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686- Finding My Career Later in Life with Comedian Felicia Madison

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4.1529 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Comic Felicia Madison (The Westside Comedy Club, NY) went to school for pre-med, but that wasn't her real career choice, it was her parents. Her passion came to her much later in life and guess what it was? Yep! Stand-up comedy! 

Each week Hollywood’s most talented people in the entertainment industry share true, personal stories on the Story Worthy Podcast. Story Worthy celebrated 13 years of podcasting in July 2023 and has over 800 episodes recorded. Christine Blackburn is the creator, host and producer of Story Worthy, Story Smash the Storytelling Game Show, and My Life in 3 Songs exclusively on Spotify. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Christine from Storyworthy. Today on the show, comedian Felicia Madison talks about how she found her career later in life.

0:12.6

I decided to take a class with my friend Nancy Tepper, who is partner now in MT Nesters. We took a comedy class together and I am super hypercritical

0:23.6

of myself. Like I always like talking down very like just never positive at all. Most of my friends

0:31.0

that know me know that about me. So I took this class. I did my graduation class and they send you

0:36.6

the tape of your set.

0:39.8

And it took me about like a week or two to look at it.

0:42.3

And I watched it finally.

0:43.9

And I was like, you know what?

0:45.4

Not bad.

0:47.0

Which for me is like an Academy Award.

0:50.5

Today on the show, comedian Felicia Madison talks about finding her passion later in life.

0:56.8

Stay close.

1:01.0

Hey, it's Felicia Madison.

1:02.9

You're listening to Storyworthy.

1:04.7

Okay. Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm coming to you from Los Angeles, California.

1:21.6

Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener. If you're a new listener, you have a lot of catching up.

1:27.8

I'll say that.

1:29.1

But either way, welcome to Storyworthy.

1:32.3

Now, I hope you guys enjoyed the show last week with comedian Gary Robinson.

1:37.2

Gary talked about meeting his heroes.

1:42.7

And here's how he does it, Felicia.

1:45.6

He and his friends, they would crash movie premieres.

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