Embracing The Fall with Carla Hall

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When you show up with love and aim only to give of yourself, everyone you interact with can feel it. Carla Hall has led a life and a career filled with zigs and zags. The two-time Top Chef contestant and current cooking contributor for Good Morning America went from accountant, to model, to author, to chef. She has done it all andshown up with love at every opportunity. She’s living proof that when you make decisions out of love—both for yourself and others—even your falls can be beautiful. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Karla Hall is absolutely beloved.
0:09.8	The two-time contestant on top chef and contributor on Good Morning America, she has had quite
0:16.4	an unconventional career path.
0:18.2	But there's one thread that goes through her entire career, she trusted her gut.
0:24.7	The question is, how do we know when to trust our guts?
0:28.0	How do we know when to reject advice that we are given and how to follow advice that
0:33.2	we are given?
0:34.6	It turns out it all has to do with love.
0:39.7	This is a bit of optimism.
0:46.8	So I loved your podcast and because I have been secretly listening to you for so long
0:54.8	before I interviewed you at Vegas, I kind of know how it works, which is why I was so
1:00.3	excited that you invited me and I was hoping that would happen.
1:03.7	I'm like, see, that's something I want to do.
1:06.1	Well, I can tell you when we met, your energy, and I know you've been told this in the past,
1:11.9	but your energy is absolutely intoxicating.
1:15.2	You're like a fireplace.
1:16.8	I just want to be near you.
1:18.1	You give up this warmth and generosity and kindness and glow that I just wanted to like
1:23.8	not walk away.
1:24.8	It was very frustrating for the audience because the clock said zero, but I wanted to just
1:28.4	keep talking with you.
1:29.4	So I figured the way to prolong this is to invite you here, but this is totally selfish
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