Speaker 1: What do you do when life doesn't go according to
Speaker 1: plan that moment you lose a job, or a loved one,
Speaker 1: or even a piece of yourself. I'm Brookshields and this
Speaker 1: is now What a podcast about pivotal moments as told
Speaker 1: by people who lived them. Each week, I sit down
Speaker 1: with a guest to talk about the times they were
Speaker 1: knocked off course and what they did to move forward.
Speaker 1: Some stories are funny, others are gut wrenching, but all
Speaker 1: are unapologetically human and remind us that every success and
Speaker 1: every setback is accompanied by a choice, and that choice
Speaker 1: answers one question. Now, what are either of your son's performers?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are they very different?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, completely different, but they have the same
Speaker 2: interest in that they're both very into to sports baseball, basketball, football, soccer.
Speaker 2: But then our son Max is into musicals, but only
Speaker 2: if there's an orphan involved, and so that's we hear
Speaker 2: a lot of musicals coming from his room that are
Speaker 2: you know, what is it?
Speaker 3: Oliver and Annie and.
Speaker 1: Oliver Annie and probably Newsy's has a there's an orphan Newsy's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yes, yeah, all about orphans.
Speaker 2: And Stephanie always says if Max went in for an audition,
Speaker 2: he would book every role.
Speaker 3: He's just so comfortable with himself.
Speaker 1: My guest today is the hilarious Tig Nataro Take as
Speaker 1: a comedian, an actor, a podcaster, a writer, a wife,
Speaker 1: and a loving mother to twin boys. I'm a huge
Speaker 1: fan of her many stand up specials, her Amazon series
Speaker 1: One Mississippi, and her gut wrenching documentary Take, which chronicles
Speaker 1: a number of life altering events, including her twenty twelve
Speaker 1: cancer diagnosis. To an outsider, Tigs now, what moments seem insurmountable,
Speaker 1: yet she's here encouraging us to be vulnerable and making
Speaker 1: us laugh. I'm so pleased that she agreed to speak
Speaker 1: with me, and I think that her courage in the
Speaker 1: face of adversity is something that we could all emulate. So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is Tig Nataro. I just want
Speaker 1: to say thank you so much for taking your time
Speaker 1: to spend a little time with me. I'm a huge fan,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to thank you for not only doing
Speaker 1: the show, but for all the wonderfully sweet things that
Speaker 1: you and Cheryl Hines said about my documentary. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: as you know, you are a symbol of we admire
Speaker 1: in the documentary as well, Well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was stunned to see myself pop up. I
Speaker 2: was with my childhood friend and we were watching it,
Speaker 2: and uh and my face popped up, and she's like, did.
Speaker 1: You know that was gonna happen?
Speaker 2: No, No, in fact, I thought I hallucinated that.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it and thank you for watching it.
Speaker 1: And I absolutely loved your documentary.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: I just I think that you your type of comedy is
Speaker 1: my favorite favorite place to be. It's so perfect, and
Speaker 1: I just I'm so thank you. You do what you
Speaker 1: do well.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: And I I guess you saw in the documentary.
Speaker 3: I know your husband. I love your husband.
Speaker 2: I had I had that memory of telling him to
Speaker 2: tell you that I loved your book. I mean it
Speaker 2: was so, so, so great. And then anyway, anyway, I
Speaker 2: just went tell you to your face how great that
Speaker 2: book was.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Tell me a little bit about
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so much of it is in your documentary.
Speaker 1: But for people don't know, what was your world like
Speaker 1: when you were a little kid.
Speaker 2: When I was little growing up, I mean I would
Speaker 2: say I probably had a lot of similarity to your
Speaker 2: except for being a model and an actor. But my
Speaker 2: mother was kind of unpredictable and like to party, and
Speaker 2: my stepfather was very he was an attorney, he was
Speaker 2: in the military. So I had these two very different
Speaker 2: parents raising me. And so my mother encouraged the artist
Speaker 2: and me and the athlete and me and kind of
Speaker 2: everything that I was. And my stepfather didn't get it
Speaker 2: and wasn't terribly supportive, but he provided I did structure,
Speaker 2: and and then he'd go out of town. And then
Speaker 2: there was absolutely no structure with my mother. But you know,
Speaker 2: we we did cool things. And I'm originally from Mississippi,
Speaker 2: and we'd go hang out with our family out there,
Speaker 2: who are very fun and open loving, not perfect people,
Speaker 2: but you know, had some, i would say, really fun
Speaker 2: crazy times as a kid, water skiing and swamps, you know,
Speaker 2: as a little girl does.
Speaker 1: As one does. In your book, you talk a lot
Speaker 1: about your mom, and there's some similarities. And she was
Speaker 1: she drank as well, yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she's she would stop and she'd start, and
Speaker 2: she would stop and she'd start, and and there's that
Speaker 2: whole roller coaster of she was so fun and funny
Speaker 2: and beautiful and and and then just like would nose
Speaker 2: dive in the world of alcohol and kind of be
Speaker 2: a little reckless. And like, I can't even imagine doing
Speaker 2: what my mother, like she would put us to sleep
Speaker 2: and then go out. I can't even imagine with our kids,
Speaker 2: you know, we're so yeah, I just I cannot even
Speaker 2: imagine doing half the stuff my mother didn't.
Speaker 1: I was basically an only child of an alcoholic mom.
Speaker 1: I mean, my parents were separated but when I was
Speaker 1: very very young, and I did have that duality too
Speaker 1: with my father's very structured life. But I definitely had
Speaker 1: to grow up, probably more quickly than many of my
Speaker 1: friends did, and sort of learn how to fend for myself.
Speaker 1: What do you think having that kind of a mother
Speaker 1: did for you?
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like I grew up a lot faster,
Speaker 2: you know, and I think I had it forced me
Speaker 2: to be more aware and careful of just my surroundings.
Speaker 2: My mother, my mother, definitely, yeah. I mean, you you
Speaker 2: know how how.
Speaker 3: It is where there's just there's both of those.
Speaker 2: Sides of somebody, and the extraordinary and incredible is through
Speaker 2: the roof, and the unpredictable, terrible stuff is through the roof.
Speaker 3: And when and when.
Speaker 2: They're happening, they are fully those things glorious in that moment.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it just I think that really
Speaker 2: made me grow up a lot faster too. And I
Speaker 2: think it also there's this kind of famous moment from
Speaker 2: my childhood of my principle saying to me, what if
Speaker 2: your mother knew what you were up to? And I
Speaker 2: said to my principal, what if you knew what my
Speaker 2: mother was up to? And so I kind of had
Speaker 2: this side of me where it was a vibe and
Speaker 2: I still have it, if you can go to hell.
Speaker 3: And my mother kind.
Speaker 2: Of instilled that in me because she really had my
Speaker 2: back in ways in life, and she would just be like,
Speaker 2: if anyone's got a problem, you tell them to go
Speaker 2: to hell. But I think also having a parent like
Speaker 2: that kind of gave me this vibe of.
Speaker 3: You can go to hell. You know, you don't even
Speaker 3: know what I'm dealing with.
Speaker 1: I can identify with that. I mean, you know, my
Speaker 1: mom was always like she used other choice words to
Speaker 1: say the same thing, but she you know, she always
Speaker 1: had this I was born into the world alone. I'll
Speaker 1: leave the world alone and everybody can just go, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's funny because there's a false bravado in that,
Speaker 1: you know. And I find the complexity of loving somebody
Speaker 1: like that so deeply fascinating because people seem to want
Speaker 1: it to be one way or the other. And I
Speaker 1: find that you really have to acknowledge both sides. Because
Speaker 1: part of my mother her fabulousness, her terry terrific, which
Speaker 1: is what she nicknamed herself. But my mom also had
Speaker 1: this brilliant sense of humor. And I got so much
Speaker 1: of my sense of humor. Did your mom have a
Speaker 1: sense of humor?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: My mother was the funniest person in the room. And
Speaker 2: I remember after she had died, her best friend had
Speaker 2: come to see me do stand up and came up
Speaker 2: and she said, you know where you got that? That's
Speaker 2: not all that's not you, that's not all you. You
Speaker 2: know where you got that? And I'm like, yeah, I do.
Speaker 2: I'm very aware, very aware. I mean I always tell
Speaker 2: people that there's no world where somebody would ever say
Speaker 2: to me, yeah, I think I met your mother. It
Speaker 2: would be like, oh I met your mother, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I've met her.
Speaker 3: Yeah. She was very funny, very wild, very amusing person.
Speaker 1: What kind of mothering from her. Do you retain for
Speaker 1: your children?
Speaker 2: I think just the side of me that's very much
Speaker 2: like you be exactly who you are, you'd be exactly
Speaker 2: who you want to be. Our job is to build
Speaker 2: a safety fence around the huge pasture, and then that's
Speaker 2: hopefully what we'll keep them safe, and then within that
Speaker 2: area go nuts and figure stuff out.
Speaker 1: And you talked about always wanting children when you were
Speaker 1: a little kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's so funny because it was clearly before
Speaker 2: I knew I was gay. And if you look at
Speaker 2: pictures of me through my whole life, it's a mystery
Speaker 2: that I didn't know I was gay. But I always
Speaker 2: pictured myself solo with a child, and I didn't know
Speaker 2: how that child was going to get there. I always
Speaker 2: pictured putting the baby in a basket and just riding
Speaker 2: my bicycle around. That was just the vision of my
Speaker 2: life that I imagined.
Speaker 1: I always wanted children, and I always thought that i'd
Speaker 1: be a single mom, don't I thought I'd be in there, huh,
Speaker 1: I have the kid like strapped to me somewhere, and
Speaker 1: I'd be just going about and with like my fun
Speaker 1: friends and going to theater and just having the baby,
Speaker 1: and just like I, you know, I tell Chris sometimes
Speaker 1: that's still my still my vision. I know.
Speaker 2: It's so weird to look up in my life and
Speaker 2: see that I have a stable life and family and
Speaker 2: spouse and in laws like I don't even I can't
Speaker 2: even believe. I thought I would be working a minimum
Speaker 2: wage job, have my baby and my bicycle basket, and
Speaker 2: that would be the extent of my life and I'd
Speaker 2: have just rotating girlfriends, you know, my whole life.
Speaker 1: At what point do you think that you started to
Speaker 1: craft the life that you have now? Because what you
Speaker 1: described takes work, and maybe it's something you couldn't have
Speaker 1: arrived at much earlier.
Speaker 2: I for sure couldn't have arrived where I am any earlier.
Speaker 2: And I think that when I got really sick in
Speaker 2: twenty twelve and had these three potentially deadly illnesses at
Speaker 2: the same time. And it's funny because after I came
Speaker 2: through being so sick, I would get asked all the time.
Speaker 3: You know, most.
Speaker 2: People that have this that they say, oh, I really
Speaker 2: needed that wake up call, And at the time when
Speaker 2: I had first gotten better, I thought, oh, oh no,
Speaker 2: you know, I never needed a wake up call, or
Speaker 2: oh no. I think if you talk to any of
Speaker 2: my friends, they would say takes out the type of
Speaker 2: person that needs a wake up call. And it's not
Speaker 2: that I think that it happened as that I needed
Speaker 2: a wake up call. But it took me years after
Speaker 2: I was so sick to realize how it actually was
Speaker 2: a wake up call in a huge disguise. And I
Speaker 2: think that I just was floating through life, and after
Speaker 2: being so ill, I realized where I was on just
Speaker 2: cruise control in life and I wasn't That's why I
Speaker 2: think I was. I mean not that if you're having
Speaker 2: a bunch of different girlfriends or dating a lot, that
Speaker 2: you need a wake up call. I just wasn't really
Speaker 2: connecting on a deeper level. And I wasn't very focused
Speaker 2: in my job, and I wasn't. I just I just
Speaker 2: I think that the way I arrived where I am
Speaker 2: now is truly oddly thanks to when I was so
Speaker 2: sick in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: For people that are not fully aware of those years
Speaker 1: or that year starting in twenty twelve, it was just
Speaker 1: a four month span of time that you were hospitalized,
Speaker 1: you had an intestinal disease seediff, you were diagnosed SEED if.
Speaker 2: I had pneumonia, I had seedediff, and I also had
Speaker 2: invasive cancer, all simultaneously.
Speaker 1: Well, the whole thing. And then on top of that,
Speaker 1: your mother passes away.
Speaker 3: Suddenly she tripped and hit her head.
Speaker 1: And you break up with your girlfriend.
Speaker 2: Yeah time, Yeah, the whole four months was freakish. And yeah,
Speaker 2: my girlfriend and I split up in the middle of
Speaker 2: all that too.
Speaker 1: How did you even begin to cope with all of
Speaker 1: that at once?
Speaker 3: I really don't know.
Speaker 2: I know that there were just the the moments that
Speaker 2: what I was relying on to give myself any sort
Speaker 2: of encouragement or strength, But it was the tiniest moments
Speaker 2: of Okay, I got up, I got out of bed,
Speaker 2: I brushed my teeth. I kept things very small and focused.
Speaker 2: I didn't socialize. I had my very tight knit group
Speaker 2: of friends. I patted myself on the back for, like
Speaker 2: I said, getting up and brushing my teeth. I just
Speaker 2: I tried to keep everything very my world very small,
Speaker 2: so I didn't get distracted or overwhelmed by anything beyond
Speaker 2: brushing my teeth, seeing my three friends.
Speaker 3: And I don't know how I got through it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when I look back, I kind of I kind
Speaker 2: of can't believe that all of that happened in four months.
Speaker 1: I'm struck by why you didn't really sort of tell
Speaker 1: your family the extent of how sick you were.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I told my family about the cancer. It was when
Speaker 2: I had SEEDFF and pneumonia that I kept that to
Speaker 2: myself because I was so that's that wake up call.
Speaker 2: Is before I was sick, and when I was sick,
Speaker 2: I was so closed off and protective of myself that
Speaker 2: I didn't want to worry my friends or family, and
Speaker 2: I just wanted to kind of get through it. And
Speaker 2: I wasn't typically a sickly person, and so I just thought,
Speaker 2: I'll just get through this and not bother anyone with it.
Speaker 2: And I remember also, when I had gotten out of
Speaker 2: the hospital, I ran into this comedian, Pete Holmes and
Speaker 2: he said, oh my gosh, I heard you were sick.
Speaker 2: And Sarah Silverman showed me this picture of you in
Speaker 2: the hospital, and I was said, she did, she showed
Speaker 2: you that.
Speaker 3: I was so mortified.
Speaker 2: This is before everybody shared everything on Instagram and whatever.
Speaker 2: And I called Sarah and I was like, you cannot
Speaker 2: show anybody, you know, and she was so sorry and
Speaker 2: she said, oh my god, I wasn't thinking. I was
Speaker 2: just thinking, Oh, if it were me, I wouldn't care.
Speaker 2: I would show anybody anything. And I was so upset
Speaker 2: and so protective. And now after I went through all
Speaker 2: that and just the vulnerability of being so sick and
Speaker 2: needing so much help and being so deeply sad with
Speaker 2: the loss, and you just kind of you don't hold
Speaker 2: so tightly to those things anymore.
Speaker 1: Is it really just you don't want to bother them?
Speaker 1: Or what's the fear in that? I'm just interested in, like,
Speaker 1: what why we do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I am too.
Speaker 2: I really I don't know where that comes from, but
Speaker 2: I'm you know, probably it's connected to this life that
Speaker 2: we're talking about, the childhood of you develop a protective
Speaker 2: way when you've been through a certain amount in life,
Speaker 2: I think, and you kind of have that, you have
Speaker 2: that layer of protection and you don't want anyone to
Speaker 2: think that you're down or suffering.
Speaker 1: I just always wonder why we do that, And I
Speaker 1: do think it's upbringing for me. I don't know if
Speaker 1: do you ever find that there's a fear that somehow
Speaker 1: you won't be taken care of?
Speaker 3: Maybe that might be part of it.
Speaker 2: And I when I'm thinking about it, I feel if
Speaker 2: that's any part of where I was coming from before.
Speaker 2: I feel so lucky to have Stephanie because she has
Speaker 2: taken care of me like nobody's business.
Speaker 1: You had a famous comedy set not long after your
Speaker 1: diagnosis that took your career to a new level. Listening
Speaker 1: to it feels like a type of Catharsis. Did your
Speaker 1: stand up help you process things at all or be
Speaker 1: vulnerable and contained space?
Speaker 3: I guess so. I think that.
Speaker 2: I've always I mean, I was raised by with humor
Speaker 2: all around me, whether it was meant to be funny
Speaker 2: or not, and I do think that it's something I
Speaker 2: have always used when I've needed any sort of out
Speaker 2: or support. That's how I've handled it is making light,
Speaker 2: and that's what I really started to do in twenty
Speaker 2: twelve when I went through all that. I opened myself
Speaker 2: up in a way on stage that I hadn't good evening.
Speaker 3: Hello, I have cancer?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: Hi? How are you? Is everybody having a good time?
Speaker 3: I have cancer? How are you?
Speaker 1: Did you know you were going to do that or
Speaker 1: did it just happen?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I had this show booked at Largo in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: for quite a while, and then all those things happened,
Speaker 2: and then when I got diagnosed with cancer, I called flanagain,
Speaker 2: the owner of the venue, and said, hey, I on
Speaker 2: top of everything else that I just went through that
Speaker 2: he was aware of, I said, I just got a
Speaker 2: cancer diagnosis and I just am not going to come in.
Speaker 2: And he said, well, why don't you just keep it
Speaker 2: on the books and if you feel like performing, the
Speaker 2: stage is here for you, and if you want to
Speaker 2: cancel a second before you walk on stage, you can
Speaker 2: do that. And so I thought, he clearly does not
Speaker 2: understand what I'm telling him. I'm really down and out.
Speaker 2: Or maybe he does, or yeah, or maybe he does,
Speaker 2: but in that moment, I was thinking, oh, he doesn't.
Speaker 2: He doesn't understand what's happening. I was just so sick
Speaker 2: and so sad. I just I was without a partner,
Speaker 2: I was without my mother. I had invasive cancer, I
Speaker 2: had a digestive disease.
Speaker 3: I was I was so.
Speaker 2: Rock bottom, and I just thought, well, I guess I'll
Speaker 2: just try because I had seen how quickly health goes
Speaker 2: away and with myself, and then also watching my mother
Speaker 2: die after taking her off life support, and I just thought, well,
Speaker 2: I love stand up so much, I might as well
Speaker 2: just go on stage one last time.
Speaker 3: Who knows what's going to happen to me.
Speaker 2: And I don't feel like I can just do my
Speaker 2: regular material where I make jokes about in turning some
Speaker 2: weird sign I saw on a door, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: going to share what's going on in my life. And
Speaker 2: so I went on stage and did my best to
Speaker 2: make light of what I was going through. And the
Speaker 2: show that I did went viral and became the number
Speaker 2: one selling comedy album in the world for the year,
Speaker 2: and I was nominated for a Grammy. And it changed
Speaker 2: my life because I saw the support from the people
Speaker 2: in the room, the people around the world, and I
Speaker 2: just thought, well, I guess it feels a lot better
Speaker 2: to not hold things so tightly. It really changed me.
Speaker 2: It just everything became so crazy and funny, darkly funny.
Speaker 2: The things that were mortifying to me before, like the
Speaker 2: hospital where my mother died, where I watched her slowly die,
Speaker 2: sent me and my family, well, no, they sent my
Speaker 2: mother this, uh, this questionnaire about how her stay at
Speaker 2: the hospital was. And after, right after my mother died,
Speaker 2: I was so mad. I was gonna I was like,
Speaker 2: I am going to call this hospital.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 3: I was so livid.
Speaker 2: And then weeks later I was on stage, after I
Speaker 2: had had time for that to set in. I was
Speaker 2: on stage making jokes about it and answering the questionnaire
Speaker 2: alive on stage, you know, and and.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was just staying not good.
Speaker 3: Not good, not good? Did not go well?
Speaker 1: Oh god, when do you think that you you talk
Speaker 1: about being sort of in shock after When do you
Speaker 1: think you really started to process the success of it,
Speaker 1: the hype of the show, the experience itself.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, I got it took me years because I
Speaker 2: remember my manager, who I worked with for a really
Speaker 2: long time. I remember calling him two days after the
Speaker 2: album came out, saying, when do you think this is
Speaker 2: going to die down? And he said, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: And I said, just all the like people wanting to
Speaker 2: interview me and offering me things, And when do you
Speaker 2: think I thought it was going to last? Like a
Speaker 2: week and then I'd go back to just being this random,
Speaker 2: low key lesbian on the road telling jokes and voicy Idaho.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he was just he I remember him saying,
Speaker 2: I don't think this is going away.
Speaker 1: Did your voice change after you were in remission.
Speaker 2: It's from my comedic voice of what I was sharing. Yes,
Speaker 2: I think just in the way that I became more
Speaker 2: comfortable with myself off stage and that translated to on stage,
Speaker 2: which a allowed me to The comfort allowed me to
Speaker 2: talk about anything I wanted, whether it was something dark
Speaker 2: like the questionnaire that my mother got or something ridiculous
Speaker 2: like I'm doing right now in my show, which is
Speaker 2: singing Adele's Hello live on stage and I have a
Speaker 2: terrible voice and I don't know how to play the piano.
Speaker 2: So I think that the comfort and the confidence came
Speaker 2: from that time period, and I just feel like I'm
Speaker 2: doing whatever I want to do, and it kind of
Speaker 2: brings back there. You can go to hell Vibe and
Speaker 2: me of like, I am truly only here to do
Speaker 2: what I want to do, and I hope that makes
Speaker 2: you happy.
Speaker 1: I call the show now what Because we all have
Speaker 1: moments in our lives that just totally take us by surprise.
Speaker 1: Is there one that people might not know about you
Speaker 1: that you've experienced in your life?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I know I have spoken about this,
Speaker 2: but I haven't really spoken to the degree that things
Speaker 2: have shifted a bit for me. Which is that I
Speaker 2: changed my diet to plant based after I was sick,
Speaker 2: and I'm so thankful for that shift in in my diet.
Speaker 2: It makes me feel better. I know some people have
Speaker 2: tried and they don't enjoy it. I'm just talking about
Speaker 2: myself and the results I've gotten and the pain that
Speaker 2: has been alleviated. I have such an interest in going
Speaker 2: further into that world. And it's not to say that
Speaker 2: I want to abandon my career or comedy, but I
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: Help people that are interested. I want to take that
Speaker 2: knowledge and experience that I have and go further into
Speaker 2: that world.
Speaker 1: And what does what does that mean? What does that
Speaker 1: look like?
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess I've had fantasies of having some
Speaker 2: sort of wellness center. I've had an interest in providing
Speaker 2: different types of food, plant based food to people in
Speaker 2: some form. I don't know if it's through a restaurant
Speaker 2: or online.
Speaker 1: What would you call it?
Speaker 2: That? Brookshields is the mystery? What do I call it?
Speaker 2: It's I did during the pandemic. I got a plant
Speaker 2: based certification, nutrition certification, and I was helping people on zoom.
Speaker 2: Family members, my next door neighbor, people that were that
Speaker 2: had these little health issues where if they potentially changed
Speaker 2: their diet they could see some exciting results. And when
Speaker 2: I did that, I was calling that firmly planted with Tignataro.
Speaker 1: Firmly planted. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 3: Oh that's good.
Speaker 1: Are you able to feel proud of yourself and your
Speaker 1: comedy and your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm somebody that is not very hard on myself.
Speaker 2: I mean, look how I showed up to your podcast.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is my hair? Okay, So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty good at being like, wow, wow, look how
Speaker 2: far I came. And I'm alive, and my body's healthy
Speaker 2: and strong, so far, so good, and my wife and
Speaker 2: my kids and my in laws and my friends and
Speaker 2: my family, and I kind of can't believe it. And
Speaker 2: I'm still having hard days, hard moments. All my health
Speaker 2: is up and down over the past decade. But I'm
Speaker 2: I'm really good, and I'm very quick to acknowledge that
Speaker 2: I've come a long way.
Speaker 1: That was the wonderful Tig Nataro. To hear more from her,
Speaker 1: go listen to her podcast. Don't ask Tig on the
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