Power of Connecting
EPISODE SUMMARY
Without a doubt, if you want to be successful in today’s world, you need to be multi-faceted. That’s the lesson that Addie Broyles wants us to learn, and it’s something she’s been demonstrating with her own career. Unquestionably, she understands the power of connecting with people.
Additionally, Addie is a multi-faceted renaissance woman: she is a food writer, tarot reader, and podcaster. Addie talks with us about being able to be multifaceted in today’s world, the generational healing that impacts her career, and learning the power of connecting with people.
Power of Connecting
About Addie
Addie Broyles is a writer who spent 13 years as a food columnist for the Austin American-Statesman, where she covered home cooking, cookbooks, and food culture at large. Last year, she left the paper to work on her own media projects, such as a podcast about her high school graduation in a small town in the Midwest. A mom of two teenage boys, Addie is also a freelancer who writes for magazines such as Texas Monthly, Metropolis, and Dwell and publishes a weekly column about art, grief, travel, parenting, and dismantling the patriarchy called The Feminist Kitchen. Addie also reads and teaches tarot through her ancestral healing company, Don’t Fear the Death Card.
Episode Breakdown
- The first time she realized she was a connector at Austin-American Statesmen.
- How Twitter changed food journalism.
- Addie discusses the major lesson that Gary Vaynerchuk taught her.
- The concept behind the Buy Nothing movement.
- Herdecision to leave the Austin-American Statesman newspaper after 13 years.
- Ulearning racism changed the way she connected with people, how it changed her writing and general outlook.
- We talk about the problem with “canceling”
- Food photographers can use the written word to improve their photography
- How do you start writing your Instagram captions
- Things that people don’t know about writing about food
- A story about sponges helped her connect with her readers on a deeper level.
- Addie talks about how needing a break from food writing has helped her reconnect with what labor means as a person with a college degree.
- Why it’s important to be multi-faced in today’s industry
- We discuss Addie’s tarot business Don’t Fear The Death Card
Resources
- Austin-American Statesmen
- Patrizi’s restaurant
- Tyson Cole
- Shawn Cirkiel
- Julie and Julia
- #austin360cooks
- Buy Nothing Community
- Paperback Swap
- Mike Sutter
- San Antonio News Express
- Esther Perel
- Urban Farm Movement – Austin
- The Little Plant Stand
- Johnson’s Backyard Grden
- Nick Cannon – Anti-semitic thing
- Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturism
- Jasmine Star
- Social Curator
- Annie Lamott – Bird by Bird
- Don’t Fear The Death Card
- Tarot For The Wild Soul
- The Wild Edge of Sorrow
