Ever wonder what it takes to make your side hustle your full-time hustle while working a graveyard shift, publishing New York Times Best Selling Books and raising two kids? If you’re looking to create work in a way that inspires you while still helping the community you serve without selling out who you are, then this episode is for you. 

In this episode I get cozy with Michelle Tam.

Michelle is the creator of the Saveur Award winning food blog, Nom Nom Paleo. Together with her husband, Henry Fong, she also produced a two-time Webby award winning cooking app, authored two New York Times bestselling cookbooks, and was nominated for a James Beard Award. Michelle has a degree in nutrition and food science from the University of California at Berkeley, and a doctorate in pharmacy from UCSF. For over a dozen years, she worked the graveyard shift at Stanford Hospital and Clinics as a night pharmacist before her side hustle, Nom Nom Paleo, became her main hustle. 

We talk about her new Paleo-Friendly sauces featured in Whole Foods, how to talk to your kids about the food we eat, her unconventional way of writing books, and the journey to building a blog into a business

What you'll hear (and don't want to miss!):

:: What Michelle was told she was doing “wrong” in her business, and why she decided to keep doing things the way she was doing them

:: Michelle’s pivot from being a full-time pharmacist, after 4 years of juggling her career with her side hustle and a busy family life

:: What she’s done so well to build her online community and what didn’t work so well for her

:: The ways that she stays creatively connected to her work after creating content for such a long time

:: Why Michelle doesn’t try to keep up with every online trend - or even maintain an editorial calendar for the business

:: How her line of paleo sauces came to be created, and for sale, in Whole Foods 

You can find the full show notes from this episode over at https://jadahsellner.com/when-to-quit-michelle-tam-174