Ep. 41 Turning Pain into Comedy with Ali Weiss
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, I have comedian and seriously funny lady, Ali Weiss joining me. Ali creates videos on Instagram that are truly hysterical, and after seeing her Kim Kardashian parody video, I knew I had to have her on the podcast! We discuss how she started theater and comedy, her mental health journey, and the highs and lows of life in the digital age.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes it's really funny the way that life works. I was enjoying my Friday evening, |
| 0:09.2 | and I just decided to check my emails one more time, and I got an email from an agent or talent |
| 0:18.0 | company I get these all the time with submissions for guests for recovering from reality. |
| 0:23.7 | For some reason I just decided to open it up and to check out who this person was. |
| 0:30.4 | And I'm reading through this email and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yada, yada, your client is so great, |
| 0:36.3 | this is why they'd be a perfect fit. But for some reason I just had a feeling that I needed to go |
| 0:41.0 | on this girl's Instagram because her handle was health is hell. And I was like, that's really |
| 0:48.4 | interesting. Let me go check out this check. Her name is Ali Weiss, and it is Tuesday, and Ali |
| 0:57.7 | came from New York and is here to join us on their recovering from reality podcast. I |
| 1:04.6 | briefly jump into this new segment that I want to do, and I'd love to get your guys' feedback and |
| 1:13.3 | know what you think about it. But I want to do these moments called not proud of myself. |
| 1:20.1 | Because despite where you're at in your journey, we all make choices sometimes that we are not |
| 1:26.8 | proud of, and we should talk about them and celebrate them as learning experiences instead of this |
| 1:34.4 | kind of like scarlet letter that we have to carry around with us and be tormented by for however long. |
| 1:44.4 | Because I also feel like that really affects our mental health too. Like when we |
| 1:50.2 | feel shame about one of the things that we did whether it's yelling at our kids or speeding on |
| 1:56.0 | the freeway or not being present or whatever it is or saying something stupid in a group setting, |
| 2:02.3 | how many of us sit there and for the next 15 showers that we take, regurgitate experience |
| 2:09.6 | over and over and over and again. So I'm here to tell you that we all have moments where we're not |
| 2:15.7 | proud of ourselves, and we're also all human. So we should be celebrating these moments that are |
| 2:24.4 | hard too because fuck or human. And figuring out this crazy thing called life certainly isn't easy. |
| 2:34.6 | I got angry. I could feel myself getting like physically angry this weekend at Evan when he said |
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