On this episode of the playbook, I have the extraordinary journalist author, Jessica Yellen, you can catch her with the news all day and all night on Instagram, but I'm going to tell you one thing. She is the epitome of a ferocious Buddha. Join me for all of this and more on the

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I'm your host, David Melzer.

I have one of my favorite journalists,

authors, Jessica Yellen.

She is an extraordinary, what I always say, investigator as well as an interviewer,

being able to find the facts which have been so sorely missed, especially in the past four years, and now you can reach her on Instagram.

She reports the news all day and night conducting extraordinary interviews.

I've taken so many tips she doesn't know and she's a mentor of mine.

I watch the best in the world and so I love to watch her

Welcome to the playbook Jessica

Thank you for that unbelievably flattering intro. I'm really glad to be here

Well, it's so cool because, you know, all great interviewers,

all great journalists have a quality

that my brother taught me when I was 18.

I was a pre-med student under the pressure

of my martial art mom from Jewish guilt.

She's a third degree black belt of Jewish guilt.

And she always said, doctor, lawyer, failure.

So I wanted to be rich because I wanted to buy her a house in a car. I go pre-med and I go, my

brother's a doctor. I went and visited him and I looked at him at the hospital and I

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