The Food Blogger Pro Podcast

Bjork Ostrom

Food Blogging

Content Creation

SEO

Email Marketing

Instagram

Social Media Marketing

Monetization Strategies

Brand Partnerships

Community Building

Affiliate Marketing

Content Marketing

Entrepreneurship

Blogging

Tiktok

Social Media Strategy

Substack

AI In Content Creation

Recipe Development

Social Media

Welcome to The Food Blogger Pro Podcast, hosted by Bjork Ostrom from Pinch of Yum! Our goal is to help you create a beautiful, functional, and profitable blog. We interview successful food bloggers and industry experts in an effort to surface strategies that can help you more efficiently grow and monetize your site. You'll learn about recipe SEO, food photography, plugins, monetization, traffic, a... more

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Publishes	Weekly	Episodes	603	Founded	11 years ago
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Latest Episodes

How The Modern Proper Built a Brand That's Bigger Than Its Founders

Developing a distinct brand voice, building a new discovery path on Substack, and working as partners with Holly Erickson and Natalie Mortimer from The Modern Proper.

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Welcome to episode 595 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the ... more

Yesterday • 1 hr 2 min

The Real Timeline Behind Creator Growth with Emily Christensen

Learning as you go, repurposing content, and building a business that fits your life with Emily Christensen of Country Roads Sourdough.

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This episode is sponsored by Raptive.

Welcome to episode 594 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This wee... more

27 Oct 2026 • 1 hr

Recovering from a 40% Traffic Drop By Providing More Value to Readers with Dahn Boquist

Creating content without the boundaries of SEO, recovering from a traffic drop, and rediscovering joy in food blogging with Dahn Boquist from Savor the Best.

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Welcome to episode 593 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, ... more

20 Oct 2026 • 48 min • Most popular

How to Build Trust with your Email Subscribers with Aaron Randhawa

Outsourcing your weaknesses, the power of email authentication, and using AI to optimize your business with Aaron Randhawa.

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Welcome to episode 592 of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast! This week on the podcast, Bjork interviews Aaron Randhawa. ... more

13 Oct 2026 • 59 min

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Recent Guests

Emily Christensen

Food blogger and sourdough cookbook author

Country Roads Sourdough

Episode: The Real Timeline Behind Creator Growth with Emily Christensen

Dahn Boquist

Food blogger and former nurse who runs Savor the Best with her mother

Savor the Best

Episode: Recovering from a 40% Traffic Drop By Providing More Value to Readers with Dahn Boquist

Aaron Randhawa

Manages technical operations for The Forked Spoon

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Episode: How to Build Trust with your Email Subscribers with Aaron Randhawa

Cyd Converse

Director of Publisher Advocacy and Partnerships, Mediavine

Mediavine

Episode: What Successful Food Creators Have in Common Right Now with Cyd Converse from Mediavine

Yvette Marquez

Founder of The Food Blog Muy Bueno

Muy Bueno

Episode: Building a Sustainable Creator Business Around Family Recipes with Yvette Marquez

Justin Allen

Creator behind Everything Just Baked

Everything Just Baked

Episode: How Justin Ellen Went From Camera-Shy to 3 Million Social Media Followers

Yoli Ouiya

Queen of green, founder of Food and Wellness Equity Collective

Food and Wellness Equity Collective

Episode: Creating Connection and Equity in the Creator Space with Yoli Ouiya

Andrew Wilder

Co-founder of NerdPress, WordPress maintenance and support expert

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Episode: Building Smarter Systems as a Creator with Andrew Wilder and Miranda Wicker

Miranda Wicker

Communications manager at NerdPress, creator by background

NerdPress

Episode: Building Smarter Systems as a Creator with Andrew Wilder and Miranda Wicker

Hosts

Bjork Ostrom

Host of The Food Blogger Pro Podcast; co-founder of Pinch of Yum / Food Blogger Pro

Emily (The Food Blogger Pro Team)

Host sidekick / team member frequently introducing episodes

Anne

Host from The Food Blogger Pro Team; regular contributor

Reviews

4.9 out of 5 stars from 590 ratings

Always learning!
I have learnt so much from this podcast. Always informative, and has definitely helped to build my traffic (even after almost 10 years blogging) especially lately with short form video on Facebook. The episodes from The Food Dolls and Crowded Kitchen were game changers for me.
Thanks Bjork!
Apple Podcasts
5
Lee-Ann Grace
Australiaa month ago
I Never Miss an Episode!
I’ve been listening since episode 1 years ago! Such an incredible resource for food bloggers and content creators - always relevant, fun to listen to, and packed with value. Thanks Bjork and team, for continuing to show up every week!
Apple Podcasts
5
odjebsksosnekdkd
United States5 months ago
Vast Resource
I’ve been listening to the podcast for the past few months and it has been a huge help in so many areas as I navigate starting my own food blog. Bjork does an excellent job asking questions and summarizing the answers from his guests. I appreciate the wide range of content. It’s truly a vast amount of trustworthy knowledge, advice, and real world experiences. It’s super valuable on its own but it’s worth is compounded when paired with the FBP membership. Keep up the stellar work. Thanks for all ... more
Apple Podcasts
5
Mandy 8:28
United Statesa year ago
Soo helpful!
Such a huge fan of this podcast. There is always so much interesting, helpful and actionable information!
Apple Podcasts
5
Ali_4444
Canadaa year ago
Would love to hear guests more
I am always wanting to hear more of what the guests have to say, that’s why they are there.. but I feel like the host takes over and consumes most of the time speaking.
Apple Podcasts
4
Ellinkname
United States2 years ago

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Listeners Say

Key themes from listener reviews, highlighting what works and what could be improved about the show.

Guests are often high-signal experts; host is occasionally seen as driving conversation too much, with a desire for guests more time.

Listeners praise actionable, battle-tested tactics for growing food blogs and creator businesses.

Strong value for beginners and seasoned creators alike; episodes frequently highlight monetization paths beyond ads and traffic.

Community and membership value are frequently cited as differentiators.

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Apple Podcasts	#25	Argentina/Business/Entrepreneurship
Apple Podcasts	#81	United Arab Emirates/Business/Entrepreneurship
Apple Podcasts	#107	Denmark/Business/Entrepreneurship
Apple Podcasts	#109	Argentina/Business
Apple Podcasts	#150	Philippines/Business/Entrepreneurship
Apple Podcasts	#160	Sweden/Business/Entrepreneurship

Talking Points

Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

The Real Timeline Behind Creator Growth with Emily Christensen

Q: What were the things that were most helpful? Once, like the unlocks along the way, what were the things that you learned that were most beneficial for that growth?

She intentionally studied viral and successful posts, saved visual and wording hooks, listened to audience response, and adapted effective formats and ideas to different recipes.

The Real Timeline Behind Creator Growth with Emily Christensen

Q: Tell me a little bit about the stage of life that you're in, the multiple moves that you've had, and how out of that, you had this idea to start sourdough classes.

After leaving a corporate marketing job to move for her husband's medical schooling, Christensen needed income and a meaningful project while caring for her young children. She started Country Roads Sourdough and began teaching local classes.

How to Build Trust with your Email Subscribers with Aaron Randhawa

Q: What are the things that you're doing that were most beneficial as you focused on e-mail more?

Randhawa describes setting up SPF and DKIM records and gradually configuring DMARC, which helps email providers verify that messages come from the authorized domain and helps prevent spoofing.

How to Build Trust with your Email Subscribers with Aaron Randhawa

Q: What does your role look like, how do you guys kind of divide up the work that you're doing?

Randhawa handles technical operations and removes distractions so Jessica can focus on creating recipes and content, photography, and recipe testing.

Recovering from a 40% Traffic Drop By Providing More Value to Readers with Dahn Boquist

Q: Can you talk about now how you are using that? And then also I think this is the key payoff in this conversation. What the result of that is after implementing it?

Boquist says about 600 people had registered for the meal-planning tool after roughly a year. That group viewed twice as many pages and spent four times as much time on the site, encouraging her to keep developing it.

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The show centers on turning a food-focused online presence into a sustainable business. It regularly covers practical tactics for growing traffic, building an audience, and monetizing through email lists, memberships, and productized offerings. Across episodes, listeners hear a steady mix of SEO, content strategy, platform-specific growth (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube), and realistic entrepreneurship insights, including burnout prevention, workflow optimization, and long-term brand building. Notable strengths include guest diversity (successful bloggers, PR and SEO experts, and creator-entrepreneurship authorities), actionable frameworks, and a clear emphasis on owned-media channels and repeatable systems that scale beyond one-off posts. This... more

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1. Emily Christensen
2. Dahn Boquist
3. Aaron Randhawa
4. Cyd Converse
5. Yvette Marquez
6. Justin Allen
7. Yoli Ouiya
8. Andrew Wilder

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