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The Spiritual Perspective

37: Sarah Cooper on Stand-up Comedy, Leaps of Faith, Mocking Trump, and Why Everything's Going to Be Fine

The Spiritual Perspective

Light Watkins

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9981 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

If you are at a crossroads in your life, between sticking with the conventional path and taking a leap of faith in the direction of your passion, you're going to get a lot of inspiration from hearing today’s guest tell her story in her own words. Author and comedian, Sarah Cooper’s viral TikTok Trump impersonations have led to a Netflix show called Everything’s Fine, which is a comedic commentary on the state of America during “The Trump Years.” After working in corporate America,...

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I felt bad about you know like turning 40 and just thinking about where am I going to be in 20 years like do I have retirement like who is going to take care of my sisters? You know, they both have disabilities.

0:13.4

Neither of them are married.

0:14.6

And, you know, I just started to feel like,

0:17.0

what is my long-term plan?

0:18.5

Like at 40, that was the first time.

0:20.0

I was like, what am I doing?

0:21.3

Like, what's my community?

0:22.4

What's my support system? How am I doing like what's my community what's my support system how am I

0:24.3

gonna take care of my family and survive this so that I can live a long life and be

0:28.5

happy and comfortable and healthy and all that stuff. Welcome back to at the end of the tunnel.

0:35.0

It's Light Watkins and I've got a very special guest this week.

0:41.0

I'm talking to author and comedian Sarah Cooper

0:44.8

whose viral tick top Trump impersonations led to a Netflix show called

0:49.0

Everything's Fine, which is a comedic commentary on the state of America during the Trump years.

0:55.0

So I've known Sarah since 2012 when she attended one of my meditation trainings in New York

1:00.4

City.

1:01.4

At the time, I knew that she was working in corporate America and

1:04.4

that she really wanted to do stand-up comedy and two years after we met she

1:08.8

wrote a humorous piece on medium called 10 Tips for Appearing Smart Meetings, which ended up going viral and then later

1:15.8

became a book.

1:17.4

She did eventually take a leap of faith into becoming a full-time comedian and writer, when Trump was elected president she began openly

1:25.2

voicing her opinion about him on Twitter so much so that he blocked her in 2017.

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