What If You’re Still Becoming the Person You Want to Be? with Baron Vaughn

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts, Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Comedian, actor, and writer Baron Vaughn joins us for a deeply personal conversation about what it means to rewrite your story while you’re still living inside it. We talk about growing up with scarcity, the trauma of survival-mode success, the work behind the work, and why healing is harder when the industry expects your pain to be punchlines. Get more a patreon.com/pastdue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do growing businesses love working in Slack?
0:02.8	Let's ask Christia Ari Bikes.
0:04.6	Running things in Slack saves me so much time.
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0:10.4	What say you?
0:11.4	Rocks from Gosney.
0:12.4	Slack helps us build community.
0:13.9	It helps us build connection.
0:15.2	Your partners, vendors and customers all in one place.
0:18.3	Take us on home, Ashley from Carraway.
0:20.3	If we did have Slack tomorrow, I would explode.
0:23.4	Well, let's not let that happen.
0:25.1	Visit Slack.com slash podcast to get 50% of Slack Business Plus.
0:30.5	What happens when the industry tells you who you're supposed to be, but none of those versions feel true?
0:35.4	This week, we're talking to comedian, actor, writer, Baron Vaughn,
0:39.6	about forging your own identity in an industry that would rather you stay in your lane.
0:44.4	We talk about reinvention, rejection,
0:46.9	and what it really takes to build something lasting in comedy, acting, and beyond.
0:52.2	The creative economy is broken, but some people are still making it work.
0:56.6	We're here to find out how.
0:58.3	I'm Anna Marie Cox.
0:59.6	And I'm open Mike Eagle, and this is past two.
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