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Geraldine DeRuiter (she/her) is the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist.com and the author of “All Over The Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft” (Public Affairs, 2017) and the upcoming “If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism and Fury” (Crown, 2024). Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, Marie Claire, and Refinery 29. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, Rand. They are currently working on a cooking-themed video game and ordering too much takeout. Website | Threads

Discussed in this episode:

• Geraldine’s relationship with feminism and how it evolved to become intersectional

• How Geraldine deals with feelings of Imposter syndrome re: her feminism

• Dealing with the vulnerability hangover of sharing deeply personal stories

• What Geraldine learned from sharing about a funeral crasher on social media

• Managing the hate and pushback that comes with a large social media following

• How changes in publishing have shifted expectations on writers

• Marketing a book as a non-marketer, and why getting a “no” isn’t so bad

• The importance of stepping outside of your comfort zone

• Defining success outside of societal expectations

• What makes Geraldine happy (ie, her deeper why)

• What it’s like to be married to a truly feminist man

Resources mentioned:

• Everywhereist

• “All Over The Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft” by Geraldine DeRuiter 

• “If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism and Fury” by Geraldine DeRuiter

• Geraldine’s James Beard winning post about Mario Batali

• “All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft” by Geraldine DeRuiter

• “We Ride Upon Sticks” by Quan Barry

• World Central Kitchen

• Give Directly

• Bakers Against Racism

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