Episode 105: Ali Handal

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Relationships, Sexuality, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2013

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The singer/songwriter guitarist talks to Paul about being a female guitarist in a male-dominated industry, her negative self-talk, fear of failure, workaholism, and why she stayed with a past boyfriend whose actions betrayed and disgusted her. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 105 with my guest, Ali Handel.
0:05.8	I'm Paul Gilmarten.
0:06.8	This is the metal illness happy hour, 90 minutes of honesty, about other battles in our
0:10.4	heads.
0:11.4	For medically diagnosed conditions and past traumas, the everyday compulsive negative
0:15.3	thinking.
0:16.4	The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:19.3	It's not a doctor's office.
0:20.3	It's more like a waiting room.
0:22.1	It doesn't suck.
0:23.1	Oh, my dog's chiming in in the background there.
0:26.4	So website for this show is mental pod.com.
0:29.9	Mental pod is also the Twitter name you can follow me at.
0:32.6	And as I've mentioned before, I am slated to come up to the Bridgetown Comedy Festival
0:39.3	in Portland, April 18 through 21.
0:42.2	And I'm looking into possibly doing a live show, live version of this show in addition
0:48.6	to me doing some stand-up or satire up there.
0:54.8	So I've got a lot of interviews lined up for Portland, so I'm really excited to get
1:01.8	up there and meet some you guys and record you.
1:04.9	And it just, you know, see you in person.
1:09.7	It sometimes feels a little removed doing this show and not getting that face-to-face kind
1:18.9	of experience like I used to get when I would go do stand-up and people would stare at
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