Working: How TV Host Carla Hall Stays Authentic On-Camera

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🗓️ 25 February 2024

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This week, host Ronald Young Jr. talks to chef and TV personality Carla Hall. In the interview, Carla talks about leaving her first career as an accountant to explore modeling and then cooking. Then she discusses her pivot to TV, her commitment to being herself on screen, and her latest project Chasing Flavor, which is now available to stream on Max. After the interview, Ronald and co-host Isaac Butler talk about big career pivots, big personalities, and their goal as extroverts to make space for other people In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Carla shares some of her favorite dishes and talks about what it was like to be a model in Paris. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.4	There was a moment when I said I would rather be fired from a job being myself than to keep a job being the person that the executives want me to be. If they've hired me, the assumption is they've hired
0:26.3	me to be who I am.
0:30.1	Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, Isaac Butler.
0:33.0	And I'm your other host, Ronald Young Jr.
0:35.4	Ronald, so good to see you. What have you got for us today?
0:38.4	Isaac, I am so excited. We have Carla Hall.
0:43.6	Formerly a contestant of Top Chef.
0:45.3	She was the host of the daytime network talk show,
0:47.8	The Chu, but now is currently hosting a new show
0:51.2	Chasing Flavor on Max.
0:53.4	Oh my God, you got the Carla Hall.
0:56.4	And I'm spelling the with two e's.
0:58.7	I love her.
0:59.7	Are you a top chef fan?
1:01.0	Should we just talk about top chef for the next half hour?
1:03.4	You know, like who's your favorite?
1:05.0	Listen, I have been waiting impatiently for the new season of top chef.
1:09.8	It's one of my favorite shows and yes, this is now a top chef stand podcast.
1:14.8	Yeah totally you know people ask me why I love the show and I actually say it's like
1:19.1	one of the the smartest shows out there about the creative process. I really believe that because you know they've got
1:25.3	their constraints, they've got to be creative within those constraints, you know it's it's
1:30.0	God I love that show. But let's talk about our show which hopefully our listeners love
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