This week's special guest is a talented writer, lawyer, mother and oh yeah, Chad’s sister… Shannon Sanders! Shannon joins Julie and Chad to talk about a number of things she had to quit during the pandemic to focus on the things that truly matter to her: her family and her writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Elyse Myers was enjoying her life as a web developer in Nebraska before her almost overnight rise to Tik-Tok fame. She quit her day job to focus on creating content as new people and things rushed into her life. She talks to us about how she realized it was time to quit and focus on her content, how her unexpected fame impacts her family, growing up poor in California and chasing a guy to Australia in her dating years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week’s Quitter is Hollywood veteran Ariel Winter, who just underwent a massive quit by leaving her life and home in Los Angeles. Ariel opens up about having her body objectified as she grew up on TV and choosing to prioritize herself. She reveals why she left LA, her complicated relationship with fame and how she thinks about social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's quitter, Sam Richardson [Veep, Detroiters, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates], sits down with us to discuss quitting sugar and eating 2-3 steaks in one sitting, how patience has affected his career, how moving from Ghana to Detroit at 9 years old has shaped his worldview and confidence, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week’s Quitter is the vulnerable, talented recording artist, Ashe! She opens up about losing her brother to an overdose during the rise of her stardom, becoming famous during a global pandemic and why she quit a toxic marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week’s conversation with the bold, insightful and uplifting Kalen Allen is packed full! Chad and Julie cover how Kalen became an achievement junkie, his hopes to quit being single, his time working at The Ellen Show, how he got permission to be himself and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week's guest is true-crime savant and podcasting empress, Karen Kilgariff! Julie and Chad’s conversation taps into the rise of the “My Favorite Murder” podcast empire, her slide into nightly partying and boozing as an Hollywood writer, her unexpected decision to quit drinking, the dangers of the 90's fen-phen trend, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week’s Quitter is Armchair Expert co-host and Julie and Chad's “fairy podmother”, Monica Padman! She’s authentic and graceful in this honest conversation about her complicated relationship with assimilating, how she stays true to herself in the public eye, her point of view on the term “model minority” and her plans to quit getting in her own way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today’s Quitter is Julie’s TV brother and Modern Family co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson! Jesse is quick, charming and vivacious as he talks to Julie and Chad about an early quit that catapulted his career, whether or not he wants to quit people-pleasing, and the time he got caught shoplifting and quit hiding from his parents! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's Quitter is the incredibly smart, funny and charming Lamorne Morris. Lamorne opens up to Chad and Julie about living in his car early in his career, Quitting his job at a network where he felt miscast, and how he handles white people constantly asking him how they can be better people. This conversation was real, fun and surprising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today, Julie and Chad speak to their first PAIR of Quitters on the show: sibling duo Meghan Trainor and Ryan Trainor. They learn how their connection as siblings has been tested by Meghan’s enormous stardom and Ryan’s battles with anxiety and addiction. They explore Ryan’s wake-up call to quit substance abuse and Meghan’s battle to quit body dysmorphia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You might know her from Blossom, Big Bang Theory and Jeopardy! But Julie and Chad know her as… a quitter. This week, they have an honest conversation with Mayim Bialik, where she discusses quitting Hollywood, academia, hyper-vigilance, and what happens in our brain when we decide to quit something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this episode of Quitters, Chad and Julie are joined by Julie’s TV daughter Sarah Hyland. They discuss Sarah’s chronic health struggles through shooting Modern Family, the woes of social media, and learning to speak up as a young woman. Oh yeah, and she teaches Chad what “ingénue” and “kupa” mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Julie and Chad talk to Jimmy Kimmel, learning all about how he had to flee from a Mike Tyson press conference, his relationship to fame, wanting to be the funniest kid in class, and the words "I love you" losing its power in LA. They also ask Jimmy the million dollar question - what would it take for him to quit his show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this episode of Quitters, Julie has a heartfelt reunion with her Modern Family-husband Ty Burrell while Chad makes a new friend. They discuss Ty quitting the Los Angeles lifestyle, moving to Salt Lake City, the power of social media and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This time, Chad is in the Quitter seat. He and Julie dissect Chad’s unique journey: leaving the East Coast and heading West after college to work for Google in Silicon Valley - the world’s “best place to work” at the time. Sounds like a dream first job, right? Well, not for Chad. Together, they get to the bottom of everything that led him to quit the corporate climb and start down the winding path of life as an artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to Quitters! In their premiere episode, Julie and Chad discuss how they got to know each other and why they wanted to start a podcast. They get into Julie’s unspoken (until now) quits, including her struggle with body shame and dysmorphia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quitters premieres February 14th 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
