Busy Philipps: Unfiltered & Unapologetic On ADHD, Boundaries, & The Realities of Hollywood

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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#888: Join us as we sit down with Busy Philipps – author, actor, activist, & host of the new series Busy This Week. From her breakout roles on Freaks and Geeks & Dawson's Creek, to becoming a New York Times best-selling author & redefining authenticity through Instagram stories, Busy has always been a force in storytelling! In this episode, Busy opens up about her later in life ADHD diagnosis, the realities of co-parenting teenage daughters, navigating the highs & lows of her early acting career, continuously evolving in Hollywood, & the importance of setting boundaries.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.7	She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire.
0:07.5	Fantastic.
0:08.5	And he's a serial entrepreneur.
0:10.8	A very smart cookie.
0:12.2	And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride.
0:16.3	Get ready for some major realness.
0:18.1	Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her.
0:23.8	An icon is gracing us with her presence on the show today, Busy Phillips.
0:29.7	She is an actor, an author, an activist, host of the series Busy This Week, a mom, and she knows how to story tell. You may recognize her
0:40.7	from Freaks and Geeks and Dawson's Creek. You also may recognize her from her book. She was a New York
0:47.6	Times bestselling author. I thoroughly enjoyed her book. If you haven't read it, it's a good one.
0:52.7	She shares all of the realities of co-parenting
0:55.7	teenage daughters on her Instagram. And she also is very open about the highs and lows. This
1:01.2	conversation flowed like butter. She is a pro on the mic. I think you're going to like this one.
1:06.4	Busy Phillips, welcome to the show. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. You have been in the public eye for a long time and you're always managing to reinvent yourself. How do you do that? Well, I mean, I don't consider it reinvention, I guess. But I do try to follow things that are interesting to me.
1:30.9	And I suppose, like in terms of my career, I've always been interested in lots of different
1:38.4	ways in which to essentially story tell, right? So like that was always kind of what was the driving force
1:46.8	for me to be an actor, was that I loved that part of it. And so then I just think it kind of like
1:51.9	informs all of the other, you know, areas that I have ended up working in and whether it's like
1:58.7	the talk show or my book or writing or, you know,
2:03.2	coming up with movies and selling those or the podcast, you know, just like all of the different
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