Ep 178: Finding Identity Where You Live (a conversation about homes and hometowns with Elizabeth Passarella)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Passarella and I have a lot in common: we're both authors, and mothers, and both moved from small, southern cultures to big cities to become writers. I spent my twenties working in reality tv while she spent the same time period as an editor at the top beauty magazines. And then, having never met but with many mutal friends and chasing similar literary dreams, we released both of our books just weeks away from one another - first in 2021 and then this spring of 2023. On such familiar paths but on opposite coasts, it felt like the most natural thing in the world to finally record a conversation together. Elizabeth Passarella is a contributing editor for Southern Living and former editor at Real Simple and Vogue. She has spent more than 20 years writing about food, travel, home design, and parenting in a variety of magazines. She is the author of two books, Good Apple: Tales of an Southern Evangelical in New York and her latest It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: and Other Thoughts On Moving Forward. She grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and currently lives in New York City with her husband and three children. Elizabeth and I talk about her experience moving from the south to New York City, what happened when she bought an apartment in her building that belonged to a hoarder, and the ways she is able to write so honestly about her family. I truly enjoy Elizabeth and her writing and I know you will love this conversation too. Learn more about Elizabeth Passarella Follow Elizabeth on Instagram FULL SHOW NOTES ARE HERE SPONSORS: Zocdoc // Go to Zocdoc.com/YOU to download the Zocdoc app for free SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff Patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.
0:07.0	I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.
0:12.0	And you have 10 things to tell you. And you have 10 things to tell.
0:15.0	This show is about connection,
0:18.0	with each other and with ourselves.
0:20.0	And the hope is that the things we talk about here
0:22.0	will be fuel for better conversations and a personal awareness.
0:26.4	Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,
0:32.0	or share on social media using the hashtag 10
0:34.9	Things to Tell You. This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our
0:39.4	stuff. I'll go first. I have never met today's guest in person before and in fact we have only
0:48.2	communicated directly with a handful of emails and a couple of text messages.
0:55.6	And yet today when I hopped on to record with her,
0:59.6	we ended up chatting for a full hour before we even pressed record. So clearly we have a lot to say to one another. My guest is fellow author Elizabeth Passarella and we have so much in common. We have similar
1:15.4	writing journeys. We both have written two books and they came out around the same time
1:20.8	each of them. We also share similar life journeys. We both left our
1:25.6	hometowns, places that we had found so much identity. We both left them in our
1:30.6	early 20s to move to major cities.
1:33.5	Elizabeth is in New York City.
1:34.9	I am obviously in LA.
1:36.4	And we have stayed in those large cities,
1:38.9	building lives and raising families in settings
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