Coffee Breaks are 30-ish minute chats over Substack LIVE with the paid members of this community. It’s a chance to learn more about them and their work and talk about some of the real challenges and opportunities as a food writer today.
If your week needs a pick-me-up, a conversation with Stephanie Hansen will do it. Stephanie somehow has the ability to both kick my ass into gear and make me feel like a rock star in the span of minutes. I think this is a clue to what’s behind her Emmy-Award winning success: She reminds me (and the rest of the world) that the only thing standing in the way of doing what I want is me. Stephanie’s way of doing business is excellence without perfection, connection without pretense, and creativity over permission.
She’s a badass with a thousand good ideas and her own handwritten permission slip to make them happen. I could talk to her all day long, and this 66-minute conversation that I had to pull myself away from is proof.
About Stephanie
I feel like this photo tells you all you need to know about Stephanie which is that she is the kind of person you want to party with.
In Stephanie’s case, the party might involve a long leisurely meal on the porch of her cabin in the woods, or drinks on the deck of a sailboat in the Mediterranean, or margaritas in Mexico City, or martinis and shrimp cocktail in Las Vegas, or sushi in Tokyo, or if you’re really lucky, making a Juicy Lucy Cheeseburger Tater Tot Hot Dish.
Stephanie gets around. She also happens to be an Emmy® award-winning program host of the Emmy Award Winning Show “Taste Buds with Stephanie”, a podcaster, the author of two cookbooks and a novel, the social commentator behind StephaniesDish.com AND a Substack newsletter.
The goal of Mastermind for Food Writers and The Food Writers Business Lab isn’t simply to gather more information. It’s to build a better business alongside people who genuinely want to see each other succeed.
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