NorthernSoul
Active member
Been busy with work these past few weeks so just been reading these threads on and off when I’ve time (bloody hell how fast do these pages fill up! ) Apologies for the length of my post too, but had to get this off my chest.
I watched the insta live yesterday
. The contrast between JM and Andi Oliver is clearly passion and knowledge about food (oh and a sprinkle of charisma on AO part) It reminds me of my own situation. Whilst working part time when my kids were little, my friend encouraged me to help out delivering some training sessions to earn extra cash for three or four sessions a year. Although I have the skills for the role and felt reasonably ok doing it, the subject matter wasn’t always my knowledge base. I had to design and deliver full day workshops.
When I had to deliver the sessions where I felt I had a really limited amount of knowledge, I was so anxious, and the sessions were torturous (in my mind I might add, just to salvage some respect. It was never a shit show like JM has produced, and my feedback sheets the company returned were always positive
) but in the sense that I hated the feeling of not having a real understanding about the subject. I would look online at YouTube presenters, speaking effortlessly, passionately, in an engaging way about a subject, because it was their work, their interest, they’ve spent years doing it. I was being a charlatan, swotting up and gleaming information second hand from loads of online sources journals and books.
Which is what I see when I look at JM. She fell into this gig by accident. She was good at making ends meet, being ‘ingenious‘ (used loosely
) with food and wrote a blog that got her noticed.
People encouraged her to give them more, and I imagine she was pulled in by the attention, sycophants blowing smoke up her arse, date I say it MONEY and the narcissistic belief that actually, she did have a talent for this cooking malarkey.
However the ‘Insta and TV lives‘ lay bare her lack of enthusiasm (because food really isn’t her passion), her knowledge, as she’s never followed a food orientated career before this and ability to pass on really useful tips and suggestions. Because she lacks all of these, she will always fall short. There’s nothing more seductive than listening and watching someone who fully is passionate and knowledgeable about their craft. Look at Andi yesterday, she was engaging, mesmerising and you know you could have chatted and listened to her all afternoon and she wouldn’t have run out of fascinating recipes, ideas, tales of her culinary past. By comparison that’s why JM said “ I’ll just stand here making silly faces’ and couldn’t engage, recount or connect with the passion or knowledge base she in AO (or of any of the other Food writers/presenters she’s worked with).
I did my gig for several years, and most of what I presented was my area of expertise and those sessions felt great to do. But I still can feel the anxiety of doing a botched job and when I watch JM, it triggers those feelings again.
Most people have a bit of ‘imposter syndrome’ and I felt like I was going to get found out at some point. Which is why I feel JM is so bloody aggressive into any negative feedback as it holds a mirror up to her to show we can see what she’s trying to hide. She doesn’t want to hear or see it, as she’s riding a wave and making money (I know she works 29hour days, so deserves every penny of her living wage
) So she’ll continue to surround herself with false sycophants, believe the hype, and create excuse, after excuse for her piss poor performance. Until the work dries up and someone else is flavour of the month.
This is all purely my opinion and speculation mi Lord
I watched the insta live yesterday
. The contrast between JM and Andi Oliver is clearly passion and knowledge about food (oh and a sprinkle of charisma on AO part) It reminds me of my own situation. Whilst working part time when my kids were little, my friend encouraged me to help out delivering some training sessions to earn extra cash for three or four sessions a year. Although I have the skills for the role and felt reasonably ok doing it, the subject matter wasn’t always my knowledge base. I had to design and deliver full day workshops.When I had to deliver the sessions where I felt I had a really limited amount of knowledge, I was so anxious, and the sessions were torturous (in my mind I might add, just to salvage some respect. It was never a shit show like JM has produced, and my feedback sheets the company returned were always positive
) but in the sense that I hated the feeling of not having a real understanding about the subject. I would look online at YouTube presenters, speaking effortlessly, passionately, in an engaging way about a subject, because it was their work, their interest, they’ve spent years doing it. I was being a charlatan, swotting up and gleaming information second hand from loads of online sources journals and books.Which is what I see when I look at JM. She fell into this gig by accident. She was good at making ends meet, being ‘ingenious‘ (used loosely
) with food and wrote a blog that got her noticed.People encouraged her to give them more, and I imagine she was pulled in by the attention, sycophants blowing smoke up her arse, date I say it MONEY and the narcissistic belief that actually, she did have a talent for this cooking malarkey.
However the ‘Insta and TV lives‘ lay bare her lack of enthusiasm (because food really isn’t her passion), her knowledge, as she’s never followed a food orientated career before this and ability to pass on really useful tips and suggestions. Because she lacks all of these, she will always fall short. There’s nothing more seductive than listening and watching someone who fully is passionate and knowledgeable about their craft. Look at Andi yesterday, she was engaging, mesmerising and you know you could have chatted and listened to her all afternoon and she wouldn’t have run out of fascinating recipes, ideas, tales of her culinary past. By comparison that’s why JM said “ I’ll just stand here making silly faces’ and couldn’t engage, recount or connect with the passion or knowledge base she in AO (or of any of the other Food writers/presenters she’s worked with).
I did my gig for several years, and most of what I presented was my area of expertise and those sessions felt great to do. But I still can feel the anxiety of doing a botched job and when I watch JM, it triggers those feelings again.
Most people have a bit of ‘imposter syndrome’ and I felt like I was going to get found out at some point. Which is why I feel JM is so bloody aggressive into any negative feedback as it holds a mirror up to her to show we can see what she’s trying to hide. She doesn’t want to hear or see it, as she’s riding a wave and making money (I know she works 29hour days, so deserves every penny of her living wage
) So she’ll continue to surround herself with false sycophants, believe the hype, and create excuse, after excuse for her piss poor performance. Until the work dries up and someone else is flavour of the month. This is all purely my opinion and speculation mi Lord
Wanting someone to be dependant on you for food 
I don't know, I'm thinking aloud here but something about it seems wrong.
