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Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

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Hard Feelings with Jennette McCurdy

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

i used to think work-life balance was for lazy people who couldn’t cut it. turns out, they were on to something. sorry i judged you, you balanced and healthy individuals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Lemonada

0:02.0

I'm burnt out

0:09.0

I'm burnt out

0:12.0

I I'm self-conscious of, like, harping on the book, the book, but, like, it's important, it's relevant context here.

0:36.4

My book, I'm glad my mom died came came out almost a year and a half ago.

0:42.9

And a lot of exciting opportunities came from the book's success.

0:50.9

And I took so many of those opportunities, A, because the opportunities that I took were very exciting

1:01.5

to me, but B, and more specifically here for what I want to share, I took them because I felt

1:10.7

like, well, I have to seize a moment. I don't

1:13.7

want it to pass me by and me to have not taken up every possible opportunity that I can. So I just

1:19.4

want to, you know, strike while the iron's hot kind of thing. And while the things, you know, I said no to things that didn't appeal to me or weren't exciting but

1:30.7

well even but i said yes to too many things is what i'm trying to say see i can't even like the

1:36.9

word while just felt like too much for me it felt like shakespearean i felt like we're not whipping

1:41.1

out a while while it was like that's not the kind of, I'm not there.

1:45.8

I'm tired.

1:48.9

So I took on all these things and I did a college tour, which was pretty exhausting.

1:54.0

And then I, you know, immediately started working on things that I was writing.

1:58.8

I wrote two first drafts of novels, a pilot script, two show pitches, and a 15-page pitch-dok for

2:16.1

something else.

2:22.1

Oh, two episodes of another series. Oh, my God. Like, it just,

2:30.2

the list goes on and on and on. I was exhausting myself to the point that I wasn't really even present in life. Like, I was just so focused on the next thing, the next thing, the next thing,

2:36.1

and striking all the yarn's hot and got to take up all these opportunities and got

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