Host Anna Roisman discusses all things indie filmmaking alongside a slew of industry guests which includes actors, comedians, and just about anyone working in the film industry. Whether they’re telling stories from set or explaining how to obtain financing for your film, these conversations will prove to be funny, entertaining, and thought-provoking. Commentary will be provided by filmmaker and Joke Zero founder Brandon Tamburri, who will help shed some light on what it takes to make an inde ...
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This is a safe space for anyone who has ever lost a job, left a job, or is sitting at their desks bored out of their mind right now! Based on the hit live digital talk show, "The Unemployed Show," where Anna and guests would wear pajamas every week and commiserate about bad jobs, this podcast is a more intimate look into the world of unemployment and underemployment. Anna sat in front of a camera on her couch for 'The Unemployed Show' for 2 years and then got a job hosting a show in front of ...
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In the season one finale of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman and producer Brandon Tamburri discuss the release of Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B. They talk about Plan B's theatrical release, the film's reception, additional press, and the platforms where you can watch the movie. They also recap the first season of The Joke Zero Podcast an…
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In episode 19 of The Joke Zero Podcast, we flip the script and producer Brandon Tamburri takes over as host while regular host Anna Roisman acts as the guest. Anna talks about working as a comedian and entertainer, hosting the popular game show HQ Trivia, and acting in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.…
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In episode 18 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by intimacy coordinator Judi Lewis Ockler. Judi talks about working as a stunt coordinator, transitioning her career to intimacy coordination, and working on Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 17 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actor John P Coulter. John talks about starting his acting career after working as a truck driver for 30 years, working on Impractical Jokers, and getting bumped up from an extra to a principal role in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.…
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In episode 16 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by cinematographer Mike Magilnick. Mike talks about getting started in the industry, collaborating with Brandon on several projects over the last six years, and shooting Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 15 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actors and musicians Megan Beattie and Jordan Choh. Megan and Jordan talk about balancing their careers as actors and musicians, working on Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B, and getting cast to be in a fictional band with Jon Heder.…
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In episode 14 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by professional animal trainer William "Bill" Berloni. Bill talks about being the most sought after animal trainer on the East Coast for film, television, and Broadway, working with Beyoncé and Martin Scorsese, and training Cat Sajak who played Jon Heder's cat in Joke Zero's featur…
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In episode 13 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by Blaise Ffrench. Blaise talks about working as an entertainer, an influencer, starting the beverage company Body Armor, and acting in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 12 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by composer Billy Goodrum. Billy talks about working with the Farrelly Brothers, writing music for classic comedy movies including Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, and Kingpin, and composing the score for Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.…
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In episode 11 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by comedian Anthony Moore. Anthony talks about working as a stand up comedian, going to college with Brandon, starring in Shane Gillis' Netflix series Tires, and acting in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B which was his first ever movie role.…
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In episode 10 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by Emmy winning producer DJ Dodd. DJ talks about producing more than 30 feature films, having a movie premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and producing Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 9 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actor Daniel K. Isaac. Daniel talks about working as a series regular in the hit television show Billions on Showtime, writing an Off-Broadway play, and acting in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 8 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actress and comedian Subhah Agarwal. Subhah talks about the balance between acting and comedy, working on Westworld, and starring in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 7 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by legendary actor Tom Berenger. Tom talks about starring in Platoon which got him nominated for an Oscar and won him a Golden Globe, starring in Major League, and working on Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 6 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actor Michael Lombardi. Michael talks about getting his start in the entertainment industry, starring opposite Dennis Leary in 7 seasons of the hit series Rescue Me, and working on Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 5 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actor and former NFL star Vernon Davis. Vernon talks about winning a Super Bowl, transitioning into an acting career, and working on Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.By Joke Zero
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In episode 4 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actress and comedian Kate Flannery. Kate talks about getting her start in the entertainment industry and working on TV series like The Office and The Masked Singer. Kate also shares what it was like working on Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.…
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In episode 3 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actor Jon Heder. Jon talks about getting his start in the entertainment industry and working on iconic movies like Napoleon Dynamite and Blades of Glory. Jon also shares what it was like starring in Joke Zero's feature film, Plan B.…
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In episode 2 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by actress, comedian, and writer Jamie Lee. Jamie talks about getting her start in the entertainment industry and working on iconic shows such as Ted Lasso, HBO's Crashing, and MTV's Girl Code. Jamie also shares what it was like starring in Joke Zero's first feature film, Plan B, an…
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In episode 1 of The Joke Zero Podcast, host Anna Roisman is joined by filmmaker and Joke Zero founder Brandon Tamburri. Brandon talks about getting his start in the entertainment industry, working on an iconic film like Hereditary, and of course what it was like working on Joke Zero's first feature film, Plan B, which he directed, produced, and co-…
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Episode 99: From A 'Housewives' Dig To Becoming A Bravo Personality with Daryn Carp
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Happy 99th episode everyone! This week we are joined by one of the greats! We have host, comedian, Bravo personality, and friend, Daryn Carp (Shaken & Disturbed Podcast, People's Reality Check) on the show! Daryn is one of the busiest freelancers we know, but for an hour she was unemployed with us. We discuss her first jobs in her family's ski shop…
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This week's episode is with an amazing Film & TV Producer, Professor, Cartographer of the Media Universe, and Anna's friend, Evan Shapiro! Evan has had some incredible jobs over the years working for big corporate media companies, producing major comedy series like Portlandia, teaching at NYU, and his latest venture- starting a podcast with his dau…
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Episode 97: And Just Like That...She Worked! with Nicole Travolta
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We're back! We've been on a little break but hey, we're on our way to episode 100! This week we have on one of Anna's new and close friends who she has never met in person, the hilarious and talented Nicole Travolta! Nicole and Anna literally met over instagram where they were posting SATC impressions over the pandemic and then ended up collaborati…
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Episode 96: Jewish or Fully Employed? With Eitan Levine
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Shabbat Shalom! We're dropping this episode on a Friday because Anna has her good friend and fellow Jewish comedian, the host of the Tiktok series "Jewish or Antisemitic" Eitan Levine! Eitan is serving us the Jewish content we need where anyone can play the game - you just have to decide if it's Jewish or not! Eitan starts off this episode with a s…
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Episode 95: The Long Island Mom of TikTok with Becca Bastos
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We're back with Episode 95 (almost 100!) and we have the hilarious TikTok star and content creator, Becca Bastos! You may know her from her Long Island mom characters, her flight attendants, her chipotle employees, and the list goes on. Check out her TikTok if you haven't already fallen in love! We discuss her road to TikTok success, and of course …
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Episode 94: The Teenage Manny with Khalid Rahmaan
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This week on the podcast we have the hilarious comedian and friend of Anna's, Khalid Rahmaan! First of all this is the nicest episode of the pod. The complimenting alone is so sweet! Khalid is one of the most positive comics on the scene. Khalid talks to us about how he was fired over Zoom in the pandemic for a customer service job, which we believ…
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Episode 93: 'How Cum' Interns Do All The Work? With Remy Kassimir
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This week on the podcast we have the host of "How Cum" podcast, hilarious comedian and friend, Remy Kassimir! Remy and Anna catch up on life and talk about how she lived in Oregon at the beginning of the pandemic and ran a comedy show online out of her boyfriend's parents' basement. AKA an iconic move. Remy talks about growing up in NYC where she w…
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Episode 92: Singer, Homemaker, Box Factory Worker: A Triple Threat! With Becky Chicoine
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This week on the podcast we have Anna's good friend, the hilarious comedian Becky Chicoine (Girls With Brown Hair). Becky and Anna talk a lot about their moms, their workouts, and then deep dive into Becky's work history. From her first job as a "homemaker" at a nursing home (their term not ours) where sometimes people died, to working in accountin…
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Episode 91: From Content Creating to Pärdē-ing with Gregory Littley
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This week we are blessed with an incredible guest. He's a Content Creator, Digital Strategist, Shorty Award Winner, and the CEO/Co-founder of Parde Beauty, we've got Gregory Littley on the podcast this week! Greg and Anna are oldddd friends and met years ago when they were both making tons of videos, only Greg was getting paid for his and Anna was …
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Episode 90: Going "Full Hog" Into All The Jobs with Zach Zimmerman
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OMG we're 90 episodes old today! Happy birthday to us, it's not easy staying unemployed this long! :) To celebrate, we have the hilarious comedian and writer Zach Zimmerman (The New Yorker) on the show. Zach has a book coming out this spring so we caught him early on the press tour! The book is called, Is It Hot in Here or Am I Suffering for all Et…
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Episode 89: Do Not Reveal Anything About Yourself At The Office with Maddy Smith
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We have one of NYC's funniest comedians on the podcast this week, Maddy Smith (Wild 'n Out, That Time Of The Week Podcast)!! Maddy and Anna catch up about their pandemic, Maddy's job on MTV's Wild 'n Out, what she's been up to lately, and how she's killin it in the standup comedy world. But of course we take it back to Maddy's early jobs like when …
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Episode 88: Booking to Manifest and Manifesting to Book with Patrick Cotnoir
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This week's episode is awesome because we have one of NYC's best comedy bookers, the funny and charming Patrick Cotnoir (The George Lucas Talk Show, The Chris Gethard Show). Patrick and Anna talk all about how this episode happened, because it was through a DM that Patrick sent Anna when he was recently laid off from a job. (REMINDER: While we love…
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Episode 87: Keep Your Friends Close and Your Restaurant Industry Friends Closer with Jake Cornell
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We are so lucky to have one of the funniest people and the only 'gay dad in Brooklyn' on the first pod of 2022, Jake Cornell (Going Out Podcast). Jake and Anna catch up about his viral Tiktoks that blew up in the pandemic which you will love if you haven't already seen! They also chat all things restaurant industry and how great it is to work in a …
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Episode 86: It's The End Of The Year As We Know It with Anna & Ellen!
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It's the end of the year and so we sat down to give back to the community and give some advice to people who have things to say about their jobs! This is the first IN PERSON episode with Anna and Ellen before covid creeped back into NYC. But this is exciting: we now have a phone number and can take your calls! If you want to call in for our next ep…
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Episode 85: Leader Of The Job Revolution(s) with Marcia Belsky
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This week's episode is with the hilarious comedian Marcia Belsky (Comedy Central, Tonight Show)! We talk all about Marcia's song "100 Tampons" and how cool it was to have it go super viral in the pandemic with celebrities lip syncing it on TikTok and everyone sharing it. It's so funny, and continues to grow on social media, and honestly was the thi…
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Episode 84: Turning Nail Art Dreams into Reality with Winnie Huang
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This week's guest is the fabulous and incredible Winnie Huang. She is a content creator, nail professional, judge on Canada's Next Top Nail Artist, and Anna's friend from a job! They met working together on the awesome app Airtime, and now they're real life friends. Winnie lives in Canada and is a professional nail artist. (Do yourself a favor and …
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This week we are blessed to have an old friend and one of the funniest, most hardworking comedians on the scene, Ruby Karp! Ruby is a comedian, author of "Earth Hates Me" and senior in college...and yet she had time to be unemployed with us this week! Ruby talks about all of the jobs she's had from her early comedy writing jobs (yes she was a teen)…
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Episode 82: Leaving A Full-Time Tech Job to Start Over Non-Technical(ly) with Alexis Gay
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We have an amazing episode this week with comedian and podcast host, Alexis Gay! Alexis hosts the amazing podcast "Non-Technical" where she talks to stars in the tech world about everything BUT their resume. So basically the opposite of this podcast! Alexis is super inspiring because she was working in tech, at startups, at Patreon, and decided to …
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Episode 81: From Planning Butt-Con To Writing For Peacock with Corin Wells
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This week we have the amazing comedian Corin Wells on the pod! Corin is a writer for The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock, as well as a voice actor on Tooning Out The News. But on the day we recorded? She was unemployed! We talk all about her time living at home with her parents during the pandemic and then coming back to NYC and landing 2 amazing jobs…
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Episode 80: A Soccer Star Can Have A Lot Of Feelings with Lorena Russi
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It's our 80th birthday!!! And we're still unemployed! We have an amazing guest on this week - she's one of the funniest around town, Lorena Russi! You may know Lorena from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert or her hilarious digital work. She and Anna met doing comedy shows and spent one of the last days before the pandemic at a bizarre commercial a…
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Episode 79: Trade Shows, Singing Telegrams, and Butt Doubling with Sandi Marx
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On the pod this week we have the very funny Sandi Marx! Sandi is one of the most beloved storytellers of the NYC storytelling community! She is a seven-time Moth StorySLAM champion, and had a successful one woman show at Joe’s Pub called, "The Sh*t Show." While she's a performer now, Sandi takes us back to her 10 years as a successful talent agent …
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Episode 78: "You Are Not Your Job" with Noa Shaw
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For our 78th episode we have an incredible guest - he's a life coach, he's an amazing friend, he's Anna's SoulCycle teacher, he's Noa Shaw! Noa is the author of the book, "Stop Thinking Thoughts That Scare You" (go read it) and hosts the podcast, "I'm Here To Help" which Anna did an episode of. Trust us when we say after getting to know Noa your li…
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Episode 77: "Anything To Keep Me Away From A Day Job" with Rojo Perez
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This week on the podcast we have the very funny comedian, Rojo Perez (The Tonight Show)! Rojo talks about navigating the pandemic when he had a bunch of tour dates cancelled, but making it work. Anna and Rojo talk about how it's so hard to imagine going back to a day job when you're removed for so long, even if the stability (and meals?) sound enti…
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Episode 76: *Sponsored By LinkedIn* (Soon?) with Anna & Ellen
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This week is a very special episode! Anna and Ellen catch up on what's going on with Unemployment and the news! Spoiler? It's a lot. But recently there have been reports of people who are actually "overemployed" (what?!) and working more than one job remotely at home since the pandemic. Also, some people are doing Twitch shows from hot tubs which i…
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Episode 75: A Singing Waiter Who Moves People With Their Craft with Gianmarco Soresi
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Happy 75th! This week we have on the very funny Gianmarco Soresi (The Downside Podcast)! Gianmarco is a standup comedian, actor, and former singing waiter! We talk all about his acting days from working in a restaurant where he got to perform to moving to New York and working in catering until acting in a bunch of commercials. Of course, he ended u…
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Episode 74: Cutting The Cheese, Spilling The Beans, & More with Jo Firestone
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This week we are so lucky to have on one of the funniest people I know, the incredible Jo Firestone! You may know Jo from Shrill on Hulu, The Tonight Show, Joe Pera Talks To You, or that CSA she's been getting too many vegetables at each week. We discuss our cooking habits and what to do when you have an overhaul of fresh vegetables (hint: make a s…
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Episode 73: Iconic Memories From A Task Rabbit Queen with Sharron Paul
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This week's episode is such a treat! We have the very funny comedian and writer, Sharron Paul (Cheap Date Comedy, Impractical Jokers.) We discuss with Sharron how she's been employed (dare we say "over-employed") throughout the whole pandemic! Also, she got engaged, so she's killing it right now. She's had some awesome gigs and of course we deep di…
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Episode 72: Best, Favorite, Forever Jobs with Brandy Crawford & Dan Brown
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On this week's episode we have a fun cross over event! We have Brandy Crawford and Dan Brown, hosts of "TV BFFS Podcast" joining us! Their podcast is about people's "Best" "Favorite" and "Forever" TV shows, aka "BFF" (and Anna is on an episode so check that out!) so naturally we talk to them about their Best, Favorite and Forever Jobs. The BEST job…
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Episode 71: A Powerful Woman Working For Powerful Women with Ana Bretón
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We are so lucky this week to have on the wonderful, Emmy-nominated director and producer, Ana Breton! Ana works in comedy and has worked on the TV shows "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," and "The Drew Barrymore Show." Ana began her pandemic by having a baby and then switching jobs to work for Drew Barrymore! But long before these successes, we dive…
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We're 70! Finally almost able to retire, right?! JK we love being unemployed. And our guest this week is looking for her dream job so I hope this podcast sends that wish into the universe. We have the coolest guest on, Jo Rosenthal! Jo is a writer, artist, fashion icon, and highly employable. She started her instagram back at an internship at Nylon…
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