People love to complain and I don't really get it
A conversation with Melanie Masarin of Drink Ghia
Today we bring you an excerpt from my conversation with Melanie Masarin, founder of the cult aperitif brand that’s been pooping up on your feeds and on the menu at all your favorite bars, Ghia (in fact they’re having a site-wide 20% sale right now w code GIFTGHIA).
In a world where everyone's fighting to claim the crown of most stressed/most blessed, Melanie’s perspective hits different—hard things can be hard AND we can still be ridiculously lucky to be doing them:
For a long time there was this obsession with a founder's life and this idea of everything is perfect and everything is beautiful and that's just not real life.
We work a lot. Founders don't make a great living.
Women especially have more of a ticking clock and this job is obviously taking away from other things in life that are important. And it's a zero sum game. That's just a reality.
I'm almost 34, I’m single, maybe I'm going to be forty before I have children. It’s not good or bad, it’s just my life.
People love to complain and I don't really get it.
Like, open the TV, look at the news, there was some tornado taking over a full state. There's people dying everywhere, the war… and I am in a house with very nice light and I have a great team of solid humans and I do something I love and it's definitely not rosy, my inbox is screaming at me all the time and I can't sleep at night but other than that my family's healthy, there's a lot to be grateful for.
Just living in America and Europe and being safe and having a lot of agency over a lot of things in our life. I feel very lucky, all the time.
To read, listen, and watch the full conversation, grab your copy here if you’re in the US, and here for international.
Preach.