Today we’d like to introduce you to Isabel Da Corte.
Hi Isabel, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Eating and trying new restaurants has always been one of my guilty pleasures. Yes, I loved investing my money in food and restaurant experiences. The day that I realized my phone had more pictures of food than of myself I decided to start a food blog.
This happened during my marketing and advertising career at the University of Miami, which awaken my creative side. Months after starting my food blog journey, and focusing a lot on restaurant reviews, I realized this was not sustainable in the long run. I love eating, but I love to stay balanced and healthy even more, reason why I started to share recipes as well and started to broaden my content.
During some months of finding myself and what I love, and being out of social media, I decided to do a Master’s in Digital Media Design at Harvard, which honestly had very little to do with social media but I learned so many things that definitely helped me on the content creation, strategy, visuals, copywriting and storytelling, which I implement on a daily basis in Comidisa.
At this time, I share food, products, and restaurant recommendations, and add to that, I share content creation tips, which my audience love. I think they do follow me for the tips, but a huge part follows me because they enjoy the colors and how innovative and different my content is, so for some I think it is a matter of how entertaining and inspiring my content is.
Every day I am more confident that this project can grow and get to as many users and brands as much as I decide to. I think working on my confidence and doing things with love is what has brought me to where I am at. I wish I could say Constance and organization helped me as well, but no, I work every day to share content on a daily basis and have an organized strategy and calendar, it’s hard because of my personality.
I am more of a “go with the flow” type of person, but that “go with the flow” vibe is just sometimes not helpful, and want to not even touch the phone. Cool for me, but not cool for the goals of Comidisa, lol.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey has been a fairly smooth road?
All, to be honest, I doubt so much about the project and Comidisa, sometimes I do not want to even open social media. As I said before, cool for me, to be super present in my daily life, but that definitely jeopardizes comidisa’s goals.
Sometimes I post, sometimes I don’t, which Instagram does not like… I have learned to manage my emotions and not allow them to manage me, but that is tough, not feeling well or motivated, but still need to share content.
It is fine to take some days off, but the day I started to take it as a job, as my project, I understood I was the only one jeopardizing myself and my project, not the algorithm
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I am currently a marketing manager at a commercial relative estate brokerage firm. I like a lot what I do.
I am known for being a creative mind, thinking a lot outside the box, and being rational and unbiased in most of cases which makes me clever at the time of making recommendations.
I am proud of where I am known, of how strong and independent I have become, personally and professionally, due to life circumstances that yes, are tough, but have taught me so much. I can’t imagine where I would be right now if I did not go through all those experiences. I would have never gone to Harvard, I would still need my dad’s money to live, I would never buy my car, etc. Everything is perfect and happens for a reason.
I consider myself unique in every aspect, but most importantly, I consider myself very human when it comes to dealing with people. I know how to stand in other’s shoes, I know how to listen, I know how to respect, and in the end, it does not matter with whom I am working, or who my client is, as far as we treat each other as equal and humans, I am happy and that is what sets me apart.
People like to work with me because I am authentic and very me, not just because of my experience, because there will always be a more experienced person that myself, but there will never be another me.
What was you like growing up?
I was an extroverted kid at home but shy outside my house, not sure why, I assume I was scared of what others could say (now I am a social butterfly and I don’t mind what others say but has taken me so much time and effort). I have always been very kind and sweet, avoiding any type of conflict, since I was 2 years old, everyone tells me that.
I remember getting so mad and sad if I experienced an injustice or see someone else experiencing it, and that is still alive in me. Mini Isabel loves being with friends, hanging out, going to the movies, laughing, eating (but not sweets, she hated chocolate, cake, anything that was sweet), and playing around
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comidisa/
