Tess Barker
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309 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Tess Barker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, she's not...
I guess that's right.
I think that's such a strong possibility, but I would pose to you this idea that I think what's so fascinating about Julia Child's story is that she ultimately arrives at what I think a lot of people think of as like the apex of career success.
She's a TV star.
She's a cookbook star.
I mean, she is the name when we think of TV cooking, and she does it not by pursuing those things, but by listening to herself and enjoying her own life and being present in her own experience.
God, this was a look in the mirror.
I just wasn't ready for today.
It's like, enjoy your life.
And I'm like, I refuse.
It's a little like when people are like, I don't have time to meditate.
Yes.
I mean, like, again, for me, the nut of it really is the paragraph about not apologizing for your work.
That was the really transformative idea that I took away from this book and that I really have implemented in my own creative process.
And also, for all we're talking about the soft life, I think—
The other really instructive thing about this book is you've got to be present and notice things, but you also have to be, like, there's this Sisyphusian aspect of it of, like, you also have to persevere.
Be relentless.
And be relentless and be okay sitting in tedium.
Yes.
I actually, another reason of my favorite episodes, I went to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day.
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