289 - I Haven't Been Home in a Month
The Jen Fulwiler Show
Jen Fulwiler
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
I have been away from home for a full month due to our current crisis. It's not easy. I share updates about how we're doing, as well as:
-- my new thoughts on how to catch big medical issues early (without being a hypochondriac)
-- a big problem that my absence caused at home
-- the phrase that saves my sanity when I am too overstimulated to be a good wife, mom, or human being
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BIO:
Jen Fulwiler is a standup comic, bestselling author, and former SiriusXM radio host who has released three comedy specials: The Naughty Corner (2020), Maternal Instinct (2024), and Shabby Chic (2025).
She has been featured on Nate Bargatze's Nateland Presents, Where My Moms At with Christina P, Dr. Drew After Dark, the Today Show, CNN, and Fox News. She was featured in the viral articles, "5 Comedians Like Nate Bargatze Who Make Everyone Laugh," and "6 Comics To Check Out If You Love Leanne Morgan."
Jen is a mom with zero domestic skills, and a Catholic who hopes that heaven has an AP exam so she can test out of being a good person. Her stories of failing her way through life will resonate with anyone who doesn't have it all together.
Normally she lives with her husband and six kids in Austin, Texas, but right now she divides her time between Austin and Memphis as one of her children is being treated at St. Jude's.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I am back in my home studio. |
| 0:10.0 | I am now home for the first time in a month. |
| 0:13.9 | I was gone for a full month, which is very crazy, considering that I still have four kids living at home. One's in college, |
| 0:24.7 | one's in cancer college, and I still have four at home. You can't be gone for a month |
| 0:29.3 | in that situation, but I was. I was. I was in Memphis at St. Jude's and just things worked out |
| 0:34.6 | such that I just, I couldn't do it. I couldn't get home. |
| 0:42.0 | So it's very crazy to be back. And there's a lot. |
| 0:43.9 | And I feel ever so slightly crushed by life. |
| 0:48.5 | I just a touch of the, I can't do this. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm drowning. |
| 0:52.1 | Just a, you know, a little touch. |
| 0:53.8 | And so I think the main |
| 0:54.9 | topic for today is going to be a little, a little kind of phrase that I have, that I have |
| 1:02.3 | adopted since the October diagnosis that I use when my need to not die is in conflict with my family's needs of my presence. |
| 1:17.3 | And I know a lot of you feel that. |
| 1:19.4 | You don't have to be in the, you know, atom bomb on your life situation that I'm in, |
| 1:25.3 | to just feel that feeling of like, I need to just like lock |
| 1:33.3 | myself in my room for a full 24 hours and have no noise and have no stimulation and have no |
| 1:40.9 | one speak to me. I mean, you guys know, like when I had little kids, one time I watched a documentary about a maximum security prison, |
| 1:48.6 | and this guy built a shiv, |
| 1:50.4 | and he stabbed someone in the prison yard, |
| 1:52.3 | and he got thrown into solitary confinement. |
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