153: Wendi McLendon-Covey Is Here! (Bridesmaids, The Goldbergs)

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Wendi McLendon-Covey is an actress and comedian, best known as the character Beverly Goldberg on the ABC comedy The Goldbergs. She also starred in Reno 911!, Bridesmaids & many more. The talented and gorgeous Wendi McLendon-Covey sits down with Rachael for a hilarious and inspiring conversation about career, relationships and going for what you want in life. Wendi walks us through how she got started in entertainment, the moment she decided to take the pressure off and enjoy the process, and how it took her years before she had the courage to go all in and pursue comedy and acting at full speed. She gives the listeners incredible advice on how to take that step into pursuing their dreams and also how she lives her life outside of the Hollywood rat race, which includes a still unfolding kitten saga hilariously told by Wendi. This is one of Rachael's favorite episodes to date! Don't miss it! The most comfortable shoes I've ever owned are Rothy's! Check out all the amazing styles available right now at rothys.com/behereGet Rachael's personal favorite luggage (and perhaps favorite product ever) Away Lugage! For $20 off a suitcase go to awaytravel.com/behere and use promo code BEHERE during check out!Never suffer through pimples again and get gorgeous glowy skin with Blume Meltdown! Get 25% off Blume Meltdown, AND free shipping when you text Here to 79-79-79. This is a special offer you can’t get anywhere else!

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Hey, hi how you doing. I don't know why there were so many
0:20.7	long pauses in there but welcome back to another episode
0:23.8	to be here for a while.
0:25.8	I missed you guys.
0:26.8	I think about you often, you know?
0:29.3	It's like you never write, you never call. Oh my God,'m on this like guilt trip thing that there's a story I'm going to tell you
0:36.9	momentarily that involves a similar thing but uh yeah before I get to that today's episode of Be Here for a while is brought to you by
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0:57.2	I don't want to brag
1:00.0	I guess I'm just going to call this a humble brag, but I never got jet-legged from coming back from my Europe trip.
1:06.1	I've been back for like a week in a few days now.
1:08.6	I feel fantastic.
1:10.4	Flying high and feeling mean, and I'm not quite sure why apparently I'm just immune to jet leg
1:15.3	I'm just an evolved species of human
1:18.8	Didn't know that existed. I think it's just because I like I went I just got back to a normal sleep pattern right away right when I got back and
1:26.7	I went to bed like I tried to make sure I went to bed at like you know fairly early-ish but normal hours woke up at a normal time and I don't know it's
1:37.7	few people can be as humanly evolved as me.
1:42.8	I don't know what I'm saying.
1:45.0	I'm bragging about the weirdest thing right now.
1:47.8	Okay, well, I'm so excited about my guest today,
1:51.8	but I'm going to tell you a quick story, give you some
1:54.0	show dates, and then we're going to get to her. Hopefully that doesn't mean you just
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