Navigating Depression, Anxiety, and Impostor Syndrome In A Creative Career with Aparna Nancherla

Self-Helpless

Crossover Media Group

Comedy, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Kelsey Cook and Delanie Fischer are joined by comedian, Aparna Nancherla. Aparna shares her personal experience with anxiety, depression, and impostor syndrome, the highs and lows of pursuing an unconventional career, and the biggest tools that have helped her feel as grounded as possible along the way. If you have a love-hate relationship with your creative pursuits, this is definitely the episode for you.

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0:00.0	Can you help? Can you help me? Can you help?
0:07.0	Somebody! Can you help!
0:09.0	Can you help? Can you help? Can you help? So
0:15.0	can you help!
0:17.0	Can you help? Oh, can you help? Can you help?
0:20.0	Can you help?
0:21.0	Can you help?
0:22.0	So helpless! Can't get home.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the self-helpless podcast. I'm Kelsey Cook.
0:31.0	I'm Delaney Fisher and today we have such a fantastic guest on you guys we have
0:37.4	one of Parna non churla and she did an incredible interview with us all
0:42.4	about her new book called Unreliable narrator.
0:46.2	So yeah, we just loved talking to her so much.
0:50.3	If you don't know Aparna, she is such an established comedian, actor, and writer.
0:55.7	Her writing has appeared on Late Night with Seth Myers, Broad City, Ghostbusters.
1:01.9	She has been featured on Two Dope Queens, Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Conan,
1:06.0	and she can currently be seen in Peacocks, Lopez versus Lopez, and the latest season of HBO Max's search party,
1:12.0	and Netflix's Space Force. I mean... Yeah, Comedy Central, all the things.
1:17.1	Netflix, I mean she is everywhere. Like it's so amazing how just how incredible her career is.
1:25.6	So, and then her book of personal essays called Unreliable
1:29.8	Narrator comes out tomorrow, September 19th.
1:33.0	So yeah, it is a hilarious and introspective collection of essays
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