Brett Chody On TikTok, Bites Run Club, & Taylor Swift

Brett Chody possesses all the qualities necessary for being a great influencer. The 25-year-old creator not only has enviable taste in fashion and food — she’s especially known for her sweet treat dessert bowls — but can inspire someone like me, a non-athlete, to go for a run. On a cloudy November day in Santa Monica, I’m sitting with Chody at Tartine Bakery with the lemon pistachio cranberry teacake she ordered in front of her as she tells me about her next Bites Run Club meetup near Venice Beach. “Anyone's welcome, and we'd love to have you,” she says. I’m not even a short-distance jogger, but there’s something so inviting about Chody that I’m immediately convinced to wake up early on a Sunday morning to drive across town and join her.

Named after her social media handle (@brettsbites), where her content includes “lifestyle with pockets of food and workouts,” Bites Run Club is a chance for Chody and her followers — nearly 400,000 of them across YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram — to link up in different cities to network, make friends, and go f...