My guest today, Ophira, Eisenberg, hosts NPR's nationally syndicated comedy, Trivia Show,

asked me another where she interviews and plays silly games with all sorts of people,

like Sir Patrick Stewart, Ocofina, Roxanne Gay, Terry Cruz, Tony Hawk, George Tachai, Julia

Styles, so many other awesome human beings. She is also a regular host and teller on the

Moth Radio Hour. Her stories have been included in two of the Moths bestselling collections,

and Ophira's own comedic memoir, Screw Everyone Sleeping My Way to Monogamy, was option

for a feature film. She has appeared on Comedy Central this week at the Comedy Cellar,

New Yorker Festival, so many other places, amazing story driven stand up, and her comedy

special Inside Joke is available on Amazon and iTunes. And today, we dive into her remarkable

journey so many of the moving deeply personal stories, stumbles, and awakenings that have

brought her to this point in her life. So excited to share this conversation with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

So you hail from all the wilds of up north. I have been to once in my life and absolutely fell in love with

Calgary, well actually Calgary the city, and then we jumped up to Bamp for like three days, and it was

I was like, do I have to leave here? Yeah. Mine blowingly gorgeous. Yeah. All right, so you're

grown up in Calgary. Yeah. A dance person as a kid. Yes, yes, that's right. So has it. Well, you

know, because I don't, I did ballet growing up classical ballet for years, you know, I think I was

pretty good at it. I think I never was in line to be a prima ballerina, although some of the people

I studied with did become back, I did go to a very serious school. But I worked as

with everything in my life, not that good at it, but I'll work harder than everybody. That's

that why I did it. But a little bit of trivia, I danced in the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Calgary

Winter Olympics. Okay, so I've heard you say this before. Yes. And I've also heard you say that to

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