E4. Chloé Valdary and Resisting the Impulse to Burn it All Down

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Chloé Valdary, (The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic) freelance writer and deep thinker, talks with Bridget about dealing with Imposter Syndrome, the death of art, why revolution is easier than governance and the three things she learned from Bret Stephens. Chloé and Bridget discuss their shared desire to see all humans flourish while they analyze the joy that being snarky can bring. Don’t miss their fascinating takes on intersectionality, astrology and why dudes want to fight – always. Be sure to read Chloé’s fabulous piece on intersectionality – Whiteness is Blackness and Blackness is Whiteness.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
0:02.4	Now available on Apple Podcasts.
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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friend, send smoke signals, whatever.
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0:34.8	This week I'm super excited to sit down with Chloe Valderie.
0:39.0	Chloe is brilliant, young, gives me hope for the future. She's written for the Wall Street Journal, the New York
0:44.9	Times, the Atlantic. This past week she dropped her debut piece for a commentary magazine called
0:50.0	Whiteness's Blackness and Blackness is whiteness. I highly recommend you read that. I loved
0:55.2	sitting down with her. I could have gone five hours but we limited it to one and
0:59.7	hopefully I'll have her back. Enjoy. Okay folks let's get into it. I'm here
1:04.0	here with Chloe Valderie and she is a freelance writer and has been featured in the
1:09.5	New York Times where else where else of you?
1:11.5	Wall Street Journal, Atlantic magazine, a few other places, a daily beast.
1:19.0	Nice.
1:20.0	Have you always wanted to be a writer?
1:22.0	Yeah, I think when I was even 14 years old,
1:25.3	I wanted to like be a screen writer.
1:27.2	So, oh, okay.
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