🎙️Episode 14: Melinda Strauss, Jewish advocate, food blogger, author and influencer. (Phew!)

✨ Cooking Up Courage - and Jewish Pride From a WordPress food blog to 1.5 million TikTok followers - Melinda Strauss has become one of the most powerful Jewish voices online - blending recipes, storytelling, and unshakable faith. ✅ How sharing her kitchen turned into a platform for Jewish education and advocacy. ✅ Why she believes ignorance fuels hate — and knowledge can heal it. ✅ The unexpected ways your dreams might unfold - and why that’s okay. ✅ The advice her mentor gave her that changed how she dreams. ✅ The guiding truth behind everything she does: I am a Jew first. Melinda reminds us that every choice, every post, every moment - is guided by one core fact - the fact of being Jewish. 🎧 Listen now — because in Melinda's words..."it’s so cool to be Jewish."