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Bess Kalb

Bess Kalb

American writer and screenwriter

Jul 24, 2026

4:50
And so I'm wondering, can you, for my soul's sake and for the sake of all others, tell us a story of a time where it looked like you were super successful on the outside, but you were really struggling on the inside?
5:06
Can you imagine if I was like, no, I've got to do.
5:08
And in fact, my champagne is here to congratulate myself on another day of being like, no, every single thing that you mentioned, every single like on paper, like clickable thing or like congratulationsable thing, everything you mentioned was at a time when I was massively crippled by anxiety, by self-doubt, by comparing me to the, there will always be somebody many, many rungs ahead of you on the ladder, right? And if you're climbing it only looking ahead, you'll never see how far you've climbed.
5:40
Like, that's pretty good.
5:41
Right? Metaphor.
5:43
Yeah.
5:44
But truly, for me, there will always be people with a show that had more than two seasons and wasn't just as special.
7:03
What is it? It's not the script nor what I had in mind, but would you mind just telling us how that came about? So I was a child.

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