496: Rachel Mansfield, Food Blogger and Social Media Consultant

Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 8 a.m.

I stumbled upon Rachel Mansfield\xa0on Instagram. She tagged me in a picture\u2026Not what I was expecting to see when I saw the photo\u2026I was tagged in a photo of a a grain-free salmon burger topped with avocado\u2026the caption described the burger\u2019s ingredients and then said, \u201cNow back to binge listening to Farnoosh Torabi\u2019s So Money\xa0podcast. I am obsessed! Guys, this photo got over 5,000 likes. Curious, I then clicked on her\xa0profile and almost fell off my chair. I saw she had over 100,000 followers\xa0and was... well is... a BIG deal. From there we struck up a friendly conversation, only to learn that less than a year ago she\u2019d been fired from her job because her employer thought her social media presence was a conflict of interest. At that time she had only a small fraction of the followers she has today\u2026.And rather than scurry to find another job she decided, at the ripe age of 26, to venture out on her own. She turned her side-gig of food blogging into a full time job and since then, she's worked with top brands in the health, fitness, wellness and food spaces and built an impressive online following (130K users to be exact)\u2026.earning about TRIPLE what she made at her previous job. If that\u2019s not SO MONEY I don\u2019t know what is.\xa0She's going to teach us everything she's learned along the way. For more information visit www.somoneypodcast.com.