Ep. 24: Esmé Weijun Wang on Radical Sincerity
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
I was super excited to interview the lovely Esmé Weijun Wang this week for the podcast!
Esmé and I covered so much ground in this episode, from her mission of radical sincerity to the value of small talk, from finding your authentic voice online to telling your story, from building resilience and finding community.
If you've ever struggled with how to tell your own creative story amidst everyone else online, this episode is for you!
Thank you so much, Esmé, it was such a treat having you on the show!
PS. At the beginning of this episode, I also introduce something I’m super excited about: the Raise your Hand Say Yes book club. We’re starting with The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. Get your copy now and give it a read – the episode where we discuss it will air on March 4!
Show Notes:
Connect with Esmé: Website | Instagram | Twitter
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Esmé's essay: Perdition Days: On Experiencing Psychosis in The Toast
Stephen King's On Writing
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Raise Your Hand, Say Yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about the creative adventures of extraordinary people. |
| 0:11.5 | To get information on today's episode and past episodes, visit tiffanyhan.com slash podcast. Now on to the show. |
| 0:22.0 | Hi everyone. This is Tiffany and welcome to episode number 24 of Raise Your Hand Say Yes. |
| 0:28.9 | And I am thrilled to be joined today by Esme Wei-Jean Wang. And Esme is a writer and a speaker and a mental health advocate who does a lot of work online. |
| 0:41.2 | Esme, welcome. |
| 0:42.9 | Hey, Tiffany. |
| 0:43.7 | It's so good to be able to talk to you today. |
| 0:45.9 | Thanks. |
| 0:46.3 | It's so good to be able to talk to you, too. |
| 0:48.8 | This episode isn't going to go up until February. |
| 0:51.4 | But for those of y'all who are listening, we just, in the Bay, |
| 0:54.7 | Esme and I both live in the Bay Area, and we just survived the storm of the decade, which was just a |
| 1:01.9 | rainstorm. We're very dramatic about our weather here. Yeah, they were calling it like stormpocalypse |
| 1:08.3 | and Death Storm 2014 on Twitter and things like that. |
| 1:12.9 | And it wasn't. |
| 1:14.1 | I mean, there was a lot of wind. |
| 1:15.8 | I will say that. |
| 1:16.7 | And there was some damage. |
| 1:18.3 | Like, you know, and the people are out of power. |
| 1:20.0 | I don't want to diminish what happened. |
| 1:21.6 | But I think sometimes people in other parts of the country are like, that's not like the kind of weather we have to deal with. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, my husband is from New Orleans, which, you know, as you know, has had their share of actual hurricanes. |
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