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#17 Louise O'Neill - How To Hustle For Success While Looking After Your Own Wellbeing

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emma gannon

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Louise O'Neill is one of the most inspiring generous people who I've befriended on Twitter. She is an Irish author and columnist, with a strong focus on feminism in her writing. Her first book, Only Ever Yours was published in 2014 and earned the title "Newcomer of the Year" of the Irish Book Awards and was the winner of the inaugural YA Book Prize in 2015. Her second book, Asking For It, was named Irish Times Book of the Month in September 2015. Rights of both books have been sold - film and TV rights for Only Ever Yours and TV rights for Asking For It. HOW VERY EXCITING.

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0:00.0

Hello welcome back this is episode 17 of control alt delete the podcast with the same name as my book which is out in just two weeks time if you'd like to read the incriminating stories of me growing up on the internet, then you should probably hop on

0:14.0

over to Amazon and pre-order it.

0:17.6

So today's episode is really exciting.

0:19.4

I got to interview my friend Louise O'Neill, who I met on Twitter and have not yet met in real life, but she is one of my favorite people to follow online and she is also a very impressive person. So Louise worked the fashion

0:36.0

journalist in New York and as of 2016 she has written a weekly column for the

0:42.2

Irish examiner but probably what you might know her

0:46.0

from is the fact that her books are bestsellers.

0:50.0

Her first book, Only Ever Yours, was published in 2014, which earned the title of Newcomer

0:55.6

of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the winner of the YA Prize in 2015.

1:01.1

I absolutely love the book. It's an amazing dystopian novel touching on lots of very

1:06.3

topical things such as gender roles, female identity and competition between women.

1:11.2

It's amazing and her second book asking for it was

1:14.8

named the Irish Times Book of the Month last year and is an amazing brave and

1:20.0

very important book touching on rape culture. So both books have been sold to TV

1:25.3

and film companies. This means Louise is a very busy lady and I couldn't wait to

1:30.8

catch up with her about all the things she's learned along the way since basically taking over the world.

1:37.0

So I hope you enjoy this episode. We talk about self-promotion, hustling, whether having a dream job is a myth, how she quit her job to become an author,

1:47.0

and how she manages to balance her work life and also her well-being and what she's learned along the way.

1:52.0

So I hope you enjoy this episode and here it is.

1:58.6

I know this is like diving in but having written a book is like seems like this

2:04.8

massive thing and then you write it and you're like oh where's the marching band you know

2:10.6

like the soundtrack you've had like massive

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