Tara Schuster served as Vice President of Talent and Development at Comedy Central where she was the Executive in Charge of the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning Key & Peele, the Emmy® Award winning @Midnight, and Lights Out with David Spade. For her work on Key & Peele, Jordan Peele remarked that Schuster is “ahead of her time…she sees the future a little bit.Her  book, Buy Yourself The F*cking   Lilies,

debuted as the #1 New Release in Humor Essays and Self-Help on both Audible and Kindle. InStyle, People Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, BuzzFeed, Goop, and many others have chosen Buy Yourself The F*cking Lilies as one of the best new books of 2020.

In this episode we talk about:  

  • As an adult coming to see how unsafe and neglected she was as a child 
  • Being told as child that you can’t trust anyone 
  • How you can privilege and money but not be parented
  • How we make up that having money means you don’t have problems 
  • Becoming a theater kid as a means to get external validation 
  • Her process of reparenting herself and mending her relationship with her sister
  • Getting an internship at The Daily Show and taking on her motto of being the best at the worst. 
  • What happened on her 25th birthday that woke her up to changing the way she was living her life 
  • Why she uses humor and how humor can support our connecting and vulnerability 
  • How she went about trying to be a thriving adult and reparenting herself which turned into a 600 page doc journal that inspired her to write her book
  • The origin story of her book title. 
  • What self care really is and what it isn’t.

 And so much more!

For more about Tara at http://www.taraschuster.com and @taraschuster

 Get her book BUY YOURSELF THE F*CKING LILLIES

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