302: Celebrating Neurodiversity and All About Brains with Lake Bell

Conversations with Cam

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Motherhood, Cameronrogers, Freckledfoodie, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with Lake Bell to discuss her journey as a mother, actor, writer, and director. We dive deep into the challenges of parenting, navigating divorce, and the importance of open communication with children. Lake shares her experiences with her daughter's epilepsy, her son's traumatic birth, and how these events shaped her approach to parenting and life. We explore the power of vulnerability, the stigma around mental health, and the importance of finding balance in our roles as parents and professionals.

Key Takeaway / Points:

On parenting and setting boundaries between work and family life
Lake's experience with her daughter's epilepsy and son's traumatic birth
The importance of open communication with children about difficult topics
Navigating divorce and co-parenting
The power of vulnerability and sharing personal struggles
On the stigma around mental health and medication
The importance of self-care and finding balance as a parent
Lake's approach to directing and multitasking on set
The inspiration behind her children's book "All About Brains"
On the challenges and joys of motherhood
How Lake manages her various professional roles while being a parent
The importance of giving ourselves and our children grace

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.2	Hello, my favorite people and welcome back to an episode of Conversations with Cam.
0:07.9	I am super pumped about today's guest because we had so much fun, but we also got into some serious stuff.
0:13.9	Today we are joined by the one and only Lake Bell.
0:17.1	Lake Bell is an acclaimed actor, author, screenwriter, and director.
0:20.6	Truly, she does it all. And she just made her debut picture book all about brains, a book about people. It's a whimsical story that celebrates the beauty of neurodiverse brains, which we know I clearly care about being that I have one. And the main character, Nova, is named after her daughter who has epilepsy. I love this book so much.
0:38.3	It provides a key resource for excessively explaining a host of neurodivergent conditions,
0:43.7	including epilepsy, dyslexia, ADHD, autism, anxiety, and OCD.
0:47.4	To young readers, I talk about, like, when I read it to my son, I started saying, like,
0:51.6	oh, well, you know, ADHD, that's something that mommy has and anxiety. And I just love the story, but I also love Lake. I had never met her
0:59.9	before, but I've obviously seen her in a few films and, like, loved the work that she's done.
1:05.0	So it was such an honor to sit down and chat with her. And I just felt like immediately connected. We could have talked forever.
1:15.2	We really went there. We had fun. We talked about her journey with motherhood. We talked about her work. We talked about how she approaches co-parenting in that conversation around divorce
1:19.9	with her children. Like we really hid it all. So I'll let you listen and enjoy for yourself.
1:25.5	Without further ado, here is Lake.
1:28.9	Come on it. take a seat, more a drink, pass one to me, conversations with care, talk to life, come join the fair.
1:39.5	Throw away your hesitations, have a filter conversations. If you've got your ear to I'm a filter conversation.
1:44.9	If you've got to end, here's conversations with care.
1:53.7	I'm very excited to have you.
1:55.2	I will say, weirdly enough, my mom and my, like, creative right hand both just watched it's complicated on Saturday
2:02.9	night.
2:03.3	Oh, really?
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