Scarcity or Abundance? (with Jennie Garth)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Actress Jennie Garth joins Sam to talk about her new book I Choose Me, and how to balance scarcity and abundance mindsets. They talk about the concept of choosing yourself and how Jennie first uttered those words on 90210 over 30 years ago (and how she’s rewatching it for the first time now). They talk about what to do when your kids get older and won’t need you as much anymore, walking into rooms and wondering why they’re there, and how impossible it must be for menopausal women to remember their lines on Broadway. Jennie talks about leaning on other people to make big decisions and learning to take a beat before a big choice. They talk about imposter syndrome and how Martha Stewart might be the only person not suffering from it, and how important it is to know when a friendship stops being additive to your life.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Julia Louis Dreyfus here, and I can't wait for you to hear our new episode of Wiser
0:09.5	than Me with Cindy Lopper on Amazon Music.
0:12.9	Cindy may be a girl who just wants to have fun, but for 40 years she has brought playfulness
0:18.2	and a dash of punk to some serious activism.
0:21.8	We talk about her lifelong LGBTQ plus advocacy, her astonishing music career, and pick up a whole
0:29.3	lot of wisdom along the way. Listen now only on Amazon music included with Prime.
0:40.9	Oh! included with Prime. Oh, hello. How's it going? You know what? Don't answer that, actually. Another day.
0:47.1	Another injustice for women. What am I talking about today? Feminine hygiene products. Look, I might not need them so much anymore,
0:58.4	but I do buy them by the boatload for my daughters. And while I have some serious choice words
1:03.6	for the fact that we haven't found a better name for them, I have some extra choice words for the
1:10.0	fact that they are on average 40% more than
1:14.7	they were just a few years ago. Oh, it's true. Thanks to the Trump tariffs and inflation,
1:21.3	products like tampons and sanitary pads are more expensive than ever before. And that's on top of the pink tax that many states already
1:30.4	levy on products exclusively meant for women, which of course I've had choice words for before.
1:36.8	When women and girls can't afford these products that we use every month, it is proven that they
1:43.6	miss work and school and fall behind financially and
1:46.8	academically. In a perfect world, these products would be free and readily available to anyone
1:53.8	who needs them and would come with a free bottle of wine. In a less perfect world, they at least
1:59.9	would be tax and tariff exempt, but maybe
2:02.8	can we all still have the wine? We could do so much better for an entire 50% of our population. This is Choice Words.
2:26.5	My guest this week is actress and author of the new book I choose me, Jenny Garth.
2:32.9	After you enjoy this episode, be sure to look up spring dates for my
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