Why Trusting Your Gut Is Harder Than It Sounds (Zosia Mamet)

Hard Knox with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Zosia Mamet is best known for her starring role as Shoshanna Shapiro in the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning HBO series Girls. In this episode Zosia joins Amanda for a vulnerable and funny conversation about anxiety, imposter syndrome, and what it means to feel “too much” in a world that keeps asking for something else. They explore how control becomes a survival strategy, why writing a memoir can feel like publishing your diary, and how intuition might just be the most radical form of safety. Mamet released a collection of essays with Penguin Random House in November 2022, titled My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings. Her upcoming collection of essays about the challenge and magic of growing up in show business, titled Does This Make Me Funny?, will be released by Penguin Random House in September of 2025. Reach out to us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.amandaknox.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠amandaknox.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @⁠⁠amandaknox.com⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Free: My Search for Meaning⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waking Up Meditation App⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.wakingup.com/Amandaknox⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For ad-free episodes of Hard Knocks, subscribe at Amandanox.substack.com, where you'll also find access to essays, bonus episodes, and more. Enjoy.
0:15.5	I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.
0:20.0	Music Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.
0:40.1	The show is happening. The show is happening, Zosha. You are on Hard Knocks, and I need to just update you on this common ground we weirdly find ourselves in, where Andre is both of our love interests in different shows.
0:40.7	So that's... Love it.
0:42.8	I...
0:43.9	He is like the love interests that I would wish on everyone professionally.
0:49.9	Like, he's just...
0:51.1	He's just the best.
0:53.3	He's just the best. And like, I think what what's so fun is, like, okay, this is, like, totally random. And we're, we, I swear, we're going, like, I really want to talk to you about, does this make me funny? Because we're going to get there. We'll get there. We'll get there. But I just have to, like, do this, you know, relate on this moment of like, in both cases, he plays very different characters.
1:11.7	So, okay, Laid on one.
1:14.4	And so which is out there, people can see Laid.
1:16.7	We are both in Laid.
1:18.5	We have a beautiful, like, quasi-romantic moment in Laid at a beautiful Italian restaurant.
1:24.2	Also, I think I am hoping you're my love interest, but it's maybe not
1:29.2	reciprocated. Yeah. I think it's a beautiful scene. It's a beautiful, loving scene. Yeah, it's a loving
1:37.2	scene. It's, there's passion. Yes, again, one way, but it does exist.
1:45.1	I mean, at the end, I feel like I'm like, yes, this girl is going out there and getting hers, and it's also not me, which is good.
1:53.5	Yeah.
1:54.4	Yeah.
1:55.5	So, but he's your love interest, and he's like, you know, a quirky video game playing guy. In this one,
2:02.4	in The Tempered, which is this, you know, this show that I, the sci-fi show, that's a set in,
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