086: Lisa Meets the Drunk Mom feat. Amy Wright

Your life is completely different. Even than that person you thought was you. Amy Wright and The Drunk Mom She took a bunch of business courses, and nothing ever happened for her. She kept at it because she thought she was supposed to. "Hustle More!" She ran herself into the ground for 7 years trying to make it work. She is raising a teenager, and trying to be a perfect parent. Why isn't anything working out? She snapped 5-6 months ago, wasn't enjoying what she'd done in her life lost her mind. "You know what would be really cool? Cause I'm a genius!" - Amy She told her husband she wanted to make videos about all the things moms do but don't want to talk about. He was worried for the kids sake, but then she just went ahead and made the videos. She didn't tell her husband for months. "I don't want to die with any regrets" - Amy The videos were extremely well received, and she said her first step was to make a facebook page with videos she thought were totally hilarious. She hit 5000 likes within a few weeks, and her previous business page was torture. People loved this. She gets emails from people who were having a hard time with their kids and lives. The way I went viral, Share Ross, told her facebook live would grow her page fast. No regrets, let's do this! She locked herself in her bathroom, sitting on the toilet talking about real life. "The time I shit my pants and the story of imperfection." We are cautious about what we put online, sometimes its really scary. Did I just put very real stuff out there? 26000 followers in three months. It's crazy. People love that its real life, and it makes them feel normal. She shared how nasty her car was after driving the kids around for a few days. My husband had a barbie shoe stuck to his butt. The one that went viral: shit my pants drunk dancing gas station blocking diagram Not doing anything but creating, not marketing anymore. Amy had a baby when she was young. Invited on a talk show, not really what she wanted to be doing, but it was a step in the right direction. Now she just looks like s sad drunk mom on this show they ask her. People fall down, it's so much more entertaining. Where did we get the idea that we shouldn't show our imperfections? - Lisa "That shit has been communicated so long" Amy on expectations of moms to hide their imperfections. "We feel like it's our fault if everything's not perfect." - Amy "We live in this hidden society" - Lisa My boyfriend covering up his farts with the coffee grinder. "when you're not your true self, you just get depressed" - Lisa "I'm not a huge fan of rejection." - Amy How did your husband not find out? He's fairly busy and they have 5 collective kids. Once things got going, and she got comfortable stepping into the role of playing honestly. "I have this gut feeling, you can call it appalling or whatever, but I can't settle for a 9 to 5 job. I can't ignore the fact that I'm somewhat entertaining. I can't continue to push that down and ignore it, and not share my god given gift with the world." Raised by hippies. Bong on the coffee table, mirror and straw and razor. Successful parents, but very loving and accepting of people. It was just normal life for me. Trying to communicate two different worlds into one. "I've never been able to work for somebody" - Lisa on never being able to keep a job. There's more than going somewhere you hate every day. She doesn't know if it will ever make sense to her husband. Unless its raking in the dough. Just making something and putting it out there has just turned into something amazing! "If you're not doing...