42 | JUNE 9 • 2022 

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n April 2017, wellness blogger and 
influencer Sari Diskin moved from her 
home of Toronto, Canada, to Metro 
Detroit. She was marrying her husband, 
Jacob Diskin, with whom she’d kept a 
long-distance relationship since meeting at 
a Jewish summer camp.
At the time, Sari Diskin, now the founder 
and owner of Eat Well With Sari (https://
eatwellwithsari.com), was working in mar-
keting and advertising. It was the career she 
had studied for; but despite giving it an hon-
est try, it didn’t feel fulfilling.
“I ended up in a role that was really not 
serving me,
” she recalls. “To feed into my 
passion and things that I love, I started a 

food and wellness blog on the side.
”
A lifelong fan of cooking, Diskin grew 
up eating diverse (and delicious) home-
cooked meals that her mother would 
create. Roasted red pepper pasta with pine 
nuts, potatoes with brisket, matzah ball 
soup and chicken cutlets were regular rota-
tions on the menu.
“Everything was so delicious,
” Diskin 
says of her mother’s cooking. “She always 
made it a priority to bring the family 
together around the table after school, and 
that’s something that’s always held with me 
over the years.
”
Diskin, 32, of Beverly Hills began to 
create her own health-focused recipes. Like 

her mother, she enjoyed sharing them 
with others, and started to document her 
creations with explanations and photos. 
Eventually, she chose to make it her 
career.
“I pursued a health coach certifica-
tion and took a part-time job,
” she says 
of changing career paths. “I decided I 
would try to find a career in the blog-
ging realm as my marketing career and 
advertising role just wasn’t for me any-
more.
”

BUILDING A COMMUNITY
After a year of building up a new blog, 
her brand gained traction. “There 
weren’t many people sharing a lot of 
healthy recipes and healthy places 
around Metro Detroit to eat at the time, 
which was my focus,
” Diskin says. 
Originally launched as Eat Well 
Detroit, Sari’s blog had one main goal: 
to build community around the healthy 
eating scene.
Using her marketing and advertising 
skills, Diskin took what she already 
knew about creating brands and applied 
it to her own endeavor. She learned how 
to monetize her blog and turn it into a 
full-time career. Now with more than 
45,000 followers, Eat Well Detroit has 
evolved into Eat Well With Sari, a transi-
tion she says was intentional. 
“Now it is much more of a lifestyle 
and overall wellness page,
” Diskin says 
of her brand. “It’s very focused on food, 
freedom and balance. That is just where 
my values live.
”

NEXT DOR

Wellness blogger and infl
 uencer Sari Diskin 
makes honest storytelling a priority.

Creating her 
Own Path

ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY 
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

VPG PHOTOGRAPHY

Sari Diskin and 
her son Miles.

VOICE OF THE NEW
JEWISH GENERATION

