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I Made $33,000 Cooking One Meal: From Fired & Broke To Five-Figure Deals - Alexa Santos
ALEXA SANTOS
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Should you quit a safe job that is draining your soul? I sat down with Alexa Santos, the home cook behind Alexa What's For Dinner, a former TV news reporter and one of the cooks on Hulu's Secret Chef, to hear how she went from a $30,000 salary to five-figure brand deals.
Alexa shares how she lived on $50 a week of groceries in Wisconsin, how a COVID-era job at Feedfeed became her training ground, and how she grew their TikTok by about a million followers. We get into why getting fired in November 2022 was the best thing that happened to her, why she stopped working for exposure, and how she elbowed her way into rooms as a plus one.
If you feel stuck, her advice is to find your out this week and plan around it, because the perfect time to leap never comes.
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Should you quit a safe career?Why TV news wore her downWhy she chose foodMoving to NYC unemployed at 26Getting by on a $30,000 salaryHer big break during COVIDWhy she stopped working for exposureHow to prepare for the leapHolding your nerve when people doubtWhere her confidence comes fromWhen the hobby became a businessWhy getting fired was a giftYour first step: find your outIn defence of being lateWhy there's no rush to settle downHer long form YouTube plansWhy we're here: connection
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