Joe Loya
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was scared that I might fail, but I wasn't afraid that I could connect with people again.
I had had a correspondence with this writer named Richard Rodriguez for a couple of years.
He's a great essayist.
And he was like, I'll get you work as a journalist.
You're already a writer.
You're a better writer than some people I know.
And he gave me all this confidence.
So when it came out, I had a pretty soft landing because I got gigs writing pretty quickly.
And I'm also a fortunate writer in that when I started writing,
People would come to me and say, can you write on this topic?
Can you write on that topic?
And so I wanted the rare writers who I didn't have to pitch a lot.
I didn't have to go and say, can I write for you?
It's just people would come, hey, Joe, this happened.
Can you write this?
Joe, this happened.
So I was fortunate when I came out to have that validation.
I published within three months.
in the Examiner, six months I was in the LA Weekly, and then the LA Times op-ed page.
So I was getting a lot of attention.