Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to I Choose Me. All right, Sarah Drew, thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing so much with me. Let's just switch
Speaker 1: it up a bit for our bonus episode. How about that,
Speaker 1: Let's get to know you a little bit better. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do rapid Fire, and I think you're the perfect person,
Speaker 1: okay for this. Okay, let's start with Emily Lane energy
Speaker 1: or doctor April Kepner energy Emily Lane Ooh, okay on
Speaker 1: set at Gray's comedy moments or emotional moments? Oh, did
Speaker 1: you have any comedy? I did? Actually I had some
Speaker 1: fun comedy, but emotional. Yeah, I mean it's emotional percent.
Speaker 1: This is a good one. What is a medical procedure?
Speaker 1: You are confident after nine seasons of being on Gray's
Speaker 1: Anatomy that you could undertake absolutely nothing. I could maybe
Speaker 1: do some CPR. Okay, that's pretty much. That's what I
Speaker 1: could do. Stitches? Could you do stitches? Maybe I could
Speaker 1: maybe do a little suture. It wouldn't look pretty going
Speaker 1: to in debate someone, but you know they might need
Speaker 1: an esophagus transplant, so let's don't do that. Let's see
Speaker 1: guest star Life or series regular life. Oh regular, yeah,
Speaker 1: series regular feeling.
Speaker 2: Although guests our life is so fun because I've played
Speaker 2: so many kooky weirdos in my in my guests are
Speaker 2: trapesing around, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you're bopping in and you're bopping out and popping out. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing like having a regular job, a job job,
Speaker 1: weekend and look out. I get it. We didn't really
Speaker 1: talk about this, but you have said before that you
Speaker 1: are proactively hopeful. Yeah. I think that's really wonderful for
Speaker 1: anybody out there who wants to be proactively hopeful. What
Speaker 1: are some tips for them to have those sunshiny moments.
Speaker 2: I think it's really making a job of gratuity. I
Speaker 2: don't know how else to do it. I think that's
Speaker 2: kind of the only way. I think you don't see
Speaker 2: magic unless you're looking for it, and you're only looking
Speaker 2: for it when you've put the work in and the
Speaker 2: practice of deciding that there is goodness and deciding that
Speaker 2: there is something worth being grateful for.
Speaker 1: Right, That's that's the proactive part about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's it's it. You have to choose
Speaker 2: it and you have to practice it. It's not something
Speaker 2: that just happens to you.
Speaker 1: Do you think it can be too hopeful? Does it
Speaker 1: ever blend into like going into toxic positivity? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think ignoring the reality of the
Speaker 2: world that would become problematic. But I also think that
Speaker 2: there is always something good, and I don't I think
Speaker 2: you have to hold I don't know. My my hope
Speaker 2: is is grounded in the reality that there is pain,
Speaker 2: but there's always gold even through the pain, and you
Speaker 2: just have to hunt for it, you know. So that
Speaker 2: is what the hope that I talk about is not
Speaker 2: some like flighty something. It's it's a it's a it's
Speaker 2: a messy journey toward it that acknowledges the pain that's
Speaker 2: in life.
Speaker 1: And maintaining the hope. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. That's good.
Speaker 1: You also said that you're an overthinker. Chah, I kind
Speaker 1: of like about you. Okay, So what are some quick
Speaker 1: tips for someone who is spiraling down the toilet bowl
Speaker 1: with their overthinking. Get yourself a spouse that's like, they're
Speaker 1: not thinking about you.
Speaker 2: The world does not revolve around you.
Speaker 1: Get yourself a good truth teller. A good truth teller,
Speaker 1: in your life that you trust, that will listen to you,
Speaker 1: start to spiral and go. I'm telling you, they're only
Speaker 1: thinking about their interactions from last night. It's not what
Speaker 1: you said. I think we should all walk around with
Speaker 1: T shirts to say it's not about me, it's not
Speaker 1: about me, nobody cares. Nobody care. Gosh. My walk back
Speaker 1: into her dorm from the Thanksgiving break yesterday and she
Speaker 1: texted me. She said, I think my roommate hates me.
Speaker 1: And I was like, why, I'm sure it happens as hared.
Speaker 1: She said, well, I said, hi, how are you? How
Speaker 1: is your break? And she said fine, how is yours?
Speaker 1: And then didn't talk to her for the rest of
Speaker 1: the night and they're sleeping, you know, in the same room.
Speaker 1: I said, well, maybe she's sad that she had to
Speaker 1: leave her family and come back to school. You know,
Speaker 1: there's so many things that could be about and I
Speaker 1: remember writing, it's not about you, babe, No, I know,
Speaker 1: oh God, not about me. T shirts. She make T shirts. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think it's good. We could have a little side yeah,
Speaker 1: side hustle, loud house, are quiet nights at home? Quiet
Speaker 1: nights at home?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, what's the best music for the background of a
Speaker 1: quiet night at home when you're just chilling with your family.
Speaker 1: What does everybody agree on? John Prian Radio on Pandora.
Speaker 1: It's my husband's go to know nothing about this.
Speaker 2: It's just he's just an artist named John Prine, and
Speaker 2: it's it's like chill kind of it's not country.
Speaker 1: I can't even describe, but it is. Yeah, a little folky,
Speaker 1: a little folky John Prime. Yeah, everybody, let's check that out.
Speaker 1: Sounds nice. I kind of know the answer to this.
Speaker 1: But what book do you have on your bedside table
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Brimstone by Kelly Hart is the second book in the
Speaker 2: Quicksilver series.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and you again are just reading those
Speaker 1: for fun? It's fun, you're.
Speaker 2: Establishing I'm not trying to make it into a TV series.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Okay, New Year Energy Resolution Maker or
Speaker 1: gentle Resetter, gentle Resetter. That's good. Okay, Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: do that. We're so hard on ourselves. It's so hard
Speaker 1: on ourselves. And New Year's every year gives me. I
Speaker 1: don't even try, like I want to forget all about
Speaker 1: that part of it, don't. I don't. I don't try to.
Speaker 1: I don't do any New Year's resolutions. It's just a calendar. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's the day. I'm just we're always resetting. Every day
Speaker 1: is a New year thing you're doing? It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's so much pressure put on people though, to like
Speaker 1: it's January time to lose those extra ten pounds, or
Speaker 1: let's start eating right, everybody's gonna start exercise, lift those weights. No,
Speaker 1: there's just so much. Let me alone. I just overelfed
Speaker 1: myself into de Haites I have I need to sleep.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Okay, when it comes to I choose
Speaker 1: me moments, big thing or tiny everyday thing. Oh, tiny
Speaker 1: every day thing. I do hot yoga every day, and
Speaker 1: that is a good I choose me. Thanks. Although it's
Speaker 1: good productive because I'm getting in shape. So it's okay.
Speaker 1: When you go to your yoga class, Yes, are you
Speaker 1: going to like center yourself and calm your nervous system
Speaker 1: or you going to physically challenge yourself and make yourself
Speaker 1: leaner and longer and stronger. I want to It's first
Speaker 1: and foremost about breathing. It can be both making.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's all of them, but but first
Speaker 2: I forget to breathe in life often and yoga. Also,
Speaker 2: when I'm in my hot yoga class, I can my
Speaker 2: brain can't think about anything else because it's very challenging. Yeah, breathing,
Speaker 2: you're just breathing, and you're you're you're thinking about your
Speaker 2: muscles stretching, and you're thinking about getting into the next position,
Speaker 2: and your heart is racing and you're calming down and
Speaker 2: you're you know, you're just growing and strengthening and sweating
Speaker 2: and the brain chatter goes away.
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yes, I love it. Look at that. That's
Speaker 1: a great choose me moment right there. Yeah. Okay, TV shows,
Speaker 1: what are you watching right now?
Speaker 2: So there's a new one with Emma Thompson on Apple
Speaker 2: TV one Cemetery Road or something.
Speaker 1: It's really good. I like this title. She's so good.
Speaker 1: It's her and Ruth.
Speaker 2: Ruth Wilson Wilson, Yes, yes, And Emma Thompson is just
Speaker 2: I am obsessed.
Speaker 1: Would you say she's your favorite actress or do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite She's up there. I just recently showed
Speaker 1: my son the version of much Ado about Nothing that
Speaker 1: she did back in like nineteen ninety eight or whatever.
Speaker 1: She's such a magical performer. I'm I yeah, I love her.
Speaker 1: There's just those people that can take you to that
Speaker 1: place of just joy in just watching them work.
Speaker 2: She's so good and also she's like so gorgeous and sexy,
Speaker 2: and she's not all plastic or anything like, she's just
Speaker 2: like a real human.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so good. It's so good. Oh my gosh. Okay,
Speaker 1: so tell us just quickly about this new show. It's
Speaker 1: not new. It's a second season, yes, but a just
Speaker 1: finished airing, right.
Speaker 2: Yes, but now Mistletoe Murders is now. It just finished
Speaker 2: airing on a homework channel. But you can see it
Speaker 2: on Hallmark Plus okay, where all episodes are street. You
Speaker 2: can also purchase it, I think on Amazon. There's romance,
Speaker 2: there's action, there's intrigue, really fun character find that.
Speaker 1: How do you do that with like finding the small
Speaker 1: town charm of a Christmas movie and blending in the mystery.
Speaker 2: Well to you know, it's funny because they're two very
Speaker 2: beloved genres, are Christmas movies, like Christmas rom coms and mystery,
Speaker 2: and they both follow a very specific and similar pattern
Speaker 2: where you start from a place of messiness and rupture
Speaker 2: and something needs to be figured out. You take a
Speaker 2: whole journey and then there's resolution at the end and
Speaker 2: the mystery, the bad guy gets taken in and you know,
Speaker 2: and in the rock all is well at the end.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So people love this genre because you know that you
Speaker 2: turn it on and at the end of the journey.
Speaker 1: Everything is going to be okay.
Speaker 2: But you get to go through this cathartic emotional experience
Speaker 2: while you're trapsing your way through the story. So I
Speaker 2: think the two genres really lend themselves pretty well to
Speaker 2: one another. And can Are the creator who also created
Speaker 2: the Audible series that this is based on. It's just
Speaker 2: a genius at kind of mashing these two worlds together
Speaker 2: and making it feel really cozy but also murdery at
Speaker 2: the same time.
Speaker 1: Murders. I love that. Oh my god, I go. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna definitely watch it. I want to binge from the
Speaker 1: beginning to the end.
Speaker 2: It's really fun. It's a fun it's a fun bit Binger.
Speaker 1: It's crossed for season three. Cross Okay, Okay, So since
Speaker 1: you were a pastor's kid, do you have one song
Speaker 1: from church that takes you back?
Speaker 2: Oh Lord, I lived your name on Hi Lord, I love.
Speaker 1: To sing your pray. There we go.
Speaker 2: Someone that's a good one. My kids actually, because they
Speaker 2: go to Catholic school and the choir sings that song
Speaker 2: that is so cute. It's like totally brings me back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh I love that so good. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Well you've been so much fun. I love talking to
Speaker 1: you and getting to know you. Go talk to you too.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. You're welcome.
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