Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I interview fascinating people about how they take

their days from great to awesome and any advice they might have for the rest of us. So today,

I am delighted to welcome Amy Wilson to the show. Amy is the co-host of the excellent podcast,

What Fresh Hell. She is also an actor who's been on many shows, including the TV show Norm.

She's appeared on Broadway.

She is also the author of a brand new book of essays called Happy to Help, Adventures of a People

Pleaser.

Amy, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Laura.

Thank you for having me.

I'm excited to have you on this.

So maybe you could introduce yourself to our listeners,

just a little bit about your life, your work. Okay. So yeah, I started out as a performer and a

sketch comedian, as you said, always wrote my own things to perform. Always found that I got farther

writing my own material in terms of playing the roles I wanted to play. And once I became a parent, moved into creating content for parenting, did a show called

Mother Load that toured around the country for a while.

Out of that got my book deal for a book called When Did I Get Like This?

That came out in 2010 around the same time as your first book, I believe, because that's how we first met.

We've been in this business for a very long time.

That's right.

We've met.

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