This week Larissa chats with Molly McGlynn an award-winning writer and director. Molly’s second feature film Fitting in (fka Bloody Hell), starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire, had its World Premiere at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section in March 2023. Molly has TV credits on Wonder Years and Big Door Prize. She also hosts a podcast called Hello My Mom is Dead with Molly McGlynn.
Larissa & Molly chat:
- What Molly was like in middle school
- Molly’s Irish heritage and growing up the youngest of 5 girls in Pleasantville New Jersey
- How weird it is to have divorced parents
- A gut sense of not being like her peers
- Not being able to articulate the sense of uneasiness around her
- Making amends to our bodies after abandoning them
- Working out and mental health
- Molly’s sober journey
- How everyone suffers from some “-ism”
- Going on a silent retreat
- How intimidating meditating is
- When people think they know you, but they don’t, and how weird that is
- Alchemizing hardship
- Hello My Mom is Dead podcast
- Grief and the absurd
- How intense people are about labels and how it’s pointless
- Stopping pretending we are all fine
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