Transcript
A (0:06)
Welcome to Simplify. I'm Caitlin Schiller.
B (0:09)
I'm Ben Schuman. Stoller. What's up, Caitlin?
A (0:11)
We are here in Colombia studios in Chapter's bookshop in Berlin, Germany.
B (0:16)
That's right. We're like, you know, we've definitely nested now. Now it's been a few weeks. Yeah, right.
A (0:22)
The studio walls do kind of feel like a nest a little bit.
B (0:25)
Yeah. That's good. It's a cozy. What do we got today? We have Christabel Minta Galloway.
A (0:31)
We do. We have Christabel Minta Galloway, who I will just say, for the record, when you and I decided that we would take Simplify Independent, she was the first person I reached out to.
B (0:41)
Yeah. Cool. Why? What did you like about her work?
A (0:45)
I first encountered Christabel on Instagram because unlike, I guess, pretty much every other episode of Simplify, we've done, Christabel does not have a book yet. Not a book book. Not a, like, read. I'm teaching you a lesson. This is the explicit lesson of the nonfict book book. She has a relational skills workbook, and she does courses, but she doesn't have a book yet. She should.
B (1:07)
But we did have the idea that, like, a book. Not everyone needs a book to be a thinker, to be somebody that we
A (1:13)
want to hear from. Yeah. Which is what I think is so great about being independent. Now, we don't have to tie ourselves explicitly to people who already have books, but I feel very certain she will have a book in the future, and you should go out and grab it as soon as she does. But Christabel teaches relational skills. I really responded to her work because she's just so fucking real. And I really felt like there was a genuine, real person speaking to me from the other side of the Internet. I don't think she. She doesn't have. There's just no artifice about her. She's very authentic. Um, and I. The first post of hers that I saw was about, basically, if you like somebody's work, pay them for it. Why is that so hard? Just do it. And, you know, I listened to her say that it was a reel, and I went and I immediately bought her relational skills workbook. And I was not sorry I did, because I thought, well, obviously I really like her work. Of course I should pay her for it.
