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Call Your Friends

Yola Robert On Writing for Forbes and Turning Failures into Successes

Call Your Friends

Madison and Lauren Orlando

Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.8833 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are joined by Yola Robert! Yola is a Forbes contributor and a fellow podcaster, the host of the show I Suck at Life. In this episode, Yola shares how her discipline, confidence and clear vision for the future allowed her to find success in Los Angeles and excel in her career, despite a few early setbacks. We discuss the best way to pitch yourself and find an internship, how to start a podcast, and other tips for living an interesting and unique life. You can find Yola at @yolarobert and I Suck At Life anywhere that you can listen to podcasts.  Produced by Dear Media

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:03.1

Hey friends, my name's Olivia Perez, and I'm an entrepreneur, journalist, and the host of

0:07.5

the Friend of a Friend podcast. Every Monday, I meet with some of today's youngest and brightest

0:11.4

entrepreneurs to make space to tell their stories and shine a light on who I believe to be

0:15.3

the next generation of luminaries. I'll interview up-and-comers and game changers from brand builders

0:19.8

to personalities, activists, artists, and thought leaders from around the world.

0:23.5

Each episode lets you be a fly on the wall during one of the greatest pep talks, like a conversation between you and a friend or a friend of a friend.

0:30.5

See you there.

0:41.7

Hi, I'm Maddie Orlando, and this is my sister Lauren.

0:42.2

Hi.

0:44.0

We have an eight-year age gap.

0:47.7

So we don't always agree on everything, but at least we have different perspectives.

0:52.2

On this podcast, we discuss basically anything you would talk about with your own sister.

0:54.2

So, welcome to our film.

1:01.5

Hey guys, I'm Maddie and I'm Lauren.

1:03.6

And welcome or welcome back to The Sister Diary.

1:05.7

Today we're joined by Yola Robert.

1:07.8

Yola is a fellow podcaster.

1:11.9

Her show is called I Sucket Life, which is funny to hear about how that name came about. She's also a writer. She's a contributor to Forbes, which is so cool to hear about.

1:17.0

Yeah, it was really interesting when she was talking about how she moved to L.A. She's originally

1:21.8

from Kansas, but she moved to L.A. when she was in university and she opened all of these doors for herself

1:29.7

by putting herself out there. She just seems like a super driven person. And honestly, I feel like we

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