Susannah Brinkley is the creative behind food and travel blog Feast + West and the branding and graphic design site Garnishing Co. Join us as we chat about the challenges of balancing many interests and projects, staying productive and organized, finding your creative focus, and why the cycle of creative burnout may not be as bad as you thought.


Where you can find Susannah

Websites: feastandwest.com and garnishing.co


Instagram: instagram.com/slbrinkley, instagram.com/feastandwest, and instagram.com/garnishingco


Twitter: twitter.com/feastandwest and twitter.com/garnishingco


Facebook: facebook.com/feastandwest and facebook.com/garnishingco


Where you can find Ashley

Website: www.BrooksEditorial.com


Twitter: https://twitter.com/brookseditorial


Instagram: http://instagram.com/brookseditorial


Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/brookseditorial


Where you can find Abbigail

Website: www.InkwellsandImages.com


Twitter: https://twitter.com/abbigailekriebs


Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbigailekriebs/


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/inkwellsandimages/


Mini Book Club

Blog, Inc. by Joy Cho


The AP Style Guide


The Recipe Writer's Handbook


Yes Please by Amy Poehler


Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling


Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling


#GirlBoss by Sophia Amoruso


Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert


Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert


Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert


The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert


Quotes from the Episode

On blogging: “If I’m going to do this, I’m going to be all in.” -- Susannah


“My blog is my living portfolio.” --- Susannah


“You have to have a box in order to think outside the box.” --- Susannah


“I’d rather be crossing a lot of boundaries than feeling like I’m stuck inside one thing.” --- Susannah


“I just needed to focus on all the things I was doing for myself.” --- Susannah


“Some of my best ideas come from a place of burnout.” --- Susannah


“Burnout is inevitable. How can you make the most of it?” --- Susannah


“I build a [creative] system, then I can break the system.” --- Susannah

Twitter Mentions