KATHERINE RYAN: HOW I CHANGED MY MINDSET & MADE A LIFE FOR ME & MY DAUGHTER

Great Company with Jamie Laing

Jampot

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 947 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

How Katherine Ryan turned grit into greatness. Katherine Ryan might just be the funniest person on Earth. She’s a brilliant comedian, actress, writer and podcaster who says it exactly how it is.

I first met Katherine a few years ago and I’ve always admired her energy and determination to succeed. Long before she became one of the UK’s biggest comedians, she was working on the stand-up circuit while raising her daughter Violet as a single mum. Now, with an incredible career and her fourth child on the way, she’s still doing it all completely on her own terms.

We cover:

How Katherine navigated life as a single mum in her twenties
Shifting her mindset: overcoming insecurities and embracing gratitude
Her journey to succeed in a male-dominated industry
Why she treats her kids as capable individuals, not babies
Overcoming the challenges of maintaining intimacy during pregnancy

I love every conversation I have with Katherine - and this one was no different. It reminded me how we can always learn more about ourselves and the way we approach life.

Listen to Katherine’s new show, Write Me Dirty, where two comedians write FILTHY fiction about each other, here: OUT NOW!

And I've got a new book coming out, Boys Don't Cry which you can pre-order here: boysdontcry.co.uk

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Producer: Helen Burke

Editor: Dan King

Assistant Producer: Rhoda Abrokwa

Video: Jake Ji & Josh Bennett

Audio: Rafi Amsili

Social Media: Laura Coughlan & Anthony Barter

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0:00.0	Coming up in this episode of Great Company.
0:02.8	I spoke about my experience with someone.
0:04.8	Yeah.
0:05.2	I didn't say his name.
0:06.5	It has been an open secret in our industry as someone who is predatory.
0:11.8	Everybody cared all of a sudden.
0:12.8	They were like, who, Catherine, who?
0:13.8	I was like, was that nerve-wracking to talk about it?
0:16.0	I certainly think, well...
0:20.2	Hello, I'm Catherine Ryan, and I am in great company.
0:24.0	An actress, writer, and podcaster.
0:26.6	The hilarious UK-based Canadian community.
0:29.1	The one on a honey, Catherine Ryan.
0:30.5	If you are a woman doing any kind of comedy,
0:33.7	there are adjectives used to describe you
0:35.7	that they wouldn't use to describe a man.
0:37.3	They use quite aggressive language with us. And people have asked me in interviews like, well, how are you going to explain to your children? They look at your material and they see what a dirty mouth you have. I'm like, is anyone asking Frankie Boyle that? That's so true. Yeah. What do you say to that, though? Oh. I was 24. I was fearful, like literally fearful for my life. And then I thought I
0:58.7	would lose my daughter somehow. It was never a place of comfort. There was never a place of
1:03.7	financial security. But no one's ever really been that supportive to me. Really? Bobby's fun.
1:11.1	This is my first time parenting with a partner.
1:13.6	There is friction and you have no one but each other.
1:15.8	But we have perspective and we have empathy.
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