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 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 Audible Free Trial: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3VXwMWf Amazon Music Free Trial: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3W1Ttsr CONNECT WITH ANNIE: Instagram: @annietrimber Food Blog: annietrimber.com ORCHESTRATING YOUR CAREER YouTube Instagram Facebook 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: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/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: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0z6dZJL6GM⁠ PHOTO CREDIT Dmitri Shostakovich Beethoven Bach