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Patron of the Week: Kate Talbot

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Our Patron of the Week this time is Kate Talbot a marketing consultant and writer in San Francisco. This lady has a lot going on! Not only does she consult full time she also has a column in Forbes, a book about social media, and she speaks at conferences! Learn more about what she’s up to and find out about her services right here!

Name: Kate Talbot

Where do you live?: Panhandle

Occupation: Marketing Consultant and Freelance Writer

What’s a project you’re working on?: Marketing and Community outreach for the Reimagine Festival. “The Outside Lands of Death” according to SF Gate

What is an accomplishment you’re really proud of?: Consulting and living on my own terms for the past three years while still being able to afford SF life!

Best money saving tip: Try to work for the places you spend the most money on. I do content for my Pilates studio and it helps keep my monthly expenses down.

What do you refuse to spend money on?: Wedding gifts! After engagement party, bridal shower, bachelorette party, I leave the gift registry to wealthy relatives.

Most expensive thing you’ve ever bought: Marc Jacobs bag circa 2007 after three months in my first job after college and before the economic collapse. It was happier times for prosperity.

How’d that feel?: Like the beginning of an amazing career was about to happen….definitely got laid off after Bear Stearns went under.

Favorite cheap eat: Dollar tacos at Teeth on Tuesdays!

Favorite dive bar: Noc Noc

Best deal you’ve ever gotten: Buddy passes! Working for an airline (I ran social at Virgin America) you can fly all around the world for free. Always stay friends with your co-workers, so you can then fly for $40 one way anywhere.

Favorite free thing to do: Walk throughout the city. Since I am freelance, I have time to get to places. I spend an hour each day walking from the Panhandle to the Mission jamming out to my music before I workout.

If you woke up a millionaire, what’s the first thing you’d buy?: Real estate! So in SF a one-bedroom apartment (though a million wouldn’t get me too much)

One album that everyone should listen to: Beyonce Lemonade. Women empowerment and it’s Beyonce…

Best hangover cure: Advil before bed and working out in the AM

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

He's been called "an Underground legend": SF Chronicle, "an SF cult hero":SF Bay Guardian, and "the chief of cheap": Time Out New York.