The One About Comparing Pain, Parenting Yourself and Living The Life You Truly Want with Tara Schuster

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Author of “Glow in the F*cking Dark” and “Buy The F*cking Lillies”, Tara Schuster joins us today for an incredibly note worthy episode (literally, grab a note pad and be ready to take notes). Tara dives into reparenting yourself, navigating jealousy of other’s stories, self care (it’s the cake, not the icing!) and so much more.

CONTENT WARNING: mentions of suicidal ideation

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast. I'm your hostess trying
0:08.8	her mostess Sarah Nicole and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:18.0	So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:27.6	Today we have on former comedy central exec Tara Schuster
0:32.0	who is now an incredible author of two books, the first
0:35.9	one in 2020, which was by yourself The Fucking Lilies, and her latest book, glow in the fucking dark.
0:44.4	She has been very recognized for her written work
0:48.0	and her works on self-care and mental health,
0:50.0	and I'm really excited to hear a lot more about how we can adopt glowing in the
0:55.4	fucking dark because I think a lot of us could use that right about now. So please
0:59.6	welcome Tara to the show. Tara, so nice to have you on, so nice to have you on so nice to see a bright happy face on a Monday
1:07.0	tell us a little bit about who you are yeah I well thank you for having me first off. I'm a listener so this is very fun for me. Oh nice. Yeah.
1:17.0	Honestly I saw the title of your book and I was like, yep. Yeah. Yeah, we get it. We're on the same vibe. Yeah, so I was an executive
1:27.9	at Comedy Central. Totally 100% in the entertainment realm. I ran shows like Key and Peel on the sketch
1:36.0	comedy show I worked with David Spade. I had this big entertainment job. But nobody
1:42.2	knew that I was severely anxious, depressed, dealing with suicidal ideation, all the fun stuff, you know?
1:50.0	Because I was so good at work. I was so good. I was so good. I was I was
1:57.2	climbed the corporate ladder as one of the youngest people ever to be vice president of
2:01.6	talent and development and it was all because I had had a neglected
2:06.4	psychologically abusive childhood where external validation was all I had basically you know so it had gotten me through
2:15.8	school all AP is in high school oh and then I'm gonna make it to this Ivy League
2:21.0	College and wow now I made it to the fast track to executive but oh my
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