Being multifaceted is an admirable trait in today’s world, where people thrive in doing numerous things at the same time. Santa Barbara home cooking expert Gozde Balli takes the world into her private kitchen as she showcases her cooking skills and shares some cooking tips for the holidays and beyond.
The Turkey-born and raised former fashion consultant has had quite the experience on her life journey. She once worked at Vakko, a top luxury fashion brand in Turkey, for eight years. During those years, her job description was to advise clients on how to improve or develop a personal or professional image with fashion and clothing style. In fact, as a style expert, Gozde helped thousands of clients choose their clothes and accessories. Moving from Turkey to California, LA, changed her life, and she transited from a life she always knew to a new one that she now thoroughly enjoys and allows her to do one of her favorite things – cooking.
Gozde Balli has rooted herself firmly in home cooking and shares her various cooking tips on social media. She has mastered the game of lifestyle showcase, and she excels at it while showing her love for traveling, cooking, and drinking champagne. She also enjoys decent engagement from her followers and happily interacts with them regularly. “I love cooking Mediterranean food a lot and I feel excited to share that part of my life with the world,” she said.
The aesthetically pleasing footage of different culinary dishes from around the world dots her social sites for the interested viewer to see. The allure of home-style cooking, as some would say, would be the revolving ideas of home and family meals eaten together. A cacophonous reminiscence of times gone by, brought to the present like a spirit-given form. Perhaps the reason why so many people flock to these simple but nonetheless wonderful videos is the accumulated longing for a simpler time; a kinder period in life. Gozde Balli breathes life back into cherished memories through the art of cooking.
Despite leaving her fashion consultant job in her home country, Gozde is still entwined with fashion and style. She has found herself decorating her friends’ homes and, thus, ignited her love for interior design. Now, she nurtures the dream of launching an interior design company sometime in the future. As her social media presence has become stronger over the years, Gozde is committed, now more than ever, to making the most of it and building her brand into one of the strongest out there. “People love my content, and they always look forward to seeing new posts or stories. If my content is worth looking forward to that much, then I’m surely going to take advantage of the opportunity to grow my brand,” she shared.
Gozde Balli strongly believes in following one’s dreams, and she charges her audience to get out of their comfort zones to pursue the things they love. “One of my biggest and best decisions was moving from Turkey to California with my husband. It was not easy to leave my family and friends to go live in a place that’s 7,000 miles away with a ten-hour time difference. But today, I have a growing brand, an active internet presence and a life I wouldn’t trade for anything else,” she said.
Thriving on self-confidence, Gozde looks forward to years of putting out more content and growing her brand. She hopes to become a well-known name in the lifestyle scene, be it home living, home cooking, fashion, or interior designing. Her goals for the next few years include traveling and seeing new places, establishing her own fashion brand and becoming a role model for young women. “I bask in the beauty of life, and I’ll always pursue opportunities when they present themselves. Being the champagne-loving California girl has given me a lot of opportunities, and I hope to maximize them to the fullest,” she said.
