Amanda Seales - Small Doses

Not Too Deep with Grace Helbig

Grace Helbig Inc?

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Recorded: December 9, 2021 My guest this week is the remarkable Amanda Seales! We talk about her creative journey with theater, music, writing, and comedy, her hilarious experience doing stand up for the first time, and her podcast “Small Doses,” which was made into the book “Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use”! Her podcast is available on all podcast platforms and her book is now available as a paperback as well as hardcover and audiobook, which she also narrated herself! Follow Amanda: www.instagram.com/amandaseales www.twitter.com/amandaseales Check out our website: www.nottoodeep.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Not Too Deep. I'm your host Grace Helbig. Very excited.
0:04.8	You have comedian, writer, cesbian, all around incredibly thoughtful and curious person. Amanda
0:10.4	Seals on today's episode. We talk about all of it. Honestly, I'm still processing all the beautiful
0:17.2	advice and thoughts that she has about her creative journey. The most wild story ever that I've heard
0:24.4	of someone doing stand up for the first time she tells me in this episode. You have to listen to it
0:30.2	to believe it to experience it all of it. I'm still processing. We also talk about her podcast
0:34.9	Small Doses, which is also a book that she has read through the audio version of too. Get into all of it.
0:41.7	She is a busy, curious, incredible human being and I just truly had a really wonderful time chatting
0:48.8	with her about her artistic and creative journey, her thoughts on entertainment media, all of it.
0:55.5	Especially her thoughts on being difficult. You'll hear all about it. I'm getting a little bit
1:01.8	flooded in my thoughts. So please enjoy this episode of Not Too Deep with Amanda Seals.
1:05.9	I'm so excited to talk to you. I feel like you are what I have kind of gathered. You're just
1:21.0	professionally curious about so many things that I find it so interesting to kind of pick your brain
1:28.8	on all of this. I'm first curious about how do you describe what it is that you do to someone that
1:38.4	might not know you. I'm a comedian. Yeah, that's what you go. Okay. Yeah. I mean, everything I do
1:46.3	is like I'm a comedian who can write and the comedian who can act. I'm a comedian who can
1:51.1	produce. But at the end of the day, humor is the thread through everything I do. So that's
1:57.8	the easiest and most succinct way to sum it all up. It's like the skeleton key.
2:05.7	Yeah. Well, I wonder how did comedy come into your world? Was there a moment that you realized
2:12.4	this makes sense to me? Or was there a person or a thing that happened for you that just clicked?
2:20.2	I mean, that was all that's funny. That was all that was just kind of like in the mix of
2:24.9	the way that I thought about things and the way I interact with the world. Yeah. But I was in
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