About the author:
Shaunda Necole
Digital innovator Shaunda Necole is an author, podcaster, food & lifestyle blogger, Las Vegas travel ambassador, and self-professed online SEO geek! Her three websites showcase her vibrant personality and wild free spirit, plus food, fun, and the best travel life hacks that make you feel like you won the jackpot!
On her food blog, The Soul Food Pot, Shaunda makes life easier and more soulful, one recipe at a time. She’s also the creator of the travel site Vegas Right Now, dedicated to exploring “The Real Las Vegas” from a local’s perspective, and the host of the Vegas Right Now! podcast.
Join me as I share food, fun, and the best travel 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, and women’s health attracts millions of monthly Pinterest viewers, multi-millions of annual site visits, and over 10K YouTube subscribers!
As a trusted and authoritative online publisher, my advice is featured in glossy magazines like Forbes, CEO Mogul, Cosmopolitan, Fast Company, Taste Of Home, 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 😉
“Shaunda Necole is Las Vegas’s newest spokesperson!”
I come from a family of caterers, musicians, and entertainers, so naturally, I’ve always been drawn to Las Vegas.
After visiting the city as a tourist for nearly two decades, my husband and I decided to make our stay official by moving across the country from coastal Virginia Beach to the saucy desert of viva Las Vegas—The Entertainment Capital of the World!
Click the button below to get my insider insights about “The Real Las Vegas” tourists rarely get to know!
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
PLACE
Las Vegas
STORES
Target (aka Tarjay, dahhlinggg!) & Anthropologie (affiliate links)
TV SHOWS
BOOKS
Inner Engineering by Sadhguru, Untamed by Glennon Doyle, & Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (affiliate links)
Be sure to check out my site dedicated to food, TheSoulFoodPot.com.
My podcasts, The Soul Food Pod and Vegas Right Now!
And my Las Vegas travel site, VegasRightNow.com.
Want to book me for a speaking gig? Check out my speaker page –> HERE.
To book an interview, please contact my publicist Vicky Lynch, at vicky@guidemybrand.com
Interested in a brand partnership? Please contact my agent at: Johanna@JohannaVoss.com