101. Elyse Myers: Telling Stories Literally Anywhere

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Elyse Myers has exploded into long form storytelling from a short form platform: TikTok. She tells funny and personal stories to millions of people on TikTok and Instagram and on her podcast “Funny Cuz it’s True” but doesn’t really tell stories on stage. That’s Mike’s focus today. He tries to convince Elyse to make a guest appearance on one of his new material shows and it seems like she *might* take him on it. Plus, discussions about balancing work and family, the time young Elyse used a penny to fake a fever, and why sometimes elevating something from good to great can ruin something good.

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0:00.0	So this is a really unique episode today because it's Mike for Biglia working out.
0:05.8	Today's guest is Elise Myers, who is a storyteller who I found on TikTok and Instagram.
0:12.9	It's a very unusual way for me to find somebody.
0:16.4	She hasn't performed live, but she ended up creating a podcast that I love, called Funny
0:22.4	because it's true where she has guests.
0:25.1	I was a guest on it.
0:27.0	She tells stories, I'll just give you a sense of the types of stories that she sometimes
0:31.7	tells.
0:32.7	This is one of them.
0:33.7	Literally up until the night we took August home from the hospital, I had no clue what
0:38.2	postpartum depression even was.
0:40.5	I truly thought that postpartum was like a timestamp, the time in which this kind of
0:44.9	depression happens, not the type.
0:47.8	I had it all wrong.
0:50.0	Unfortunately, I realized this a little too late.
0:52.5	I was in it and I was fighting my way out.
0:55.4	Good morning, afternoon and night at a time.
0:58.7	One of those mornings, I woke up around 3.30 a.m. to feed my son and I just could not
1:03.2	fall back asleep.
1:04.3	The last thing I wanted to do was get back in bed and just be awake.
1:07.7	That's even more frustrating than just not being able to sleep in the first place.
1:10.8	I went straight to my kitchen and I made myself a coffee and then out of nowhere, I just
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