Food Blogger Maxine Sharf On How To Grow An Engaged Online Community Doing What You Love

<p>Maxine Sharf is a food blogger and recipe developer. She started @maxiskitchen on Instagram and has grown an engaged following of food lovers who enjoy her healthy recipes and authentic passion for cooking. </p><p>She gives valuable advice regarding the challenges of growing an online community and why it’s important to lean into your passion. </p><p>Memorable moments:</p><p>14:45: Get over the mental hurdle of just starting. Just start putting out content, even if it's just one thing. </p><p>15:02: Lean into your passion. For me, I know that cooking is my passion because the world tends to kind of melt away when I'm doing it and I get into sort of a flow state.</p><p>15:14: There's a hundred percent going to be a big community of people out there who are also interested in that thing, even if it's a really niche random thing that you're like thinking “am I the only person out there that likes this?” That's probably going to be a more diehard following. </p><p>16:03: When you combine the medium that you're the most comfortable with with the passion that you truly care about, you're going to create great content.</p><p> </p><p><i><strong>Connect with Maxine:</strong></i></p><p><a href="https://www.maxiskitchen.com">https://www.maxiskitchen.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maxiskitchen/">https://www.instagram.com/maxiskitchen/</a></p><p><i><strong>Connect with Allison:</strong></i></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/allisonwalshconsulting/">https://www.instagram.com/allisonwalshconsulting/</a></p>