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Here's Where It Gets Interesting

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

⏱️ 41 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 Christina

0:07.8

Kuzmich and I've had Christina here before and we discussed a fascinating story from the state of Hawaii. But today I want to

0:16.0

hear more about Christina's story. She is an immigrant from Croatia. She has just had such a unique journey.

0:25.0

She's an author, she has videos that have been viewed of billions with a B, billions of times on Facebook.

0:32.0

So let's dive in to my conversation with Christina Kuzmich.

0:36.3

I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

0:41.8

Yay, Christina, thank you so much for coming back.

0:46.0

I am so excited to chat with you today.

0:48.2

I am so honored, you'd have me back a second time.

0:50.8

Oh, I'm thrilled.

0:51.8

It's my pleasure. I loved chatting with you before. If you have not

0:56.4

listened to our episode about Hawaii, I had my friend Christina on and we were

1:00.5

just talking about this story, but I realized you have such an amazing story that it is worthy of a whole episode just hearing from you so I needed to have you back to talk about your own self.

1:15.0

Oh, well thank you, thank you.

1:18.0

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

1:27.0

If you have a Facebook account, you've seen her face.

1:29.0

Is that weird for you?

1:31.0

Is that weird to be like, everyone has seen me on the internet.

1:35.0

You know what, the great thing is,

1:37.0

often I am in my pajamas looking like a hot mess on the internet.

1:40.0

So at least I don't have to worry about,

1:42.0

if I go in public, do I have to dress up? No, people wouldn't recognize me if I was like in a gown, you know? That's right, that's right. You've set the bar where you can keep it.

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