Pivoting from Flute to Food Content Creation after a Performance Injury with Annie Trimber | Ep16

Annie Trimber is a social media manager, content creator, photographer and food stylist. She studied at Northwestern University, where she got a double major in flute performance and business and marketing. Annie began playing the flute at the age of 5, and had high career goals of a performance career in music. But that came to a screeching halt when she diagnosed with debilitating tendonitis in her third year at Northwestern. She had to take the fall semester of her final year off, and figure out how to pivot to a new career pathway after spending 15 years of her life dedicated to music. It’s amazing to hear how she pulled on her love for food and sustainability to forge a new pathway filled with unique and rich experiences in the food blogging, content creation space.

ANNIE’S EPISODE RESOURCES:
Current Fav Composer: Shostakovich, Beethoven and Bach
Current Fav Piece of Classical Music: Bach Cello Suite 1
Fav Movie Soundtrack: Salt Burn and Star Wars
Go-to Lazy Meal: a toastie; peanut butter with dates and chocolate chips
Book Rec: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt https://amzn.to/4dG3yRg
Musician You Admire: Labyrinth, Queen Herby
Social Media Account that offers inspo: @relauren
Most Useful App on Phone: Adore Rush and reddit
Resource Rec: Range by David Epstein https://amzn.to/4dJvDas

Audible Free Trial: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3VXwMWf
Amazon Music Free Trial: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3W1Ttsr

CONNECT WITH ANNIE:
Instagram: @annietrimber   / annietrimber  
Food Blog: https://annietrimber.com

ORCHESTRATING YOUR CAREER
YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaCP...
Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  / orchestratingyourcareer  
Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠  / orchestratingyourcareer  

ABOUT THE HOST
Rebekah Carpio received her BMus in clarinet performance from the Eastman School of Music. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in their Orchestral Artistry program, which was in collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra. She then went on to receive her PhD, also from the Guildhall School, researching the impact of education and community work in conservatoire training. 

CONNECT WITH REBEKAH
Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  / bitesbybekah  
Websites: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.bitesbybekah.com⁠⁠⁠

TIMECODES

00:00 Start of Episode
00:46 Podcast Intro
01:31 Episode Intro
02:59 Start of Interview
03:50 Annie’s Musical Background
5:49 Applying to Music Schools
8:30 Conservatoire vs University
15:14 Northwestern
17:33 Pressure Cooker Environment
19:26 Exploring Business and Marketing
22:13 Performance Injury
27:17 Identify Crisis
29:43 Getting into Food
41:29 A New Spark
44:26 Experience in Social Media + Food Content Creation
52:16 Parallels Between Musicians and Content Creation
56:30 Avoiding Injury Today
1:02:55 When Your Hobby Becomes Your Job
1:08:45 Rapid Fire Q&A
1:16:27 Final Piece of Advice
1:17:46 Get in touch with Annie
1:18:53 Episode Outro
1:20:05 Annie’s Performance and Foodie Videos

MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE
Theme Music composed by Ben Roundtree: ⁠   • Symphony No. 1 in D, “Heroes”  | Ben ...  ⁠

PHOTO CREDIT
Dmitri Shostakovich licensed-image
Beethoven https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Bach https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptiv...
Labyrinth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrinth
Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_...
Queen Herby https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebal...

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