Shame Spiral

This week I spiraled out with actor and writer Clementine Ford (The L Word, The Young & The Restless.)  We talked Mom guilt, bisexual invisibility,  shame vs embarrassment, toxic diet culture & fatph…

This week I spiraled out with academic, author & podcaster Hannah McGregor (Witch, Please; A Sentimental Education.)  We talked sticky jam-handed shame monsters, confessed insecurities/projections ab…

This week I spiraled out with film, television & theater actress, and incredible singer  Kuhoo Verma (Plan B, The Big Sick.)  We talked about how being roasted can feel like being loved,  undiagnosed…

This week I spiraled out with tv writer,  actor, author & comedian Rachel Wenitsky (The Tonight Show,  Friends Who Folk. )  We talked being shameless but not in a girlboss way,  inherited Jewish anxi…

This week I spiraled out with writer, stand up comedian, and podcaster Pallavi Gunalan (Lovett Or Leave It, City Counsel.)  We talked feeling like a big ol' mess, why stealing from corporations isn't…

This week I spiraled out with television writer,  showrunner & producer Jaclyn Moore (Queer As Folk, Dear White People.)  We dove deep into shame showing up via religious trauma,  feeling like a bad …

This week I spiraled out with stand up comedian, Emmy-nominated television writer, and VULNERABLE QUEEN Ellory Smith (Funnilingus, Robot Chicken.)  We talked re-parenting yourself as an adult, whethe…

This week I spiraled out with stand-up comic, television writer & podcaster Ashley Ray (TV, I Say w/ Ashley Ray.)  We talked the power of a shameless Mom, the fear of letting people down,  the feroci…

This week I spiraled out with stand up comic, writer and disarmingly charming person DeAnne Smith (Comedians Of The World: Gentleman Elf, Just For Laughs.)  We talked feeling you must earn your worth…

This week I spiraled out with comedian, writer, and total mensch Josh Gondelman! (Desus & Mero, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, People Pleaser.)  We talked the god-awful experience of having a hu…

This week I spiraled out with novelist, essayist, and gorgeous person Leslie Jamison (Make It Scream, Make It Burn; The Empathy Exams.)  We talked the terror of harming others, the complicated notion…

This week I spiraled out with playwright, novelist and television writer Jen Silverman (We Play Ourselves, The Roommate, Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties.)  We talked the protected joy in watchin…

This week I spiraled out with television writer, producer and photographer Amos Mac (Y :The Last Man, Gossip Girl.)  We talked beating yourself up when you fail to be a hero, navigating connection wh…

This week I spiraled out with actor, television writer, author and huge-hearted gem Brandon Kyle Goodman (Big Mouth, You Gotta Be You.)  We talked perfectionism, the arrested development that often c…

This week I spiraled out with television writer and lovely soul Katherine Kearns (Hacks, Yellowjackets.)  We talked regrets, binging bad TV in the early pandemic,  growing up Black with a cool, queer…

This week I spiraled out with novelist, memoirist, Tarot reader & literary arts organizer Michelle Tea (Knocking Myself Up, Against Memoir.)  We talked about how we'd rather be overwhelming than bori…

This week I spiraled out with actor, writer, comedian and true gem Sydney Battle (Stapleview, Swan Boy.) We dug deep into what went wrong in Sydney's very fresh therapy break-up, agreed we'd rather b…

This week I spiraled out with brilliant and criminally funny comedian & writer Anna Drezen (SNL, Girls5eva, Praise Petey.) We compared the "niceness" of our Moms,  bonded over how uncomfortable it is…

This week I spiraled out with the ridiculously funny, insightful AND delightful comedian Dylan Adler! We talked being baby queers, the horrors of your Mom witnessing your super vulnerable ( and somet…

This week I spiraled out with super funny stand-up comedian Samantha Ruddy. We talked growing up in the Catholic Church, being OCD and Zoloft twinsies, queerness, the relentless desire to be a "good …