Today we’d like to introduce you to Belynda Chambers.
Hi Belynda, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Chambers, a professional chef is a graduate of William-Angliss, Melbourne, Australia. Servsafe certified, she is a Duke Wellness Coach specializing in smart personalized nutrition with a little decadent fun on the side.. She is passionate about fresh, local, organic, and unforgettably beautiful & delicious food.
More than a chef, she’s a true life culinarian. She brings a full life experience to her work. “One creative endeavor feeds another,” she’s quoted.
As a chef, farmer, writer, artist, songwriter/singer, teacher, Francophile, health/yoga/ayurevda coach and a networker her life is filled with amazing discoveries. Make no mistake, if you’re invited to dine at Chambers’s
table—be sure to accept. It will be fun, flavorful, and unforgettable.
Her history? With roots around the world from Memphis to Singapore, she ‘s worked in marketing with well-known brands as a corporate executive and with her own agency. In Thailand she raised funds to educate and save children from human trafficking. She founded a non profit for protection of the North Carolina Coast. She opened a creative arts gallery in Cary and performed her music by invitation from The Town of Cary. She’s written her memoir and taught writing. Serving on the board for Raleigh City Farm for years, she managed the herb rows ,developed recipes for the crops, and and led education efforts. She has organized trips to France and supports Alliance Francaise, teaching watercolor there.
Now, with her primary focus on culinary art, she’s writing her blog—ChambersLife.com and leading cooking & kitchen experiences: personal chef services, grocery/farm/market tours, kitchen and pantry perfection design and private dinner parties, wine tastings.
Have a non profit that you love? Chambers will donate a private dinner party or a wine tasting to benefit it and you get to eat!
“Reinvention is my life,” Chambers states. “I really think that it’s everyone’s opportunity to enjoy something more fun and exciting and delicious (maybe) or just different .”
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The struggles…I opened my first cooking business when I was in high school – cakes! Then we moved.
My father was an executive who was asked to move each time he was promoted. He was an Army officers’ chef in Turks and Caicos when he was a teenager, having lied about his age to join up. His cooking style was daring but he had a gifted palette. My mother was a terrific by-the-book cook who worked as a riviter during World War II. Food and meals together served as the roots for our ever changing home front.
By the time I was 20 I had lived in seven states, but I had learned to be very friendly (and share. my cookies) FAST.
I married to escape. In Cleveland, Ohio I studied to be a physician’s assistant while I worked at a large advertising agency in a myriad of roles. My husband and I had a farm and we had a second child. After serious postpartum depression, we moved to Raleigh. Here, I went to work for an ad agency and had a side hustle—a catering business.
Divorced, I followed my next great job with Black & Decker to Baltimore. I loved my job but it was really difficult being a single mom with their dad in Raleigh.
After seven years as a single, I married again and…we moved….to Melbourne, Australia. I got a chef’s degree. Returning to Baltimore, I went to work as Catholic Relief Services Director of Worldwide Marketing. My then dreamboat, now ex, was asked to move to England. So, we made plans to go. The struggle story goes on….
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I think I completed this before…
Why I am different?
I’m an energetic over 70ish grammy who just got back from recording songs I had put away 15 years ago because I didn’t believe I was a singer/songwriter.
I truly love helping people have fun and enjoy their unique selves.
Why not? Well, reality does insist that you analyze this very carefully considering your unique circumstances.
I am extremely generous and believe that the world is abundant with good things.
Any big plans?
That’s in the first section too.
I am excited to help people really learn how to enjoy the wonderful never ending culinary world, rooted in our local farms.
Pricing:
- Consult for Pricing as each project is unique.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.chamberslife.com
- Instagram: @chambers-belynda
- Facebook: Private
