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From Banking to Broadway: Linedy Genao on Living Her Dream · Laugh Love Law

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to Laugh Love Law.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Heather Kaplan and I'm so excited to introduce my very first guest.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may know her as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby on Broadway.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may know her as the host of Entre Axe, Broadway Podcast Network's newest and hottest podcast.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you know her as Andrew Lloyd Weber's first Latina lady to originate a role on Broadway.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you may not know is that she got there with only high school theater experience after spending years working in banking, despite having dreams of performing.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: She's proof that sometimes the path you think you're supposed to take isn't the one you're actually meant for.
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  SPEAKER_00: Linady Hanao, welcome to Laugh Love Law.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for having me.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: I am so happy that you're here.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm so happy to be here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we talk about Broadway and podcasts and all the incredible things you've already accomplished, I want to start with the person behind the bio.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is something about yourself that never makes it into your bio?
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh gosh.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: Something about myself that never makes it into my bio is that.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I love that question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good, good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something about myself that never makes it into my bio is that I wear my heart on my sleeve.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can do a thousand things at once.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh it's still hard, but I can I can do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can pack it on, and I just love to have fun and to laugh.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what is something that you absolutely geek over?
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: Something that I absolutely geek over is really good TV.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, specifically one of my dreams is to have my own show like Guy Fieri, Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, just to go try food, comment on it, go travel the world, obviously have a nutritionist and a personal trainer on the side because I'm a foodie, I love to eat, so I need to take care of myself.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I geek over that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I always wondered if he takes like one bite or eats the whole thing.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Me too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I would just go crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know he has to take one bite.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: He has to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they serve him like seven different meals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd want to try that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kaifiary, let us know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so we have a couple things in common.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're both born in Brooklyn.
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  SPEAKER_00: We both love dogs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think being born in Brooklyn shaped who you are today?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, absolutely.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
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  SPEAKER_01: My dad moved us when I was 10 just because he didn't want to continue raising us in the city.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's hard, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's when we moved to Connecticut.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: But uh being a city girl, you know, we used to come every weekend after that once we moved.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I wouldn't trade it for the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: It made me strong.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the diversity that I grew up in is so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, you could walk and uh one block and get any type of food.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, I I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It absolutely shaped who I am today.
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  SPEAKER_00: My parents moved out of Brooklyn when I was going away to college and I cried.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I cried for the same reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I missed the diversity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I missed looking outside at 11 o'clock at night, and there's still being kids on the street and noise and music.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where in Brooklyn?
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Sheepsead Bay.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and then where do they move to?
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Long Island.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: They moved to Nassau County, Long Island, and I cried.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I feel that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what would your closest friends say the most Linady thing is about you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh gosh.
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  SPEAKER_01: My friends would say that I'm quick with it with my comebacks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm funny.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love to just laugh and and have a good time.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, I think my silliness, I think.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: The quick comeback is because you're from Brooklyn.
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  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to tell a story about how we met.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So our little story starts at the stage door of the Great Gatsby.
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  SPEAKER_00: My youngest daughter was absolutely obsessed with the show.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we've seen it five or six times at this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we waited at the stage door after a performance and we met Linady, and then afterwards, I made a TikTok because that's what any rational human being would do.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I made a TikTok about the great Gatsby and I tagged Linady.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then I used my TikTok platform as a little micro influencer to shoot my shot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And since we both live on Long Island, I asked you if you'd be a vocal and performance coach from my daughter.
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  SPEAKER_00: And thankfully, she didn't think I was a lunatic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And she said yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what went through your mind when you saw that silly little TikTok?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I I loved it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I, you know, I've been asked before to coach, but never a mom asking for her daughter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know, something instinctively was like, yes, like the trust, trust Heather.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, she lives on Long Island.
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  SPEAKER_01: I saw that we have kind of like mutual friends and mutual, just again, like you said, you worked with my industry through your industry.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just, I don't know, I trusted it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad you did.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, me too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and your journey to Broadway wasn't traditional.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: You worked in banking.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was that just like a nine to five get through the day?
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Or did you were you like involved in it?
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, I was involved in it.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I auditioned in high school for the top three musical theater schools that all my friends were auditioning for.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't really know much about it.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_01: I discovered musical theater really in high school.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I didn't get in to the theater schools, and I was like, you know what, that's okay.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: I can still do community theater, I can still do voice lessons, I can still, you know, be in the community choir, which is where I got all of my experience before going to Broadway.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but then I always knew I also wanted to do international business.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to travel and, you know, travel the world and on business.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so I applied to a ton of business schools, and some of the musical theater schools I applied to, I didn't get into the theater program, but I got into their business program.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I ultimately ended up going to Yukon, the University of Connecticut, since I was living in Connecticut anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um It's a great school.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: It is, yeah.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: And I got my degree in business admin, and during college, I was working at TD Bank as a teller for about four years.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then after college, I got my first like big girl job at a corporate bank in the city, a private uh bank in the city, and I would commute back and forth from Connecticut to New York.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I would live in my grandma's Monday through Friday in Brooklyn, pack my suitcase, go to Connecticut for the weekend to unpack, to repack, and do that.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I did that for about seven months, and my dad was like, like, this is not sustainable, you have to move.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like it this is what's in your best interest.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's also expensive, the Metro North, you know, might as well have paid rent.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_01: And just the time, two and a half hour commute one way, so five hours of my day were just in commuting alone.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: So then I finally moved and it kind of unraveled from there.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: It was meant to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: I moved, and about a month or two later, I went to the open call audition of On Your Feet, the Gloria Stefan musical.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like to say an open call is kind of like American Idol.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ever anybody and everybody has a shot at at trying out, but you may not get seen because you know it's a 10 to 6 day, there's thousands of people there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I luckily got seen.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: I had my bags because I was commuting to Connecticut that same night, and I got the the lab, which is the developmental lab, is where you are developing the show from the book to its feet, literally.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um, good thing I moved because I had to leave my job.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: They gave me a leave of absence for a month to do the lab, and then after that we went to Chicago and then Broadway, and I yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: What did you sing?
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: I sang Como La Flor by Selena, and then when I got my callback, I sang Breathe from in the Heights, and then all the Gloria material that they then gave me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that was like a chance encounter and it and it worked.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and that was your foot in the door.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that story.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: What finally gave you the courage to do it to go for this open call?
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: What finally gave me the courage was that it was a show that I knew I had a place in.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't have to pretend Gloria Stefan is an artist that so many Latin households grew up with, and worldwide households, you know, she crossed so many markets, so many countries, um, broke records, and so they were looking for Latin actors.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't have to pretend.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is it was authentic.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: The music I grew up with, you know, the my native language just it just felt right, and I was like, I know I have a place in the show.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have to pretend, I can just be myself.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: And thankfully, yeah.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: But just so you know, in this Caucasian household growing up, anything for you was the go-to song.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: That was like my karaoke song back in the day.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's such an underrated song.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_00: So good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Was there a moment that you thought maybe this isn't gonna happen for me?
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'm going to be in banking and take the business route and be successful, but just not be involved in Broadway or music.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, definitely.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: I think during the pandemic, because everything shut down for about two years.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, about a year into almost a year into the pandemic, I get a phone call from a number that looked familiar, but I was like, okay, let me just pick it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was my old boss from the bank.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: And he was like, Hey, how are you?
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Hey, literally sitting on my couch contemplating what the world is right now, like what's going on, you know.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: And he was like, Do you want to do all of that from home working for us again?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, What?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, Yeah, we're all virtual, we're changing over, like merging systems, and we need help.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you can work as an independent contractor in your same position.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh my gosh.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: It was the perfect option.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was like, It's COVID, Broadway is shut down, you know, it was virtual learning, it was just like everybody was going insane in their house.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, Listen, why not work and make some money and just have feel like I have some purpose?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Um, during a time where all of us were just lost.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I said yes, and I worked for about almost a year as an independent contractor for the bank.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: And my boss calls me again.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Hey, we want to offer you full time, you know, and I have always said I've gotten more out of this industry than I ever imagined.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: And one day, God of the universe is gonna show me a sign when it's time.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, and I was like, Is this the sign?
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: I had just gotten married, we were about to buy a house, and I was like, This is stability, you know, stable income.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: I can go up in the bank.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: I love this bank, I love the people, I can see myself later on in life as you know one of the top executives of the bank.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I I I know my worth in that world as well.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and I had a conversation with my husband, and he was like, Yeah, like this seems right.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: And obviously, uh the other side of my heart was broken because I'm like, This is not goodbye, but you can't work a nine to five corporate job and do Broadway.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: You there's no way.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: So, unless your job really loves you and gives you off Wednesdays for your two-show day, you know what I'm saying?
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like it's impossible.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: So my boss was like, You have to tell us by Thursday.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: And which the following week, Tuesday, two days before that, I get a call from my agents with a direct offer to go to Deer of Enhanced on Broadway for the reopening of Broadway after the pandemic.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, bro, you can't make this up.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: You can't make this up.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's a direct offer.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, here you go, because I had done the tour right before COVID.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I was already in the Deer of Enhanced world.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: And so Deer Evan Hansen was the last show to open on Broadway during the, you know, with Broadway coming back after COVID, right?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: Which was smart because they were watching to see how other shows, you know, were dealing with all of this.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: So we were the last show um to open.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: So you had a huge decision to make.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so I was like, number one, this career has an expiration date in the sense of I can't play 16 forever.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: I was playing 16 at um not 16 years old.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, you know, again, this is also a direct offer.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like, they're just like, here, here you go.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: And so I kind of lost my mind for about 24 hours because I was like, what do I do?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'll never forgive myself if I don't say yes to my dream, literally being like right here.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: But also, I'm so torn because then I'm saying, kind of saying goodbye to this lifelong opportunity that I have.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: Stability, exactly, really on your career path.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I also felt almost like a betrayal to the bank of like, I promise you, I didn't make up this timing.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: I promise you, this is just how it was.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so my husband too was like, Listen, I, you know, I support whatever you want.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: I also don't want you to be resentful your whole life of like, why didn't I do this?
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Why didn't I do this, you know?
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: And so I ultimately chose to go back to Broadway.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: And it was a really hard decision, really emotional decision.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I'm so glad that I did because then bad Cinderella wouldn't have happened, uh, Great Gatsby wouldn't have happened.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: But during those two years, I was like, I think it's time.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's time that I just commit myself to banking again and see where that takes me.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's a a wild story, but it it got you to the right spot.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yeah.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: So you made the right decision.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: What would you tell somebody who's considering a big career change?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's scary, but you can do it.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Change is scary, change is necessary, and with change comes growth.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: But it is very scary, and you have to move through it.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: You have to move through it, even through the discomfort, even through the just all the feelings that come with it.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_01: But uh there's a light at the end of the tunnel, and you are capable of doing anything and everything you know you want.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: My grandmother used to say you don't get anywhere if you stand still.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that's pretty applicable there.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I want to give you another quote.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: I came across this one from Josh Groben.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you've heard this.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it stuck with me as a former theater kid.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: He said, No matter what your business is, you should hire a former theater kid.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: Because theater kids know how to work under pressure, think on their feet, adapt quickly, work as part of a team, and somehow pull off miracles with limited resources.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: As someone who's lived in that world, do you agree with him?
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Josh Grobin, you're a real one.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: I also heard, I forgot who was working with him recently that he was singing Bad Cinderella.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, I've made it.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: Josh Grobin, he was singing Bad Cinderella.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: I've made it.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: I've made it.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: A duet?
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: In the future?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm here.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever you want.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, when was the last time you were starstruck?
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: The last time I was starstruck.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: When was the last time I was starstruck?
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: I know that there was a more recent time, but this is the time that like I just just gets triggered right now.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oof, circa 2016, 2015, I went um to the movie premiere of I forgot the name of the the movie, but it was with Anne Hathaway and um oh my gosh, what's the actor who's in uh uh not Scarface Godfather, like uh not Al Pacino.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: Oh Robert De Niro?
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, Robert De Niro Anne Hathaway and the intern, maybe it was called.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I went to the opening with a friend and we were at the party.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_01: And again, back to the Guy Fieri situation, I got to meet Bobby Flay.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Bobby Flay shook my hand.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: He has a very strong handshake.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: I was very intimidated by that.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, okay.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: But I got to meet Bobby Flay.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: So I think my dream of having my own kind of like food um, you know, music show is getting closer and closer.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: We were in Las Vegas about 20 years ago, and my husband loves to cook, amazing, and him and his brother, huge Bobby Flay fans, and we ate at Mesa Grill.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Which I don't is not there anymore, and they met Bobby Flay, and my husband never stops talking.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_00: He had no idea what to say.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: He was like starstruck.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: He was completely star-struck, and he was kind and he shook their hands and him and his brother, not a word, like you know, but that that's an awesome story.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so um let's move on to a little segment that I'm gonna call Laugh Love Law.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: So I have these three so cute paddles that yes, that I made, yes, with glue and and cardboard.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: Love that.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: And um, okay, so I'm gonna give you a topic.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and you're gonna hold up whichever paddle you feel uh responds to the word or phrase.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Can I wear them now?
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: You can.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: So laugh means it brings you joy, it makes you smile, or you have a funny story to tell.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Love means it has a special place in your heart.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: And law means not so much.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: And you can either just hold up the paddle or you can tell us a little story.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever you want.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: You ready?
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna go fast.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm ready.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Concert Encores.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Love.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, me too.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: Family group chats.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: Love.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Do you love them?
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: I do.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: Well, okay.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: I have it on mute because sometimes seeing all the text and stuff overwhelms me and just gives me a little anxiety when I hear the pinging and just see all the notifications.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: But my cousin group chat It's a good one.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's a good one.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so cousins are different.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Reality competition shows.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Ooh, laugh.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: They're funny.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: I agree.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Family recipes.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, love.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, what's your best one?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_01: My best one.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: The one that got again, so many, but the the one that comes to mind right now is my husband's aunt's Christmas cookie recipe.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's like so I don't really have much of a sweet tooth.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: I love a homemade chocolate chip cookie.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: Top tier.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: Or the homemade cookies with the jelly in the middle or the jam.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: See, I'm not a jelly jam person, but those Christmas cookies do look insane.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not a jelly jam person, like in donuts, but in a cookie.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: So she has a recipe with like sprinkles too.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: And I love sprinkles.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: I like it.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: Apologizing.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's hard.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: But we all have to do it.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: It is hard.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I have this thing about conditional apologies.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing makes me crazier than when somebody says, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry if I made you feel that way.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: If you're sorry, say you're sorry.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not, keep it to yourself.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to hear it.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: It drives me nuts.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: Period.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: So insincere.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: The high school version of yourself.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Aww, I was actually just at my high school two days ago for my cousin's high school graduation.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: She was the last of the grandkids to graduate.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: So it was so emotional.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: I sang at my high school graduation.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: I sang the national anthem.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it made me reflect on who I was.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I love that one.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna hold the bank side.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we think it's the end of the world, and we have so much to look forward to.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, imposter syndrome.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I deal with this all the time.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: So many people that I've met that are like at the of their career deal with this.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody and anybody deals with this.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I also think it especially hits women because we can do 37,000 things at once, but we don't always feel like we're doing each one as good or as yeah.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: And we're constantly compared.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: We should stop.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we should.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh karaoke.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, yeah, obviously.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh taking selfies.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_00: Taking selfies.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: I used to.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Now they're more Yeah.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I've been told I just never hold the phone at the right angle.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: So there is a correct answer.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, my daughter told me this morning, oh, you're getting worse at this.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: She didn't.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: She's laughing at us.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: She's laughing at us.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: I used to do like the this, and now I do like the this, but I don't know.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even know what I had to do.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: I create extra chins for people, so I'm bad.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_00: Very, very bad.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, this was amazing.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: You you did very well.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: This was so fun.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So now we're gonna go to my favorite little segment.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it will be my favorite little segment.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: I did it by myself earlier, but this will be more fun.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: So this is called Capsule Confessions.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And what I did for like two weeks straight is I filled these capsules with questions, color-coded, of course, by like Heather.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: You're amazing.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is so cool.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: I like these things.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: So you're going to put three coins in.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna spin, you're gonna get three capsules like you used to do, like at the supermarket when you asked your mom for a little toy.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: But you'll get a question instead.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then you'll answer it, or you'll say, mm-mm, Heather, you answer it, or you'll you can say, I'm gonna leave it for the next guest.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, a little pressure, but not so much.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: Love it.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Are we ready to go?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: We're ready.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, what'd you get?
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, I got two of my favorite color.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: Two of the pink and one orange.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: Let's start with one of the pinks.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, let's see what you got.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, here we go.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: What is your most irrational fear?
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Aye ay.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: My most irrational fear is I think, okay, remember the show Fear Factor?
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: I think about it too much.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I think about when people used to get put in a casket and then cockroaches inside.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not really claustrophobic.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: In that situation, I absolutely would be.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: And then with cockroaches, no, thank you.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Mm-mm.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: Spiders for me.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, literally anything that crawls.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm good.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: Not a fan.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, okay.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: You got an orange one.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do the orange.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is what song turns you into a complete maniac?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, so many.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: But the first one that comes to mind right now, because it's summertime.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: Solo tienes que vivir uh-mm-u-mm-uh.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um verano nueva yo nueva yol.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the one.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: I like it.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: From Bad Bunny.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: All right, last one is pineapple pizza, amazing or disgusting?
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: See, I I have this conversation way too often too on my podcast.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: And um It shouldn't be a conversation.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's disgusting.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: But hot take.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: It is disgusting.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: I've not had it more than like three times in my life.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I can't really give an educated opinion.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: But he won't ever catch me ordering it.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like I've tried it because somebody else's like, you know what, let me just try it, whatever.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: But I, you'll never catch me ordering pineapple and pizza.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: We're from Brooklyn.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: Pizza is perfection.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to mess with it.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I correct.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_00: Wait, where's your favorite pizza place?
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so whether you're here or wherever.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: This is really controversial.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: But and it pains me to say this, but I think Connecticut pizza is better than I say that on No, correct.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: I say that on my podcast too.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: That Connecticut pizza always wins number one.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: New Haven style pizza always wins number one.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's the best.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Where's your favorite place to go?
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Probably Sally Abiza.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: See, I've not been to Sally's.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: I know, and that one's like top two or three.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: I love Pepe's, obviously, but I love modern.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: You have to wear modern.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: But I didn't know.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's right on that same strip, right?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's a little further down, maybe like three minutes.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: But Sally's and Pepe's are on the same block.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: During COVID, Sally's, you could only get it if you sat outside.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: And there was nothing to do.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: So we used to take the kids and we'd get there at like 10 a.m.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we'd sit outside in the cold.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: But eating the pizza, it was something to do and so worth it.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: But just plain, plain and crispy.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, totally.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so you did pretty good with the capsules.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, thank you.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: That was very fun.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about all the exciting things that you have coming up.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_00: Tell us about Entre Axe.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: And notice that I did roll my R there.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: I tried very hard.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: It was perfect.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so Entre Axe is my new podcast on the Broadway Podcast Network.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, I'm so happy for you.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: This is amazing.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is truly, truly amazing.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm having so much fun.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: I love everything that you've made.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, this is awesome.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: This is awesome.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: She also has merch.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: I can't.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody that works on it is amazing.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: So um, but yeah, Entre Acts is uh Broadway Podcast Network's newest podcast.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: And entre means in-between in Spanish.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: So in-between acts.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: And so I wanted to create a space where artists, uh specifically, where we talk about what the in-between means to us when we're not working.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: Usually it's a taboo subject, or when you see someone on the street that you know that's an artist like who's not working, the first question is, What are you doing now?
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: What's next?
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes you don't know what's next.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you don't ask a teacher in the summer, what are you doing now?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: What's next?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, I'm just enjoying my summer.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: With artists, unfortunately, because we are typically defined by what we're doing right now, right?
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: So if I if I'm done with the Great Gatsby and I'm not working, it's like, oh yeah, she was in the Great Gatsby, I don't know what she's doing now.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and so there's shame and guilt and just a vulnerability to it.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: But I wanted to create a space where we're empowered by that because we all go through it and we all know how hard it is.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: But in those in-between moments are where we find ourselves, where growth happens, where you get to refill your cup, where you get to spend time with family, because what we do is hard.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: We get one day off, and usually that day off consists of doctor's appointments, cooking, cleaning, laundry, or this because you're exhausted.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, you miss out on weddings, birthdays, funerals.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like I missed my brother's wedding because it was on the first preview of Batch Cinderella.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'll never forgive myself.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: You couldn't.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: You you had a you had a responsibility to be there.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: That that is hard, but I agree with you.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: That in-between stage, that's like sort of like the journey being better than the destination, right?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like how did you get to that next audition?
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: Or maybe you met somebody and that led you to a new opportunity.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I I agree, and it is it is a little taboo because you're only as good as your last success.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes success isn't the show you're in, but how you got from the first show to the next one.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: Or I I think it's great.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: I've been watching, and first of all, the chemistry you have with your guests is amazing.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: I watched the recent one you did with Sam Paulie, and it's like two divas on a couch, but you could tell like there's love and there's excitement and so good.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: Just like this, I wanted to, you know, you do the same thing of just like we're just hanging out on the couch.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Just hanging and hanging out, yeah.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: Which is fun.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: What is something you've learned through interviewing?
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what have you learned about people through interviewing them?
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: What I've learned through interviewing people is that we all are going through something very similar.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like the things that we don't say out loud, we're all feeling.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: And again, specifically within the topic of the in-between, right?
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: Struggling with imposter syndrome, with your worth, with what are people gonna think, with will I ever work again?
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: We all feel those feelings whether or not we um vocalize them.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: But I've also learned that I have so much to learn and have learned from guests, and vice versa.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like when people are telling me, you know, big people in the industry that'll reach out or people on the street that are like, we love your podcast.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for talking about this.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: You don't know how much it's impacted me.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, Oh my god, like just you never know how a small conversation may impact someone or may motivate them or help them get out of someone said to help them get out of a dark space that they're in right now.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh my god, like even impacting one person means so much.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: I agree.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: My oldest daughter told me recently that when she goes to the gym, she doesn't listen to music, she listens to female podcasts.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: She says she feels they're inspiring and she enjoys the motivation without the music.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought that's so interesting.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: I would never think to do that.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: No, either.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do that.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: Not that I go to the gym.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: But if I did.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: Before I let you go, you have a lot going on.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_00: Give us rapid fire all of your good stuff coming up.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: So Entre Axe is going to have its season finale, like second week of July.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: So stay tuned for that.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna have something fun to do.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: I also, so I live on Long Island too.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: I live on Long Beach, and Long Beach does a summer concert series where every week they have a concert, a free concert on the beach, free to the public.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: You bring your blanket, you bring your chair, you bring pizza, whatever you want.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I finally, after 10 years, got slotted in.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna have a concert on the beach.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's called Broadway at the Beach, and it'll be Tuesday, August 25th, at uh in Long Beach.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot the name of the beach.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: I think Lincoln, I think Lincoln Beach.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: And it's free.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'll come back to you.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's free.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: Please come bring your blankets, bring your beach chairs, whatever you want.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: And it's free to the public, 7 p.m.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna sing show tunes, old and new.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: That is fun.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_01: Are you going back to Joe's pub anytime soon?
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Because the yam is so awesome.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for that.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: I will be doing my next solo show at Joe's Pub on Tuesday, September 22nd.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: So stay tuned for that.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: That'll be so exciting.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for reminding me of that.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: That was so good.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: Are you gonna do some more Spanish music?
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: Of course.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: And it's during Hispanic Heritage Month, so we're gonna mix a bunch of stuff.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh I I keep telling you, you need to like record an album in Spanish.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: I hope to do that here at Dream Recording Studio.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I like it.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's a good idea.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's a good idea.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: I really do.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so you you kind of spoiled my surprise, but uh, we have some merch for you, you know?
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I can't, I can't.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: This is yeah, like a little laugh.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: Heather said, go big or go home.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like this is her first podcast.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: And look at this.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: Merch and everything.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: This is so cute.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta represent.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: I love this.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then the last thing I'm gonna ask you to do is I wanna start a collection of all my wonderful guests.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I want you to sign one of the tokens, the big tokens, the one that didn't fit in the machine.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: Sign it.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: Let's leave it in the jar, and we'll watch the jar grow with all these interesting things.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_00: And while you do that, I'm gonna ask you my final question.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: So we know Lynn Aidy as a Broadway actress, the podcast superstar.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh gosh.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: But who are you when you're not any of those things?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: Who am I when I'm not any of those things?
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: I am just a girl who enjoys the small things, enjoys the the small I I try to find the gratitude and the smallest of things every single day because life brings challenges, right?
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: But truly YOLO, you only live once and you have to make the best out of any and every moment, even the difficult ones, because they're gonna teach us something.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I just try to, as I've gotten older, just try to sit back, surrender, and just be ready for whatever life throws me away.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Linady, it has been such a pleasure.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: You are amazing, and I'm so glad that I kind of fangirled and became you became my little Broadway buddy.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: Stay tuned.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: We'll be back next week with a new episode.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yay.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.