Meet the Speakers

Joey Petracca is Co-Founder and COO at Chicory, the leading contextual commerce advertising platform.

Chicory transforms recipe content into commerce media. Their platform powers a network of recipe publishers and retailers, used by CPG brands and agencies, that reaches grocery shoppers with hyper-contextual ads and in-recipe commerce solutions.

Joey will address contextual advertising as a new ad stream for creators, highlighting this solution as a cookieless option that complements any existing ad network revenue.

He will highlight the positive user experience that this brings to creators' sites, offering an enhanced experience for visitors as well as a multi-retailer choice when carting ingredients.

Ty Kilgore has immersed himself in the world of SEO and Digital Marketing for over 15 years. Prior to starting Everything Digital Marketing, he successfully increased rankings for over 150 websites which included 40 different industries. Now, he's channeling his extensive training, wisdom, and success into the food blogging space, where he has already catalyzed the growth of more than 150 food-focused websites. He’s been married for almost 16 years with 3 awesome children and is enjoying life with them in Austin, Texas.

Let's cook up some SEO magic! Ty will help you identify high-value recipes that maximize your traffic potential.

Cari Garcia is a licensed clinical social worker turned food blogger and content creator. Cari has amassed a total of half a million followers across social media and now works with others to build their social media platforms.

Cari will share everything she does to successfully grow an audience using short form video. No gatekeeping here! She'll share about how she tackles her strategy, workflow, equipment and what apps she uses for editing.

Meggan Hill is a classically-trained chef and professional writer. Her detailed tutorials and meticulously-tested recipes bring success and confidence to home cooks everywhere. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Meggan now lives in sunny Southern California.

Learn promising strategies to ignite your email list growth by sending different types of emails and engaging paid ads on social media.

With a background in Linguistics and over 30 years in the food industry, Christine has a knack for explaining cooking concepts verbally and through writing.

This is clear from her two successful websites, visited by millions of cooks every month, and by her podcast, Recipe of the Day, which has been named a top 10 cooking podcasts by Popsugar and has been downloaded by over 100,000 listeners.

While most food bloggers have a YouTube channel and are on social media everywhere, very few have a podcast. This is because podcasting feels less straightforward than making a video on your phone and posting it on social media.

But it’s actually not more difficult at all. It’s actually easier. If you’re one of those food bloggers who has considered podcasting but felt that it was too daunting, this session is for you!

Christine will share how her podcast has grown her community, transformed her connection with her readers, and brought more money into her business. And she’ll show you that podcasting is nothing to be afraid of.

You only need 3 inexpensive tools, and Christine’s 5 Step Foodie Podcast Roadmap and you’ll be set. The podcast industry is growing and thriving, making now a great time to start hitting that record button!

Monica has had a lifetime love of cooking and enjoys the challenge of making vegan food that tastes like the real thing. She has been creating vegan recipes for over 23 years and has been sharing these family-friendly vegan recipes on her blog for the past 7 years.  She has 3 self-published cookbooks as well as a vegan meal-planning recipe subscription service. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and two teen boys.

Monica will share her method of how she gets over 10,000 highly targeted email subscribers year after year and is able to use the list to have 5 figure cookbook launches from her highly engaged list of subscribers.

Kara is the recipe developer, food photographer, and creator of Sweetly Splendid. She is a "serial entrepreneur" who has founded and still currently owns multiple businesses, but Sweetly Splendid remains her pride and her true dream job. She enjoys spending time with her family, camping, reading, and playing with her dogs.

This session will be about all things processes, systems, and automation to help food bloggers have less stress, produce more content, and streamline their workflow to be able to spend less time "in the business" and doing more of the parts they love.

Food bloggers do the job of multiple full time employees all in one. Processes and automation can feel overwhelming and like it's adding more work instead of taking it away. Often the software options promoted to food bloggers don't really fit properly.

Through this session, I'll help guide ways to make it seamless and automate your systems so you don't feel like you're giving yourself extra work having to use that system.

As both a Certified Public Accountant and full-time food blogger, Ansley knows better than anyone how crucial it is to stay on top of your accounting—also know how frustrating it is to work with a CPA who doesn’t understand anything about ins and outs of your business.

This is exactly why Ansley founded Peach Perfect Financials: to help creators like you level up your business, to empower you to gain control of your finances, and to provide you with the clarity you need to feel good about where your blogging brand is headed.

Learn what being self-employed really means and how to set up your business for success. We'll touch on how to best plan for taxes and strategies to mitigate your liability.

Brad is a certified Hypnotherapist by the National Guild of Hypnotist and the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy, a trained mPEAK (Mindful Performance Enhancement Awareness & Knowledge) coach through the UCSD School of Medicine and Center of Mindfulness, and a certified breathwork facilitator.

Brad is passionate and committed to helping individuals live creative and happy lives, without unnecessary suffering.

Brad will show us how to manifest business success by eliminating any blocks that might be holding you back. He will do a guided visualization so you can start off the event with focus and clarity and the capacity to retain information, stay on track and bring your goals to fruition.

Brad will also conduct small group breath work and meditation sessions so you can find focus both at the event and in your daily life after you leave the event.

Brad's techniques will help to decrease "event overwhelm" so you can walk away clear-minded and feeling like your best creative self.

Erin Harding is the Director of Advertising and Design at Simple Pin Media, a Pinterest management and marketing agency.

Erin will speak on the Pinterest panel. She'll talk through a strategy for selling your digital products through Pinterest. It is possible to gain an entirely new Pinterest audience using this strategy, which will convert to sales.