#146 Yasmin Khan: When Passion Leads To Burn-out

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Yasmin Khan is an award-winning author, campaigner and cook.

In 2013, after suffering a debilitating burnout and having to step back from her human rights work, Yasmin switched careers and turned to food as a tool through which to share people’s stories. She ran a Kickstarter to write a book that would offer a window into Iran, the result of which is her best-selling debut book The Saffron Tales: Recipes From the Persian Kitchen (Bloomsbury, 2016). The book was chosen by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the BBC Food Programme as one of the best cookbooks of 2016.

Yasmin’s second book, Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen was published in July 2018 and immediately became a number 1 best-seller on Amazon. The book is a collection of recipes and stories gathered from her travels through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and was heralded by the late, great, Anthony Bourdain as “A moving, hugely knowledgeable and utterly delicious book”.

In this episode we talk burn-out, Kickstarter, career changes, micro-communities and how to manage multiple projects.

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0:58.9	Today's guest on Control-op Delete is Yasmin Khan. She is an award-winning author, Campainer and Cook, and she's
1:06.2	passionate about sharing people's stories through food. I absolutely love Yasmin. I think that she is so
1:12.4	interesting.
1:13.6	She is one of those people who you just want to talk to for hours and I feel like her
1:18.0	bio is so long that I'm going to be here for hours if I try and get through it all. But after studying law and
1:25.0	social policy, she spent a decade working as a human rights campaigner for NGOs and
1:30.4	grassroots groups and she ran high-profile national and international campaigns with a special
1:36.4	focus on conflict in the Middle East. In 2013 she suffered burnout and we talk about it on the podcast kind of how that happened
1:45.6	and what she did to kind of get back on her feet but she switched careers and I find
1:51.0	it really interesting how she did it and how food played a big role in that.
1:56.0	She ran a Kickstarter.
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