About Us

Welcome to Eat Move Make! We’re Liz and Chanelle, a North Carolina mom and daughter blog team. We write about food, travel, fitness, and lifestyle.

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About Liz Mays

I’m the founder of Eat Move Make and a North Carolina mom of two humans and six cats. I love to cook, bake, craft and travel. I’m also addicted to tea (but not sweet tea).

After college, I began working in the travel & tourism industry and loved it, but gave it up to stay home and raise my two kids. No regrets, of course!

I moved to coastal North Carolina from Michigan about ten years ago and love spending my time in the kitchen creating and tweaking recipes. Click on the photos below to check out some of my favorites!

When I’m not creating something in my kitchen, and since my kids are now adults, I’m all about my bucket list of travel destinations and adventures. I’m a member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW) and the North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA). I was recently interviewed on Travel Writing 2.0.

About Chanelle Smith

I’m a goofy almost-thirty-something with a soft spot for cats and kombucha. I dig traveling, trying local fare (beer & wine especially), and experimenting with photography: check out some photos I’ve taken in these travel posts.

Outside the blog, I work as a freelance content marketer & digital copywriter and also have a personal essay published in SELF. One of my coolest accomplishments is that I’m a 100% steroid-free professional bodybuilder in the IFBB. Yup, I even wrote a book about it.

Check out my free workouts and my bodybuilding competition prep diary!