her 27-year-old self ✨

(45:20) Final 4 questions with Melissa Griffiths 🎤

🥧 Find Melissa at https://www.blessthismessplease.com/ or @blessthismessblog on Instagram

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