82. Hannah Gadsby: How to Communicate Better

Published: March 29, 2022, 4:01 a.m.

b'1. Why Hannah describes her later-in-life Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis as \\u201can exfoliation of shame.\\u201d\\n2. How neurodiversity affects Hannah\\u2019s relationships\\u2013and how she connects to the world through what\\u2019s \\u201cinteresting\\u201d instead of what\\u2019s \\u201cimportant.\\u201d\\n3. Hannah\\u2019s revolutionary commitment to stop using self-deprecating humor about her body, sexuality, and gender\\u2013and why we might all consider the same commitment.\\n4. Why it\\u2019s easier for Hannah to share her personal stories \\u201cin bulk\\u201d on stage instead of one-on-one.\\n5. What it takes for Hannah to prepare for conversations\\u2013like ours on We Can Do Hard Things.\\n\\nAbout Hannah:\\nTasmania\\u2019s own Hannah Gadsby stopped stand-up comedy in its tracks with her multi-award-winning show, Nanette. When it premiered on Netflix in 2018, it left audiences captivated by her blistering honesty and her singular ability to take them from rolling laughter to devastated silence.\\xa0Its release and subsequent Emmy and Peabody wins took Nanette (and Hannah) to the world. Hannah\\u2019s difficult second album (which was also her eleventh solo show) was named Douglas after her dog. Hannah walked Douglas around the world, selling out the Royal Festival Hall in London, the Opera House in Sydney and the Kennedy Center in DC, a sit-down run in New York and shows across the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Douglas covered Hannah\\u2019s autism diagnosis, moving beyond the trauma at the centre of Nanette and instead letting the world see the view from Hannah\\u2019s brain \\u2013 one that sees the world differently but with breathtaking clarity. The show was an Emmy-nominated smash hit and is available throughout the world on Netflix, recorded in Los Angeles.\\xa0\\n\\nHannah Gadsby\\u2019s \\u201covernight\\u201d success was more than ten years in the making, with her award-winning stand-up shows having been a fixture in festivals across Australia and the UK since 2009. She played a character called \\u201cHannah\\u201d on the TV series Please Like Me and has hosted multiple art documentaries, inspired by her comedy art lectures. In 2022, Hannah\\u2019s first book Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation was published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in the United States, Atlantic in the UK, and Allen & Unwin in Australia.\\n\\nHannah has done plenty of other things over the course of more than a decade in comedy, but that will do for now.\\n\\nIG: hannah_gadsby\\nTW: HannahGadsby\\n \\nTo learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy\\n \\n Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'