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Women of Influence by SheSpeaksCreating Scroll-Stopping Food Content & Building Community with Courtnee Futch In this episode, we sit down with the talented Courtnee Futch, a chef, mixologist, cookbook author, and culinary producer. Courtnee shares her unique approach to creating food content that engages the senses and inspires her audience to get in the kitchen and cook.Courtnee discusses her passion for making fancy, approachable food and the importance of simplifying what's shown on camera to make it accessible to home cooks. She also delves into her love for building community and fostering genuine connections with her followers through storytelling. Aliza and Courtnee also explore the challenges faced by wo...
2024-08-0826 min
With Love & ButterI’m Getting Married Y'all!!!! Engagement and other musingsHi my lovies, and welcome back to a special episode of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on self-love and romance and all the food and drinks that get us through it.
If you’re listening to this, you’ve already seen the title of this video so I’ll get right to it!
I’m engaged. Screams internally. B and I have been engaged for almost 3 months now and I’ve been just over the moon about it!
So in this episode, I want to take you all to the moment in time of the proposal, how we prepared...
2024-06-171h 52
With Love & Butter“I’ve gone as far as I can alone”. Musings on loving well, living together and fleeting girlhood.Welcome BACK to Season 2 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on self-love and romance and the food & drinks that get us through it.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtneefutch.com/podcast
Today's Cocktail: 16 Carriages - an Apple Cider Mezcal Margarita
Today's Recipe: Soy Tomato Braised Pot Roast with Melting Onions & Brown Sugared Carrots
Today's Wine Pairing: Chenin Blanc
Today's Song Pairing: Imperfections by Baddaman Cerk
The accompanying "All is Paired" playlist can also be f...
2024-03-1235 min
The Afro Beets Podcast50: Unboxing Food Creativity (feat. Courtnee Futch)If you are a food creative looking to take your game to the next level this episode is for you. Courtnee is basically Thanos of the food creative world and has stopped by to give us some quick bites on how to move right. We discuss everything from Atlanta food culture to how to navigate the corporate food space to set up your next moves as an entrepreneur. Tap in you don't want to miss this.
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2024-03-051h 01
With Love & ButterSURPRISE EPISODE - Just Passing Through: Moving to Atlanta with My LoveWelcome to a SURPRISE EPISODE of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re talking about my final days in my Charlotte “bachelorette pad”, preparing for a move to Atlanta with my partner B, and how it feels to be starting not so from scratch this time around.
You can support my NEW cookbook Early Enough at courtneefutch.gumroad.com
The accompanying "All is Paired" playlist can also be found on Spotify and Apple Music.
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2023-09-061h 12
Cre8tor HubThe recipe for Growth as a Creator with Courtnee FutchCheck out Riverside.FM - Use promo code Creatorhub
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2023-06-2743 min
Cre8tor HubThe recipe for Growth as a Creator with Courtnee FutchCheck out Riverside.FM - Use promo code Creatorhub Creative Juice - Learn More_ _ _Connect w/ Courtnee: https://www.instagram.com/courtneefutch/
2023-06-2743 min
Threadings.26 | Swapping Secrets with Courtnee Futch: what do you save for yourself when no one keeps you but The Stage?a conversation about survival, archival, and the intimacy found and lost when you grow up in the public eye. request the full transcript at ismatu.gwendolyn@gmail.com This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ismatu.substack.com/subscribe
2023-04-241h 23
With Love & ButterI’m Not Single Now? : Letting Love & Lessons Find MeWelcome to With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. I’m Courtnee Futch, your host…baker, chef, mixologist, cookbook author, culinary producer and former serial monogamist gone roster-dater.
This is Episode 13, our last of the season, before I take a brief hiatus and resume the podcast in the summer. And today we were GOING to be talking about my new outlook on dating as I went into my third year of singleness. What I wanted. How I planned to get it. And how it was going, t...
2023-04-202h 07
With Love & ButterCaught up in the Wrapture: 2022 Dating Wrapped + Q&AWelcome to With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. I’m Courtnee Futch, your host…baker, chef, mixologist, cookbook author, culinary producer and former serial monogamist gone roster-dater.
Happy New Year! Today we’re talking about my 2021 AND 2022 Dating Recap + answering 12 questions you all had about my 2022 dating experiences!
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtneefutch.com/podcast
Today's Cocktail: Bitter Apricot Mezcal Sour
The accompanying "All is Paired" playlist can also be...
2023-01-041h 29
With Love & ButterIt’s just politics, not personal: Navigating Rejection & Anxious AttachmentWelcome to With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. I’m Courtnee Futch, your host…baker, chef, mixologist, cookbook author, culinary producer and former serial monogamist gone roster-dater.
Today we’re talking about miscommunication, rejection and peeling back the layers of my anxious attachment style.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtneefutch.com/podcast
Today's Cocktail: Pomegranate Rose Paper Plane
Today's Recipe: Lemon & Brown Butter Hummus Chicken Shawarma Bowl
Today's...
2022-12-3055 min
With Love & ButterSome Love Lost: Navigating the Ugliness of Grief Post BreakupWelcome to With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. I’m Courtnee Futch, your host…baker, chef, mixologist, cookbook author, culinary producer and former serial monogamist gone roster-dater.
Today we’re talking grief, romantic, platonic, and the self.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtneefutch.com/podcast
Today's Cocktail: Mango Sorbet ‘Naked and Famous’
Today's Recipe: Smoky BBQ & Orange Shrimp and Grits over Buttermilk Gouda Grits
Today's Wine Pairing: Pinot Gris
2022-11-151h 04
With Love & ButterAxethrowing & Love Bombing: How do I know you love me if it’s not immediate?!?!?Welcome to Episode 9 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re talking love bombing and why I’m so susceptible to it, my own time as a love bomber, dating men several years older than me, and then ultimately the choice to remain strangers.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtneefutch.com/podcast
Today's Cocktail: Passionfruit Campari Tiki Cocktail
Today's Recipe: Pan Seared Cod with Crispy Spiced Potatoes in a Red Coc...
2022-10-2853 min
With Love & Butter28 Questions: Reflections on Love & Life for Every YearWelcome to Episode 8 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re switching things up. If you’re following me on TIkTok, we’ve likely interacted a lot and you’ve seen that I get asked hundreds of questions about dating, entrepreneurship adventures, my corporate career, food, friendships etc. And I wanted to address some of the most frequently asked and share with y’all the lessons that I’ve learned in my 28 years on the planet.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found wi...
2022-09-241h 37
With Love & ButterCompletely Hinged: Dating Apps & Spinning the Block for Italy via DetroitWelcome to Episode 7 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it.
Today we’re FINALLY diving into the year of Courting Courtnee. Starting with my very first days as a newly single woman navigating Hinge, a kiss so bad it bruised my lip for two days, a different man who we’ll call Detroit and spinning the block with him after 2 years and dating people who actually LIKE you.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtne...
2022-09-0931 min
With Love & ButterHeartbreak and Hope: A False North Star and the Ghost of Lovers PastWelcome to Episode 6 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re talking about my dating situation with a man that Tiktok came to know as The Favorite, how he broke my heart, how I broke my own heart and what feelings are coming up for me now.
All cocktail, meal and wine pairings can be found with the full recipes on courtneefutch.com/podcast
Today's Cocktail: Sparkling Vanilla Bean Paper Plane
Today's Recipe: Brick Pressed Chicken with Chermoula Sauce...
2022-08-2652 min
With Love & ButterIt Takes a Village: The Close Friends and the Romance of CommunityWelcome to Episode 5 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re talking about my Close Friends on Instagram and the huge role they played in the #CourtingCourtnee journey, how they held digital and IRL space for me to process and the romance of having a platonic community.
To re-engage with dating and love, OUT LOUD... it's been freeing. The hashtag #CourtingCourtnee is me defining my ideas of romantic love... but in community. And I am so thankful to the Close Friends. The exper...
2022-08-1242 min
With Love & ButterUnbreaking my Heart: Lemon Pepper Lamentations and the 3 am Pull-upWelcome to Episode 4 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re talking about my last long term lover, the insane way things ended, and how I took charge of my own healing when it was clear no one would help me.
In 2018, I met the man I thought I’d love for the rest of my life. Then, not even 6 months into our relationship, I felt the weight of performance on my shoulders, a need to be a soft resting place always, and I w...
2022-07-291h 00
With Love & ButterThe Intimacy of Handwriting and How to Win my HeartWelcome to Episode 3 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it. Today we’re talking about the intimacy of handwriting and how much it informs my romantic decisions.
My parents set a tone for vocal, verbal, tangible love. Something you can cling to. Something you can keep tucked away like treasure. Likely because, all around my childhood home were post it notes, and printed notes and notes on napkins. I went on to share this love action with every lover until my last boyfriend, who met i...
2022-07-1525 min
With Love & ButterSimpin’ ain’t easy and the Case of the Brown Butter Pound CakeWelcome to Episode 2 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it.
Today we’re talking about the dating phenomenon of “simping” and why I love it so much. I have come to think of myself as a wholesome hoochie. I curate so much of my life with a heavy sensual touch. It’s in my playlists, in my cooking, in my home spaces, color choices, outfits, the florals that are always in my home. Friends who have been to my home can speak to this.
So n...
2022-06-3041 min
With Love & Butter#CourtingCourtnee and the decision to multi-dateWelcome to Episode 1 of With Love & Butter, a chef’s podcast on dating & relationships and the food & drinks that get us through it.
I decided to start this podcast for two reasons. 1. Food is love, and I’ve been a participant in thousands of loving moments, both romantic or platonic, by way of my baking or cooking. and 2. I was able to prioritize self-discovery in my dating life, and always always always, food and drinks served as the backdrop. I want to share my re-imaginings of those menu items and make them my own. Many recipes will also...
2022-06-3023 min
A Steady PourS2 - Episode 11 - A Steady Pour of Whiskey Food PairingsSend us a textThe fellas invite Courtnee Futch, chef, baker, mixologist, author, and entrepreneur to pull up a chair, grab a glass and share her southern hospitality infused passion for creating the ultimate dining experience. They discuss how she took her talents from baking in her college dorm to creating cocktail pairings in Paris and becoming an entrepreneur . Whether it's baking, cooking, or cocktail pairing, whiskey is one of her favorite spirits and ingredients to include in her recipes and the fellas want to know why. They review the whiskey pick of the week, Gentleman's Jack...
2021-07-1957 min
Dreams In DriveHow This Chef & Author Is Building A Culinary Empire From Her Kitchen w/ Courtnee FutchBack in 2017, Courtnee Futch found her "dream job." Unexpectedly, she got FIRED from that same dream job a few months in. She then vowed to get back on track to building the career of her dreams. Fast forward four years...what happened?? Where is she now? We catch up with EP 59 & 60 guest - chef, baker, author and entrepreneur Courtnee Futch to talk about how much her journey to the dream has changed since you first heard from her....and why this is only the beginning. Courtnee shares the challenges and successes she's encountered along the...
2021-02-221h 21
In These Uncertain TimesCourtnee Futch on Creative Currency & Southern HospitalityCourtnee Futch (she/her) chats with Derek about how she’s making cooking accessible, making the most of the resources you have, and how we should start giving ourselves permission and stop gatekeeping our potential. They wrap up with some great advice about how we can all bring a dose of Southern Hospitality to our daily lives.Courtnee Futch, chef, baker, author, and entrepreneur, believes that the best food is meant to feel like home. The Atlanta native has been baking and cooking professionally since the age of 17, when founding ThunderCakes Bakery and years later founding The Spr...
2020-10-2749 min
Katalyst MindsEpisode 7: Courtnee FutchIn this episode we talk with Courtnee Futch the founder of The Spred and Thunder Cakes. She talks about her personal journey as a Chef and how she has grown over time. Courtnee first started selling treats as a side hustle in college while attending Syracuse University. Her side hustle has now manifested into one of the two businesses she runs while still maintaining a full time position at a startup in Manhattan.
2020-05-2831 min
Content Creation Made EasySecrets of Going from WANTrepreneur to ENTREpreneur. Ep 37Courtnee Futch was a college freshman with $6.14 in her bank account when she started her first business, Thunder Cakes.
She had no idea what she was doing, but she SOLD OUT every time she brought her delicious goods to market.
Her magical touch? She never suffered analysis paralysis. She moved on her intuition & sought out help when needed!
Now? She’s grown an exciting NEW business while working full time & learning the food industry. She shares her secrets to be successful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-06-2735 min
Dreams In DriveJourney To The Dream: Getting Fired & Moving On (PART 2) w/ Courtnee FutchWhat happens when you get fired from your DREAM JOB? In PART TWO, culinary entrepreneur & future chef Courtnee Futch talks moving on & re-directing your dream. We talk what happened after she was fired (nine days after recording our first interview) and why she didn't let this set her back. Courtnee shares the story of how she was able to find a new job at a company that ended up being a better cultural fit for her. Courtnee also discusses the importance of stepping out on faith, what to do when plans change, and why she's grateful she didn't put al...
2017-02-0537 min
Dreams In DriveJourney To The Dream: The Foundation (PART ONE) w/ Courtnee FutchWho ever said the road was going to be easy? In this episode (PART ONE), we chat with culinary entrepreneur, and future chef Courtnee Futch about how she landed her "dream job" – all while navigating many twists and turns along the way. The story begins in her Syracuse University dorm room where Courtnee's first business – ThunderCakes – was conceived. Courtnee talks what she learned launching a business in college & running it for four years, why she decided to put entrepreneurship on hold to pursue a life as a professional in New York City, and the exact steps she took to secure h...
2017-02-011h 10