The Psychology of Your 20s with Jemma Sbeg
Dear Chelsea
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4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jemma Sbeg joins Chelsea to talk about age-gap friendships, how life is a series of waiting rooms, and why friendship breakups can be as awful as romantic breakups. Then: A newly queer woman wonders if she should move to a larger city to surround herself with community. A long-distance daughter struggles with her family’s oscar-worthy goodbyes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 1:13.3 | Hi, Catherine. It's Thursday. Hi, it's Chelsea Lately Day. I mean, sorry, dear Chelsea Day. Dear Chelsea Lately. Dear Chelsea Lader. It's all the things. You know what? I always thought that was a brilliant piece of branding that it is. Like, everything you do has your name in it. It's beautiful. Well, you know what? It's really hard to come up with titles. So I'm planning a big tour next year, a big stand-up tour, and we were going around titles because tour names usually don't have my name in them. They usually are words. So this isn't unusual, but you're right. Everything, I don't know, is it good branding or is it a fucking annoying? What did I have to say? Oh, I had something I was going to say. What have you been up to? I actually have something to tell you about. Oh, okay, great. Hit me. Dime. I've been taking Spanish sessions three times a week. Oh, good. I almost started crying during my class this morning because I was so frustrated. That's what she's dealing with. Was it subjunctive? A 50-year-old woman who's getting emotional about not understanding certain things. Now, she's just only speaks to Spanish. Oh, that's tricky. I'm missing half of it. I mean, I'm assuming I'm going to get it at some time, but whatever. Yeah. You just got to smile and nod sometimes. But I read this article yesterday that I was like, I have to tell Chelsea about this. |
| 1:14.6 | It was in the cut. |
| 1:19.6 | And the title is, this economist crunched the numbers and stopped dating men. |
| 1:20.9 | And she's never been happier. |
| 1:46.1 | All I see on social media is how happy women are who are alone, single, and child free. Yes. It even goes on to talk about... And how much longer we live. I'm not trying to live longer, but I know that I fucking will. You're going to live to like 120. But she talks about like she did the research and she was like, I could actually be doing, she was married to a man. She goes, I could actually be doing less domestic labor if I was single than being married to a man. Yeah, of course. Of course. Now she's married to a woman, and they are co-parenting beautifully and having a |
| 1:51.1 | great time. Yeah, and they get along and they actually can actually into it what the other person |
| 1:56.8 | might need ahead of that person asking. I mean, I was just training with Ben Bruno. I went |
| 2:02.0 | on to say I'm at 85% from all of my medical issues this year. So I'm now back training with my |
| 2:08.3 | foot is healing. Everything's good. I'm doing so well. I decided to pop over to Abiza for the weekend |
| 2:13.8 | for a friend's birthday celebration. So I'm leaving tomorrow night. Oh, this weekend. |
| 2:18.2 | Yes, this weekend. |
| 2:19.1 | I decided, you know what? |
| 2:20.2 | Fuck it. |
| 2:20.6 | I'm just going to go. |
| 2:21.4 | I was like, I can't go. |
| 2:22.3 | And then I was like, I'll get up for a couple days. And then I have to go to New York anyway because, you know, the U.S. Open is starting. And I have some shows in West Hampton. By the way, there still shows tickets for the 22nd, August 22nd, West Hampton. |
| 2:18.6 | I've been staying with my friend Kat, who is a home. |
| 2:21.0 | She should be a home health care nurse, is what she should be. She is so, such a caretaker, you know, and it's that. You've needed it. I can take care of people in financial ways only. That is what I, and pep talks, you know what I mean? Like emotionally, philosophically, that kind of thing. |
| 2:51.6 | But when I started staying there, because of course my house is still not done. The new date is |
| 2:57.1 | August 25th when I returned from New York and we'll see about that. So anyway, I was saying, |
| 3:04.8 | oh, when I moved in with her, I was like, listen, I, she cooks all the time. |
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