August in July
Everything is Fine
Jennifer Romolini and Kim France
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It's hot and the world is rotting and our brains are stewed! We're talking about big-life transitions and hobbies and reptilian necks and mushrooms and regret and dewy faces. Plus: listener questions and a whole lot more!
You can find Kim on her Substack: kimfrance.substack.com
You can find Jenn on her Substack: jennromolini.substack.com
(so many Substacks!)
You can order Jenn's book, AMBITION MONSTER: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ambition-Monster/Jennifer-Romolini/9781668056585
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to Everything Is Fine, a podcast for Women Over 40. |
| 0:08.4 | We are your hosts. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Kim France. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm Jen Ramelini and what's up Jen? |
| 0:14.0 | What's up is my lack of sleep. I got like I don't know two out three hours I have no idea no sleep I am I got back and like I knew that the end of the book was going to be like a big like transition like I had ended a cycle and now I was going to be entering whatever the new cycle of my life was, right? |
| 0:34.5 | But I didn't know that like things were going to change so fast. So my landlady had told us that |
| 0:39.5 | the fall she was going to put the house up for sale and then yesterday she texted me and she was like actually I put it up today. |
| 0:46.0 | Oh, uh-huh. |
| 0:48.0 | And there's a photographer coming tomorrow I'm going to be showing it over the weekend you know and in California there's all |
| 0:53.6 | sorts of like tenant protections but it still means that like a gun has gone off like |
| 0:59.0 | there's there's just going to be chaos and you know she's not doing anything that she's |
| 1:04.9 | supposed to be doing I was up all night I was up all night on like tenants |
| 1:08.6 | Reddit which you know really just a really fun time but you just start to think like I can accept that we need to move out of this house that we've been in for 10 years that I raised my child in |
| 1:20.6 | I can accept all of that you know everything's temporary but I do feel a little bit like oh God like I have a kid I feel like kind of irresponsible that I rented all this time like you know I don't like it that it's not my choice you know you know I can |
| 1:35.2 | probably stay but then like how much of a fight do you want to put up and you know |
| 1:40.3 | so it's just it's very like ground beneath your feet unsettling you know in a time |
| 1:46.0 | when the world feels very ground beneath my feet unsettled yeah so so yeah fucking socks man man. I'm fucking pissed, but also just I knew this lady was this lady. Like I don't know why I thought anything anything would be different and then it was like, the photographer's coming tomorrow, |
| 2:02.9 | but they're just gonna photograph the outside. |
| 2:05.0 | And then I just got a text, |
| 2:06.2 | actually they're gonna need to be inside. |
| 2:08.0 | It's like, Jesus Christ, like. |
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