Hard Work Beats Talent: How to Get Your Work Noticed | Geraldine DeRuiter
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Geraldine DeRuiter shares her journey from being laid off from her job to becoming a James Beard Award-winning writer. Geraldine is known for her humorous and insightful essays on food and feminism, which are housed on her blog, The Everywhereist. She is also the author of two books, including her upcoming release, "If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury".
During our conversation, Geraldine shares the challenges and triumphs she faced while navigating her career shift. She discusses the importance of consistent creation, her experience with viral blog posts, and how she's used her unique voice to tackle important social issues. Geraldine also touches on her time at Cranium, the board game company, and how losing her job there led her to embark on a new path.
Some highlights we explore:
- Geraldine's thoughts on the importance of ambition and consistent creation.
- The story behind her viral blog posts and how they led her to win the James Beard Award.
- Her experiences working at Cranium and how being laid off led her to start her writing career.
- The process of writing her upcoming book, "If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury".
Enjoy!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ambition trumps talent every single time. |
| 0:05.0 | So I have seen, there are people out there with so much more talent than I have, |
| 0:11.9 | just so much more talent, but they do not produce work for whatever reason. |
| 0:17.9 | And I think actually part of it is because they are so obsessed with creating something |
| 0:24.5 | perfect, that they do not produce the work. And I actually don't feel that I produce that much work |
| 0:33.2 | compared to other, there are other people who are producing so much more work. And it is really that quantity. |
| 0:39.5 | If you are just producing lots of stuff, people will see it. |
| 0:45.2 | And not all of it has to be perfect and not all of it has to be fantastic. |
| 0:50.5 | But if you are, if you are creating it consistently, putting it out there and letting people know through |
| 0:56.8 | some sort of social media mechanism, this is here. |
| 1:01.5 | You know, slowly and surely, I do think you start to build a platform. |
| 1:07.5 | Hey, ready, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to that episode of the show. That was Geraldine |
| 1:11.9 | DeRoyder. If you are not familiar with her work, you are in for a treat in today's episode. |
| 1:17.6 | She's an amazing writer, a James Beard Award-winning writer, in fact, and the writer behind |
| 1:22.6 | the Everywhereist. She written a couple books. I have to tell you what I love about, well, there are many things that I love about Geraldine, |
| 1:30.3 | not the least of which is she is hilarious and incredibly open and vulnerable. |
| 1:37.3 | If you read her work, it comes through. |
| 1:39.3 | But more than that, it'll come through in today's conversation because we talk a lot about |
| 1:42.3 | how she went from someone |
| 1:44.2 | who lost her job to a dream career. And she does not sugarcoat it, right? It's not gold-plated. |
| 1:52.1 | The grit that Geraldine shares with us is a story of her finding her way through writing. And specifically, |
| 2:00.6 | I would say writing as a way to to find herself, |
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