Long Live: Erika Veurink Is Here (Part 1 of 2)

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Katie Dalebout

Fashion & Beauty, Mental Health, Love, Arts, Self-help, Wellness, Katie Dalebout, Health & Fitness, Well Being, True Crime, Self-care, Society & Culture, Personal Growth, Health

4.9 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This week is the first half of my conversation with secondhand-fashion-obsessed writer Erika Veurink. She’s written everywhere from NY Magazine to Vogue to WSJ, and currently writes the newsletter Long Live. She grew up in Iowa, has lived in NYC for nearly a decade, and recently visited LA so we spoke about how places become part of our identities. In Part 1, she shares how her religious upbringing led to her work ethic and ability to maintain multiple projects and jobs, but also impacted her thoughts on spirituality and rest. We cover writing at length including: her love of the personal essay and why publications are no longer running them, and where she sees the future of that style and media in general. She shares the best writing advice she’s been given and breaks down exactly how she structures her daily writing practice. We cover her Substack publication, where she covers everything from her advice on scoring vintage gems on Ebay to to body image.

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0:00.0	Okay.
0:01.0	Let it out.
0:03.0	Let it out. Okay, hi, welcome back. It's been a few weeks. I'll say it. It's been a month. It's been a month. It's been a month since there was a new episode. And, you know, that's on me, honestly. it's good to be back welcome back welcome perhaps
0:40.4	you're here for the first time to hear from erika Erica is our guest today she is incredible
0:47.8	she's a second-hand fashion obsessed writer that's what she calls herself and's true. She's a brilliant writer who has been
0:57.2	featured everywhere from New York Magazine to Vogue to the Wall Street Journal. And she currently
1:03.6	writes this tremendous twice-week newsletter called Long Live. And it's true that she's a secondhand fashion obsessed
1:12.7	person. She, that's a big topic of Long Live, but she would be the first to say this. Long Live
1:18.8	is so much more. It's a Trojan horse for so many other topics that I love. And I'm, I'm such a huge
1:24.9	fan. She grew up in Iowa. She lives in New York.
1:28.3	We recently caught up over Zoom and talked about so many things.
1:33.6	We talked for two hours without stopping.
1:36.0	I had to go to the bathroom so bad after, you know, maybe an hour and a half,
1:40.3	but I just didn't want to risk us losing the momentum. So I held it until the end of the
1:48.1	conversation when it would have been over two hours because we talked a bit off mic before.
1:54.8	The first thing she said when we were done was like, oh my God, didn't you have to go to the
1:57.6	bathroom? I was like, I did, but I didn't want to stop. So that's the conversation you're about to hear or part one of it. And in this first half,
2:05.4	we cover place and moving and connections and people and writing. We talk a lot about writing.
2:12.8	She has her MFA. We talk about that. And we talk about the importance of reading in relation to being
2:20.3	a good writer and the personal essay and building a writing practice and what her writing practice
2:27.0	is. We talk a little bit about spirituality and overworking and starting her substack and
2:33.6	the future of media. You know, we really get in there.
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