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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

How Do You Ignore Haters & Learn to Love Yourself? with Jameela Jamil

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Comedy, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jameela Jamil is an actress, activist, and host who joins Jonathan to talk about a wide array of topics, including how she landed the role of Tahani on The Good Place, the importance of loving yourself, dispelling shame, using her various platforms for good, the struggles marginalized people face, and more. Find Jameela on Instagram @jameelajamilofficial, and on Twitter @jameelajamil Check out the I Weigh site at https://www.iweighcommunity.com/ and on Instagram @i_weigh. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Veness and every week I sit down for a 30 minute

0:06.0

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about suddenly makes me curious.

0:10.2

Like this week, I'm super curious about why I can't keep my episodes to 30 minutes because

0:13.6

I can't stop talking but I think we all enjoy it more all friends here so we're doing

0:16.4

our best. This week, I'm joined by actress, activist, person, extraordinary and I got

0:22.5

to ask, Jameela Jamil, what are you passionate about?

0:25.7

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Veness. I'm extremely excited. I feel like I hope

0:34.9

you guys are sitting down if you're driving to work because you're going to be very excited

0:37.4

about our guest today. Welcome to Getting Curious. Miss Jameela Jamil.

0:42.2

Hello. Oh my god. How's your day, honey? It's great. It's all the better for seeing you.

0:47.1

Ah, thank you so much for coming here. Also, I mean, when I first started getting curious,

0:53.1

I wanted to be like an Annie Leibovitz, a podcasting not an excellence, but just in like, I

0:58.6

learned as an assistant that, like, on set, she doesn't like things that are too, like,

1:03.0

forced. Like, she's like, we want to let it, like, let it happen. You know, like, very

1:07.7

organic. And I was like, I wanted that to be like this, you know, but I wanted to say

1:11.5

at the beginning, not to guide the conversation too much, but I love how you use your platform.

1:16.0

I love how you speak passion to your truth. I think that's so important. Although a few

1:20.2

weeks ago, I did do a Lipton tea post that they named detox, but really it's dandelion

1:25.8

and nettle and great fruit oil. And I really, I got, I, you were worried I would come

1:32.8

for you. Not you, honey. The people on the comments were like, Jameela's going to murder you.

1:37.0

And then we're going to take your corpse and drag it around the football field. And then

1:40.5

how do you promote this filth on your platform? And I was like, oh my god, it's literally

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