10: Fake It Til You Make It
The Lavendaire Lifestyle
Aileen Xu
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Let me tell you a secret about how I launched my career: I faked it until I made it. Thinking back, I had no idea what I was doing 99% of the time when I started working as a PR manager, spokesperson, host and video producer at a startup food festival called 626 Night Market. I literally ... Read more
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys my name's Eileen and this is the Lavendare Lifestyle |
| 0:08.0 | the podcast on lifestyle design for millennials. I am a YouTube creator, blogger, singer, musician, and artist of life. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm here to guide you to become a master artist of your life. You can create the life that you've always imagined. Life is an art. Make |
| 0:26.9 | it your masterpiece. The other day I was catching up with some friends who I used to work together with on a video team |
| 0:36.6 | and we were just reminiscing on the old shoots that we used to do for our old job and how fun they were and I just laughed to myself because I |
| 0:45.3 | thought back I was like wow I had no idea what I was doing back then it's just so |
| 0:50.8 | funny and I thought about it and I'd realize that so much of the beginning of my career was |
| 0:57.8 | Me not knowing what I was doing and just pretending to be bold enough to handle whatever I was given and just |
| 1:05.0 | figure it out on my own. |
| 1:06.0 | So that kind of inspired me to bring it up today. |
| 1:09.0 | For those of you who are starting out in your life and career |
| 1:12.0 | and you don't really have any |
| 1:14.0 | experience under your belt just yet, you just have to fake it till you make it. |
| 1:19.9 | So let me paint the picture for you first. |
| 1:23.0 | So in April 2012, there was a first event called the 626 Night Market. |
| 1:30.0 | So this was like the first Asian Food Festival of its kind in the San Gabriel Valley in LA |
| 1:36.1 | and the 626 is the area code of this neighborhood. So this neighborhood is |
| 1:40.2 | predominantly Asian and this is like the area where I grew up in LA. |
| 1:45.0 | So this event was inspired by the night markets in Asia. |
| 1:49.0 | It was organized by three friends, their first time organizing any events. |
| 1:53.2 | And they were just like, you know, we really love the night markets in Asia. |
| 1:56.7 | Why don't we bring that to America? |
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