Ep. 60 Getting Down to the Basics with Tara Schuster

Recovering From Reality

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tara Schuster is an author, playwright, and accomplished entertainment executive, currently serving as the Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central. Tara’s first book, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: and Other Rituals to Fix Your Life from Someone Who has Been There, is being published by Penguin Random House and will release on February 18, 2020. By the time Tara was in her late twenties, she was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious, self-medicating mess. No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depression, anxiety, and shame, owing in large part to her minimally parented upbringing. After drunk dialing her therapist on her 25th birthday, she knew she needed a wake-up call.

We are diving in deep into what self care actually is…SURPRISE it isn’t a face mask! And giving you a break down of simple things that you can start implementing into your routine to make your life so much better.

You can follow along with Tara on instagram @taraschuster

or visit her website www.taraschuster.com

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.5	Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,
0:11.6	where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.
0:16.1	Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,
0:26.2	we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.1	But I kept saying to myself, you shouldn't feel this bad. Nothing that horrible happened to you,
0:46.0	but I came to realize that that was poison because it wasn't helping me, like telling myself I
0:51.4	should feel better was not getting me better, and it wasn't helping anybody else to compare my
0:57.1	pain to other people's pain to say, well, so-and-so had it so much worse. Like that didn't help the other
1:03.6	person and it certainly didn't help me. So I hit rock bottom on my 25th birthday when I drunk
1:10.0	dialed my therapist threatening to hurt myself. And that next morning, I was like, oh my god,
1:16.8	that is so not a thing. Like I don't want to be living a life like that. How can I heal myself?
1:24.4	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Tara Schuster. She is the vice president of
1:30.5	Talent and Development at Comedy Central. She is the executive in charge of Lights Out with David
1:36.8	Spade, and was the executive in charge of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning show Key and Peel,
1:43.7	and the Emmy award-winning show at midnight. Her numerous other shows include another period,
1:50.4	not safe, with Nikki Glazer, and Hood adjacent. Her plays have been performed in the New York
1:57.7	International Friend Festival, and her writing has appeared in The New Yorker Online. Her new
2:04.6	book, Buy Yourself the Fucking Lillies, is amazing. I can't say enough good things. And the
2:11.6	conversation that we're really diving in today is what does self-care actually look like? In a
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