Suleika Jaouad
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1,033 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 29 May
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But to your point, we feel like we have to earn the right.
To do the things we're already curious about, the things we already love.
But the thing is, the goalposts keep moving.
So that period of stuckness in my 20s or in your 20s, in very different contexts where you feel like you're watching everyone accelerate past you.
And for me, at least, I kept thinking, like, I just have to arrive somewhere.
And once I arrive, once I know who I am, once I know what I'm doing, then I can allow myself X, Y, and Z. But I'm starting to believe that life is a series of coming of age arcs.
There's no moment of arrival where you think, okay, I've worked enough.
I've done enough of the hard things.
I've earned enough of a right to be free.
I knew I loved to write.
I actually wrote mostly fiction.
But it didn't occur to me or it didn't feel like an option to try to become a fiction writer.
I felt like I, again, needed to find something practical, something that could pay the bills.
Yeah.
Never occurred to me to apply to an MFA program.
The idea of student loans, of then emerging with those student loans and trying to write an op, like none of that felt like an option.
So I felt like journalism was a middle ground.
It was like a real job that would allow me to write, but that didn't feel so tenuous and uncertain.
And because I spent much of my life in Tunisia and in Switzerland, where my mom's from, and spoke those two languages fluently, I was interested in reporting on what was happening in North Africa because the Arab Spring or the Jasmine Revolution had just begun in Tunisia.
Okay.
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