Tara Schuster
Bestselling author of "Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies," playwright, and former VP of Talent and Development at Comedy Central turned mental health advocate; hosts the podcasts A Little Thing That Helps and Ladies Get Paid.
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PODCASTS
Jun 11, 2026
Tara SchusterGUEST
So I will say the title of the book is Buy Yourself the Lilies, but there is an expletive in there and it's about the rituals I developed to fix my life.
Tara SchusterGUEST
This is like a total tangent, but now I'm studying Aristotle as a topic for potentially another book.
Tara SchusterGUEST
And what's so interesting is that Aristotle talks a lot about none of this stuff is valuable if you just think about it.
22 MINS LATER
Claire WassermanHOST
how do you monetize now i know it's evolving right you have a sub stack a journal i think retreats but tell me how you've built new revenue streams for yourself
Tara SchusterGUEST
And I'll even back up a little bit for if you haven't heard our first episode together.
Tara SchusterGUEST
I was a television executive at Comedy Central where I ran shows like Key & Peele, and David Spade had a, a show with us, and I had zero inclination to go into the self-help world except my childhood kind of caught up with me.
Tara SchusterGUEST
I had lived in a neglectful, psychologically abusive household where things came to die.
15 MINS LATER