About the author:
Shaunda Necole
I’m Shaunda Necole, a Las Vegas-based podcaster, author, and Southern soul food blogger, making life easier + more soulful one recipe at a time.
Join me as I share food, fun, travel, and best life hacks that make you feel like you won the jackpot!
I split my time between my homes in Virginia Beach and viva Las Vegas – and I love being an East Coast girl with a super sunny West Coast heart.
My professional career kicked-off as an executive at a Fortune 500 company. After I left (ahem: fled) from the corporate grind, I started my own business in the cheerleading space and never went back to that sad, gray office again!
Not long after, I opened my first cheerleading retail store in a local shopping mall and quickly scaled it to 7-figures. My store became the first of its kind to secure a distribution deal with Amazon!
On a whim, my daughter created an Instagram account for me to enter a contest for one of my favorite brands – MacKenzie-Childs. (Have you seen their dinnerware?? Swoon!)
My Instagram account exploded to over one hundred thousand followers in less than a year. (Thanks, daughter!) I took the reins and added a website and blog that attracted lucrative brand collaborations and partnerships. I also took ownership in other areas of my life, investing in real estate and earning fantastic passive income from my properties. Today, my lifestyle content on food, travel, health, Black Lives Matter, social justice, and more attracts millions of monthly Pinterest viewers, multi-millions of annual site visits, and over 100K Instagram followers!
As a trusted and authoritative Internet personality, my advice is featured in glossy magazines like Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company, and top-rated lifestyle websites like Refinery29.
Some of my high-profile brand partnerships include:
“This food blogger will teach you faster ways to make lengthy family recipes!”
When I found easier ways to cook my family’s soul food recipes, I fell in love with the kitchen.
Cooking was always something necessary but not necessarily fun. If you know anything about soul food, many of the dishes take hours and hours to cook.
Not anymore!
By leveraging modern kitchen appliances, like the Instant Pot, I found faster and easier ways to make traditional dishes. Now I have a blast in the kitchen and share my results on my site, The Soul Food Pot.
It may seem like I’m kind of obsessed, but I do 97% of my cooking in my Instant Pots!
I wish everyone knew how easy Instant Pot cooking is for busy households – one pot straight to the plate!
If you’re serious about saving time, money and eating well with high-quality meals that don’t require stewing over a hot pot all day…
Click the button below to learn how to save time & get inspired to have fun making your family recipes too!
Thank me later 😉
Still curious about me?
Here are a few of my faves
FOOD
Soul food, seafood, & most things gourmet
KARDASHIAN
Kris- I know, she’s technically a Jenner, but “favorite Jenner” just didn’t sound as fun!
STATE
California
COLORS
Red, hot pink & turquoise- No way I can pick just one!
MOVIES
Beaches & Purple Rain
MUSIC
Prince, Mariah Carey, Drake, Rick Ross, and Bruno Mars
PLACES
Las Vegas & Los Angeles
STORES
Target (aka Tarjay, dahhlinggg!) & Anthropologie
TV SHOWS
BOOKS
Inner Engineering by Sadhguru, Untamed by Glennon Doyle, & Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Be sure to check out my site dedicated to food, TheSoulFoodPot.com.
My podcast, The Soul Food Pod.
And my Las Vegas travel site, VegasRightNow.com.
Want to book me for a speaking gig? Check out my speaker page –> HERE.
Interested in a brand partnership? Please contact my agent at: Johanna@JohannaVoss.com