4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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This week we are joined by author and 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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1:44.8 | I'm Delaney Fisher. And today we have such a fantastic guest on you guys. We have on |
1:51.5 | Aparna Nonchirla, and she did an incredible interview with us all about her new book called |
1:58.0 | Unreliable Narrator. So yeah, we just loved talking to her so much. If you don't know, Aparna, |
2:05.2 | she is such an established comedian, actor, and writer. Her writing has appeared on late night |
2:11.6 | with Seth Meyers, Broad City, Ghost Busters. She has been featured on Two Dope Queens, |
2:17.8 | Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Conan. And she can currently be seen in Peacocks, |
2:22.0 | Lopez versus Lopez, and the latest season of HBO Max's Search Party, and Netflix's Space Force. |
2:27.8 | I mean, how many central, all the things? Netflix, I mean, she is everywhere. It's so amazing how |
2:37.9 | just how incredible her career is. And then her book of personal essays called Unreliable |
2:43.6 | Narrator comes out tomorrow, September 19th. So yeah, it is a hilarious and introspective collection |
2:51.5 | of essays by Aparna exploring her life as a shy comedian, battling depression, anxiety, |
2:57.6 | and self-doubt. And she opened up to us about all of those things and more in her interview. So, |
3:04.9 | yeah, we we hope you guys enjoy the interview with her before we get into it. Just a few things |
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