Good Girls Eat Dinner
Welcome to Good Girls Eat Dinner, the most interesting dinner party you'll ever go to, now in takeaway form.
Since 2015 we’ve been on a mission to provide more visible, female role models across the creative industries and beyond. At our popular real-life events we serve up four gloriously inspiring female speakers between the courses of a delicious meal. It always leaves everyone hungry for more, so here on the podcast we’ll dedicate a whole episode to each incredible guest. We won't be eating dinner but you certainly can!
Join me, Jo Wallace (Executive Creative Director by day, founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner by night) as I ask female pioneers to share their experiences, stories and advice. To leave you full of inspiration.
Good Girls Eat Dinner
S1 E7: Jessica Pan - How growing up feeling different honed her writing skills and propelled her to explore the world as a journalist and author.
Jo welcomes the brilliant journalist and author, Jessica Pan, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Jessica Pan is a freelance journalist who lives in London. After graduating from Brown University, she lived and worked in Beijing for 2.5 years as an editor of an English expat magazine. She then completed her Master’s degree in journalism at RMIT in Melbourne, before spending a year as a TV reporter in Beijing. A self-confessed introvert, Jessica’s second book Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come chronicles her year of 'living dangerously’ - as an extrovert, with hilarious results. It has sold over 100,000 copies.
Topics covered:
- Growing up in ‘small town’ Texas
- Experiencing a very homogenous, Christian, conservative ‘world’
- Having a Chinese father and a Jewish mother
- Always feeling different and the benefits that can bring
- Feeling destined to leave home and explore the world
- How Sweet Valley high MIGHT have influenced career choices
- Why the best journalists aren’t afraid to be vulnerable
- The importance of original ideas
- Living out an introvert’s ‘nightmares’ for a year
- Jessica’s book: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come
- Realising that people are often kinder than imagined
- ‘Nobody waves but everybody waves back.’ Breaking the ice
- Networking events and finding the right one
- Why you should practice doing things you’re afraid of
- The true introvert test. It involves Glastonbury
- Trying improv in front of strangers
- Jessica’s Doggy Bag of Advice
Jessica’s website: https://jesspan.com/
Follow Jessica @JessicaLPan
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