Force Majeure

Beth Broderick: Wit and Wisdom for the Ages from the Aged Podcast · Jan 28, 2025 · 9m

Wit and Wisdom

by Beth Broderick

“Tell me the truth,” my nephew Conor said emphatically.

He is not a blood relative, but I have been his Auntie Beth for as long as he has been alive. He is 100% my family.

“Am I being a baby, or have the last few years just been impossibly hard?”

“You are not a baby. The last few years have been impossibly hard.”

For young people trying to carve out careers in the entertainment industry, the climb has not been just uphill. They have been sucked down into huge valleys and then forced to trudge up and over steep moguls, and then back down again. They lost a…