#378 - Breaking the Cycle with Lesa Esparza

Wife of the Party

Berty Boy Productions

Comedy, Self-improvement, Comedy Interviews, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Lesa Esparza, wife of comedian Felipe Esparza, joins me for a powerful conversation about childhood trauma, parental abandonment, and healing. She opens up about her abusive mother, her father leaving at age 8, and how reconnecting with her past shaped the strong woman she is today. Follow Lesa https://www.instagram.com/lesainla/?hl=en Bert’s new special “Lucky” is streaming now on Netflix! Leave us a voicemail at (818) 949-8536 --------------------------------------------------- Sponsors Masterclass - See MasterClass’s latest deal– at least 15% off– at https://masterclass.com/WIFE Acre Gold - Secure your wealth and take control of your future. Start today at https://getacregold.com/. Shopify - Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/wife BetterHelp - Brought to you by https://betterhelp.com/wife --------------------------------------------------- Our Next book club will be “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt https://amzn.to/4ijx9md https://bookshop.org/a/97615/9780679751526 --------------------------------------------------- LeeAnn Kreischer talks to friends about marriage, family, and being married to the life of the party, comedian Bert Kreischer! --------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW LEEANN: Facebook▶ https://www.facebook.com/wifeotp Instagram▶ https://www.instagram.com/leeannkreischer iTunes▶ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wife-of-the-party/id1343348729 Official Website & MERCH▶ https://www.wifeotp.com Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast! #wifeoftheparty #podcast #leeannkreischer #bertandleeann Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He said something really innocuous to me, and I had a reaction like that.
0:04.0	And it was something my mom used to say to me all the time when I was a kid.
0:07.0	And you think you got it all cleaned out.
0:10.0	And then out of the blue, not a big deal, no reason it should have really hit me hard, hit me like a ton of bricks.
0:19.0	And it just never really leaves you, I think.
0:24.6	I'm so glad you came back. Oh, thanks for inviting me. Thank you. I was so interested in your
0:31.2	story when we were talking to you and Philippe. By the way, how'd the special do? Are you guys happy
0:36.1	with it? Yeah, I'm happy with it. It's great. It came out and it's doing well and, you know, just flugging along.
0:41.5	Now it's time to chop it up and share it for clips and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it was good. It was such a good special. He's so funny. Yeah, he's funny. You guys make a good team. I did not know that you and Felipe and Bert and I were so similar in how we function. I didn't know that until you came. I was like, wow, we are like mirror images of each other.
1:10.1	Yeah, there are a lot of commonalities, yeah, for sure.
1:13.0	A lot of similarities.
1:15.0	I know what's this sounds, this is going to sound bad.
1:19.1	I don't mean it bad.
1:20.0	I mean it as a compliment.
1:21.0	I know the broken parts in me that make me work with Bert.
1:25.8	Because Bert, like we just described with these readers,
1:29.7	not all people have the fortitude to live with somebody who, like, lose every pair of readers
1:37.0	and can't keep a thought and is always writing jokes. What do you think about you makes that work
1:43.1	for you?
1:45.8	I don't know.
1:53.3	I mean, I think I've always thrived in chaos, I guess, which is not, it's not by choice.
1:54.5	I don't enjoy it.
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