Find Relief in the Regular Stuff with Nora McInerny

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Here's Where It Gets Interesting, author Nora McInerny joins Sharon to talk about vibes: good vibes, bad vibes, and the fact that most vibes are mixed, at best. When we recognize that life is full of regular stuff, it can take the pressure off. It’s okay to have a regular-looking kitchen with a regular, fingerprint-coated toaster! It’s okay to be sad at a funeral instead of feeling compelled to reassure everyone that you’re fine! Feel the stress to perform fade away as you listen to Nora and Sharon laugh together, just don’t slam the cabin door on your way out.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome. So happy to have you here with me today and I'm very
0:09.2	excited for you to hear my conversation with author Nora McInerney who is hilarious. And we also have a couple of really
0:18.4	specific things in common. I think you're going to get a chuckle out of this conversation. Let's dive in because here's
0:26.2	where it gets interesting. I'm Sharon Big Band and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:33.7	Well, thank you for being here today, Nora. I'm really excited to chat.
0:38.0	An absolute delight already.
0:40.0	If you all have not already read any of Nora McInerney's books or watched her TED Talk or watched a movie based on one of her novels, will you introduce yourself to us?
0:53.6	To introduce yourself to people who are listening.
0:55.9	I am Nora McInerney.
0:57.8	I am a little over six feet tall,
1:00.6	but more than being a tall person, I am the author of several funny books about sad things, including my new book,
1:08.0	bad vibes only, and I'm the creator of a podcast called Terrible.
1:13.3	Thanks for asking.
1:15.2	And I am, I think, one of the happier sad people I know,
1:19.1	or maybe one of the saddest happy people I know,
1:22.0	and all of my work sort of sits at the intersection of the
1:26.5	absurd and the awful. Exactly where everybody hopes their life will end up.
1:34.0	Exactly where as a child when I said,
1:39.0	I hope I grew up to be an author.
1:41.0	I was hoping that what I would be doing as an author was mining my own
1:46.4	personal tragedies for some kind of content diamond. I really did before everything and the everything that I'm talking about that I mentioned in my
1:57.2	TED Talk. The everything is that in 2014 my husband Aaron died of brain cancer and he died after
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