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Here's Where It Gets Interesting

74. Choosing Hope and Humor with Kristina Kuzmic

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon has a conversation with Kristina Kuzmic, whose viral videos you’ve definitely seen in your Facebook feed or YouTube recommendations! Kristina gets candid about her childhood with Sharon, talking about the survivor’s guilt she felt as a teenager who immigrated to the US from war-torn Croatia in the 1990s. When Kristina was at her lowest–a broke, single mom to two young children–she began cooking dinners for friends and strangers, choosing to put her energy into the things she was good at instead of dwelling on the things she couldn’t do. These days, Kristina uses comedy to share the imperfectness of her life and her relatable videos have over a billion views.

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0:00.0

Hello my friends, welcome always delighted to have you. Today I am chatting with my friend

0:07.0

Christina Kuzmich. And I've had Christina here before and we discussed a fascinating

0:12.7

story from the state of Hawaii. But today I want to hear more about Christina's story.

0:18.4

She is immigrant from Croatia. She has just had such a unique journey. She's author, she's

0:26.5

videos that have been viewed billions with the B billions of times on Facebook. So let's

0:33.1

dive in to my conversation with Christina Kuzmich. I'm Sharon Nickman and welcome to

0:39.8

the Sharon Says So podcast. Yeah, Christina, thank you so much for coming back. I am so

0:46.8

excited to chat with you today. I am so honored. You have me back a second time. Oh, it's

0:51.4

my pleasure. I loved chatting with you before. If you have not listened to our episode

0:57.3

about Hawaii, I had my friend Christina on and we were just talking about this story.

1:01.9

But I realized you have such an amazing story that it is worthy of a whole episode just

1:10.2

hearing from you. So I needed to have you back to talk about your own self. Oh, thank you.

1:16.9

So if you're not familiar, Christina has racked up over a billion views on her viral videos

1:25.9

on Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, you've seen her face. Is that weird for you?

1:31.4

Is that weird to be like, everyone has saved me on the internet? You know what? The great

1:36.5

thing is often I am in my pajamas looking like a hot mess on the internet. So at least

1:41.0

I don't have to worry about like if I go in public, do I have to dress up? No, people

1:44.9

wouldn't recognize me if I was like in a gown, you know? That's right. That's right.

1:49.1

You've set the bar where you can keep it. Yes. Always set the bar very low for yourself

1:53.6

on the internet. None of those perfect pictures. And then you'll feel free to live your

1:57.0

life. That's a good point. Excellent point. If you are always wearing Gucci. Yes. There's

2:02.6

nowhere to go, but down. Yeah. Start really low. Really. Just your worst self post that

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