Author Archives: Bryn Mooth

About Bryn Mooth

Bryn is an experienced, energetic and creative writer/editor focused on inspiring people to eat locally, cook simply and enjoy healthy lifestyles. She writes the Midwest-based food blog Writes4Food.com, which shares recipes and kitchen wisdom and explores regional foods and producers.Bryn comes from a long line of cooking enthusiasts. Her grandmother, Dorothy Mengering, published a cookbook based on recipes from her family, friends and travels (“Home Cooking with Dave’s Mom,” Atria, 1996), and her parents are both accomplished home cooks. Her brother is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute and has taught at cooking schools in Tuscany and Chicago.Bryn and her husband, Rob, are avid cooks, wine lovers and advocates for the Cincinnati food community. They’re weekly customers at Findlay Market, and they shop community farmer’s markets around the area. In season, they enjoy produce from their small vegetable garden.Writes4Food.com represents Bryn’s second career: Previously, she spent 20 years writing about design, business and creativity for HOW magazine, a leading publication for the graphic design field. For 13 years, she led the HOW brand, a multimillion-dollar, multi-platform franchise that included an award-winning magazine, well-regarded events, a successful book line and several online outlets. Prior to HOW, Bryn created, launched and managed a lifestyle publication for more than 200,000 American Express incentive cardholders. She has a bachelor’s degree from the Indiana University School of Journalism.Her expertise includes content development for print and web, writing and editing, social media and online communication. Bryn is an enthusiastic collaborator, described by her colleagues and contacts as “intelligent, energetic, connected, organized and highly communicative.”Find Bryn here: http://www.writes4food.com LinkedIn.com/BrynMooth Twitter @writes4food

Making time to work ON your business

Bryn Mooth

This is a slow period for copywriter, Bryn Mooth, and she's using it to implement ideas she learned at CFC 2012. Here's what she's doing to build her business. Continue reading

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CFC: Commiserate, celebrate, collaborate

Bryn Mooth

"This can be lonely work, y’all, and sometimes just a little camaraderie helps," says Bryn Mooth, who is looking forward to collaborating, celebrating (and, yes, commiserating) with fellow creative solopreneurs at the Creative Freelancer Conference, June 21-22 in Boston. Continue reading

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3 Big Ideas from CFC

Three big themes or big ideas emerged from CFC and wove themselves throughout the different presentations. They are.... Continue reading

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Where do you do your thinking?

I do my best thinking at the long end of the leash. For some people, it’s in the shower, or during the commute, or while they’re dreaming. I’ve always had mental breakthroughs when I’m out for a walk with the dog. Continue reading

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A Real Community

As Ilise and I were having our many conversations over the summer about developing this new blog, one idea consistently got us the most excited. We wanted to make this more of a community, a meeting place, a space where … Continue reading

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CFC Recap

If you're like me, your brain is still jam-packed more than a week after the Creative Freelancer Conference ended. For those of you who skipped the event, you missed a ton of really compelling info that was directed at helping … Continue reading

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What's New for CFC

This year's CFC (that's #CFConf for you Twitter folks) will be, in most respects, the kind of small, focused, hands-on, connected event that creative freelancers have come to expect since the event debuted in 2008. But in Denver, it'll be … Continue reading

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Workin' on contract

An article on MSNBC.com says that contract work may be on the verge of becoming the norm. From the piece: "Littler Mendelson, one of the largest employment law firms in the country, predicted in a report last year titled “The … Continue reading

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An Interview with Steve Gordon

If you attended the first Creative Freelancer Conference in Chicago, you may have met Steve Gordon—one of the people who added a real spark of energy to the proceedings (I'm thinking of Kendall Ridley and Velvette Delaney here, too). Steve … Continue reading

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Just Announced! Freelancer Bootcamp Series

As we speak with creative freelancers, we hear that marketing is one of the biggest challenges in running your business. You don't have time. You don't have money to spend. You get buried with work and lose track of your … Continue reading

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