I was doing a story about my first therapist and some of the advice that you would give me and her affect. I thought maybe if I could talk to some of her other clients, because she had died years earlier,. She was an older woman who came from pre-war Germany. And it was just went in all of these incredible unexpected directions. It started off with that initial insane phone call. Maybe when something is just so out of the ordinary, you're using a different part of your brain to receive it.
Jonathan Goldstein is an audio producer and the host of Heavyweight.
“I wasn’t taking myself very seriously, initially. I liked working with my friends and family because I think I was a little more comfortable with them. Then in the second season people were writing in with real problems, and they were looking at me as a kind of expert. It was terrifying to meet with these people and see the look of hopefulness in their eyes. ... I realized I need to step it up and even if I didn’t feel like an expert—an expert in an invented field that doesn’t really exist—that I’d really have to take that on with seriousness.”
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