Jenny Slate on Finding Peace with Herself through Motherhood

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Through her twenties and thirties, comedian Jenny Slate couldn’t find peace. By all accounts, she was succeeding. She earned a spot on Saturday Night Live, and became recognizable through her on-screen appearances next to actors like Amy Poehler and Nick Kroll. But she still felt stuck in a cycle of self-criticism and a pressure to always be on. Then she became a mom and it all clicked. Listen as Jenny shares why becoming a mom made her feel less desperate to get jobs, please others, and “perform her tricks”. In this episode of 9 to 5ish, Jenny shares: Why living in Massachusetts instead of Los Angeles is helpful for her creative work What traits her parents were most concerned about in her upbringing How leaving Saturday Night Live led her to a major learning about success Why perfection isn’t worth aiming at, and how she unlearned doing that How the unconditional love she feels for her kid helped heal her own inner child A skimm of her new memoir, “Life Form”

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by PayCorps.
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0:05.6	to focus on what really matters.
0:08.0	We'll explain more in a bit, but first,
0:10.2	let's get into the episode. It's a responsibility to be in sort of like an interrogative relationship with oneself,
0:18.0	but am I required to be so critical in a way that is just deflating. I see no use for that anymore.
0:28.0	I'm Carly Zekeen and I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to 9-to-5-ish with the skin.
0:34.0	We've run into so many questions over the years
0:38.0	and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:41.0	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:44.3	And that's what we're bringing you at this show.
0:46.6	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career
0:49.8	by talking to the smartest leaders we know.
0:52.1	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9 to 5.
0:56.9	All right, let's get into it.
1:02.4	Hi everyone, today our guest is Jenny Slate. She is a Critics Choice Award
1:06.7	winning actor, comedian, and author. Jenny got her starting comedy at Columbia
1:11.6	University where she was part of the school's
1:13.7	improv group and after graduating she became well known in New York's comedy
1:18.1	scene. In 2010 Jenny was part of the team that created the stop motion series, Marcel the Shell.
1:25.2	Jenny voiced the adorable Ernest Marcel and in 2022 A24 turned the series into an Oscar nominated film.
1:35.3	Her career picked up as she voiced characters on Bob's Burgers and Big Mouth,
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