ZOE SPENCER - Comfort Food, Uncomfortable Growth
From Eating While Broke by The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
April 16, 2026 · 56 min · Season 3 · Episode 28
About this episode
Zoe Spencer discusses her journey from a middle-class upbringing to content creation and her aspirations in acting while cooking a nostalgic meal.
Host Coline Witt welcomes streamer and content creator Zoe Spencer to an episode of "Eating While Broke," where Zoe cooks her throwback meal: pork and beans with cut-up hot dogs, butter, pepper, and sugar, served with rice (or bread). While cooking, Zoe talks about growing up in a two-parent, middle-class household in Brooklyn with hardworking parents, her early jobs (a supermarket at 16, Burlington through college, and a bank job after graduating in May 2022), and how she was fired from the bank due to a branch shutdown and let go from Burlington for constantly posting her shifts. Zoe discusses creating staged-but-unscripted blind date videos, transitioning into Twitch, differences between YouTube RPM and Twitch’s real-time subs/donations, and a successful collab with Sexyy Red arranged through her team. She shares that she’s building a mostly Black women-led team, and says her biggest challenge is staying focused and consistent, noting she can stream 8–12+ hours when locked in. Zoe opens up about streaming feeling less fun and more performative, her desire to pursue acting through classes, self-tapes, and auditions, and her interest in comedy while also…
People in this episode
Host: Coline Witt
Guest: Zoe Spencer
Topics covered
- comfort food
- streaming
- content creation
- personal growth
- career challenges
- acting aspirations
Keywords
- Zoe Spencer
- streaming
- Twitch
- comfort food
- acting
- career challenges
- YouTube
- Sexyy Red
- Regina Hall
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Twitch, YouTube
Places: Brooklyn
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