Girl Insta-rupted

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Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #29 – Fucked Up and Friendly w/ Jane Johnsen Apr 03, 2019

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Jane Johnsen gets Insta-rupted today. Jane is a comedian whose currently working on her own Yoga/Comedy show. Originally from Chicago, Jane has always had a love for improv and sketch. She honed these skills at Second City in Chicago. Entertainment was always on the back of Jane's mind, but she started her career in Advertising, where she was working long hours. After tons of stress, too much alcohol and prescription medication, Jane had a mental breakdown that landed her in therapy. Now sober, Jane is perusing her true calling; Comedy, Acting, Art and Entertainment.

Highlights:

Improv and Sketch at Second City in Chicago
Kill Tony Live Podcast
Journaling and Yoga
Embarrassing tweets
Partying too hard in college
Sobriety
Having a mental breakdown
Not judging past art

Syd Social Media:

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Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Jane Johnsen

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janejohnsen_/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/janejohnsen?lang=en

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #28 – Dating with Daddy Issues w/ Katarina Van Derham Mar 27, 2019

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Katarina Van Derham gets Insta-rupted today. Katarina is a Slovak-American model, actress, and publisher. She's best known for being the longest-serving St. Pauli Girl, playing Bob Saget's girlfriend on Entourage and being the founder of VIVA GLAM Magazine. Katarina came to America in 1998 when she was 22 years old, she had just $500 dollars in her pocket. Katarina has appeared in over 20 national and international print and TV commercials and has been on the cover of over 60 magazines. She's also an outspoken vegan. In this episode Syd and Katarina talk about how they met, dating musicians, crappy make-up artists, veganism, modeling, being an entrepreneur and much more.

Highlights:

Slovakia to LA
Feeling irrelevant in Hollywood
The fall of communism and American influence in Slovakia
Being blackmailed by your own people
ESPN Roller Hockey
Dating Tommy Lee
Terrible Makeup artists on set
Becoming a US citizen

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Katarina Van Derham

Website: https://vivaglammagazine.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katarinavanderham/?hl=en

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #27 – Uber Head and Mark Harari Mar 20, 2019

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Mark Harari gets Insta-rupted today. But first, Syd tells a couple personal stories about some recent dates she went on. Mark and Syd then dive into the interview. Mark Harari has been involved with athletics and fitness nearly all his life. He moved to LA in his early twenties to peruse acting. He had some success and landed a couple roles, but he realized his true passion was fitness. In 2007, Mark launched Pulse Fitness Studio in Sherman Oaks, CA. During its first year of business, Pulse was voted "Best Fitness Studio in LA", by Fox LA. Since then the studio has only grown bigger and better. In this episode Mark Syd discuss how they met, Mark's acting career, taking new opportunities as they come and what it's like running your own business.

Highlights:

Moving to LA
Finding opportunities when you least suspect them
Dancing in commercials
Winning The Weakest Link TV Show
Syd's holiday party
Being set up on a date
Paying your dues in show business
Talking props
Life as an entrepreneur

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Mark Harari

Website: http://www.markharari.com/index.php

Pulse Fitness App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulsetread/id451384439?mt=8

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markpulse/?hl=en

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #26 – Fuck Fear w/ Leah Lamarr Mar 18, 2019

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Leah Lamarr gets Insta-rupted today. Leah is an actress, writer and stand up comedian currently living in Los Angeles CA. Leah has appeared in numerous TV shows and films including; Code Black, How To Get Away with Murder and Not Safe w/ Nikki Glasser. Leah currently has several projects going on including her web show "Watches of WeHo" and her podcast "Falling In Love with Leah Lamarr". In this episode Leah and Syd get dark, get happy and have fun. They talk about their issues, their dating life, show business, creating original content and much more.

Highlights:

Parents finding sex toys
The path to med school
Podcast production
Trading money for the dream
The Lotus and The Lilly
Focusing on more than one aspect of show business
Disneyland disappointments
Botox and filler
Being hot and telling jokes

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Leah Lamarr

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkOupbnFznA6jKOGsgKbgg

Instagram: http://instagram.com/leahlamarr

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeahLamarr

Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/falling-in-love-with-leah-lamarr/id1453918966?mt=2

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #25 – The Delicious Life Of Nicky Whelan Mar 13, 2019

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Nicky Whelan gets insta-rupted today. Nicky is an Australian actress with a plethora of TV and film credits. Most notably she's been in Hall Pass, The Wedding Ringer, The League, Life in Pieces and House Of Lies. In this episode Nicky and Syd talk about Nicky's journey from Australia to Hollywood, Los Angeles weirdo's, dating, the love of being on set and working with talented people, traveling the world and much more.

Highlights:

Doing voice accents for roles
Being friends with Nick Cage
Getting a reoccurring role on a TV show
Traveling the world alone
Thirty transplants that move to LA
Meditation
Dating red flags and social media weirdos

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Nicky Whelan

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1764351/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickywhelan/?hl=en

Twitter:https://twitter.com/NickyWhelan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #24 – Gay Grape w/ Adam Ray Mar 11, 2019

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Actor and Comedian Adam Ray gets Insta-rupted today. Adam is an accomplished actor who has hundreds of credits in TV and film. He's also stand up comic who regularly performs at some of the best clubs in the country. Adam and Syd's relationship goes back many years to when they met each other filming sketch comedy. In this episode they talk about college and old friends, pursuing stand up, writing sketches, making podcasts, dating and the onslaught of social media influencers hitting it big.

Highlights:

MySpace and Funny or Die
Keeping personal life separate from bits
Drinking on the road
Working at universal studios as Wolverine
Makin podcasts
Friendships and roommates
Actors vs. social media influencers

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Adam Ray

Website: http://adamraycomedy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adamraycomedy/?hl=en

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKPOkQ2JV3XncM3Hlj7jLzA

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #23 – The Crazy Ladies w/ Angelina Spicer Mar 06, 2019

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Comedian, Actress and Public Speaker and Activist Angelina Spicer gets insta-rupted today. Angelina and Syd go way back and have spent many a night partying to together in the Hollywood Hills and at LA hot spots. Angelina can been seen on Tosh.O, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel as well as in various other sketch comedy bits, plays, and films. She also performs stand up comedy regularly across the country and at the numbers Los Angeles venues.

What makes this episode unique is that Angelina opens up about her depression and the time she spent at Las Encinas mental health facility in Pasadena CA. She's found a way to discuss mental health that doesn't freak people out and is healing from her past by to traveling around the country and speaking about mental health.

Highlights:

Eddie Murphy's house party
CBS diversity showcase
Las Encinas
Post Partum depression
Mommy Con
Speaking at The World Health Convention
Stand up comedy as a women
Jimmy Kimmel and Conan

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Angelina Spicer

Website: http://angelinaspicer.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelinaspicer/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spicerangelina/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/spicedbell

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AngelinaSpicer

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #22 – Blue Comedy w/ Brian Monarch Feb 27, 2019

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Stand up comedian Brian Monarch gets insta-rupted today. Brian is a Los Angeles native who grew up in the San Fernando Valley and has lived all over LA. He's been performing stand up all of his adult life and recently got back from a tour where he opened up for Dane Cook. Currently, Brian hosts several comedy nights in LA at some of the cities most iconic venues. In this episode Brian and Syd get into the weeds about what it's like pursuing a career in stand up your entire life, dating in LA, opening up for Dane Cook, taking photos with Louie CK and hosting comedy nights with some of the top comics in the game.

Highlights:

Opening for Dane Cook
First stand up set in 1998
Creating SoCal Stand Up
Fairytale endings
DNA tests
STD tests
When I wipe there's lipstick on the toilet paper
One night stands not wanting to leave your house
Great comics are bad actors
Louie CK hates photos
Joke writing

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Brian Monarch

Website: http://brianmonarch.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianmonarch/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianmonarch

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kilerb

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianmonarch

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #21 – Saying Yes w/ Jackelyn Shultz Feb 20, 2019

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Daughter of Howie Mandel and the creator of the YouTube channel Life With Jackie, Jackelyn Shultz is on the show today. Jackelyn, is the first mom Syd has had on the podcast and she brings an infectious honesty and fun vibe to the conversation.

Jackelyn is a mother to a girl named Abbey Jax and a new baby boy named Axel Jackson. She created her YouTube channel Life With Jackie to document the life of her family and her and her husbands journey through parenthood. The channel has over 10 million views and hosts hundreds of videos. In this episode Syd and Jackie discuss what its like being a mom in LA, Bris Ceremonies, growing up with a father in show business, saying yes to every opportunity that comes your way and much more.

Highlights:

LAUSD Schools
High School sweethearts
Jewish circumcisions
Writing a children's book
Having a terrible memory
Howie saying no to Deal Or No Deal
Starting a YouTube channel just to document life
Kid leashes
Judgmental moms

Syd Social Media:

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/girlinstarupted

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/user/SYDWILDER

Instagram – @sydwilder https://www.instagram.com/sydwilder/?hl=en

Instagram - @GirlInstarupted https://www.instagram.com/girlinstarupted/?hl=en

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheRealSydWilder/

Email: Syd@GirlInstarupted.com

Jackelyn Shultz

Website: https://www.jackieshultz.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jackelynshultz/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JackelynShultz/?ref=bookmarks

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCjFG38NBNMfwNGuJfdkPzw

Girl Insta-rupted: Episode #20 – Sex and Relationships w/ Jessica Michelle Singleton Feb 13, 2019

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Today on the Girl Insta-rupted is Jessica Michelle Singleton. Jessica is an internationally touring comedian who as gained worldwide fans from performances in the U.S, Europe Africa and Asia. Her debut Comedy Album "Please. Don't Leave. Me." reached #1 on iTunes and was considered for the "Best Comedy Album" Grammy Award. Jessica has a unique style of comedy, which delivers vulnerable personal stories coupled with ideas from what some people refer to as hyperactive, weird and slightly deranged. This episode is all about sex and delivers some deep, real and raunchy stories from both of girls sexual escapades. They discuss masturbating, booty calls and sex preference's, but most importantly they discuss how they've dealt with issues of abandonment and how they've overcome a lot of sh*t to get to where they are in their careers and lives.

Highlights: