Ep. 20: Author, Solo Show Artist, and Life Coach, Kelly Carlin

How do you go about forging your own path when your dad happens to be a legendary comedian and cultural icon?

In this episode, I speak with Kelly Carlin, who ended up creating a solo show and eventually a memoir (both entitled "A Carlin Home Companion") to shed some light on this question for herself as much as for anyone else.

Kelly is wonderfully open and honest about her life, not to mention self-reflective, insightful, and psychologically astute.

While her story is unique, many will relate to the nearly universal human struggle of claiming one’s own voice and identity that lies underneath it.

Kelly Carlin Links:
Kelly's coaching program: https://humansontheverge.com/
Twitter: @kelly_carlin (https://twitter.com/kelly_carlin)
Instagram: @kellycarlinishere (https://www.instagram.com/kellycarlinishere/)
Kelly's memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Carlin-Home-Companion-Growing-George/dp/1250058252/

About Your Host, Eric Teplitz:
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Chapters

• 0:00 The Person You Want to Be intro
• 0:37 Introducing Kelly Carlin
• 4:35 An "ordinary American family"
• 7:26 The nature/nurture question
• 11:53 Kelly's earliest sense of who she wanted to be
• 16:00 An encounter with the numinous
• 20:32 Permission to tell her own story
• 21:53 Working out family dynamics in grad school
• 23:17 An unspoken Carlin family rule
• 25:39 Parents in our psyches
• 27:58 What George Carlin did not include in his comedy
• 31:03 George Carlin's American Dream (documentary)
• 32:24 "Trust your bones"
• 34:20 The subtitle of Kelly's book
• 37:04 "That person's telling my story"
• 37:55 Forgiving our parents so we can forgive ourselves
• 42:52 How ego can sabotage us
• 47:09 An excerpt from Kelly's book
• 52:19 Failing, learning, and beginning again
• 59:34 We get what we get (and don't get) from our parents
• 1:01:12 A creative evolution
• 1:10:06 Paul Provenza's mentorship
• 1:14:23 Who Kelly wants to be now...