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Comedian Youngmi Mayer on Cultural Dissonance, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, and Barry Gibb

Category: Health
Duration: 00:44:07
Publish Date: 2024-11-11 10:00:00
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Youngmi Mayer says she hates doing research but, in our conversation and in her new memoir I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, she does a lot of digging into the events of her life and what they all meant. Youngmi grew up in Saipan and Korea, the daughter of a Korean mother and a White American father, and had to deal with discrimination, harassment, and abuse. Later on, she moved to America with $700 in her pocket and no real plan in order to escape an abusive relationship and had to find a path that included a place of prominence in the restaurant scene, a life of comedy, and a severe depression disorder.

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