#761 A Former Stand Up Comedian Reveals Why She Quit Comedy!
The Sarah Fraser Show
Sarah Fraser
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🗓️ 9 April 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah, Sarah, the day praise. |
| 0:07.0 | I was gonna tell you that I did do stand-up for many years. |
| 0:11.0 | Okay, yeah, tell me. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, and I just don't, I was, every single time I was going to do a gig. |
| 0:18.0 | I had that feeling in the pit of my stomach, like, what am I doing? Why did I say |
| 0:23.0 | yes to this? Why did I, why did I agree to do this gig every time? And then I would feel so relieved |
| 0:29.3 | when it was done that I just got through it. And at some point, I was like writing on a show and that was |
| 0:35.9 | so fun for me. And I was like, why am I doing this to myself? |
| 0:38.7 | Why am I doing a thing that I don't, that I don't enjoy doing? Like, regardless of if I'm good at it or not, |
| 0:46.4 | I don't, you know, I was like, why am I? There's so many other things I could be doing. So I just said, |
| 0:52.2 | I'm not doing it anymore. And it was liberating. Oh, I love that. And I love that. |
| 0:58.8 | That's so great. And I think that's so important for people listening to hear because so many people |
| 1:03.8 | have visions, right, of them doing a job or they start a job and then they hate going every day. And |
| 1:08.7 | it's like life is too short to do that. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm a huge proponent of quitting things, you know, of not sticking. |
| 1:16.9 | Don't stick with it. |
| 1:18.6 | Why? |
| 1:19.1 | Like people spend years sticking with something. |
| 1:22.9 | And we, I think we put way too much value on follow through. |
| 1:27.0 | You know, I think that having sort of motivation to like find the things that you want to do is such a better quality. Like the fact that you were like, hey, here's this thing I want to do. I want to do radio. Okay. What do I have to do to make this happen? Make this dream happen. You know? And then you go in there and you show initiative and you're like a, |
| 1:45.7 | you know, I think getting started is so much better than finishing. I know. By the time I left, |
| 1:52.2 | because I did, you know, I left in 2013 and then I had my own morning show, the Sarah Ty and Mel show. |
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