![]() When people say to me, 'Oh, do you want to be 30 again or in your 20s again,' I say, never!" How Hall looks at aging: "One thing I can say about myself as I get older is that I have this confidence I never had. If you’re still challenged by a kindergarten test in 12 th grade, you haven’t grown, and I think you can look at your life like that." If you don’t feel some form of uncomfortable and growing out of the old, you will never get there. "I truly believe you will never, ever get there by being safe. "You’re never going to get to that new pair (of shoes or that new leather smell or that feeling of going to the next level by staying comfortable," Hall says. She compares it to comfortable, but well-worn clothing. "The thing I tell her: if you want to be the person that is in your head, that awesome, confident, great person, you are going to have to go through the hard things," Hall says. Why growth is so hard: Hall is a mentor to her 31-year-old niece, who often complains of the difficulties she has encountered as she experiences new things. "I was able to be present and listen to Michelle and be in the moment for the interview." While she had questions ready, Hall says she set some of them aside and simply listened to where the interview should go. "It was incredible," she says of the Obama interview. Hall says she learned an enormous amount watching Kelly, who has been a co-host of What Not To Wear as well as part of The Chew panel, and used his lessons as she talked with the former First Lady. One of my big ones is to always be happy and to be growing and doing that interview said, 'I am ready to do this thing.'" Interviewing Michelle Obama: "That experience is not something I would have dared to put on a bucket list," Hall says of her March interview with Obama. I’m ready to grow because I’m ready to go to the next level." My six word novel is Say Yes, Adventure Follows, Then Growth. If you go the easy route, you will never get where you are supposed to be." "A lot of people want to focus outwardly on the success and failures, where everything is a learning curve. On the TV show, Hall says she got to work with "incredible people" including her co-hosts Batali, fashion expert Clinton Kelly and chef Michael Symon. Everything I learned about myself with The Chew and the restaurant, I would do it again in a heart beat." "I learned about location, about hiring and who I wanted to hire, what values I wanted to share when people were working with me. That was a huge learning curve," Hall says. ![]() "Even though I cooked, it was not something I had done as in opening a restaurant. The closing of her restaurant was not out of the ordinary, since most new restaurants close within five years, according to data from the Small Business Association. It lasted for seven seasons and 1,500 episodes so that was consistently successful." The lessons she learned from failure: Despite its cancellation, Hall considers The Chew "very successful. But the gentle approach is to allow people to have their feelings. Might you stop talking to your family? Absolutely. "If you just become that person, and allow people to sort of get to know you and who you are, that’s a gentler and more loving way for that transition to happen," Hall says. No one else is going to accept you for who you are."īut, she cautions against simply laying out a new direction and telling people to deal with it. If you can’t own who you are, no one else is going to own it. After that, was smooth sailing."Īdds Hall, "It’s so important to be yourself. I began by talking to my hair stylist, talking to my mom, my husband, the people I worked with. "I decided to go gray and not color my hair. "Because they know you, they can see you as a 'buy in' of the thing you want to embrace. She recommends talking to family and close friends first, and enlisting their support. Their perspective about themselves changes." "Once somebody decides they are a thing, everything changes. "And I didn’t want a book that was homogenized.So it was really about, 'I do a book that means something to me and is about my food and my culture, or I don’t do a cookbook at all.'"Īdopting a new identity: "The realization is the most important thing," Hall says. "It all came into focus, and I wanted to do a book that meant something to me," Hall says. The cafe is considered one of the best museum restaurants in the country, and Hall's cookbook is prominently featured in its impressive gift shop. Hall became the ambassador for its Sweet Home Cafe, which serves dishes from across the country. Then, she began working with the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture, which opened in 2016. "That had such an impact on me, but I didn’t know what to do with that information," Hall says.
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