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Whitney Cummings

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  1. “Then again, I haven't worked on It's a lot of people. I mean, it was just between three different shows. I have three staffs, 200 each. It was probably more like 600 over the year. And they're all looking to you for clarity and being decisive and just saying yes or no instead of, well, I just, I feel like I'm so sorry. I was so apologetic and so, you know, desperate for everyone's approval, which makes a great comedian, terrible boss. And so I was just having a really hard time. And I remember Michael Patrick King, who's sort of one of my mentors. He gave me a ring that had a anchor on it, just sort of that, you know, he was like, just stay grounded, stay in your shoes. Because anytime someone would come to me, I would just like abandon, you know, myself and just jump out of my skin to try and take care of them and manage them and please them instead of just keeping my feet on the ground. And then, of course, I promptly lost the ring. So I decided to get the tattoo of it in white, of course, because being on television, you have to go in like an hour early to get tattoos covered.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “When I was working on these three shoes, I was a perfect example of what to never do. This is before I knew about you, before I had a, I'm in a 12-step program for codependence called Alan. And I do trauma therapy. Now I do all this stuff, whatever. But this was before I had any kind of that recovery or had done any work on my sort of neural pathways. I was using a lot of really old survival skills. And I was like people pleasing and caretaking and I couldn't fire anyone and I was terrified to tell someone no and I couldn't have uncomfortable conversations. And I was all of a sudden the boss of like 400 people.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “And to being a kid. And so that was really hard on me. And then I just kind of eviscerated myself. I did everything wrong in terms of being a boss and managing my time and managing people's egos and depleting myself, which I've learned a lot in the last.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Herculean task. So I was just having a hard time. I dealt with some Just as a comedian, you become a comedian because you want people to like you, and then all of a sudden you're sort of thrust into the zeitgeist as like a public figure and then not everyone's going to like you, which in standup is usually a good thing because it means you're being specific as you, I believe, say When you try to please everybody, please know one. Right, exactly. So the idea is you want to polarize some people, but then all of a sudden, when it's critics, you're like, wait a second. And then you recreate your childhood circumstances and you're like, dad? I mean, critics just become your dad who won't accept you or your mom whose approval you're trying to get. So you just sort of time travel back.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “Tattoo, then we can talk. Right, right. I've been branded. Well, let me do them in order. I got the anchor right here on my wrist. Michael Patrick King and I created a show called Two Book Girls, which is on CBS. Michael Patrick King, you know, did Sex in the City. If you had a girlfriend at the time, you probably had to watch it. He did a show called The Comeback, which is a brilliant show. It is so well done sort of about an aging actress in Hollywood and sexism in Hollywood. And it's just incredibly well written and performed. And we did two book girls together simultaneously. I was doing a show on NBC, which was a sitcom, as well as a talk show. So I was doing three shows simultaneously, which doing one is already...”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “The safety pin is sort of, well, I love you is first for you, Tim. Thank you. Thank you. I wanted to subtly sort of a requirement for podcast guests. This is what I haven't really divulged.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Yes, I have a safety pin on the back of my right arm, which I always forget I have because I hit it so well that I always forget it's there.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “You can do a blacklight tattoo. This is mostly for, I guess, people who do LSD and special K, but you can do it with blacklight ink, so you can only see it under a black light.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Nope with white ink, but it has to go much deeper. So it's more like scarification. So it basically hurts like twice as much.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “That's so interesting. I have another white one right here It's an anchor. It's basically this is like someone who's incredibly commitment phobic, who wants a tattoo, but doesn't want anybody to see it. So that's one of my weaknesses.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “Right off the bat. That's so funny that you just said because what you guys can't see, hopefully, unless you're a weirdo stalker, I have a white tattoo on my lower left forearm that says I love you. And I don't think anyone has ever noticed it without me having to point it out.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “No, why I smoked when I was pregnant. Exactly Every morning, I wanted cocoa puffs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. So I feel like I'm kind of like trying to rectify a lot of that damage that was done.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “I feel like our parents just kind of dropped the ball. I mean, now that we know so much about GMOs and high fructose corn syrup, I feel like I'm like on borrowed time. What?”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  14. “Wandered through the living room. And yeah, no, I feel like I didn't make a lot of great health decisions. In my early 20s, so I feel like I'm overcompensating now with things like this”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “That's what I'm here to tell you is that I've made my transition into being an internal. That's my new career. That's why you're grilling.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “I think I'm a hoarder. I'm really into hydrating, but like sneakily so, like nefarious hydration, it can never be actual water. It's always like something. They cost $8. Right.”

    2015-06-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT