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May 26, 2020 1 hr 10 min

Flaws into Fortune W/ Nikki Glaser

from THE ED MYLETT SHOW Hosted by Ed Mylett

Your MESS does not DISQUALIFY you from WINNING! When we look at the most successful people, the ones who we admire, the ones who inspire us, it's easy to believe they must have it all figured out... but this couldn't be further from the truth! NOBODY ever made it to the top without a big ol' MESS in their rearview mirror! And the most inspiring of them all are the ones who are not afraid to be vulnerable and share their mess with the world! I am so excited to have one of the most talented, hard-working, and inspirational individuals on the Ed Mylett show. She is one of the funniest voices in comedy today gracing stand-up stages all over the country. She is the host of 3 hit podcasts, an executive producer for MTV and Comedy Central and I believe she's the funniest person on the planet. I am honored to bring you, Nikki Glaser! Nikki is one of those people we all look at and admire. She seemingly has it all figured out. It seems so effortless! But as I mentioned, there is always a mess in the rearview mirror. Most people are just afraid to show it! In this interview, Nikki opens up about her struggles with anorexia, depression, and insecurity, and how she used her mess to fuel her success. From waiting to die every morning and night, to becoming one of the most adored comedians in the country, Nikki is PROOF that you can achieve your biggest goals no matter your circumstance. And the most amazing part about Nikki is that she opens up about the messes in her life that are STILL happening, including her clash with Taylor Swift and her struggle with relationships. She shares how these issues are affecting her TODAY and what she is doing to become the next best version of herself! Sometimes, it's your MESS that gives you the fuel you need to win. The mess is the human part of us and it's what connects us all together. If you have some messes in your life right now and you feel like there is no way out, this interview will inspire you and teach you that your mess may BE the way out!

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This is the end of my own show. All right, welcome back to Max out everybody. I'm so fired up about today because The house with you, you know, usually there's people that want to get on the show and it's great to have them on And then there's people that I want on the show and then I try to find people who know people who know people to get to them And I wanted this woman on because I think she's probably the funniest person on the planet But also her backstory is so interesting and the way she communicates the things she talks about I just think are fascinating and I know y'all are gonna get a lot of entertainment But also a lot of value out of today's show. I first saw you by the way back like five things four or five years ago That's you have a special called perfect.

That's right first saw you I'm supposed to do you probably knew her that but she's got this special on Netflix called banging which is just blown up her entire Careers blown up. She's really this is someone who's got her dreams are coming true like right before all of us the last year or two So we got a lot to talk about so Nikki Glaser welcome to Max out Oh my gosh, I'm so excited to be here And I'm so honored that you did reach out to me because although I wasn't familiar with you prior to that once I got researching I was like this guy is doing everything that is out my alley I've already just in preparing to be on your show I've listened to a couple podcasts and as I was telling you I already feel the winds have changed from some of the Info you've exposed me to it's um, it's it's it's awesome to be here and like I don't know what kind of anything I have to impart but I sure have lots to talk about with you. I know you need to change Oh, I mean first of all I need to first I need to get a brain scan to figure out my brain health I want to get one of those I I know yeah, I what I need to change is I need to look at I mean smoking pot is gotta go It just your doctor that you had on I was I've been struggling with that in quarantine already of like oh I'm just leaning on this a little too much. I I began to say it is treating my depression I like convincing myself a lot of these of a lot of these things that it's really not doing and I always reach a point with Things like this.

I quit drinking before I've I've tackled an eating disorder. I'm able to I've quit smoking cigarettes I'm going to now have to quit doing this and it's just a bummer to add one to the list But it was one you could think you thought you could get away with that that and caffeine caffeine is also on my list That was my killer. I'm surprised to hear you say that because I was one thing that's gonna ask you later was that you It's not drinking and then you move to smoking leave which a lot of people do You know, a lot of friends of mine think it's healthier and you know, they don't get hangovers I don't have calories and I'm not selling that everybody. You'll know that I've never smoked weed I don't it's not something I believe and I don't think it's good for your brain help them I'm surprised here you say that but let's go back for a second.

We're gonna go on those How are you doing? Because you know we're everyone that's watching this now during covid during the pandemic some of you will see it a year from now We're in that situation, but like you've got you've had this blowing up career I mean everybody when somebody comes to star like she doesn't she think humble But I mean goes from you know probably struggling financially to seven figures of income everybody knows you you you're on the Netflix specials podcast tv shows Deals happening all the time and then bam it stops. Yeah You're at your parents house right now. I'm living I'm it's so wild that I am living in my childhood home Where I've lived we moved when I was in sixth grade my parents still live here in the st.

Louis county I just there was something about Um the comfort of being home and I don't have a partner. I don't I had an apartment in New York But I wasn't even moved into it. It was like I'm still decorating it So I just was like oh, I'll just come to st. Louis in the meantime and hang out and I've been here now for over two months And I love it I got to quit this house too.

I really like being a teenager again. It's very safe here There's a deep fear as you were even saying like you know people might be watching this in the future when we're out of this I'm like no like as much as I want to be out of this and get back to my normal life Which why was killing it like I had a theater tour for the first time in my life I was selling out theaters It was the first time I've ever even worked theaters and people were going to see me at them I've been doing the comic club circuit for so many years things were just starting to like line up I had two different tv shows and development Um, one only one remains of those like three and only one remains I've lost stuff But I'm really loving the the safety of being back home and not having anything expected of me not feeling in competition with everyone else Oh, no one can do stand up. I was just taking time off stand up two months off stand up is unthinkable to me I didn't take two nights off of stand up for the past 15 years So two months would be torture would it not be for the fact that everyone else has to take it off too? So I'm enjoying this period of like oh everyone else is getting bad at stand up too I got you to work This is really interesting because Were you happy when all the dissertions happening?

No like whoa, I gotta be honest with you I was pretty I was just exhausted. I took on too much I always take on too much. I'm already taking on too much right now at being at home I'm so worried not being able to work and having to be alone with myself for two minutes You know as awful as that would be I mean I'm running from something that I just fill with work And when you've worked so hard to get to a place where people are finally wanting to work with you It doesn't even click in that I'm in demand. I still feel like there people wanting to work with me as some just like kind gesture So I'm saying yes to everything and I I just took on too much and I was I didn't know how I was gonna make it to this like when I was thinking about entering into like the summer months with my schedule with my Tour with two shows.

I would have a show on tv right now at e. Um, I would I'm developing a scripted show a radio show The tour where I'm on tour every weekend in two different cities and have to fly back home on Monday to be on my radio show I mean it was like I just got so depressed thinking about it And I was exhausted by even the thought of it and I was pretty miserable and my friends were like I mean I've hit these points in my career before where I just collapse and then I get on some sort of antidepressant that helps me get through it And then I do it to myself again I was begging for something to happen to make it all go away and I didn't know what that looked like but it looked like a global pandemic It really was like I felt like I was begging for this in some way and I felt I feel bad that I don't that I'm almost scared for it to return to normal I'm enjoying the challenge though of reinventing myself because I'd really never thought that stand up would be something that would go away for stand-ups It's always something you you can never they'll never take that away from you You know once you're good at stand-up you can always sell tickets and if you have the tv credits Even if you're not on tv you still have a place to work and now we don't so it's it's kind of scary all over again And um, I'm in I'm enjoying it Yeah, one of the reasons now You know I wanted her on you guys in addition to me so talented like she talks about real stuff and she's vulnerable She's willing to be honest So I just want to go when I do the show I kind of like Sumize the lesson when someone gives one you guys one of the things when you when you have a big dream I did the same thing again I got to like my first big dream I first, you know, whatever amount of money or big house or playing or whatever it was and then I did the same thing I started saying yes to everybody because I thought it was a fluke This is a fluke and so I'm doing everything and I had all this anxiety and it guys most people aren't gonna tell you this It wasn't what it was cracked up to be it wasn't what I thought it would be like because I see these other people that were successful They seem like they weren't worried they were gonna lose it. They kind of always expected to be there It was never gonna go away and for me. I was afraid it was always gonna go away It was a fluke and so I just kept working all the time And so lesson is not only get a big dream You have to plan for what it should be like when you get there like structures around you have an idea of what you really want It to look like because it's it can overwhelm you and it can be disappointing and it can be depressing More of the famous people that I coach you guys are well-known people Suffered from depression than you could possibly imagine and it is because they got somewhere thought wow when I get there Now I'll be happy when I get that special when I get that amount of money when I walk in a restaurant and people know me Or I can pay off my parents house or whatever the heck it is then I'll be happy they delay Working on themselves.

I think I can just get to a different place. They'll have to avoid themselves. Yeah, yeah That's not real to you Oh, man I mean you're hitting the nail in the head for me because I didn't realize when all my jobs went away that I thought were bringing me happiness I I really focused on all I had to make me happy was like my dogs and my relationships with my parents and my friends and I was like oh this is kind of nurturing like this stuff that I was blocking out Because I was too busy is actually like kind of I don't need to go do an extra podcast this week to get the attention like I'm realizing that my I mean if we're gonna get real I just I know that I have sacrifice intimacy in relationships in like Because of my career I've just and my career has kept me from those things because I'm totally scared of that like that's really what's going on here And I don't want to go through another one of these alone like I love that I was able to live with my parents right now I'm about to be 36. I can't the next pandemic we have or some kind of weird Thing that happens that we're not playing for I want I I feel like I want a relationship and that is what I am I'm feverishly working on myself right now and taking this time to do so much work on me That is behind the scenes that I don't get credit for that I don't get to post on twitter And it's it's hard, but I know now that my career isn't gonna go get me groceries when I'm scared like that I need someone I need more than just myself and my career is just it's not gonna cut it It's it's great and I love it, but it's it's I feel just like coffee just like weed a little bit of it's an addiction It could kill me okay We're going well We're not gonna let that happen and we're going somewhere that I wanted to go So you guys the thing that makes you successful can also be the thing that can make you the most unhappy And so her great ambition and drive and she's linked it She's made more progress than she knows because she's already linked it to her wanting to avoid this intimacy in relationships That's a huge distinction Those things are good and the thing for you nikis when this is over is finding a way to navigate that being your work ethic and driving ambition being a Strength and still weaving in the other things, but you don't have to give up one to get the other human beings Thank all the time.

I'm gonna give up this ambition or drive or these fears that move me in order to be happy You don't what you need to do is you need to add these other things You don't have to lose your driver ambition or anything like that. So let's talk about that from it I want to talk about this book. I saw that you're into this gift to I do deal so it's like It seems to me that that's like a running thing for you like you like to find a relationship And you have you ever had a deep relationship with a dude with a man? Have you almost been married before and why is it so important to you?

It's important to me because it's in the past been something that's truly brought me a lot of like genuine happiness and fulfillment and I Really do like like sex and I find that I don't get to have sex as a part of my life unless I'm in a committed relationship It just doesn't it doesn't work for me that way. So I feel like I can't do that thing that I really like to do unless I'm in a relationship So there's there's a motivation there And I and I have had it before I haven't had it a lot though like I've I've had one really long-term relationship and We like created a show together and we lived together and all this stuff, but it never was He was never wanting to get married. I was never wanting to get married. So we never took it seriously and I'm still like terrified of actually really pursuing something and letting someone in that is available It's I don't know the thing is I don't know what is broken about me that avoids it so much But it really is when someone becomes emotionally available.

I get viscerally disgusted with that like it makes it so I can't Even try to like it sucks. It's one of the worst things about me is that when a guy starts to like me It's like get a guy to like me. I'm like I'm not into this anymore And it's not I'm not trying to I wish I always like hold my breath like please still be into him when he starts liking you And a lot of times it doesn't happen that way. Okay.

Like like probably 60 million people and there's probably 3 million listening This are all non-their head like that's not that abnormal. It isn't lots of people are that way Lots of full are married but not happy because they got the person and they Be like being shaped so there's there's something to that and so let's just let's stay on that So you've tried to fill this thing up if you don't so what I can tell great parents kind of a really good upbringing Unless there's something I don't know seems like I watch your mom and dad interact with you They both see my beautiful people great marriage dad seems very funny your mom's you know You know that I think it would be great family and then but throughout your life There's been these trends that you've talked about you had an eating disorder You talk about that for a little bit you know what are these relationships kind of did you go too far with alcohol for a while? I did I like I I didn't get into drinking until my like 20s and when I started really doing comedy And it just became like just in abundance everywhere and was kind of part of the culture But my first like I remember my first step about call in high school and then like and being the first time I felt drunk I remember just saying to my friends, why don't we always why don't we always like this? Why wouldn't you always want to feel this way like I had that addict like craving initially and I remember people kind of looking at me like What is she talking about but I just couldn't understand why you would ever not want to feel this amazing And um so I like note that and then you know as soon that developed over the years But my eating disorder came on like my senior year of high school.

I didn't have boyfriends all of high school middle school No boyfriends nothing. I had kissed boys here and there, but it was always like Really just fleeting and I was just scared of boys just terrified of boys and I just still don't know how to describe it Like I couldn't picture myself like my friends were making out and hooking up and I was just like I just can't do that I think I was either you know I was I was a late bloomer for sure, but like this was too late I was just I was just so scared then the second a boy started liking me that I actually liked I like was so nervous about it I just didn't eat one day because I just like lost my appetite because I was like nervous I was gonna hang out with this boy and maybe we're gonna kiss and um and then I just got a lot of um attention for the day I didn't eat it just showed up on me right away and people were like You look skinny you look great and I was like this feels great and I always felt invisible I always wanted to be an actress or like have some kind of special quality and I just never really did and I was really bummed about it and depressed about like I'm never gonna be Jennifer Aniston like that was my goal was like I'm gonna have a sitcom by the time I'm 25 I didn't know how it's gonna happen, but I just I was like oh I'm actually not that good at acting and I'm kind of overweight and Like no one really thinks I never get the parts in the school play is how am I gonna go to Hollywood and do anything? So I was just like what am I gonna do and then I got really good at starving myself and I got a lot of attention Because I looked really good for like a minute and then I looked really scary and then it was out of control and I was addicted to starving Like just the quickest assent into disease and then by I picked it up in March I mean I was a healthy lady in March and then by July I was hospitalized and then And like against my will I was just going to the hospital to do a physical to go to college that semester or that following fall And um, and they were like we can't let you leave you're gonna die because you're and I mean it was so sick and like My parents were in complete denial of it. So they are great But there were some there were some issues in childhood that I don't blame them for they did the best they could they were Super scared and didn't want to believe that their daughter was starving to death in front of them Even though I was and it's something that if you're around it every day to give them credit because I did look freaking scary But if you're around it every day, um, you don't notice it you can really get used to someone looking really scary and then um long story short I went to college I like convinced I got to the hospital I lied my way out of it because anorexics are amazing liars and I convinced I ate just enough to like make people think I was okay And then I went to school and got to starve again And but when I was at school is when I first started having people tell me that I was funny and that I should be a standup comedian And I had no idea.

I thought I was just gonna die I was like waiting every night to freaking die because I would fall asleep starving I would wake up and have to be starving all day again And I was like just no end in sight and so then I was like oh, I guess I'll try standing on comedy I don't know what this is and then I did it one time on a show on campus and that was it I was like, oh, okay, this is what I can I'm better at this than I'm as good at starving as this And this feels like something I can actually be great at and I have a natural knack for like I'm special at this And then I was like then I got to figure out a way to survive and to beat this disease because I can't go on stage looking like how I look It's just too much. So then I found a good therapist Yeah, I just went to the campus. I transferred transfer tools went to the campus like, you know, counseling services found a guy Thank God for this guy. He um and you something you said in a podcast I listened to earlier reminded me of the session that really like helped me more than anything Was I had a therapist who had a severe stutter.

He was this guy with like just the worst stutter It was I mean it was almost funny to be and died knows by him It would like the whole session would be him just like stammering But I really loved him because he was so vulnerable and it was so embarrassed Something so embarrassing and he was like and I can really he was the first person I could understand what I was going through because he was like I walk around with this thing and people everyone's kind of like And judging me and just spit it out whereas with me they were like just swallow it eat a cheeseburger And I didn't know what to say. I couldn't be like I'm trying I I don't even understand anorexia anymore to this I like I still suffer with some of it But the idea that you just can't eat when you're about to kill over and die I don't recognize that anymore even though I live through it and I don't understand it and it's so frustrating for loved ones to go through But he said to me You didn't choose this disease the thoughts that you're having that say don't eat start to think of those as not you Act like you're possessed like the and that was the first time like you had said that it occurred to me that my thoughts were not True or like they didn't come from this place of like because they're there They're real like you can ignore your thoughts and you can actually make those thoughts as someone else like an infection that you have to like ignore And as soon as I had that I could start I could start telling that bitch to shut up and be like I need to eat right now And I just you know I wish it was just that easy of a fix But that was the first hurdle that I just opened a world of recovery up to me that I wasn't there before So you just really helped a lot of people and I just thank you number one I want to say this because there's so much there But one of them one of the main things guys is that a lot of times someone has a drinking issue or an addiction to not eating or addiction to eating They think they've linked it like it's gone forever Your heart has it part of your mind that person is still sitting there all the time And so you've got to it's never gone It's your ability to keep it at bay or to keep it at a distance and to know it may return and you've got to fight that fight again I wanted to say one thing that was a little bit long but I want to keep going on this just something to consider So niki's got a by the way one of the issues on is she's replaced an unhealthy obsession with a healthier obsession to some extent with her career Which can eventually become unhealthy like she said he hasn't with it as I feel michaelson's on this week and he's a professional golfer one of the top 20 athletes in the last two decades And he said on the show he goes I have to play golf because if I didn't have golf my obsessions would gravitate to gambling or drinking or women or something unhealthy You have that type of a personality which I have to which many of you have relatives or yourself or that way You've got to have these healthy obsessions You're going to obsess on something when you're this way because our brains have gone into this obsessive pattern Just something to consider for niki and for all of you listening to it is you know I didn't make this up Tony Robbins talks about it I do but there's six human needs we're not a whole time for the class on today But humans have six needs not eight not 23 six and they're not watching you need them And at any given time in your life one or two of these needs is most dominant and typically those needs come from some crap When you were getting something yes, so those needs are the need for certainty the need and for certain and for certain and easy bake oven Oh wait, no, sorry, I was thinking of a childhood need Certainty yes, and then what was the other one uncertainty? Why say with me certainty uncertainty those are polaros like when you're looking at a relationship What do you want? You want to do this spontaneous and surprises you he feels a need of uncertainty But you really want to do his loyal honest truck where he doesn't cheat on you That's the certainty you want both of them, but in life you also have a need for significance or recognition the need for love and connection The need for growth and the need for contribution So the six needs are certainty uncertainty Significance love and connection growth and contribution at any given time you're trying to fill those needs up And so if you can just be conscious of that in your life like what am I trying to do right now?

Is this to get more significance is this to get more recognition or am I doing this to get more love? Is that what my that's that the need I'm trying to fill up right now or is it for certainty or like if I don't eat I'm certain people will feel this way about me if I don't eat I get recognition if I don't eat I can love yeah Yeah, okay, so what's the need that's coming up all the time and when you begin to understand that in a relationship Why do I like this guy in the beginning so much because maybe he's filling up this need I have for spontaneity and uncertainty and it's new And then man the minute I start getting too much significance of love and connection. I'm not interested in anyone I'm not saying that's what it is. I'm saying it's a cool game to start the play where you're like, what am I doing?

This is this is my addiction to recognition and significance so I run this pattern and when you at least have that It starts to lose some of its power over you and you begin to understand yourself just a little bit more So one of the things about you just for what is worth everybody that surprises me about you Because you are so successful everyone she's being very human with you and then just so you know She's on the spinning earth one of the most immensely gifted and talented people in the world at what she does So she's being really real with you, but then there's this other side where there's this genius We all have a genius it can be our kindness our physical beauty our intellect our humor She's got a genius and I'm talking like one of maybe four or five people and in my mind number one At what she does but yet you care a lot about what people think about you still I know Like this whole Taylor Swift thing about it Just tell them what it is and why are you that way you're a millionaire You're famous. You're amazing at what you do your peers love you and let's just be honest guys One of her things is she's kind of like hot when she's a comedian too, right? Like there's an element of that so it's not as if you've gone through life being an unattractive woman is what I'm getting out But I feel as if I am and I deep down I am and you can put a lot of makeup on me and get the right ring lights and have the shimmer and the but it I feel It's an illusion I mean there are times when I do feel beautiful and I look in the mirror and I say that to myself and I truly believe it and then I see a picture five minutes later and I push off my pedestal I mean it I just I really struggle I struggled from early age of just feeling ugly and not feeling good comparing myself to just based on looks to other people and feeling like that was all that I was Worth and it's taken me, you know finding other paths to get the attention by being super funny Okay, so people don't look at me as much um and that's and that's what like being funny Did for me was people didn't look at how skinny I was and worry about me because I was so funny people I couldn't didn't notice I was like the class and I'm like look over here Not it how I look like I just got out of Auschwitz yesterday and so it was a defense mechanism. I and then I even struggled with Being known as like a pretty community because I did when I started I was young like I was 19 And so I and I was good out of the gate like I was decent and I had promised and I think a lot of my um Like now I think oh I'm just successful because I was the young pretty funny girl And now I'm like, okay now I'm aging what if the prettiness goes away, even though I don't really believe it But that's what people say but it goes away.

Now. Am I gonna be funny enough without being pretty too? Like what's aging gonna be about? I don't worry about I do worry about what people think about me.

I mean I just think that that that's uh It's something I work on because and I care less as I age I really do Taylor Swift thing wasn't about me caring what other people thought it It was about me caring about what I thought see what happened was I did I love Taylor Swift Maybe more than any anyone in my my age should she just makes me feel like a young girl again I really could have used her music when I was growing up like I tend to make comedy for Myself when I was 15 I just feel like that was the time I could have really used some more guidance in my life And my biggest dream is to have like girls like trading my videos like secretly their parents won't let them watch it But they like learn stuff about what it's gonna be like when they get older through me because I yearn for any of that And Taylor Swift has been that for me. I just love her music I relate to it so much and I'm not even talking about a recent stuff like her song about being 15 and losing her virginity like The fear of that song still resonates with me and so I um I love her and I talk about her a lot and so she had this documentary that came out this past January And it was kind of exploring uh it was kind of dealing with why she went away for a year She kind of had too much media attention it got too bad too much for her overwhelmed and she went away You're describing yes I'd really on a much smaller scale like just being overwhelmed I can't even believe she went away for a year when I heard that I was like You could go away for a year like what if they don't remember you and it's like that's like my biggest fear So I'm already like in awe that she did that but then in the film I'm watching the trailer it dropped like January 21st or something that I remember I was in bed watching the trailer because I was so excited to see the trailer for This Netflix documentary and I hear my voice in the trailer and my voice is used in a scene to set up the fact that she like it's too much Too many people having opinions about her and I said she's too skinny all of her model friends I don't like it. It was just something like that. I knew it was my voice right away I called all my friends.

I was like listen to this trailer. I'm in this I'm in the documentary I'm I'm sure of it and this is terrible like whoa I'm gonna look like this is so ironic. I'm her biggest fan and yet I'm trashing her And so my friends were like that's not you. I was like, I know it's me I know my voice and um I waited a week till the movie came out and then it came out and sure enough I'm in the documentary saying exactly that and it's my face and everything and I just felt like Grogs like it just wasn't what I said wasn't funny It was just critical and it was so funny to me because I judged her for the things that I I would I wish I were too like I always loved when people are like are you okay?

It's like validating to me that like I'm doing things right like if someone calls me too skinny I was just projecting I was jealous that she was skinny jealous that she had model friends Seems like oh she only has model friends. I'll never be friends with her and it just like was like it was a bad look And I honestly love dealer swift and I know that she would she didn't see that before the documentary It was in the documentary She only saw it once it was chosen for the film, but she saw it she saw me mouthing off And it just felt gross So I wrote her an apology on instagram because I knew that was the quickest way to get her to see it And she did and she forgave me and you know, I haven't heard from her since She wrote back. Yeah, and she was like she wrote oh my gosh Thank you so much And she wrote like because it was all about her she was anorexic and I was I mean the irony is it's crazy that I was the bully for the anorexic girl And so uh she even said like I'm so I even said you know I suffered with the same things that she has and I can't believe I'd be one to judge her for it or comment on her body at all Because it was like and I just I wanted to clean up my side of the street I just wanted to feel It didn't matter if she forgave me. I really didn't care I just posted and like Right after it I was able to listen to her music again Which I wasn't able to listen to for a week because I was like I'm such a bad Taylor Swift fan She's done so much for me and I like slander her like I just was consumed by just guilt that I'd made someone It'd been so judgmental and it just made me look at my shit talking self and be like you need to stop You need to calm down to quote Taylor Swift and so yeah, that's that's why I did it I was just like I don't like this side of myself.

Listen everybody look I want to say a couple things on that too. That's a super cool story by the way But I could tell you people that I know that know you tell me like they obviously how talented you are and then the next thing is She's such a really good person and I say that I say that for this reason And I don't know like multiple people like it's the they go she's unbelievable and man She's a really good person. Why don't I tell you all this? Your most of people is just trying to make their dream come true.

Hope you've got two things at least so far I hope you got like 50 One good people can win two imperfect people win a lot of you think why got this fear of this insecurity or this weakness about me or this secret I've got this secret that if everybody knew you know I did this in a relationship or they knew what I do behind the scenes If they really knew how bad or pathetic or screwed up I am You think that discount you from winning somewhere else and it's not true most of us that one we're pretty screwed up Most of us that have won and so these your mess does not disqualify you from making your dream come true It doesn't in fact it's a qualifier for making your dream come true And one thing you've also done Nikki one of Nikki's things is that she's known as being hilarious and also like an attractive Female performer and there are men that are known as well Sebastian Really good looking dude for a crystalline like good looking funny do it's one and then there's other guys We're like their niches there the big guy or whatever guy right so everyone has their niche But you've also done well, let's just be real and it relatively male dominated space relatively right there You know, I think of Whitney and there's several other women that are blowing up right now, too However, it's a male dominated space and it's also for the most part to your point Most of the women that are doing well are younger as well And so what about that like is that is it been more difficult as a woman or is it just to say you're funny you're funny You know, I don't know because it's all I've known and I the second that I start to say it It has to have been a little bit more difficult But I think that I've also benefited so much from being a woman and having less women doing it and feeling like and having the ones that've come before me This is what I'll say to that is that I I've never felt like a female comic And I'm I didn't until recently until the past like maybe five years have I really embraced that and been like hell yeah I'm a female comic it's the best kind to be we are killing it we have to we work so hard we Uh to even want to do it is like just not women are conditioned to be stand up comedians as children You're just it to find it and to be good at it and to have a confidence to do it It's in the fearlessness to do it. It takes a lot So I feel super privileged that I like even was set up to actually pursue it But I feel like I never was like I'm a female stand up like I just didn't feel different or less than the guys I knew I knew from watching the female stands performing that I could be the best at this because female standups to me were better than the men And I really they've always been my favorite and so I just never felt different But I do feel I mean first of all aging in this business no matter I mean I did pick like one of the best fields comedy stand up comedy again Do because your age truly doesn't matter if we're really my looks should not matter But it does you get on tv more if you're an attractive looking person it just happens that way it sucks Um, that's why I've really I've started fostering this like broadcasting talent. I see My I see age happening. I know what happens tv opportunities drop away I'm looking at it realistically and I'm like well I need to get good on radio and I want to get good on right I don't want to be on tv for the rest of my like I do like tv But it's as a woman it takes a lot more out of you hair and makeup and like worrying about staying thin enough or whatever You think it's gonna make it make you work like radio is giving me just a freedom and podcasting that Um, I chose on purpose like I saw it coming like oh, I'm 32 if I'm gonna when I'm 42 I want to be really good at something that doesn't involve me having to be young I think about the thing I mean I already thought about this pandemic my whole act has to change now because the act I was doing I was gonna take a new special this year and now with my new theater tour that I took out that's on hold But I was talking about oh, I feel like the end of the world something weird something weird something I gotta find a guy with a bunker.

I was like that was my whole joke line was like I need to find a guy with a bunker I used to say on stage if you can show me that you have four fifths of a bunker planned And I know that you do because you would not be out tonight unless you knew that bunker was good to go Which is a little bit more time if you take surviving the end of the world seriously if you could show me the blueprints for those tonight I will blow you like I used to offer that I was like, let's start a courtship now because I want to live And I just I just see what I'm prepared. I'm a prepper in the sense that like I just want to find a guy who's a prepper like that but I'm thinking about I'm thinking towards the future and what I will also say is that I I am so lucky that I don't care about exposing the really awful sides of my Psyche and my history. I mean let me be honest Some of these things take a couple of years before I have like a distance enough from them to be like You know, I wasn't talking about being bulimic a month out of being bulimic a few years down the road I'm like, yeah, I was bulimic I can admit to you that I used to throw up after meals And that's something I never thought I could admit just like peeing the bed I remember in fourth grade third grade, Pete the bed and I remember thinking if anyone finds out about this I will have to kill myself. I remember thinking that as a third grader like if my life is over So for me to be someone who stands on stage and talks about all of this stuff and used to just fear it more than anything fear My secrets getting out.

It's so freeing and I'm like I just feel so grateful that I don't care about being And my parents are sometimes embarrassed for the things that I share and my friends are sometimes like why would you say that or? I remember Natasha Lajero on my I had a show about sex on commissantral called not safe And I remember one time I was talking about like anal sex and Natasha who is I was one of my favorite comedians So I look up to so much and years ago. I was like so excited to have her on my show She was just like an older sister type and I remember her just going like did you say you have anal sex and I go oh, yeah I go I kind of like talk about that she goes you do like her just being like even a comic who I think is like so open was like easy I remember her being like and I go oh, I didn't know that you weren't supposed to so I to your listeners like I Start sharing those things that you're like you think you just do because I'll tell you when you start sharing them It is such a load off when you find other people who relate to you And that is what I found it to be very healing sharing things on stage that I think that are just me because I've learned time after time again of sharing those things it ain't just me and it's And the awareness of the things the awareness of the fact that I mean like You know, I talk openly about like having like still eating issues where I can like eat six protein bars in a sitting You know just like do something weird like that and like waking up with rappers in my bed and not the good kind the kind that starts with a w And just it's so real because that's really something that was up until recently occurring on a nightly basis It was so embarrassing yet. I was talking about it openly and by doing that It made me like have to look at a bit more and like the joking about it made me go Okay, this is kind of you've been you talk about this a lot.

This is obviously something on your mind So now I'm like I'm actually taking steps to deal with it So in being so open has actually helped me like get past a lot of things for cool combo of anal thing and then the rappers in your bed That's what kind of porn I watch too Rappers with a one-minute lost in a gym. Oh my god. So listen anal aside. There's a lesson That's gonna be my memoirs No, but aside she's taking an unbelievable point.

Yes. This way. Here's one thing y'all try to hide your flaws I do a little bit too by pretty vulnerable about stuff. I'm screwed up all the time.

Why do I do that? Well, what it wanted feels better for me to get it out that way when I do make other mistakes people are like I said he was perfect But the other part is to you guys one it connects you with people because they're screwed up too You're listening to this because there's a little piece of you screwed up I'm doing this show with her because there's a little piece of me screwed up. I learned from people like Nicky, right? There's one other little thing when you're vulnerable with people and tell people you're like a lot of nurse Why would I tell people about what I'm afraid of?

Can we tell you why people root for you? Yes, you want to vote people root for people they connect with they root for people that don't think they're perfect And so one of the things nikis establishes like when I told people you were coming on the show seriously They're like huge fans not like yeah, she's funny. I like her stuff. They're like I love her There's a big difference you guys even the biggest compliment that happens for me is when people say I love his work or you're showing me a difference I love that but when someone says like hey, I really relate to him right connect with him people keep telling what I said You're on they're like I love her.

Oh because of these things that you're describing I'm just curious you said the radio thing. Do you know what you want now? Like we know you want to be in a relationship Which is the last in a minute here But like career wise is it to be like you're good friends with Amy Schumer is it to do what Amy's done or is to do what Amy's done now? Which is have a family Right, um, I don't really have goals You know that like I don't know I would love to hear your take on that.

I I rarely have like Goals in terms of I mean I have certain things like oh, I like to host SNL one day I um, I always want to be on how it's done cross that off short-term goal goals like I do like oh before then the year I like to do this but in terms of like lifetime goals I would just I want to be in love again at some point career wise though I've done like everything I want to do like it only can just get I just want to do things that bring me happiness and bring me closer to people and help people I think that is I want to make people feel less alone I kind of just want to be the artist that I kind of needed in when I've been as desperate As I've been in the past. So I think my goal is how I can continue to do that. Anyway, movies Yeah, I'll do them if they come to me. They're a lot of work Writing and you know, I have a scripted show coming out eventually someday that I'm writing it is hard And I'm stand up.

It's just not that hard for me It's like I'd rather do that and my agents and managers if they don't like to hear this because they would like to have Maybe on tv and in movies, but I just I don't enjoy the process as much and I've done it. You're sitting on settle day It's cold. You're in your trailer alone. I like touring.

I like doing podcasts I like I'm I'm honestly looking into doing a reality show because I'm like my talent is not acting my talent is being real all the time and The show could be just my life because I'm not hiding anything already Why not just put it on camera and kill two birds? So that's kind of my goal for this year is to actually get a reality show on a major network So that's a good a lot of my entertainment clients or friends are like that's interesting in that one field You're only your successful recovery is one you were good at it immediately Yeah, as you know, like I sucked. I didn't have any breakthrough. No one laughed Oh, I was bad for a while, but the first time I did it I showed a lot of promise And I just showed promise in the beginning.

I mean it was terrible for years just in terms of stage presence But I it was the first time I go oh wow, I'm better than most people at this in the beginning and I never felt that at any sport or any You know school subjects. Okay. Don't be so humble on this. I want to know so I want everybody to everyone has a superpower So if you're not a gold center usually like because I have a lot of friends that are successful They don't send any goals or like look man work my ass off.

They're superpowers. They just outwork everybody Yeah, what is yours? Don't be humble like yeah, I get it. There you have these we we all have them You're more bold about yours, but what are you great at like I'm great at what am I great at?

That's a great question Unbelievable that you hesitate unbelievable. I well I would say I work hard But I don't feel like I do because all the work I do is just showing up and going on stage Like I don't sit at a computer and write jokes all day I don't listen to my sets and go over line by line I just kind of like jot some notes on my phone if I say something funny with my friend and then before I go on stage Like literally as I'm walking on stage, I'll be like looking at it like okay And then just like what like I just glance the work it doesn't feel like work Um, but I do do it every night like it's it's a lot. It's a lot like meditation Like I meditation doesn't take any real effort for me like it doesn't feel like work yet I'm getting this immense benefit from it So I just do it every day and stand up though It feels so good that it's not hard for me to show up But I do I work super hard I really I must because I get told I do all the time But here's my superpower is that it never feels like enough and that I never have a sense of accomplishment It's always it's it's terrible. I wish I could let things land and I do I've learned a little bit more like I can give it like one night or one day to really relax and be like I can take the day off But almost immediately I either am filled with deep regret over what I did and could have done better and should have done better Or and thinking the next time you will not let that happen again And so the next time I work twice as hard I'm identically my big speeches to big crowds like a media You were great.

No my god. I forgot to say this. I said that why did I do that and I my team will tell you like they're like Bro, you're like in misery after these talks almost So when I'm doing it when I'm doing it everybody I love when I'm doing it Work the minute it's over. It's like That was terrible.

I gave you my did that. I would ask you a whole spot to take with you, too I interviewed Marshall Flock yesterday for my coaching group famous NFL back st. Louis Between there and marshals like I never fees hall of famer Super Bowl winner, you know, mvp bottle block He's like I never felt great. I never thought I was amazing I think all successful people are there's a little unhappiness to it when I started the show Nikki one of the things that I was Interested in I call it max.

I was like, what are all these people having common? Like someone who's the best wide receiver in the NFL someone who's a presidential candidate someone who's a worldwide famous comedian now Someone who's a CEO of a company a millionaire a person who rides a horse Someone who killed Osama bin Laden all these different people right where they have a comic and I was surprised a Stephanie Man runs the WWE Gemini's Work ethic goals more than it is a little bit of depression Isn't that And I think the reason for achievers is we have these standards of what we think we're capable of and we never measure up And that's kind of healthy because it causes us to keep pushing But it's unhealthy because we never really reach this place where we feel like we've made it and Here's the conclusion I've come to and I've told a lot of people this and this will be this will completely throw you off But what if like there's nothing wrong with you? Like what if the fact that we always think something is wrong with us or that we're missing something is the issue And I coach on to work so what if like you're what if you're like perfect for this moment right now? Yeah, it is that you're going to get you're going to grow into the next moment because you always do But in this given moment in the universe you're perfect for it and you show up perfectly And everything you need is within you right now And what if you're not screwed up what if it's normal to be a human and have weaknesses and insecurities that doesn't mean We don't want to grow and improve to be ready for the next moment But in this moment, I don't mean to be cheesy but you talk about meditation What if you're perfect right now?

Not screwed up. What if you don't have issues like what if you're right now the way you're supposed to be and in the next moment You grow into that moment Rob Geertik was on my show and he's one of the people that's going to show that we became real good friends and we're business partners now And Rob was talking about he was sort of a single dude out there being a single dude kind of known in Hollywood as that too And he goes I just didn't want to be that dude anymore and then every relationship I'd screw him up kind of like you know I just get bored or that was enough and he goes I finally decided that are you setting me up right now? Oh wait, no, he does one okay, I thought I'd be a part of his fantasy factory. All right I was friends over to right me.

Sorry He goes he goes hey man. I just sort of accepted like I'm okay right now And he goes as I grew into the man that I was capable of becoming the woman arrived that I was worthy of And I thought hey man, that's gold right there. So what's even supposed to be relationship podcast? I don't think you screwed up.

I think you're human. I think you're perfect as you are right now And if you continue to live everybody constantly like I just asked this mega successful woman I'm office and say it was hurting and as we move here too much. Yeah, he read off in his podcast I've been eating disorder. I'm not good in relationships.

You know, I said stuff that Taylor she can give you a hundred things She's not good at oh, and I said what are you great at? This is one of the most successful people on earth. What are you great at? That's most humans.

Yeah, the list has to be long of what you are great at and by the way If you're you will show up in five years, maybe if you keep this pattern You'll say you know what everything's good except this thing about me right now And that thing's always going to keep you that's the thing this false belief that there's some better version of myself that I'm waiting for Yes, and by the way, she's gonna show up anyway. Yes always prepared for the next moment So I'm not talking about like self-love love yourself as you are but because sometimes that means like you don't need to change You don't need to grow. I'm not saying that I'm saying you can't love yourself if you're not being yourself So just be yourself. You're awesome the way you are.

Yes You can actually give yourself that gift not just niki but everybody your growth will accelerate It won't be so freaking painful to grow all the time where you're moving out of misery to get there life doesn't have to be that way Yeah, I don't think you're screwed up and I think there's a million things about you And I'm glad we just did this in front of millions of people but say that to you stop that please stop that Yeah, I I don't know what I mean I hear this so often that I'm so hard on myself And I don't see it like I don't it doesn't really register to me I only believe it because I get told it so much that I'm hard on myself and I hear what you're saying and I But the thing that I am getting better at it because I'm working feverishly to love myself Oh my gosh I want to so bad and I see it and I know how I I have before and I see the benefits of gratitude But it's something you said it or something I heard kind of is exactly what like what you said And I always go back to it is that I'm always waiting for my life to like take off Like I'm always waiting for like I feel like I'm on the tarmac and I'm like once I do this Then my life then I'll be in there and it's like no, this is your life like this is like there's no ramp up This is the show bitch and so like and just knowing because I had like I could have used you a week ago I was a week ago Tuesday I had taped Conan on a monday and I always kill it on Conan's just like something I care about so much He's the reason I got into stand-up and comedy in general I love him more than any performer ever um and so I go on and show it to get very seriously And I prepare and I plan and it always goes off without a hitch and I usually I'm like great afterwards I'm like did everything I wanted to do let it go There's something about doing it over zoom the the comic I didn't get the crowds the roar of the crowd and I felt like I bombed And I just couldn't I just you know left the meeting you know after we finished and I just was like crying all day My parents were like disturbed by how upset I was and they're like we heard you it sounds like you know They had their ear up against the door listening to me with Conan in here And they were like you did great. I'm like no I missed this I forgot this I didn't even set that up Just could not I mean it was like um just unwanted thoughts coming in of like and I would be I was on a run And I remembered just going god because I was like screaming and I got going as long as I was like Why is that girl just like screaming because I would remember something else I forgot it was plagued by it And then I don't know what happened but I did just have what you said which was like that is I did the best I could Like that was meant I was meant to show up that way if I know I could have maybe worked a little bit harder But you didn't and that was meant and now you can grow from that the next time But the beating myself up afterwards was brutal and I it almost makes me think like I can't handle doing this job anymore Because if I always am just so mad at myself after every accomplishment I have what is what is this worth And you don't need to be I'm 15 next year and I'm you And let me tell you something sister I know so many people like us and you don't want to get where I am because what you just said make actually Well, make me a kind of emotional because this is your life And you will get to a place like where I am where I have had all kinds of like Accomplishment so to speak right and I go man, I should have been kinder to myself all those years I should have been kinder. I should have enjoyed it more enjoyed it And the reason we run these patterns in our life everybody is it gets us something We don't do anything because it doesn't provide something to you think it only provides you pain But there's this other sick part of us that goes I've always been this way and look I'm kind of producing some results So if I let go of that beat myself up thing if I let go of this anxiety thing if I let go of that whole like I suck thing Then I won't have my driver my hunger anymore So I you hold on to that pattern And the truth is that I give this analogy of my wife who's who I met when we were really little like five years old And so I've known her a long time and she's crazy and weird and all that stuff and it's what makes it interesting right? But what she has this very weird thing she started to do like a year ago, which is when she eats pleasurable food She like moans like orgasmically like disgusting.

It's very weird like she's And she's hot so when she goes around the kids, I'm like you're creeping the kids out She's like doing it again. I'm like, yeah, so we're out for my birthday Her restaurant we walk in these two dudes are already checking around. You know, she's check out Well, and mark like I'll give them one look if they look at her twice. You know what time it's gonna be an issue here, right?

So Sitting next to him and I'm like great. These poor guys and sure enough her food comes and she's Oh my god, his heads are gonna blow off, right? And I'm like, babe It's at least on my birthday like stop. She's like am I dealing?

I'm sorry and I'm like I go Why are you doing like and she says it just tastes so good and she was the more I enjoy it the more I want another bite And I went oh wow that was good And I'm always thinking about my material right like you are and I went that's really true The truth in life is is is that just because you enjoy something you're not gonna lose your hunger in fact You're bringing it your brain gets a dopamine that goes I want to do it again I want to do it again I want to do it again But if you keep cheating yourself and the dopamine get from the happiness after you walk off stage You will end up where you're almost at now where you're like, I'm burped out. I don't want to do this anymore Yes, I need to start growling and moaning when the crowd is cheering and enjoy it. That's really I love first of all, I love to see how you develop material in a very similar way To sandups of like that was interesting what you just said it was kind of quippy And it really makes a lot of like that was a beautiful moment to take it I instantly got where you're that's it's so true because I I need to start enjoying it I really do and and I think this quarantine has actually forced me to To reset I'm so grateful for it because I do I want to enjoy all these things because you're right If I keep robbing myself of just the sense of accomplishment that once made me want to even do this in the first place I mean the first time I went on stage I was like the laughter and the clapping It just made me feel this high and I don't even let that in anymore I I can't I no wonder I wanted my life wanted something to take it away No one no wonder I conjured a global pandemic Listen, I do love that I want to say something to you that guys that Nikki's just rare that she's telling you the truth But just so you know about everybody that I talked to that's producing big time results struggles with these same things And so to many of you and it's normal and it's okay You don't need to judge yourself about it It doesn't make you weak or weird or strange or less than and if you'll just stop doing that and just accept that you're great in this moment And you'll get better in the next one. You'll give you some peace It will give you some peace I something my therapist said that is exactly what you're saying is when I catch myself with that that the first thought my first instinct is to just Shitt on myself and to bully myself instead of going instead changing the thought if I look at the mirror and I go Instead of going no you're beautiful and like lying to myself because clearly that's not where I'm gonna really I can't really get there and believe that You just go huh?

I just said that I I just looked at the mirror and said uh that's interesting And you just start clocking when you do it and then you can start to notice it Don't judge it because that's already it's gonna make you beat yourself up more I've just been noticing more that the self-taught the negative self-talk and just being like huh and and there's something else about just someone recently said to me Some therapist I talked to was that your first thought is out of your first instinctual thought is always negative is fight fight or flight is always like anxious and negative And maybe that thought isn't real isn't truthful Maybe always just skip the first thought because I tend the first thought thought tends to be extremely mean I'm like no you're doing it's really powerful everybody just observing your own thought It loses some of its power over you and then the other thing too is just so y'all know You'll notice you have more of them earlier in the day and so a lot of times it's hard to get out of bed in the morning for some people And again, that's also normal. It's the time that most people that they suffer the greatest amount of depression is upon awakening It's in that mode of fight or flight exactly what you just said so I didn't say something like I just interviewed one of the funniest human beings on earth And we have a serious damn conversation. I know when you were setting me up to be funny I was like, I don't know that I'm gonna be I mean I'm in a different mode, but I can switch between both I think it like I think if you're if you ask me what I was really good at it's not it's being able to like be funny Obviously in right jokes. I'm like I just have a knack for that But I really I'm not scared to get away from jokes either and to try to talk about real stuff I'm gonna give you an assumption about you and I know that we'll become one of these right now Here's an assumption about you.

I bet you're an amazing friend I bet that you're unusually good friend because people that are really hard on themselves Are usually unusually kind to other people and so many of you that are a lot like Nikki or a lot like myself Get yourself some credit. I bet you're unbelievably kind to everybody else and if you could extend yourself that gift of like 20 percent of the kind I know you'll be a lot happier. I don't like it's just it's bizarre, you know, like I It's not a bad thing It's not a bad thing as I just said like, you know, I just But it is true. It's so bizarre It's such a fatal such a human flaw that you can't be as nice to yourself or to your family as you are to strangers It's true, but in a by the way, we do it on families too It's not it's not fatal though.

Just so everybody right right as much like you said that we're gonna do one more question But if you get a chance, you might just say she's so nice to the people if you get a chance to watch this woman and some of these Rose like oh, I know that's so funny. That's so funny And by the way, this is adult comedy everybody's gonna tell you okay, but yeah, like very adult your 10-year-old should not go I think it's okay to say you get a good group of you don't want the 10-year-old to go watch your standup special right now Do we not? No, not banging But I think the 10-year-old could watch a rose and like sneak it and like, you know, not understand most of the things But yeah, my standup special you if girls are curious about sex and want to know what it's like to be an adult woman I think that's okay for them to watch early early like 13 14 once they're like starting to I just arm women with an education and what What's it's all it's all built under the guise of like I had no idea about sex I was so scared of it and here's what I found that it is and it's cry fall on the floor some of it funny And by the way, and I'm a dude and I'm tell you it's hilarious, but I've never watched my wife left like that Oh, that's what I hear a lot of that's so nice Never I mean never last thing we've talked about all these things that you need to improve and grow on Finally a bit like one little thing that you're good at I have loved today And like just so you know when it comes out which very soon you've helped a lot of people Just a whole bit of help a lot of people I want everybody to go following Nikki first before I ask her the last question I think people stick at the end of no one's there so where do you want them to go following? What's the best place to find you?

Yeah, you can find me at Nikki Glaser on Instagram and Twitter but Instagram Mainly that's like where I'm most active and then Nikki Glaser calm I'm on tour, you know, everything's rescheduled But there are tour dates up that I hope are happening and I have a podcast that I do daily That's just for a temporary time, but subscribe to that and I will I'm gonna have more news coming soon But if you enjoyed me on this you'll definitely enjoy my podcast It's every day and it's like just 20 minute solo episodes where sometimes I call friends But I just talk about all this stuff and kind of like it's like a diary entry It's so good you guys in the flow of it is awesome and I'm gonna thank you Thank you so much about you So I know when people that's why I say what people listen I'm like, I don't tell me you listen if we ever meet because I can't even like you saying that you listen I'm like, oh no, what do you know? Like you don't meet strangers a lot like if they followed your stuff You are not a stranger to that like I feel like I don't wait a lot of shit about you You know more about me than my family or some of my friends I mean I really get intimate on those podcasts I just love podcasting I feel like such an intimate connection to my listeners And I just I just feel such an intimate connection to the podcast I listen to so I understand like what it means And what I want to offer people who listen because I enjoy it so much when people are just authentic and like You're like what this is wild what they're telling me It's just so that's why I try to give them super gifted you guys And give me some more guys. She's gifted and talented. All right, you are successful Thank you And if you had a chance to sit down someone ran into you to Starbucks said Nikki can I like five minutes?

I have a dream I want to build a business or I want to You know begin to the entertainment industry or whatever I want to go get my master's degree And I don't know where to begin to make my dream come true You've made many of your dreams come true, right? Many of them Yeah Well, what would your advice be to somebody who had a dream in their life or whether they're 22 years old 12 years old or 52 years old? What would you say to them quit drinking That honestly if you are someone who needs to get hung over a lot and you've like get that out of your life Get anything that's like disabling you unnecessarily out of your life because I do think my career went to the next level When I quit having hangovers, but in general I it comes back to what we were talking about before I always tell this to new comics. They always want to know and this isn't just for comics, but this is truly The ticket I think it's like Work hard obviously, but be cool to be around be be Have be cool enough that people that are More successful than you want you around when the when the comic comes to town as the comic who comes down offer to find me Good vegan restaurants offer don't be annoying, but just be like offer to drive me around if I need to ride just be Be nice and cool and not annoying yet and people will bring you around people want to help you Artists are lonely we're lonely and so when we find someone who's cool who respects us in once what we have but isn't like to Grabby and is just a chill person to be around god We want that person in our corner and then we bring you to that's how I got ahead That's how people thought I was cool to hang out with and brought me on the road I wouldn't have gotten those opportunities if I was not fun to be around no matter how funny I was I was a good hang so work on that and also swiggy wheel my dad always taught me just Be remind people you're around don't convince yourself that someone's gonna ask you to do something or someone's gonna think of you for a job I give jobs all the time and I don't think of people even you know it'll happen months later I'll be like oh he would have been great for that job, but I haven't heard from him for months But the guys who are constantly like if you have any work I love to do like it's it's not annoying As long as you're not always being like do you didn't write back to me and like just swiggy wheel But a not an obnoxious squeak like a pleasant squeak is very important.

Those are the two things I love that but you just described I didn't get you any vegan food or anything like that But that's exactly how I got Nicky here today. Yeah I didn't hear back. I went to somebody else. I went to Heather my hand.

I said look I need to meet her do it now I'll treat you so you get me her That's awesome. Yeah, it's my life. I'm a squeaky wheel So yeah, you you are but that's I wouldn't I get too many requests to do podcasts And I just if they comment on a day where I'm like not in the mood or I'm overbooked I just like can't even look at it. I won't even write back I'll just like I can't deal with it But then someone writes to me is like I vouch for this guy go and I was like oh yeah, of course I didn't even give it a shot, but yeah, you gotta be squeaky.

I'm squeaky all the time. I really do I practice what I preach even to this day with with the success I've had I'm still hitting up people Me too I'm gonna call with witty comings right now because I'm like making a decision and I have the ability to make this decision on my own But she's someone who has had more experience in this field and we're not really that great We're friendly but I just texted her today like do you have 10 minutes to give me some career advice and she's like yeah lady And so that's what I'm gonna do and it's kind of uncomfortable, but okay, you know like she hasn't answered that I wouldn't have What was that? Show so you guys listen, I don't care who you are We have a list of people that want to be on the show, but I wanted Nikki and I got squeaky to give you your So I was great about you. Thank you.

I loved today. I did Day today was a long day and it was on my counter. I was looking forward to it and like I just really enjoyed that And you helped so many people so I just want to say thank you for being thank you. No, it helped me so much I don't think I need to go to I can I can yeah, I don't need to go to therapy this way.

I could skip a sec Yeah, I know we're friends now. It's so cool. Thanks for having me. All right.

Hey guys remember this I run the max out two minute drill every single day on instagram So I make a post you got two minutes you make a comment You can win if you don't make a comment the first two minutes reply to other people's comments or make a comment every single day on All my posts and when you do that you can run up right on my jet ticket to see me speak get coach find me max out gear All kinds of cool stuff. So engage with me on social media and go follow Nikki as well. Okay. God bless you guys max out This is the end my

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