38. Debunking the Starving Artist Myth with Comedian Chelsea Devantez
Financial Feminist
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Chelsea Handler has a great podcast called Celebrity Book Club where she reads famous women's memoirs with a guest each week. This episode is fantastic for anyone who is in any sort of creative field or considers themselves to be creative, which I argue is every single person listening. Mike Schur and Josh Malmos abbeys on NBC, John Stewart's HBO project, the opposition with Jordan Klepper on Comedy Central and Mike Myers's gong show revival. We cover how Chelsea overcame the starving artist fallacy, her childhood of financial instability, and how she's using her status as a head writer as a woman in comedy to change the power balance in comedy. But we'll also get into a really
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