Podcast appearances and mentions of jenn welch

Happy Friday, Fckers! On this week's episode of Guys We Fcked, Corinne and Krystyna help a listener who has been abusive to her partner in the past. Today's question to ponder is “What one thing would you want to do for all of eternity?” This week's guests are JENNIFER WELCH and ANGIE “PUMPS” SULLIVAN, hosts of “I've Had It” podcast. The 4 discuss helping a partner recover from addiction, being raised by an atheist mother in the South, and looking for revenge in couples therapy. This eloquent copy was written by Mike “Big Dong” Coscarelli.     WATCH THE GWF COMEDY SPECIAL -- "OUR SPECIAL DAY" -- FOR FREE: https://www.youtube.com/guyswefcked   Follow Guys We Fucked on IG/Twitter/TikTok: @guyswefcked Follow Corinne Fisher on Twitter/IG: @PhilanthropyGal (And follow Corinne's store on IG @PerfectlyCenteredStore) www.corinnefisher.com    Follow Krystyna Hutchinson on Twitter/IG: @KrystynaHutch www.krystynahutchinson.com    Follow Jenn Welch: @mizzwelch   Follow Angie “Pumps” Sullivan: @pumpspumpspumps   Follow Mike Coscarelli on Twitter/IG: @MikeCoscarelli    This week's featured music: Lillian Leadbetter https://open.spotify.com/artist/0bgE0I7bibBZPPPBToAZGe?si=1wl9NwAWQqmWQXiZowht5gSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of Birds of Amsterdam we break down episode two of season one of Patriot with Jenn Welch from LadyHD podcast. You can find Jenn on social media at jennwelchnow and you can find Mike at sureshot.john. If you're a fan of Patriot and want to come on the show, reach out to me or Mike on Instagram. Thanks for listening. 

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has reached the max number of windows one can have open on their iPhone's Safari app!! Comedian / writer Dan Perlman (co-creator of Flatbush Misdemeanors on Showtime) joins Jenn to see what she's been googlin' and help her decide which of these 500 browser windows can be closed. (SPOILER ALERT: it's a lot of them) Oh and they also talk at length with minimal spoilers / maximum enthusiasm about writing and working hard and growing a project over years from working with your friends to create a web series to writing and starring in a legit premium cable tv show. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT: LadyHDpod.com SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO: ladyhdpod@gmail.com FOLLOW GUEST: Insta | Twitter: @danjperlman FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar  

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has reached the max number of windows one can have open on their iPhone's Safari app!! Screenwriter / director / producer Steven Conrad (Ultra City Smiths / Perpetual Grace Ltd / Patriot) joins Jenn to see what she's been googlin' and help her decide which of these 500 browser windows can be closed. (SPOILER ALERT: it's a lot of them) Oh and they also talk at length with minimal spoilers / maximum enthusiasm about writing and creativity and Steven's shows because Jenn really really loves Steven's shows and she has a feeling you will too. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT: LadyHDpod.com SEND YOUR QUESTIONS TO: ladyhdpod@gmail.com FOLLOW STEVEN: Twitter: @StevConrad ULTRA CITY SMITHS on AMC+: Insta | Twitter: @UltraCitySmiths PATRIOT on AMAZON PRIME PERPETUAL GRACE LTD on Epix FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has reached the max number of windows one can have open on their iPhone's Safari app!! Gonzo comedian / podcast host Andrea Allan (The Hot Mess Comedy Hour) joins Jenn to see what she's been googlin' and help decide which of these 500 browser windows can be closed. (SPOILER ALERT: it's a lot of them) TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT http://www.ladyhdpod.com FOLLOW ANDREA: Insta: @andreacomedy69 FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has reached the max number of windows one can have open on their iPhone's Safari app!! Very dapper comedian / podcast host Brett White (Must Have Seen TV) joins Jenn to see what she's been googlin' and help decide which of these 500 browser windows can be closed. (SPOILER ALERT: it's a lot of them) TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT http://www.ladyhdpod.com FOLLOW BRETT: Insta: @brettwhite | Twitter: @brettwhite FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar

Comedian and podcast host Youngmi Mayer (Feeling Asian) joins Jenn to talk starting late, divorcing young, and mom'ing in a panic.   EPISODE TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE BELOW   FOLLOW YOUNGMI: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ymmayer FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar   Very rough, not proofread, episode transcript:  Jenn Welch 0:00 Hey friends If you liked ADHD and you want to support the podcast, go to patreon.com slash lady HD, there is tiers and levels and goodies and prizes. So check it out. This is where the theme song should go ba ba, ba ba ba, ba, ADHD. Oh my gosh, it's time I am here. I'm am I awake? I don't know, guys. It's lady HD, a podcast for distractible women. I'm your host, Jenn Welch I am. Ah, deep breath. That was more of an exhale. Okay, so I am here today with my guest who I'm so excited to have on the podcast. Because of for so many reasons, but especially because I won't get into it. But um, she has an amazing podcast called feeling Asian that she hosts with another very funny comedian named Brian Park. Um, and she is great. And everybody is clapping for you. Just a heads up. Everybody's so excited. It's like worrying, like the audience is so loud. It's guys. Here she is Youngmi Mayer. Yay. Hi. Youngmi Mayer 1:12 Hi, john. How are you? Jenn Welch 1:14 Oh my god. I'm here. How are you? Youngmi Mayer 1:20 I'm really good. I um, I had I had a like a zoom work call today one zoom meeting and it you know, it ruined my entire life. I'm completely wiped out. Jenn Welch 1:34 Yes. Was it same minute saying? Oh my god. Yeah. I if I have one thing on my to do list these days that involves interacting with another person. That's it. Like, I it's too much. Youngmi Mayer 1:47 Yeah, it's done. It's over. Yeah. And then I knew that I would. I was gonna do this with you at six. So like, starting at four, I started like, spiraling and being like, I can't do it. I gotta lay down in bed and just get ready for 6pm. Doing Jenn Welch 2:06 having, you don't have ADD? I don't know what you're talking about. I that's incredible. And yes, um, I Okay, before we get too far in, because I normally do this before we start and you might remember this from improv class, but um, I, I because we I like my conversations to be loosey goosey. And like, kind of just see where they go. So if at any point, we get to something where you're like, I don't want to talk about that, Jen. You can just yell boundaries. And I'll yell boundaries. And then we'll like cheer and move on. Because we celebrate boundaries in life. Okay, so that's just I'm putting that out there. So you know, if we get into anything weird, not like, I don't can't even imagine what we would get to that I would be like, but who knows? Some people have things where they're like, I don't want to talk about that in a podcast. You don't I mean, yeah, Youngmi Mayer 2:55 I have no boundaries. So it's probably not going to happen. I would be shocked if it happened. Giving me that option. Jenn Welch 3:03 Of course, of course, I'm. So we actually met a few years ago, when I was teaching improv, and you came in and you were a student. And you were so funny. Oh, you're so but you were so quiet. And I remember just being like, She's so funny. And then I remember you asking me like something about like, doing sketch comedy, or doing stand up and I was like, please do it, please do it, please do it. And then all of a sudden, I started seeing your name pop up everywhere. And I just have been like, over here just like kind of, not to be a creep. Okay, not to be a creep, but I've been, but I've been, you know, you keep track of certain people. And I've been over here just kind of like watching you like, like, blooming again, blossom, you know, and I it's just been so exciting to see. And I you're just like fucking killing it. And I think you're funnier than me. And, and that's true. I just want to put that out there. But like, Youngmi Mayer 4:10 you're allowed to have your feelings but you know, that doesn't mean that they're true. Jenn Welch 4:14 That's right. feelings aren't facts. But it's been so awesome to see cuz I just remember you being in class and and again, just like being this like, a quiet, like, certain students are just like quiet thunder, like, you know, like they're not that was like, outgoing. Like, I don't want to say you're not outgoing. Because clearly, you know, you know, whatever. But um, yeah, what Tell me tell me things. Youngmi Mayer 4:41 You know what's so crazy Jen? I like so I had this like whole so I started comedy very late. I'm like, old I'm like 36 I started when I was 33. I think I was in your class. Yeah. And it's like something I wanted to do all my life and it was like the sort of like, like something happened in therapy where I had like enough. epiphany and I was like, I gotta do this now whatever, right? And then, and now I'm like very loud and extrovert I'm like comfortable doing stand up, I can talk in front of a room of people clip just been doing it for three years, which isn't that long, but I've just been doing it every day. But I I, for most of my life until I was 33. I was like the person that you were describing, I was just very quiet and never said anything. I was really shy and, you know, like, like, anxious all the time. And he never talks out loud. And so it's interesting to hear you say that, because I forget so often that that I've only recently like, sort of come out of my shell. Jenn Welch 5:40 Yes. So here's that. Here's the thing that I don't tell you guys what I'm teaching. But I didn't start I may have mentioned this, but like, I didn't start doing improv. I was also a late joiner to The Club. I didn't start doing improv until I was 30. And I, I was writing comedy before that, but I avoided performing at all costs, because I hated being in front of people. And I hated like having to talk in front of a group. And, and I was so like, scared to like, talk in front of anybody. And then. And then I did improv, and I was like, holy shit. And then eventually, like, stand up was like what I wanted to be doing right. And that took me like, a few years to like, get there. So I didn't start stand up until I was 34. And, yeah, and I, I think I'm making assumptions. But I, I'm just going to talk about my experience. But when I started improv, also, it was because of a therapy session where we put together a SMART goal. And it like a SMART goal is like, specific, measurable. actionable, I think, realistic and timely, or something like that. Anyway, so so it was like, it's something you like, take an action on. It's realistic in like a reasonable amount of time. And so my SMART goal that we put together was for me to sign up for a level zero improv class. Oh, wow. Yeah. And that like, is just kind of like, what kicked it off. And I was. At that point, I was seven years into a while, I mean, three years into the marriage, but seven years into a very bad relationship. Wow. And so he was a musician, and everything revolved around him doing music. And so for me to like, do this was like a big deal. And that doing that class gave me confidence down the line, to be able to get out of that marriage and that situation. And like, basically, I don't even recognize who I was, anymore. Youngmi Mayer 7:52 Well, you know, that's, that's also very similar. I wasn't in a horrible relationship, but I wasn't in a long term relationship. I was married. Yeah. And, and I was supporting his career to, uh huh. And it wasn't a bad like, he is fine. But I just didn't want that role in life, like the caretaker role. And I think we were so used to that being like me being like, his manager or something. And I was like, I don't want to do this anymore. And then we got divorced. And then like, around the same time, I think I got divorced right after starting your class, I think that fall or the next spring or something like that. So. So that's so interesting that we have so many similarities. Jenn Welch 8:33 Yeah. Yeah. It's It's crazy how that like, and when I say it was like, a bad relationship. It was. It wasn't like, oh, he like MMA. I mean, yeah, yeah. But it was healthy for you. I was like, a shell of a person. Like, yeah, yeah. It was like a very, and a lot of it. Like, I mean, not a lot of it, but a big part of it was Unknown 8:57 I Jenn Welch 8:59 trying to, like, be a wife that he wanted me to be when I have ADHD and I'm constantly like, fighting against all of my, like, natural impulses to like, yeah, a wife who manages groceries and keeps the house clean and close and all of that stuff. Youngmi Mayer 9:22 I like don't know, when I wake up, I wake up every single day in a panic. Not sure what's gonna happen. Yeah, it's like so bad. And you know, I have a son and it's, I feel bad because I feel like he has like, he has some like, not behavioral issues, but he has like, he struggles with certain things at school because I think because of me, you know, not not to like be too hard on myself. But like, the teacher will be like, well, when's his bath time I'm like, I don't know. I don't even I sometimes I give him a bath. And I'm just like, like, sometimes at 9am sometimes At 3pm I like I don't you don't I mean, yeah, when When does he go to bed? And I'm like, ah, I swear he's sleepy at night. I was like, it's for what I'm trying to fix that for him. But like, oh, but I wanted to say the thing about the Epiphany, the thing that I had in my therapy session, it was really crazy. Because you you said, like, you set like an actionable goal or something like that. Yeah. What happened for me was like, my entire life. I always wanted to do comedy, right? Yeah. And I had literally never told a single person in my entire life. And then one day in therapy, my therapist was like, well, like, we were like, discussing these problems that I had with like, my ex husband or whatever. And then one day, she, I just was like, I've always wanted to be a stand up comedian. She was like, that's so weird. I've like never heard you say anything like that. You've never even said anything close to ever wanting to perform. I just said it out loud. Yeah, I was like, just like, oh, like, that's so weird. I've never heard any like, literally, but in the back of my head. I've been thinking about it for my entire life. Like I just heard myself. And so I said out loud, and literally that next day, I signed up for like, open mics, and I just started doing them every day. And it was like, yeah, it's not crazy. Jenn Welch 11:21 I love it. I know, right? It's like so scary to say that first thing I didn't tell anybody about the wanting to be a stand up thing until it was in 2004. When I told a friend while we were drunk at the Toronto Film Festival, I was working for a film studio at the time. And some friends of my husband, who are I mean, they weren't close friends, but he was acquaintances with the Lonely Island guys, Andy Samberg, and your Matt taccone. And the other guy. So they had just gotten hired on SNL. And I was so jealous and I didn't even want to be in SNL. I don't want to be on SNL, but I wanted to be doing comedy. And I just remember like drunkenly telling a co worker that I wanted to do stand up, and I was like, mortified that I even said anything. Words, you know, it was like, Oh, um, but I Yeah, and I think that there is something to be said about. I mean, at least in my experience, like, just because I got a late start, and because I know I want it so bad, because here's the thing like you. I mean, I'll speak for myself, but I think that you'll relate to this, like, we've had the experience in our adult life of not doing comedy. So no matter how bad comedy gets, it's never as bad as not doing comedy. Yes. I also, yeah. Youngmi Mayer 12:55 spend the rest of my life doing open mics and get hooked on, like getting booked on a bar show. That's so exciting for me to. Like, I never even thought that I was allowed to do what I wanted to do, you know, like, to go to the back of a bar and someone's do stand up in front of three people. That's amazing. Jenn Welch 13:17 And then those three people are gonna laugh at what I'm saying. And even if they don't laugh at what I'm saying, it's like, I it's like, Okay, well, that's still not worse than the worst, you know. Exactly. Yeah. I sometimes, like I just remember, like, maybe being around where you're at, in terms of like years having done comedy, and just walking around New York City and being like, in my head, like, I'm a comedian in New York City. I'm a comedian in New York City. And it's like, a lot of comedians are like, Oh, I suck. Oh, everything sucks. And I'm like, every day is a miracle. Like, every day that I am able to do this. It's like a miracle. Youngmi Mayer 13:58 That's how I feel. I'm like, this is I'm so grateful. I have that kind of moment. The summer before quarantine, so I can two summers ago now. Where I was booked on the show at the UCB Hell's Kitchen like that big theater. Yeah. And it was summer, right? It was like June. And I was like wearing like a sun dress or something. And I was walking there. And I was like, kind of late. So I was like, get out of my way. I'm a comedian. And I was in that moment. I was like, Oh my God, look at me like I'm wearing a sun dress. I'm walking through like New York, Manhattan in the summer. And I'm going to this big theater where I'm going to perform. That was my one little moment I had. It's all downhill from there, Unknown 14:41 baby. Jenn Welch 14:43 Love it. I love it. Oh, it's so good. I'm so glad I've been like wanting to talk to you about this, like forever, but it's like is the conversation worth it if we're not recording it for an audience, you know, so I'm glad we're finally in. work. I leave finally. situate Youngmi Mayer 15:01 that this is the first time we've talked since your class, right? So yeah, yeah, this is great. And then after we'll hang out. Jenn Welch 15:08 Yes. We will go for walks in the city and I will get outdoors. What? What's your dog? What's up everybody? Just imagine right now that young is holding a dog. Youngmi Mayer 15:18 A little Chihuahua. long haired Chihuahua. Her name is corn. Oh, and she's just beautiful bitch. Jenn Welch 15:26 beautiful little bit. Oh my god. I love her. I love her. Yeah. Um, back to AD add. You told me you got right. What are we talking about? You told me you got diagnosed. I I swear to God every day when I wake up. It's like I'm reinventing. Like, everything like that. Like, it's not like, Oh, you wake up, you get in the shower. And then you do this. And then you do that. It's like, I wake up and the possibilities are endless. And I'm frozen. It's like, yep, yeah. Okay, so anyways, nothing for three hours. Yep. I just want to say I relate to that. But you got diagnosed. You said earlier this year? No, Unknown 16:08 yeah. Youngmi Mayer 16:09 Wait, when? Well, I had like, what happened? God, I don't remember mice. So I had, okay, so my psychiatric journey, which is, you know, like the medical part, like, I obviously don't really like no, like, medication has ever worked for me. But it started with being diagnosed, diagnosed with depression. And, um, years ago. And then. And then, like this, I guess this is like, on unprofessional sort of diagnosis. But like years and years ago, in my early 20s, I did a lot of cocaine. And yeah. And like, for me, a lot of times I would do it and then I would fall asleep. Or I would feel like, I would feel like I did this. Maybe this is wrong. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this. But I, I am assuming that it's because I have ADHD, and it was sort of acting like, maybe like what Adderall does to Yeah, add? I don't know if that's correct. But I would just have a weird reaction to cocaine, like, a lot of times, it made me feel really calm, you know? Yeah. And then a lot of times, I would do a lot of it, I will talk a lot stuff. But like, sometimes it would just feel kind of different to me, I think, than other people. That is such an educated statements. I don't even know if that's Jenn Welch 17:26 accurate. But I felt like that's how a lot of people kind of find out it like a lot of people who are diagnosed. And when I say a lot of people these numbers are this is not scientific. But I hear for me, I read from a lot of people that I anecdotally, um, I mean, I noticed in college that whenever I did Adderall, did my friend's Adderall. I could actually, like, you know, it'd be party time, but I would be like, let's talk about the term papers we're supposed to be working on. Like, that's like, Youngmi Mayer 17:58 Yeah, I would do my roommates, Adderall, and I could sit down and do stuff. And I could never, I could never, you know, yeah. So then. So that's like, something I noticed just like by myself, and then, um, I just all the Add thing, I feel like it was meant. So like, I had a really bad psychiatrist, the one that I got all the antidepressants from, like, five, five or so years ago. And like, he sort of like mentioned it, but then I was sort of like, I didn't really like him. So I never really followed through and I stopped seeing him. And then, like I and I never in my head thought it was like something that was like, detrimental to my life. Like I thought it was like, it never really bothered me, like all these issues. But then during the pandemic, it's gotten completely out of hand. Like what you were saying about the sleeping thing. I sleep in two hour like patches. Yeah, I literally can't do one thing a day. Like I literally it would kill me to like, do one. I don't even know what I do. I do nothing. Yeah, worse. And then I get really overwhelmed. And then I get a bunch of anxiety. And then I'm always late, like I, um, I have this thing where like, I'll have to be somewhere in 15 minutes and I'll leave like 14 like what was one minute and I'm like, how did I think I was gonna get there and I just, I can't get out of I can't leave on time. Like, Jenn Welch 19:30 I know what that is. Once I'm out of my apartment, I tend to be kind of okay, as long as I didn't go someplace where I can settle in, right like if I were to say like say it's the old days and like the pits still open and maybe I would go in there and like work for a few hours and then I would have to go somewhere after that. I would be late to the thing I had to go to after that because I settled in and gotten comfortable or whatever. right but like leaving the apartment is a God dang nightmare. I I, I will not do anything for days. And then in the half hour before I need to go somewhere, I will suddenly be like, oh, now's the time to do all the things. Right? And yeah, I will start like, Oh, it's time to clean the oven. And it's like, no, it's not time to clean the oven. It's time to frickin go. And it's like, if my brain, okay, you know how like a dog sometimes, like when you went on, like, say you're taking your dog on a walk, and your dog happens to find like a sweet piece of pizza on the sidewalk in this one spot, right? One day, and you have to, like, get the piece of pizza out his mouth. Because it's like, No, no, no. But whatever. Um, I found that piece of pizza. And now every time you take your dog on the walk, it has to go check out that spot. Because one time there was pizza there. Right? Like, yeah, that is what my brain is like, with, with really quick commute times. Like, if one time I got from A to B, in a very short amount of time, like everything lined up, it just worked out. I do my brain, my brain is like, that's how long it takes. It takes that tiny amount of time to Yeah, Youngmi Mayer 21:10 I do that with my son's school. Because it's like, once we got an Uber there, and it took 12 minutes. And now I'm like, Okay, now we can leave. We can leave at 818. And we'll and I'm always late every day. And I'm like, Why are Why are we here at nine What happened? I do that all the time. It's so bad. Jenn Welch 21:29 It's so bad. I just don't even understand how somebody experiences time in in a way that like is useful. For I don't Youngmi Mayer 21:38 know how to how am I supposed to know when to leave my apartment how like, I don't get that at all. Jenn Welch 21:44 There was a period, there was a period in time where I had an okay therapists, and this was when I was married. And it was a constant source of tension between my ex and I, this whole like leaving the house thing. And what they told me to do was to take so I had colored index cards so that I wouldn't lose them on my desk with all of my piles of paper, right? Yeah. And when I had to leave somewhere, I would take a colored index card at the like, top of it, I would write the time that I need to leave, right. And then from there, I would write everything that I knew I need to do before I leave like shower, dry hair, eat food. And I would like right out how much time each of those things take and then subtract that from the time that I need to leave. And then that's how much time I needed to start. Like that's so it's like I had to have so stressful. I know, right? Because it's like, Okay, so in my head, it's like, oh, so I need to leave at 330 that means I don't need to even think about the thing that I'm going to until 330, right. Which means I can be in my pajamas, I can be sitting here like, you know, filthy, I can be like whatever and then 330 hits and now it's time to leave. So now I think about it. When really I needed to like start getting ready at 230 because I need to shower and all of that stuff. Yeah, that never somehow makes it into the equation. That's my issue too. Youngmi Mayer 23:13 My big my big thing is eating food. I can just like, I'm like, well, and then I'm gonna have to leave here at two because it's at 215. And then it's like 150 and I'm like, I haven't eaten I'm starving. I need to eat I need to make myself. And then I look at the clock like 230 I'm like oh no, that's never calculate the food time. Jenn Welch 23:38 I never calculate the food time. I never get like I am sitting here next to my bed. I have just a case of brownie bites that I got yesterday. And this is all I've eaten between yesterday and today because they're here because they're here and I can reach them and I'm hungry and I have half a brownie bite. And I'm like, this is not this is not healthy eating. Right. This is not good and sustainable. And then I'm like why do I sleep weird? Unknown 24:07 Yeah. Youngmi Mayer 24:10 I wish I had the answers. And so then the diagnosis, the diagnosis thing is interesting, because so I was like, so five years ago or something, it was like put on the table that I've add and I was like, I don't want to I don't want to think about this. It's not really detrimental to me, right. And then during quarantine, it got to the point where I'm now like, I'm always late for everything. I can't, I can't do anything. I'm just like, in the state of like, confusion and absolute utter chaos at all times. Like every time I have a work call like this thing I've remembered I'm pretty good at writing it down on my calendar now. But like I have so many times I'll just be like, somebody will be like, hey, what Where are you? Why aren't you on the zoom call and I'll be like, like in the middle of the street or something. I'm like joining like that. Just always happens to me. So I was like, sounds like Okay, so now it's getting to this point where it's just like, it's not manageable. So I, so I signed up for, because I was like, kind of broke. And this actually didn't save me money, but like a, like an online like an app where you call a psychiatrist. And it's kind of bogus. I think it's just for people who are addicted to Adderall, who like taking recreational, that's the vibe. It's kind of like a BS, like, get some Adderall. And so I called them and I was like, you know, I've had issues with this. And like, I now at this point, my life is just like, not manageable. And then the doctor was like, asking me all these questions, because I have all these other things that are like, not don't really align with ADD. And she was like, she was like, I, I hear you have, you definitely probably have ADD, but also, I'm hearing a lot of stuff that I think you might have bipolar, too. And she was like, you need to really just go see an actual psychiatrist, because I can't just prescribe you Adderall. Because a lot of times that like, increases your chances of becoming suicidal. If you're not diagnosed Korea, like correctly, and she was like, you know, like, she was like, I think you should do that. So then I was like, Okay, and so that's where I am in my diagnosis, like journey. Yeah. Um, so. Yeah, so like, that is like my official story. Jenn Welch 26:30 But it's a good one. Yeah. So did you end up going to see, like in person, psychiatrist, no, but Youngmi Mayer 26:37 I'm like, I should, like, it's Jenn Welch 26:40 literally the, it's the fucking hardest part of managing all of this is that you need to make appointments with people and, you know, whatever, and have initiative to actually, like, take care of it. Youngmi Mayer 26:54 Yeah, but also, a big part of the reason why I'm not doing it is because I do not want to get on medication. Like I don't actually want to be on Adderall. Which is, like, I have taken it like in the past recreationally. And I felt like great, like, I can get things done, but like, also, it felt bad too. And I you know, I don't know. Yeah, mentally, it's not something that I kind of want for myself. So that's like a big part of why I'm like, Well, what am I gonna do? They're gonna just prescribe me medication that I'm not going to want to take anyway. So Jenn Welch 27:24 yeah, no, I know, it's so hard. And there is like a propensity, who I said, propensity, there is a propensity for, like, doctors to just kind of like throw some medication at you and not really address any of the like, you know, behavioral things or things like that to kind of I feel like ADHD, Twitter has, like, given me so many tools. Just like, I follow a bunch of like, ADHD related accounts on Twitter that just, like, throw great information out during the day, and I'm like, oh, duh. Okay, that makes sense. And that's like, where I get my it's almost like it's almost like coaching in a way. You know, to me, it's almost like yeah, having like that. Youngmi Mayer 28:13 I get a lot of information from Tick Tock serious, like all these doctors and stuff on Tick tock, and I'm like, Okay. Jenn Welch 28:23 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Um, I like certain things. I like, do you know about rejection sensitivity dysphoria? Youngmi Mayer 28:33 No, tell me Oh, that's like a big thing with people with ADHD. We're incredibly sensitive to like any sort of perceived rejection. Like where it's like, physically painful at times. And, and it can even just be something like a facial expression or something like that. We're like, Oh, God, or you know, like, and that is something that like a lot of people with ADHD deal with and don't realize that it's like, actually a thing and not just that. Yeah. And I have that really bad. Jenn Welch 29:09 Yeah. Unknown 29:12 Dating is a nightmare. Oh, my God, I Youngmi Mayer 29:15 go absolutely ballistic. Not not in that. Like, I just like, like ghosts so hard. If there's any sense of that. I'm just like, whoa, I'm never gonna talk to that person again. No. Yeah, nightmare. Jenn Welch 29:27 Yeah, that's it. Um, yeah. And but it's like, it makes sense when you kind of like get when you look at this sort of, like, why have it like, well, I don't know if this is okay. Again, I might just be making up like connections here but like basically like kids with undiagnosed ADHD. Like, get, like if a normal kid gets like, corrected or like reprimanded, like maybe like 10 times a day like a kid with like, undiagnosed ADHD gets like corrected or reprimanded. Like something like 250 times a day. So we're just like exposed to so much more like of that energy. So we're really sensitive to it. And also we don't understand why we're getting like corrected or like, whatever, because it's like, whatever we're doing makes sense to us. So that is that's like part of that's, that's part of it. Youngmi Mayer 30:23 When were you diagnosed with ADHD as a kid? No, Jenn Welch 30:27 I took Well, I took a self test in a Parade Magazine, like a paper when I was 16. And I was like, Mom, I marked like, I hit every point, except for hyperactivity, which I say that but I also like tap danced four nights a week and was on the cheerleading squad and like, you know what I mean, like, so maybe I just wasn't hyperactive because I was in so many, like, physical, you know, extracurriculars. But, um, but I basically like, you know, everything. And my mom was like, oh, everybody feels that way. Which because my mom probably has undiagnosed ADHD, that's how she sees things. Um, so it never got addressed. I went to college was a fucking nightmare. I ended up like, getting in. Basically, I was 28, I had stopped working. So I worked for a film studio for a while out in LA, I was late to work every single day, I was like, I was just like, hanging on by a thread the entire time I was there. And then I got a job freelancing for one of our vendors, like, working from home. And I suddenly realized I still wasn't getting anything done. Even though all the people at work, who I could blame on me not getting anything done, or some, like they were no longer in the equation, and I'm still not getting anything done. And that's when I was like, you know, kind of similar to like you with the pandemic, where suddenly you don't have like, any sort of like routine or anything. And you're like, Oh, this is me, and it's not good. Um, yeah, that's when I went to a psychiatrist out in LA. And so I was 28 when she diagnosed me, and she was like, You are textbook? And I was like, Oh, great. Um, yeah. And so it's been a real game changer. Getting that diagnosis. But again, it was like, mostly at that point, it was like, Okay, well, here are some medication, and I'll see you once a month, and like, you know, whatever. But I still had to deal with all of the things. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Youngmi Mayer 32:42 And then, and then you started doing therapy shortly after that, or? Jenn Welch 32:46 Well, I moved to New York, in 2010, with my ex. And when I got out here, I went and met with a psychiatrist about getting my medication handled. And he met me. And he was like, I think you need to come in here weekly. And I was like, Okay, and so I started going in weekly, and he was amazing. And that's, I he was my therapist for like, seven years. Wow. until he retired, and then I went into trauma therapy, and then I have been in weekly therapy now for like, 11 years. Hmm. Yeah. Youngmi Mayer 33:27 It's the best. Yeah, I agree. Unknown 33:30 Yeah. Youngmi Mayer 33:31 Wow, what a journey. And here we are. I really, you know, honestly, I feel like there's like, I mean, definitely, I don't think there's anything wrong with me or you. And I want to move away from that kind of language. But it's a different way that our brains be working. Jenn Welch 33:53 It's, it's a very different way. It's a very different way. And I commend you for, for being I want to, so I'm going to be 41 soon, and I really want, I wanted to have kids, I didn't think I would ride out my late 30s and early 40s in a pandemic, but here we are. Both, but like, I have a friend who like just have like some embryos implanted and I'm like, maybe I could do that, you know, and she's like, She's like, I have an extra vial of my daughter's firm. So we could have like, siblings, and I'm like, Oh, that's hilarious. That would be so funny. But um, Unknown 34:31 didn't to day, Jenn Welch 34:32 I think about how I think about my daily routine. And I'm like, how would I do this? And so I just want to say I commend you for like, getting it done. Like, no matter how you get it done, like, it's incredible. It's crazy. I'm Youngmi Mayer 34:48 like, I don't watch who let me be a parent. I mean, obviously, I love my son. I feel like I'm a good mom and that way like I have, you know, like Want to love for him? And you know what I'm just like, I can't the brush, like I can't brush his teeth all the time, like, but then you hear a lot of moms and moms and dads or parents who just don't even have ADHD. And they're like, I don't want to brush his teeth every day. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, he's easy on yourself, I think. Jenn Welch 35:22 Yeah, well, that's the thing. It's like, nobody's perfect. And everybody has their own shit that they're struggling with. And it's like, Yeah, I don't know. I think that like, one thing that I kind of. I think that I don't know where I'm going with this. I have like 14 thoughts. On the one hand growing up in a house where I think one of my parents had undiagnosed ADHD, I think that I've hung like, I definitely have. I think I'm very open to like, exploring new options when it comes to like ways of living, if that makes any sense. where it's like, maybe, maybe I like my current place. I don't like curtains because for like, various reasons. So I got chalk markers. And I drew awesome designs on my windows, like, you know, like, and that's like, the sort of thing that happens when you grow up in a house where not everything's perfect all the time is suddenly become a person who at 40 years old thinks it's cool to draw on your window. Like you live in a convenience store. Youngmi Mayer 36:39 I mean, I do stuff like that all the time. Do you have these? Like, obviously this like, add thing? Do you have these like little projects where you buy everything for it, and then it just like sits and I have, I decided I was gonna become a stick and poke tattoo artist. So I bought so many tattooed needles, all the ink, and then I started doing them on my legs for practice. So like, all the areas above, my knees have covered and little stick and poke tattoos. And then I forgot, it's just like collecting dust, but I was really into it for a month. And then I have a rug making kit that I was gonna make rugs and sell rugs that's like in the corner. So it sounds like one of those things. Jenn Welch 37:15 Oh, absolutely. Well, and that's the thing too. Like, once somebody pointed out on ADHD Twitter, that I'm basically ADHD is like we start the day with a dopamine deficit. And then we spend the rest of our day hunting for dopamine. And we don't really want to do anything unless it gives us dopamine. And yeah, so it's like, we find these new hobbies. And we're like, oh, this is the thing that gives me dopamine. And you we do a gazillion stick and poke tattoos on our leg. And then suddenly, it reaches the point where like, it becomes a little ho hum routine, and it doesn't give us dopamine anymore. And then it's like, we will never do it again. Youngmi Mayer 38:00 So one of the things I've like the psychiatrists was like, really concerned about was because I have like a very promiscuous dating life. Like, I don't know if that's the right word. promiscuous sounds like so like 19 1920 is like, I'm showing my ankles. Like, like, I have a very, like, maybe like, I like engage in like, high risk behavior, like sexually, right? And I always like see it like, I think, I don't know enough about bipolar to like, know what that even means. But like, I always see like, Oh, of course, I want to, like go on this date with this guy and have sex with him. Like, I, that gives me so much like dopamine. It's so exciting. But yeah, Jenn Welch 38:43 I don't know. I feel like dating is one of the hardest things with this. Because on the one hand, it's like, yes, immediate gratification. like yeah, I mean, haunt, like, whatever, which means I'm not always making the best choices for myself, like emotionally because I'm just like, ah, but then on the other hand, like, that's like the one hand of it. And then on the other hand of it, I'm so aware of all of the ways that I'm like, kind of a letdown as a lady that I ended up being way too, like lenient in terms of my standards with a dude where like, I'm like, Oh, you live in an ashtray? It's okay, my apartments kinda messy, you know, and it's like, oh Youngmi Mayer 39:26 my god, I'm like that too much. I should not be on a date with this person. No. Jenn Welch 39:36 Yeah, so it's like the whole dating with ADHD thing is hard. I feel like that's a whole nother episode that we need to get into my producers probably like Jenn We're at 40 because that's where we are but I think that you need to come back on and we need to talk about that because a lot um, I Unknown 39:57 Youngmi. Jenn Welch 39:59 If people Want to find you? Where online not in a stalker sense? Where can they where can they find you? Transcribed by https://otter.ai    

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And I, public speaker extraordinaire and just all around cool person. Let's everybody is cheering and clapping for Hayden crystal. Yay. Hooray. Hayden Kristal 0:48 Thank you so much. That was such a nice intro. Thank you. Jenn Welch 0:51 Thank you. I just come up with it on the fly every time. Unknown 0:55 Really good. Unknown 0:59 podcast. Jenn Welch 1:02 I hope something comes out of my mouth. That is that is okay. Um, how are you? It's been so long since I've seen you. Hayden Kristal 1:10 I'm in Colorado with the critters. It's snowing today. Wow, that sucks. But I know I was really disappointed. I went out for a ride and then I was like out riding an athlete. Because this oh fuck that and I went home. Unknown 1:25 Not happy about it. Jenn Welch 1:26 Which which animal were you riding? Hayden Kristal 1:30 Squidward my baby. Jenn Welch 1:33 Oh, my goodness. Because there's a mule right? There's no mule, but there's five horses and three donkeys? Hayden Kristal 1:42 Oh, three donkeys. Okay, but a donkey. A donkey is a mix between a mule and a horse. Or is it? Okay, yeah, well, it's a mix between a donkey and a horse. So you have three donkeys? Five horses. Unknown 1:59 Yes. Jenn Welch 2:00 They don't make mules? Nope. And how do they get along with Bitsy and pinkman? Hayden Kristal 2:12 bethy doesn't like any of them. She just like leaves them alone. She won't go in the pasture. But pinky love to chase the donkeys and they love to chase her. Unknown 2:20 Yeah, have Hayden Kristal 2:22 have an ancient rescue donkey. He's 23 years old. He's a mini donkey. So he's like the size of a Great Dane. And his name is Nicola Ross. And he loves Pinkie and she'll bark and chase him back. It's really cute. Oh, Jenn Welch 2:37 that's so sweet. I like to imagine. So, for people who don't know, Hayden's dogs, pink Ben is I Deaf Border Collie, okay. Bitsy is a blind and deaf Aussie. Unknown 3:00 Yes. Hayden Kristal 3:00 And last night What? Yeah, I took this really cute video of her and my dad reuniting seeing each other for the first time since COVID started and it hit the front page of Reddit and then ABC ran it in a field good segment last night. Jenn Welch 3:19 Oh my God, that's amazing. Hayden Kristal 3:19 amazing. It's like sidebar as a comedian how annoyed I am that my dog has a TV credit before I do. Jenn Welch 3:30 Technically, I think it's your credit you filmed it you put it out there for the world. Hayden Kristal 3:35 I wasn't in it. My dad has a TV credit before I do oh my Jenn Welch 3:38 god content that you created. Hayden Kristal 3:41 It is content that I created. I don't think my name was mentioned at all. But my dog does have a network TV credit before I do. Jenn Welch 3:54 I love that I I was thinking earlier about Bitsy and pinkman. And I was thinking about how Bitsy is kind of like a little furry like metaphor. I mean, obviously for the experience of being blind and deaf, but also I think for like inattentive ADHD, because she's always just like in her own world. And then you just have to like tap her and be like, come on back. Like this is what's going on Hayden Kristal 4:28 every once in a while because I have an attentive ADHD but every once in a while she just gets this laser focus. Well, yeah, I was sitting by my mom's feet while my mom is eating dinner the other night and my mom was eating ribs. And Bitsy was just like, No, I'm eating ribs. And she just like, like, jumped up, grabbed the plate and ran like rat flip the whole plate was watching barbecue sauce off the dog for like an hour. But like she gets these moments of pure focus or shopping to accomplish Jenn Welch 4:58 or then maybe she's just inattentive ADHD everything because I was gonna say pinkman is like hyper focus, like pinkman like with a ball. Hayden Kristal 5:10 Yeah, there's something wrong with pinkman we're not sure what she's just like congealed amphetamines. She just is the world's first like meth based life form and that of carbon in my bed looking at me right now. Oh, Jenn Welch 5:30 oh my god, I just remember the one time my dog sat for them. And pinkman literally, I made the mistake of like throwing a ball indoors. And that was it. There was like, no peace. Hayden Kristal 5:45 That's her whole deal. Happy. Jenn Welch 5:47 Yay. Um, so how old? Were you? Cuz I don't think we've ever really talked about how old were you? were you when you were diagnosed with ADHD? And how did that because I do want to talk about like the intersectionality of like others sort of like disability and stuff like that. But like, how did that coincide with with when you like, I don't know, we've never talked about like the the death thing too much, either. Really? No, people usually have to pay for that. Did you only do that on your only fans? Hayden Kristal 6:24 My only I was gonna say because that's what I talked about as a public speaker. I'm sure that my agency would be thrilled. I started doing workshops on all my family. That's actually super funny. And I maybe should do. Like educational content. Oh, me fan. I kind of love that. And I definitely want to do it. I wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult. Yeah, 19 or 20. And I went, I got a diagnosis because I had been seeing a psychiatrist for a long time. And my girlfriend at the time was like, I can't take you anymore. I need you to go get help for your add. And I was like, No, I have a DD. And then I went into my psychiatrist. And I was like, so my girlfriend thinks I have ADHD. And she goes, Oh, do you? Not? And I was like, not that I'm aware of. And she was like, Oh my god, I'm so sorry. She was like, I don't know why I thought that you had it. I thought we had had this conversation. And you were just like cool with where you're like, Oh, that's not great. And I remember doing the like the test like the quiz they give you? Yeah, she was like, Do you often misplace important things. And I was like, I swear to God, I'm not doing a bit. I was like, I don't know where my keys are right now. Somewhere between here and my car, presumably. But that's as specific as I can be at this juncture. Oh Jenn Welch 7:56 my god. My mom keeps texting me every day saying Have you found her driver's license yet. And I I haven't told her that I also can't find my debit card. But um, so they're both missing in my apartment haven't left my apartment and months. I like the only reason I know it's missing is because I had to go get my vaccine. And I had to like, I just had to give up and go to the vaccine appointment without my license and like, like nudge, nudge my way into like getting a shot. I have no idea where it is. And they were like, We can't go back home and look for it. And I'm like, it's not gonna help. It's not gonna help. I have no idea. Hayden Kristal 8:39 No, and retrospect, I don't really understand why I wasn't diagnosed sooner. I had been going through debit cards roughly every six weeks. Jenn Welch 8:49 Yeah. Hayden Kristal 8:50 Like, that's how long I could keep one or like I would lose it at four weeks and just not replace it for two weeks. Like I was going through them so regularly with the lady at the bank, me. I don't really get why I wasn't diagnosed. I also went to like a tiny private high school for like, I need your podcast on air quotes. The most air for gifted students. And it was it was real circle jerky about like everybody learns differently. everybody's mind works differently. And now as an adult, I'm like, yeah, it's in the DSM. Like we just did nothing. But like, sit and congratulate ourselves about how special My mind was, for a long time. And then I started Adderall. And now I can be a person. But um, I think the question of the intersectionality of that, and that disability is really interesting, because I talked about on stage that I was they thought I had autism, some kind of autism when I was a kid, and which I've read that there's a lot of overlap between like a Add ADHD and autism diagnosis and especially those, but there's also a lot of overlap in autism and hearing loss diagnosis. They're both communication disorders. Right and so I think it's really interesting that we kind of circled it nothing I don't have hearing you That was a valid diagnosis. Jenn Welch 10:22 Well, I wonder I wonder too if like I'm like some of the stuff that was ADHD stuff was like well that's just because you know of the issues with hearing so that's why that's why he didn't miss that or that's why Hayden maybe Yeah, that's Hayden Kristal 10:39 a great way and I also wonder how much of that fed back into itself like I couldn't hear it so I just checked out like and like how much that got in trench but my mom and her whole side sure have add on ADHD? I don't really get how they missed it except that I was like not like running around like I wasn't what you picture is like a rampaging ADHD Okay, sure. You Jenn Welch 11:08 say that you're not rampaging ADHD child. But in the few years since I've known you I've never seen you without to unruly dogs. Unknown 11:20 of like, dogs are not Jenn Welch 11:22 here. By unruly by unruly I mean, I was one of them's deaf, and the other ones blind and deaf, and you have to be really aware of what they're doing at all times. And they're big. I don't mean they like I mean, are there, you're not there. They're so well behaved. They're so well behaved, but you have to be engaged with them, right? The whole time? Not really, Hayden Kristal 11:47 I will accept that. Hey, is there something wrong with pinkman? No, I do, but I wasn't like, Unknown 11:54 I accept that. I'm Hayden Kristal 11:55 a weird person. Except that I'm definitely like, a, like a memorable side character. But I'm no I but I wasn't like bouncing around. I wasn't like jumping up and down on the couch. When you're on the classroom. I just was always, Jenn Welch 12:17 I always feel like when I bring Augie out with me places in public, like he's just a little dude. And he like makes me feel like I'm expending so much energy, like trying to kind of like, make sure he's not getting in somebody's soup or making sure he's not, you know, meeting a new stranger who is going to go home with or make sure he's stealing the microphone from the comedian. You know, or like, whatever. So I can't imagine having two of them, I guess is like, that's why I see it as like a high energy pursuit to have the dogs with you. Like, you know, yeah, I Hayden Kristal 12:57 understand what you're saying. I spent I did like, I went to like a professional facility and did like dog training and dog sports for a while. Yeah, they're pretty self sufficient in terms of just being good. But it's like, I do like having a constant distraction. Yeah. Or like, they're like, they're like furry fidget spinners. Like I think the pet Unknown 13:20 wide bar. Hayden Kristal 13:21 My mom got a fidget spinner for free. Like someone gave it I was gonna throw it away. Then she found me sitting at the table with it, like up against my face just wearing it. She's like, okay, and I was like, Can I have this? And she's like, yep, You sure can Unknown 13:38 have a $5 trinket? Unknown 13:43 Yeah, Hayden Kristal 13:43 I was just mesmerized. I was like, this thing's pretty good. I like this a lot. Unknown 13:48 Oh my god. Um, Unknown 13:50 I should have been diagnosed a lot sooner. Jenn Welch 13:53 Yeah, that fidget spinner man. I know they became like a joke but the first time I got my hands on one I like I was it felt like I was home. This is where my body is. Hayden Kristal 14:08 Yeah, I was like I lit so satisfying. Like bearings in it. Jenn Welch 14:14 Oh boy have like that weight to it. That spinny so good. It's so good. Um, we because we haven't talked about it too much. But I guess like your experience with like, you know, deafness and like communicating and ADHD and how it all kind of rolls together and how it all I just want I want to hear everything about it. Here everything about how like I communicating and like just, all all of the all of the things, all of them. extrapolate something from what I just from what just came Hayden Kristal 14:59 over. Using hearing aids and like, I went to private schools that I gave, only about 30% of spoken English can actually be like lip read the rest of it you get through context and guesswork. It's like a, just an never ending an unrelenting game of Wheel of Fortune all the time. So the processing power that it takes to have a conversation with someone, and lip read that conversation is a lot, particularly in like a classroom setting. And I really have to focus, because I'm only get 30%. So I need all the context clues that I can get. And then sometimes when I'm talking to people, there's a bit of a lag. Yeah, like, it's not very long. But there's a bit of a lag as I'm like, putting stuff together. And I think that, that burned me out. Like, I think that that and it still does, like I noticed when I'm signing my ability to focus as much more Jenn Welch 15:57 I can only speak to like, obviously, I don't have issues with hearing, but after I hit my head, I did have issues with like audio processing and stuff like that. And also hearing words wrong. Like I would hear multi like multi multisyllabic words as like, just almost like a classic like a Rebus puzzle like, so if a word is like a carburetor, I would hear it as like automobile cold eating her like carbery you don't like that's how I would? Oh, yeah, that's how my brain would hear it. So I'd have to like put it together. And yeah, it's exhausting. Like, kind of trying to communicate with something like that. And you can't respond as quickly and like, whatever. And so how does how does signing kind of like open things up more? Like I imagined that just the the experience of mental listening versus like whole body communication is like you have to be in your body like your I don't know, tell me tell me tell me Unknown 17:09 things? Um, Hayden Kristal 17:11 no, it's just, um, it's being able to receive the information without having to take the time to like, process it consciously. Like it just comes in streams, and I'm able to respond. And that's a lot less exhausting than it is to have to like work out that puzzle for everything that said, I will say My vision is not great. And so I'm super nearsighted. So somebody is more than like, a couple of feet away from me. I do have to kind of actively process and squint to see what they're saying. But that's just more a personal not wearing glasses problem than it is like an actual processing issue. That's I don't like things on my face. Yeah, my fucking problem and not going to touch my eye like an idiot. Oh, contact lenses Unknown 17:57 are the worst. Jenn Welch 17:58 Yeah, you get the LASIK? Hayden Kristal 18:00 I could and I thought about it. But I also like that requires like taking the initiative to figure it out. Like, not learn how to do it myself. Like I'm just gonna get I'm gonna forge a laser vein and I are so busy. I could I've thought about it. I should probably go do that. I feel like I got a queue. My, my sense of smell is really good. So I felt like as long as I have that, like, I need to address the other issues. Okay, so you really identify with Bitsy, is what you're saying? i? I do. Yeah. But I'm a really good. I just learned that not everybody like I can totally smell like my family all smells like people smell different to me. And like I can tell which one of my dogs comes in the room by like, smell. Yeah, I just learned like, that's not a thing that people don't that translate. Well, you guys are missing out well develop sense of smell. Jenn Welch 19:03 So what how old were you when you learn to sign? Hayden Kristal 19:06 I started when I was 15 I think I must have been 16 cuz I I started college early. I think at the time. It was very out of character in retrospect, very unbranded and super funny but I got pissed at one person in high school and I dropped out and got my GED the same week. I went to college early. And I got scholarship money for my GED score. So I did not beat the system. I slam dunk the system. I still think that's one of the like, talk about committing to a bit I got that one person dropped out and got a GED. But then I started college and I was really struggling because I went from a tiny private school to a big public university and the Deaf Services Coordinator there recommended I started learning sign language and I had this kind of like internalized complex like that I didn't need to learn sign language because I was smart. And cuz that's what it's about. That's what it's about. And then when I started, I was like, oh, okay, and my grades shot up. And like, my social ability shot up, like and even with hearing people, I think just because I'm not so tired all the time. I'm still very awkward. Jenn Welch 20:31 I know we all are. But Hayden Kristal 20:33 yeah, we wouldn't become comedians if we had social skills. Right? But I feel like in terms of like confidence and self assuredness, I really bloomed because before I couldn't, it was hard for me to go do stuff because like, I couldn't go out to dinner with friends because it was dark in the restaurant. Like I'm just gonna sit there and that's like, even at comedy clubs, it's very early and all of it I'm like, having war flashbacks to pine box. Like when it's dark. And, like, there's a lot of background noise. Like there's no way for me to be able to, to lip read and communicate, which is a bummer, because I like hanging out with comics. But yeah, but being able to sign and having that outlet, I think gave me like more tolerance for those situations. Yeah, cuz I have outlet where it's not like that. Jenn Welch 21:28 Yeah. That's awesome. Very cool. So how, I guess the last thing I want to talk about is because we're getting close on time, but one thing that really impresses me about you is this career that you've forged that I going around and doing these speaking the speaking circuit and and finding these like connections like you have the awesome one about Bitsy and you have the awesome one about like gay SL which is like the intersectionality between like LGBTQ activism and, and disability, activism and everything. And how how, how did you? How did you follow through on all of this shit, because I keep wanting to put something together to do. Because we had talked about it in the past, like doing something on like, improv and PTSD or like doing something. Yeah, I have this podcast now. Like, I could talk about ADHD, like, whatever. Hayden Kristal 22:35 What? You know, 100% dude, by the way? Jenn Welch 22:39 Um, yeah, it's but it's, but it's like, doing it. It's like the actual doing it. Yeah, stops me, you know, Hayden Kristal 22:46 I find a fun way to convince myself to do stuff is to trap myself in obligations. And then you so Midwestern, that I can't back out of it. Jenn Welch 22:58 That is how I've done all of my solo shows. And my half hour is I just booked and and then I'm, and then I'm staying here. likeable foot. Hayden Kristal 23:06 Yeah. And then so I started. So if anybody I mean, why would anybody know. But my day job is doing well. Now, also comedy, but I work mostly with corporate gigs, and colleges. And I do stand up and also workshops about what I call intersectional accessibility, or how we can make our resources the most available to the widest range of whole people. So I started doing that actually started public speaking before comedy, because I just, and then I made the switch because I was like, This is too much money in respect. But I I started by applying to conferences, which are kind of like comedy festivals. And I kept doing those. And I really liked doing those. I like going and interacting with people. And I like performing. So I just kept applying to those, like I would get in a little like zone and apply to like 50 of them. And then whichever ones would take me I'd be like, Fuck, now I gotta go to this. And then I just kept doing it. And I don't write anything out. One of my teachers in school is really impressed. She's like, you can give a whole presentation and you don't have to write anything down and like, I can't write something down. That's one of the things that I love hearing that, because that's one of the things that's been stopping me with this route is I feel like it was speaker gig, you have to be respectable. You have to have a script, you have to like whatever but I don't. I don't even write my jokes down. Like I did an hour long solo show and didn't write any of it down. Jenn Welch 24:37 Yeah, Hayden Kristal 24:38 but I think that that's an asset and I've gotten a lot of feedback, especially working with college students. I get a lot of feedback that I am fun, and it's personable and it's not threatening, and it's not like I'm not lecturing me and it's when now I've done particularly KSL I've done so many times that I think if I flatline and somebody like Like, electrified me, I'm not remembering what the English word for Unknown 25:05 different different, different. Unknown 25:07 Yeah, yes. Hayden Kristal 25:11 We were playing with that game like we try to guess the word. Now we're gonna get stuck on that we're gonna have to Jenn Welch 25:17 get now we have to guess the game of the word that game where you get hurt. Hayden Kristal 25:21 Um, but I've done that so many times if flatline and you shocked, I would just sit up and do that whole workshop word for word, and then I would just go back down. But it's not. I didn't start doing like, like big name conferences like I started doing little garbage conferences, and then worked my way up. And so I slowly felt my way through. And it becomes kind of like a comedy set, like you build the framework. And then as you go through, you can add more stuff and take out the stuff that doesn't work. And you kind of I, my method is I feel my way through it as it goes. Yeah, it's the same as comedy. It's like you don't start public speaking start small. I think people think of like getting paid $250,000 to go speak at Goldman Sachs or whatever. But you don't start doing that. It's the same as comedy. You build up your speaking as though you build up your program. And I've been doing that for, like seven years, I think. Eight I know, time is so relative, but I that's something I've been working on forever. And so my thing is that, when, especially when I was starting out was to just trap myself into commitments. And then I have to go do it. But you all you need is like an outline. And and the thing I tell people when I teach public speaking, is that you don't, you don't need to worry about it. You don't need to memorize a speech. If you know what you're talking about. If you know what the point you want to get across is that's the important thing. So like are gay ASL at the teach these signs and then talk about intersectional intersectionality, accessibility and intersectional accessibility with Bitsy, I want to explain who she is, why she is deaf and blind. How I trained her what that means for me, like I have those points. And so I know I know what the thesis is. And I just have to get up there and tell it to you. Like that's it. And it doesn't matter if the wording is exactly the same every time. It would be a nightmare for me. I would be so bored if the word is the same. Do you get laughs during your talks? Oh, yeah, big time. I have jokes that I can't do. I want to do ASL is like a one person show? Jenn Welch 27:34 Uh huh. Like as a great title. Hayden Kristal 27:37 Thank you. I have so many good jokes. I have a joke for every letter of the alphabet because I teach the alphabet. But it's like I can't do it on stage. There's just no context for it. Yeah, like it's just, but I think it's like a friend show. It would work really well. Yeah. Jenn Welch 27:55 I could definitely see that. Um, I, I am feeling pumped about this. I just need to book myself some dates and and then do them. And then Hayden Kristal 28:09 Dude, you should. Yeah, you should I think you would do really well. And it's I've had as many cool opportunities as I've gotten from comedy. Like I've gotten to do some cool ridiculous shit from Yeah. public speaking. Even just like doing because Jenn Welch 28:23 I would do improv trainings for for companies and for corporations. And that was just like ridiculous. Like, oh, I get to go in for an hour a day and teach improv to timeshare salesmen. To go to the devil's work, yeah, right. On top of two pyramid schemes, she stands. But I going to, you know, like a corporate retreat at the Jersey Shore to like, teach improv and like, whatever and having dinners and stuff. Um, but, but also just like, I, I feel like I'm being able to, like say something that's like, helpful in a way or like, you know, like, spreads good goodness. Although, I feel like I feel like Oh, that's so much responsibility, but it's also a lot of responsibility to like stand in front of an audience of people and be tasked with making them laugh like that's also a weirdly big responsibility you know, that they left their houses in Yeah. COVID days. Yeah. Hayden Kristal 29:31 Talk about this, I'm, I've been working on a new workshop about like activism in the digital age, and something that I've been talking about for a long time. But I feel like it's more relevant now is that it's not it's not my anybody's job to any educate anyone. I don't think that you have an obligation to be an activist just because of how you identify and the groups you're a part of. I think that your responsibilities to yourself and self care first, and that can be really rough. In and of itself. Yeah, I also think that if you put yourself in an educator context, it's your job. Like if you want to be an activist education is your job. But they think that if you put yourself in that context, I feel like there's a responsibility there. I feel a responsibility when I go, but I also feel like, it's not on me necessarily what people take away. Like, I know that there's going to be a couple people who really lash learn, and there's going to be other people who just are like, whatever, and forget that it happened two minutes later, but I think that I mean, also this is like very, maybe not helpful, but like, also let the market decide baby like, go do a workshop and people hate it, you'll know, right? Unknown 30:48 I know. Jenn Welch 30:50 But it has to be perfect before it happens. So we are we're at time, I want you to tell people all the places where they can find you, but I want you to do it as Bitsy and so where can people find you? Hayden Kristal 31:09 Okay, I feel like for context people should know that I do voice characters for my dogs and Bitsy my ex otherwise, I'm gonna be bluedart medicated by a robe not that that would help with this but I do voice characters for my dog Bitsy is like a like a trashy little pageant girl who is deaf and blind so people are really nice to her because she's disabled but she's also never experienced hardship. So she has a super awesome internalized sense of superiority. Yeah, Jenn Welch 31:41 I meant to ask you this earlier too. So in red fold into this giving of your of your places that people can find you also what Bitsy imagines a horse to be. Okay, Unknown 31:55 that's a lot. Hayden Kristal 31:58 Okay, so are you all sorts of places? Why number one, oh, the internet. Like also because my mother does social media survival social media is just an event. Mama's by Hayden crystal ha y d E and K our eyes ti l or like Instagram at peacock, and like, all those kind of things. But you can find me on pigment the dog that temblor calm. We're very color famous. And then also I sent you back. I don't like horses. They're overweight. They're very chubby because like, I don't wait for 100 pounds like only weigh 43 pounds. A year massive. He have a dog but like also you 1200 is much bigger than 43 and I don't fit that skirt. Jenn Welch 32:46 Amazing. I'm in heaven. I'm in heaven. I'm Cathy sweet, sweet Bitsy girl. Um, guys. I'm Jenn Welch. You can find me at Jenn Welch now. Jenn Welch w l ch now like right now. And at all the places and follow the podcast lady HD pod at lady HD pod. Also at all the places Patreon oh my gosh, I have a Patreon. It's patreon.com slash lady HD, sign up a small monthly little I become a Patreon patron of the podcast and and get perks and goodies. Like one of them is a is a is a zoom art party that is perhaps quarterly or maybe monthly. I don't remember what I put. So that would be fun, wouldn't it? And that's what you get if you're a patron of the podcast. So anyways, um Hayden Kristal 33:48 that Find me on my site haydenkristal.com that Jen actually made for me. Oh, Jenn Welch 33:54 yes, go to go to Hayden's website and see the beautiful illustrations that I did I Oh, what am I doing? The beautiful illustrations that I did have. We are beautiful. Hayden Kristal 34:08 I just got contacted by a very fancy law firm to do corporate diversity training. And they were like, We love your website. And I was like, your UC immigration law firm and my website is dope but it's also it's got like 80s pop art of my dogs. But this these eye socket are replaced. I was like, Okay, I can vibe with this. I can do a lecture there. That's amazing. Unknown 34:34 I love it. I love it. Unknown 34:35 Oh. Thank you for doing that. We're done. Now. We're done. Unknown 34:40 Yay. Hi. All right. Transcribed by https://otter.ai

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has reached the max number of windows one can have open on their iPhone's Safari app!! Very funny comedian Carmen Lagala (The Late Show w Stephen Colbert) joins Jenn to see what she's been googlin' and help decide which of these 500 browser windows can be closed. (SPOILER ALERT: it's a lot of them)   FOLLOW CARMEN: Insta: @carmstagrams | Twitter: @carmenlagala FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has reached the max number of windows one can have open on their iPhone's Safari app!! King of pep talks Josh Gondelman (Desus & Mero, Make My Day podcast) joins Jenn to see what she's been googlin' and help decide which of these 500 browser windows can be closed. (SPOILER ALERT: it's a lot of them)   FOLLOW JOSH: Insta | Twitter: @joshgondelman FOLLOW JENN: Insta | Twitter: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW LADYHD: Insta | Twitter | TikTok: @ladyhdpod PRODUCED BY LEFT HANDED RADIO: Insta | Twitter: @lefthandedradio ***** LOVE THE PODCAST? WANT TO HELP SUPPORT PRODUCTION COSTS? Join the LadyHD Patreon and get sweet perks / goodies or Leave a tip in the LadyHD tip jar

If you’ve been longing for JV’s Bruce Springsteen singing impression, this is the episode for you. This week the funny, honest and charming Jenn Welch (LadyHD: A Podcast for Distractible Women)  celebrates the sisterhood of busy minds and busy hands, factory towns, and the allure of other peoples’ discarded tissues.  

OMG MY THERAPIST IS GOING TO BE SO PROUD I FINALLY SET UP MY PATREON: www.patreon.com/ladyhd  Get sweet perks for supporting the pod! ******* LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 windows open on her iPhone Safari app and her phone won't let her open any new windows until she closes some of the windows that are open. Comedian, farm boy, and host of The Nostalgic Front podcast (IG: @thenostalgicfrontpodcast) Patrick Hastie joins Jenn to figure out which windows she can close so she can finally resume opening new windows that will someday need to be closed to make room for more windows that will eventually need to be closed and so on and so on, forever opening windows and forgetting to close them, until that day in the hopefully distant future when she opens her last browser window to make one final google search. I did not mean for this episode description to get so dark, but here we are. FOLLOW PATRICK: twitter | insta: @patrickhastie FOLLOW JENN: twitter | insta | tiktok: @jennwelchnow FOLLOW THE POD: twitter | insta | tiktok: @LadyHDpod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

This week, our contestants Gianmarco Soresi and Jenn Welch learn about The Muppets, celebrate our 50th episode anniversary, and think up of new ways to leave your lover.Jenn Welch would like to plug LadyHD and her Animal Crossing shot-for-shot remakes and recommends @creepyamericangirlsGianmarco Soresi would like to plug his album Shelf Life and his upcoming podcast The Downside and recommends Promising Young WomanAnd Finally, Dave Holmes is on Twitter @DaveHolmesFind us on Twitter! We are @TroubledPodCall us on the official Troubled Waters hotline! Our number is 323-300-4984. Our producers will have a new prompt for you to answer and we may just use your call on the showDon’t want to pay those international calling fees? Email us a voice memo! troubledwaterspod@gmail.comWritten by Riley Silverman and John-Luke Roberts, recorded remotely over Zoom and produced by Christian Dueñas and Laura Swisher.

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 windows open on her iPhone Safari app and her phone won't let her open any new windows until she closes some of the windows that are open.   Comedian / Podcast Host / Gentle Soul Lyssa Mandel (What's Betwixt Us) joins Jenn to figure out which windows she can close so she can finally resume opening new windows that will someday need to be closed to make room for more windows that will eventually need to be closed and so on and so on, forever opening windows and forgetting to close them, until that day in the hopefully distant future when she opens her last browser window to make one final google search. I did not mean for this episode description to get so dark, but here we are. - - - TW: mentions of sexual assault and fertility and mental health struggles and various other sad things i'd been googlin honestly this one is just mostly trigger warnings all over the place so prepare yourself for fun! FOLLOW Lyssa: twitter | insta: @aflockofsandwiches   FOLLOW JENN: twitter | insta | tiktok: @jennwelchnow  FOLLOW THE POD: twitter | insta | tiktok: @LadyHDpod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

In this episode I interview comedian and fellow podcaster Jenn Welch! After the death of her father, Jenn found her own ways of coping by being open and creative about her loss. We talk about her Dead Dad Tinder account, and the impact it can have when we take ownership of our own issues. We also talk about how great it is to have a community that welcomes expression, even when it's not funny. Check out Jenn's podcast LadyHD - A Podcast for distractable women! Follow her @JennWelchNow and @LadyHDPod Follow ME on IG and Twitter @WheresTheGrief  Email me anytime at WheresTheGrief@gmail.com

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 windows open on her iPhone Safari app and her phone won't let her open any new windows until she closes some of the windows that are open.   Comedian, creator of @CreepyAmericanGirls, and Laura Dern look-alike Maria Wojciechowski joins Jenn to figure out which windows she can close so she can finally resume opening new windows that will someday need to be closed to make room for more windows that will eventually need to be closed and so on and so on, forever opening windows and forgetting to close them, until that day in the hopefully distant future when she opens her last browser window to make one final google search. I did not mean for this episode description to get so dark, but here we are. - - - TW: v brief mentions of sexual assault and various other sad things i'd been googlin  FOLLOW MARIA: twitter | insta: @riawojo   FOLLOW JENN: twitter | insta | tiktok: @jennwelchnow  FOLLOW THE POD: twitter | insta | tiktok: @LadyHDpod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 windows open on her iPhone Safari app and her phone won't let her open any new windows until she closes some of the windows that are open.  Comedian Tracey Carnazzo (host of the 90 Day Fiancé Trash Talk, Teen Mom Trash Talk, and Only in New York podcasts) joins Jenn to figure out which windows she can close so she can finally resume opening new windows that will someday need to be closed to make room for more windows that will eventually need to be closed and so on and so on, forever opening windows and forgetting to close them, until that day in the hopefully distant future when she opens her last browser window to make one final google search. I did not mean for this episode description to get so dark, but here we are. Follow Tracey: Twitter | IG: @trixietuzzini Podcasts: linktr.ee/trixietuzzini Follow Jenn:  Twitter | IG | TikTok: @jennwelchnow Follow LadyHD: Twitter | IG | TikTok: @ladyhdpod OMG HELLO PLS RATE! REVIEW! SUBSCRIBE! SHARE! IT HELPS THE PODCAST AND IT HELPS MEEEEE A LADY WITH ADHD WHOSE LOVE LANGUAGE IS WORDS OF AFFIRMATION HONK HONK --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 browser windows open on her iPhone's Safari app. She's literally reached the limits of the internet - the app won't let her open any new windows until she closes some old windows. Comedian / Writer / Trivia Maven Emily Winter joins Jenn to take a look at what she's been googlin and help her figure out which of these 500 windows she can close.  Follow Emily: Twitter | Insta: @emilymcwinter Follow Jenn:  Twitter | Insta | TikTok: @jennwelchnow Follow LadyHD: Twitter | Insta | TikTok: @ladyhdpod OMG HELLO PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW AND SUBSCRIBE AND SHARE TY ILY!!!!  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

In this episode, host @BrookeLJames is joined by @JennWelchNow host of the @LadyHDPod and Founder of @DeadDadTinder where they talk about similarities between grief and ADHD, how to understand feelings of wanting to date after a loss, and how Jenn's time with her father after his cancer diagnosis healed their relationship. www.thegriefcoach.co

In this episode, I chat with Jenn Welch, host of the LadyHD podcast. She shares what it's like to struggle with dermoid cysts and provides some excellent advice on how to communicate with various doctors based on (unfortunately) tons of experience. Highlights: When and how Jenn was diagnosed with ADHD. Jenn is a self-described "grower of giant ovarian dermoid cysts". She tells us a little about that. Jenn shares what it's been like juggling multiple conditions and doctors. She has some sage advice for others doing the same. If you like this episode, be sure to subscribe and leave a review!

Jenn Welch (@jennwelchnow) is a New York comic and has a podcast (@LadyHDpod) and is one of the legion of people that told me Animal Crossing is THE BEST. She brings it. You will love. In November and December - do NOT DONATE TO THE DORK FOREST - donate to your LOCAL FOOD BANK. ie Google "food bank" and the name of your town. If you're in the US it's slightly harder but fun to go to www.feedingamerica.com and put yer zip code in. Resume donating to TDF in January. If you're a monthly donar kebob know that yer monies will go to LA's food bank and i'll get ALL THE CREDIT ;). yer call. Be well. take care of each other out there. Merch: My current album “I Am Not the Hero of This Story” available on Amazon, iTunes and hard copy if you want it signed on the website. As well as TDF tshirts, standup shirts and other CDs and just videos of my comedy. Premium eps of TDF are taped live and available here: https://thedorkforest.bandcamp.com/ Youtube has everything too: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDorkForest and @jackiekashian on all the social mediaz. Audio and Video by Patrick Brady Music is by Mike Ruekberg Website design by Vilmos

Lucinda Inganni joins Jenn to discuss comorbid anxiety & depression, Los Angeles in the early aughts, and raising a ten year old boy who also has ADHD. Follow Lucinda: Instagram: @lucindainganni and @ontheragvintage Twitter: @elinganni LadyHD is hosted by Jenn Welch:  Instagram / Twitter / TikTok: @jennwelchnow  and produced by Tristan Miller:  Twitter: @TristanJMiller1  Follow LadyHD on Instagram | Twitter | TikTok: @LadyHDpod   PUT "TELL ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO SUBSCRIBE TO LADYHD" ON YOUR TO-DO LIST IT WILL FEEL SO GOOD WHEN YOU CAN CROSS IT OUT --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 windows open on her iPhone Safari app and her phone won't let her open any new windows until she closes some of the windows that are open. Her producer Tristan Miller helps her figure out which windows she can close so she can finally resume opening new windows that will someday need to be closed to make room for more windows that will eventually need to be closed and so on and so on, forever opening windows and forgetting to close them, until that day in the hopefully distant future when she opens her last browser window to make one final google search. I did not mean for this episode description to get so dark, but here we are. LadyHD is hosted by Jenn Welch: Instagram & Twitter @jennwelchnow and produced by Tristan Miller: Twitter: @TristanJMiller1 Follow LadyHD on all the apps @LadyHDpod: Instagram | Twitter | TikTok PUT "TELL ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO SUBSCRIBE TO LADYHD" ON YOUR TO-DO LIST IT WILL FEEL SO GOOD WHEN YOU CAN CROSS IT OUT --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

LadyHD host Jenn Welch has 500 windows open on her iPhone Safari app and her phone won't let her open any new windows until she closes some of the windows that are open. Her producer Tristan Miller helps her figure out which windows she can close so she can finally resume opening new windows that will someday need to be closed to make room for more windows that will eventually need to be closed and so on and so on, forever opening windows and forgetting to close them, until that day in the hopefully distant future when she opens her last browser window to make one final google search. I did not mean for this episode description to get so dark, but here we are. LadyHD is hosted by Jenn Welch: Instagram & Twitter @jennwelchnow and produced by Tristan Miller: Twitter: @TristanJMiller1 Follow LadyHD on all the apps @LadyHDpod: Instagram | Twitter | TikTok PUT "TELL ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO SUBSCRIBE TO LADYHD" ON YOUR TO-DO LIST IT WILL FEEL SO GOOD WHEN YOU CAN CROSS IT OUT --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

It's a trailer for LadyHD: a podcast for distractible women hosted by Jenn Welch! Full episodes coming to a podcast thing near you on Wednesday, September 23rd unless something goes horribly wrong and/or Jenn spends that whole Wednesday thinking it's a Tuesday. Subscribe now before you forget! And follow the podcast on Twitter and IG: @LadyHDpod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/support

To celebrate our 150th episode, we’re taking time to laugh at our fitness foibles. Guest comedians Claire Yale, Emily Johnson, and Jenn Welch share hilarious stories of athletic hubris, and Daphnie and Joanna look back at the last three years of “Just One More”.Links in this episode: More from Claire, Emily, and Jenn, Patch workout equipment in San Diego, Turbo Jam Cardio Party, Active.com, Join us on Patreon!

In this episode Ream and Patrick sit down with comedian JENN WELCH (What A Joke Comedy Festival, Dead Dad Tinder) and talk about growing up in Binghamton, The Neverending Story, Pizza Hut, Microwaves, Corn, Cordless Phones, Infomericals and a bunch of other really great stuff! This episode is one of our best! Follow Jenn on Twitter at @JennWelchNow! https://twitter.com/JennWelchNow Jenn created the Dead Dad Tinder! Check it out: https://www.instagram.com/deaddadtinder/ Follow The Nostalgic Front on Twitter @NostalgicFront! https://twitter.com/NostalgicFront Also, please leave a 5 star review on itunes and tell your friends! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nostalgic-front/id451098806?mt=2 NFers Forever!

Jenn Welch, Thayer Academy's Associate Director of Admissions and Diversity and Director of International Student Enrollment visits the Finalsite studio from Boston for a chat with Tim about international recruitment, Thayer's amazing new site, and getting more sleep thanks to FitBit.    

Jenn Welch is a 30-something, native Bostonian, and Korean American adoptee. She is currently the Director of International Student Enrollment at Thayer Academy, a private day school outside of Boston.  Over the last 15 years, she has been committed to helping young people, from diverse backgrounds in their quest for educational success.  Jenn has worked at a number of educational non-profits like, The Steppingstone Foundation, Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, and as an AmeriCorps Volunteer with Athletes in Service to America.  When she's not changing lives - one kid at a time - Jenn is a single lady who loves the beach, pizza, sarcasm, the occasional glass of rosé, or hanging out with her rescue pup, Ella Grace.  If you need a walking tour of Boston, or referrals for the best eats in the city - call Jenn - she'll happily be your guide!  Songs from A Collective Effort are available at SoundCloud (Http://soundcloud.com/acollectiveeffortmusic/sets/a-collective-effort-mix-bag) and other music of the podcast comes courtesy of Needle Drop Records by The Bell.   Follow me on Twitter @TheRamblerADHD, email me at TheRamblerADHD@gmail.com, and like/share me on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheRamblerADHD.  If you like the podcast, please be so kind as to leave a nice review on iTunes.  Thanks for listening!

Kris, Kenny, and Jeremy took a roadtrip down to the Memphis Comedy Festival and had an amazing time. In between sessions of eating their own weight in barbecue, they recorded an episode of the podcast with some great comics. The theme was stories about doing comedy. First up was Chris Sanders (@Chrisrsanders) telling a story about helping a friend film a sketch at the Chicago Trump rally. Next up, Jenn Welch told a story about her first time performing improv for an audience, and it gets more awkward from there. Jenn can be found on twitter at @JennWelchNow and also runs a few shows in NYC. She brought her Standup Showdown show to Memphis, and it was a blast. Then Kevin White told a story about a really awkward situation in Kansas City. Kevin hosts an awesome show and podcast in Chicago called Arguments & Grievances. It's really great comedy debates, and you should check it out. After that, Mike Albanese told a story about being a dumb open micer doing dumb things with other open micers. He's going to be at Arlington Cinema Drafthouse with Nick DiPaulo on Apriul 29 & 30. Lastly, Derek Sheen told a story about comedy at a winery. He has an album called Tiny Idiot coming out on Stand Up! Records releasing May 6th.

The first episode of the Here's What I Would Say podcast on The PITcast network! Jenn and Jay take questions from fans and talk about the status of the world, their friendship and sex.    produced by: Mark Stetson and The PITcast   Theme Song: "Breakdown" by Homesick Sun

Wrapping up episode 15 with Kevin Magee and @JennWelchNow, @MokaVida and @KevinGootee hear about Kevin's impending nuptials but he hasn't planned his goddamn bachelor party!??!?! Jenn talks about being divorced while Kevin sneaks a few more Michael Douglas impressions in there. Check it out!!

What a joy to chat with Jenn Welch at Astoria Coffee talking about how her background in writing led her to pursue improv and stand-up. We also chat about what TV shows and movies we watch over and over, our personal neurosis, the joys of doing things solo, and so much more! Learn more about Jenn at JennWelchComedy.com! Follow the show on Twitter at @DHAPshow, listen to and subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn Radio (leave a comment and 5 stars!)! Check out DHAPshow.com & listen to DHAP Show! at AltSportsTalk.com! #phenomenal

Haitian therapists. Yoga ball sex. Nicholas Cage's birthday party. This episode has everything. Jenn Welch (@jennwelchnow) stops by to talk sobriety, sexual awakenings, and why watching grown men play Tony Hawk on Playstation is not strictly considered foreplay.

Comedian and dog-blogger Jenn Welch joins us to talk about her solo show 'Jenn Welch is Crying! In Public!'

Comedian and host of LadyHD: a podcast for distractible women, Jenn Welch, talks about how ADHD has impacted her dating life, why ADHD-ers are the way they are, and Alexandra talks about her own diagnosis. Check Jenn out on IG ( https://www.instagram.com/jennwelchnow ) and Twitter ( https://twitter.com/JennWelchNow ) at @JennWelchNow, and stream LadyHD ( https://anchor.fm/ladyhd/ ) wherever you listen to podcasts! Watch our IGTV hangout from Singles Awareness Day at @vsinglepodcast: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLVz-6EjTf0/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/v-single/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy