Ep. 87 Girl Insta-rupted with Syd Wilder
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am joined by Syd Wilder. Syd Wilder is an actress, model, writer, and digital influencer. She grew up in Marietta, GA as your average fat kid with high cholesterol and a boy’s haircut. Luckily, puberty hit her like a freight train and a few years later she grew out her hair and traded coasts in favor of Los Angeles.
Syd has carved her own path in the comedy world with her ditzy, dark and devilish sense of humor. She’s written, produced, and starred in original sketches that have amassed over 60 million views across multiple digital platforms such as: Funny or Die, College Humor, and Huffington Post. She has appeared on Tosh.0 (Comedy Central), Men at Work (TBS), and recently the feature film Laid In America released by Universal.
Syd’s modeling has been featured in Maxim, FHM, and Sports Illustrated. She was named Ask Men’s Top 99 Crush List of 2016 and Playboy’s Top 10 Hottest YouTuber’s of 2015. She’s also frequently asked by her family members to post photos wearing more clothing, which she’s actively working on.
She won a Hollywood Comedy Shorts award for her original web series, Fab Life Teresa XO. The same series was also screened at the prestigious Holly Shorts Festival. Syd describes herself as a glamorous goofball who loves to push the envelope with her cynically optimistic comedy. She continues to create online content and original characters for her social platforms. Syd enjoys dancing when she has free time and she will always have a special place in her heart for the awkward fat kid.
In this episode, we dive into the following topics...
- Eating disorders and Syd's experience with bulimia
- Abusive relationships and recovering from that trauma
- Alexis and Syd's marriages and Syd's divorce
- Narcissism and being in a relationship with a narcissist
- Getting cheated on and the emotional recovery that follows
- Parenting an addict
- Alternatives to chemical intervention for mental health issues
Mentioned in this week's episode...
- The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown
- Syd's Podcast: Girl Insta-rupted
- How to Spot a Dangerous Man by Sandra L. Brown
- Alexis' episode on Syd's podcast
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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? |
| 0:39.6 | So when I talk about that and people get so scared and even for the people that do have to go |
| 0:44.3 | because they have like schizophrenia or whatever their mental health issues are, |
| 0:47.6 | I want to normalize that. I don't feel like it's something to be ashamed of. |
| 0:51.6 | Honestly, it's not something to be proud of. |
| 0:53.7 | Save your life. Hell yes it is. |
| 0:55.2 | Honestly, I don't think it's not something not to be proud of. |
| 0:57.9 | Like rehab saved my fucking life. It changed the trajectory of my life. |
| 1:02.4 | I would not be here today and I not had to take care of my mental health and my addiction issues. |
| 1:09.0 | That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Sid Wilder. |
| 1:12.4 | If you guys follow along with me on Instagram, then you know it's been somewhat of a brutal week. |
| 1:19.2 | Unfortunately, I lost two people that I know in the past week, which is one is hard enough, |
| 1:33.2 | but two feels devastating. And not only that, but once again, an unarmed black man was gunned down |
| 1:44.6 | in Wisconsin by police in front of his children. And I don't know if, no, it's not. |
| 1:53.4 | I was about to say I don't know if it's because I'm an empath that I just feel these things so heavily. |
| 2:01.2 | But the truth is that if we're in touch with our humanity and with our spirituality, |
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