Emily V. Gordon Returns

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Alison Rosen

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🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Emily V. Gordon (The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Indoor Kids) returns to Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about her new book Super You, working with her husband (comedian and Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani), her writing process, body issues, kelp noodle salad, being married in secret, producing The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, initially wanting to write the book as a video game strategy guide, her cat Bagel, being organized, setting boundaries, identity crises and so much more. Plus we took your questions over twitter and did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, hi, hello, welcome to another episode of Alice and Rosen's Unibest Friend.
0:27.6	I'm sitting here with Return Guest Emily Gordon. Hello and welcome back. How are you? I'm good and you're doing well as well.
0:35.0	I'm doing pretty well. I gather. Yeah, although we haven't gotten into it really. We have not. Maybe I'm not. Who knows?
0:40.4	I know. You're faking it well. Thank you, I tend to.
0:46.6	Okay, so you wrote a book called Super You. I did indeed. Which I have in front of me. Release your inner super
0:52.8	hero. And I love this book. I related so strongly to so much of your personal story. Oh, thank you.
1:01.0	Um, just the weight stuff and the identity stuff and and being super sensitive, but trying to project
1:08.9	an image that you're not sensitive. So tough. Yeah, so much of it. And it made me wonder, have you
1:14.2	been hearing that a lot from people? Like have a lot of people who say it's really strongly. And I think,
1:18.8	oh, yeah, it's so funny. You kind of start writing this because you're like, I'm a unique snowflake. And I'm
1:22.6	going to write about my unique snowflake existence. And then it's been really heartening in a lot of
1:26.4	ways to hear like, oh, no, you're not that unique of a snowflake. Everybody has had, especially like
1:31.5	the imposter thing, which is the thing I talk about in the book, or feeling like at some point, at any
1:36.2	point, someone's going to come up and be like, hey, they're on to you. And you'd be like, oh, I got to get
1:39.0	out of here. I have that so intensely. Yeah. And you point out in the book that it affects women more,
1:45.9	right? And I've seen a lot of things about that. And again, it's anecdotal research, just from
1:52.1	kind of chatting with my girlfriend's and my girlfriends, but I do have plenty of
1:55.2	girlfriends that feel this way. But for the most part, I feel like a lot of men I know and some women
1:59.9	kind of approach the world as like, tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong. Whereas I approach the
2:04.6	world as like, tell me I'm right. Am I doing this okay? Is everything all right? And it's just kind of,
2:10.2	and again, I'm not going to say everyone because obviously it's not everyone. And I don't want
2:13.8	anyone to characterize it that way. But I find it's way more females than males that have that issue.
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