Meet Vj Morris

We recently connected with Vj Morris and have shared our conversation below.

Hi VJ, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

Where do you get your resilience from? My mother! She’s one of the strongest women I’ve known—dedicated, hardworking, always challenging herself. Even now, in her 60s, she runs 10 miles at least twice a week. We even ran Broad Street together, a moment I cherish with pride as she tackled it one mile at a time. Her resilience that day is my driving force.

We immigrated to the United States in the ’90s (I was 16 years old). I could see the fear in my parents’ faces, knowing the challenges and obstacles ahead with three children in a country where they didn’t speak the language or even knew anything at all especially coming from a communist country .That fear made them resilient, and now they’ve created a beautiful life. Their resilience is something I always hold dear

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

Out of my love for food, hospitality, and the outdoors, I started hosting Culinary Experiences in 2023, located around local farms here in Bucks County. I cook outdoors over live fire and engage very interactively with the guests. My goal was to create an experience that went beyond just the food and the plate—a new sense of the art of dining. Being in nature, cooking food I love in a simple way, it was almost like going back to basics. Because, at the end of the day, a perfectly good meal comes down to salt, fire, good local ingredients, and great company. I even bring a bit of my culture into the dinners, where dance, food, and laughter create pure joy.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

Acknowledging that I could actually be a chef and pursue this as a career, I grew up in a home where cooking was a basic life skill we all had to learn. Therefore, I never thought it could be a career until my boyfriend (now husband) pointed out that this could very well be my calling. I was in my early thirties when this happened and was quite lost on the direction I wanted to take in life, and sometimes the answer is right in front of you if you eliminate the outside noise

Being true to myself, I realized it’s never too late. LIVE A BIG LIFE

You won’t regret trying and going for it, but you will regret not doing so.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

Balancing the mom guilt—I have two young children, 3.5 and 7 years old, and building this next chapter requires a lot of attention. I intend to be the type of person who does it all, so navigating through that is the biggest challenge. I don’t want to miss any moments with my children, but at the same time, I want to continue growing as this into the vision I have without feeling the weight of mom guilt

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Chef Vj Field_and_Fire

Image Credits

hollow house farm ;byaverylynn; moodsofmotherhoodphoto; ataylor.creative