183: Lisa Lampanelli | Changing Careers at the Top of Your Game
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Lampanelli (@LisaLampanelli) recently lost 100 pounds, retired from a Grammy-nominated career in comedy that spanned three decades, and is now a life coach who runs transformational food and body-image workshops and performs issue-oriented storytelling shows.
What We Discuss with Lisa Lampanelli:- How Lisa made her last career pivot -- from rock journalist to comedian.
- How Lisa engineered her image as comedy's "Loveable Queen of Mean."
- The psychology of a celebrity roast and the toll it takes in the name of good fun.
- How Lisa lost over 100 pounds and what she learned along the journey.
- Why Lisa formally retired from comedy recently to focus on helping others.
- And much more...
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| 0:51.6 | Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason |
| 0:55.8 | to Philipo. Many of us have quit something or retired from one career and started another. |
| 1:01.7 | However, when it comes to comedy, few people have quit when they're at the top of the game. |
| 1:06.4 | Today's guest, Lisa Lampinelli, did just that. Lisa's built a reputation for herself in the |
| 1:11.4 | comedy world by being pretty shocking and crushing it when it comes to roasts and insult comedy. |
| 1:17.6 | She has sold out arena shows. She's got best selling books and has all the right ingredients for |
| 1:22.5 | a great career in the space. So what caused her to jump out of that and do a brand new space that |
| 1:27.7 | is in a seeming 180 dedicated to the service of others? Today, we'll explore that shift and how |
| 1:34.2 | we might discover that it's time to make a shift of our own. Oh, and folks, it's Lisa Lampinelli. |
| 1:39.0 | So make sure the kids aren't in the car when you listen to this one because she might not be |
| 1:43.2 | to instant up anymore, but she's still Lisa Lampinelli. If you want to know how I've managed to create |
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