A Miracle in my Earbuds
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“To Risa and Steve—on this Thanksgiving weekend, I’d like to thank you for your refreshing and enlightening podcast. I can say with confidence that you had my trust from your first episode. It is so wild to see myself say so, since sometimes it takes months for me to trust a new person in my life, and I’m yet to meet either one of you officially.
Somehow, over the often-distant medium of the podcast, I feel that you hear and understand me so well. I’m approaching only six post-grad months dedicated to acting in Los Angeles, and yet the general sense of rejection that Risa mentioned a couple episodes ago makes me feel like a dejected, 50-year-old alcoholic (though I rarely drink at the moment).
In particular, the episodes about managing familial relationships and career expectations have touched a nerve in me. I’m writing now from the gloomy depths of St. Louis, Missouri, my frigid home town. Your conversations have brought me the feelings of relief and undoing that only the best therapy sessions and life advice have ever provided.
And yet we’ve never exchanged a single word...
After what felt like a wasted college education, I finally moved to Hollywood (only 40 miles from my school) and declared myself an actor, now three years older and 40 pounds larger. I was bitter from losing what felt like an eternity to finish my college education. I then had usual setbacks—bombed auditions, a car accident, a hit and run scam, and the like. Then, I saw a pedestrian get crushed between two vehicles on the 10-freeway. As you acknowledge so insightfully and delicately in your podcast, it is not easy to be in these hectic cities, to pursue a career with patterned rejection, and to be a creative individual who feels full emotions.
All that to say: thank you, thank you, thank you. I can’t wait to meet you some day as soon as possible. Your presence means so much to me.”
Jeff Friedman, Actor via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/01/19
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