160. Fortune Feimster: A Queer Debutante Walks Into a Hooters . . .
1. Fortune’s life as a debutante without a couch and her first coming out party. 2. Fortune’s 21st birthday, and her family’s complicated relationship with Hooters. 3. The joys and perils of growing up as an 80s kid, and the shock of moving to LA from a small Southern town. 4. What Fortune was watching when she finally realized she was queer, and how she built community when she realized she was the only gay person she knew. 5. How she learned to let go of being someone she’s not – and starting living to please herself.About Fortune: Fortune Feimster is a standup comedian, writer, and actor. Her first Netflix special, “Sweet & Salty,” was nominated for a Critics Choice Award, and her new comedy special – “Good Fortune” – is streaming now on Netflix.Fortune was a writer and panelist on the hit show “Chelsea Lately” and starred in “The Mindy Project”. She has also appeared in “2 Broke Girls,” “The L Word: Generation Q,” “Glee,” and “Life In Pieces”.TW: @FortuneFeimsterIG: @fortunefeimster
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I’m Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed, the book that was released at the very start of the pandemic and became a lifeline for millions. I watched in awe from my home while this simple phrase from Untamed – WE CAN DO HARD THINGS – the mantra that saved my life twenty years ago, became a worldwide rally cry.Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every day – we love and lose; we forge and end friendships; battle addiction, illness, and loneliness; care for children and parents; struggle in our jobs, our marriages, our divorces; we try to set and hold boundaries – and we fight for equality, purpose, joy, and peace right in the midst of all the hard.On We Can Do Hard Things, my wife Abby Wambach, my sister Amanda Doyle, and I do the only thing that has ever made life easier: We talk honestly about the hard. We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.
