Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best

It's me, your friend Busy Philipps! My creative partner Caissie St. Onge & I love making things that we believe people need & will love & we’ve had so many plans. We had plans to do a TV show that would shake up late night! And we think it kinda did! For six months. We adored our genius, scrappy creative team at “Busy Tonight” as much as we loved our audience, so when we broke the news that we’d been canceled, we vowed to get back up & make even bigger plans to invent a whole new way of doing things in the entertainment biz, to reunite our beautiful staff & change the game for everyone! An entertainment Utopia! And we were so close, then...the world changed. Now those plans are, at the very least, on hold. So, we've shifted gears, like everyone has had to, & with our friends, we're just doing our best, taking it slow & talking to fascinating friends about how *they* are doing *their* best. They’ll tell us all about those times in their lives when a setback actually led to the right thing. Maybe it was a job that didn't pan out, but opened the door to an even more perfect one, or maybe it's how they studied for years to do the thing they thought was their calling, only to fall into something else that felt like kismet. The thing is, we want to share those moments because right now EVERYBODY is having one of those moments. Maybe we'll all learn something life-changing or maybe we'll just have a conversation where we break down in tears, then laugh at ourselves for crying. Whatever happens, we can assure you, Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best!

Society & Culture
Comedy
TV & Film
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Into the Woods
Busy & Caissie are back from their various holiday breaks. They missed you! Did they make any New Year’s resolutions? Are they sticking to them?
131 min
177
Christmas Eve-eve-EVE!
It’s Christmas Eve-eve-EVE! And Busy & Caissie are alternately freaking out while trying to stay calm about Omicron. Can it still be a magical holiday? Probably not in the way we all hoped it would be, but nevertheless, they’re doing their best. And they have a few things they’d like to say to all of you who have spent time hanging out with BPIDHB all year.
86 min
178
Gloria Calderón Kellett
187 min
179
Unhinged
Find out how Busy inadvertently started a massive Hollywood rumor, which Beatle she wants to bone & who she’s not gonna talk about!
133 min
180
Panic on the Peacock!
Busy discusses how the third time was the charm when seeing Harry Styles. And she breaks down what happened on the float during the Thanksgiving Day parade & why she had a panic attack right on the Peacock.
122 min
181
Happy Y’alliday!
Busy & Caissie discuss the problematic origins of Thanksgiving as we know them & suggest alternative themes for celebration.
137 min
182
The Experimental Episode
Busy & Caissie attempt an experiment where instead of recording the podcast all at once, they record a little bit every day. How did they do? You’ll find out!
171 min
183
Just Busy & Caissie Again!
132 min
184
Brian Jordan Alvarez & Stephanie Koenig
Actors, writers, directors & beloved hilarious internet stars, Brian Jordan Alvarez & Stephanie Koenig swing through to talk about their new project, “A Spy Movie” & their hopes that it goes *BIG VIRAL*!
168 min
185
Andrea Barber
Andrea Barber who you know and love as Kimmy Gibbler from “Full House” and “Fuller House” stops by to talk about her iconic role, as well as a couple of personal pivots that really knocked her for a loop.
152 min
186
Busy & Caissie
161 min
187
John Ross Bowie
Actor John Ross Bowie from “The Big Bang Theory” and “Speechless” stops by to discuss the 3 Ps, preschools, pivots and his new podcast “Household Faces”
199 min
188
BenDeLaCreme
BenDeLaCreme swings through to talk about RuPaul’s Drag Race, making movies and the many pivots that have shaped her life.
182 min
189
Piper Perabo
Busy has returned from her retreat at last and has lots and lots to share with everyone. Is she feeling her best? Then, actor Piper Perabo dials in to talk about the pivot that changed her career even though she’d already been acting for many years.
165 min
190
Phoebe Robinson
Phoebe Robinson from Two Dope Queens comes through to talk about the pivots that made her who she is today, a successful business woman on the verge of signing up to attend a retreat herself.
192 min
191
Paul F Tompkins and Janie Haddad-Tompkins
189 min
192
Joan Rivers
Caissie's long-lost interview with Joan Rivers from 2011.
175 min
193
Julia Duffy
Julia Duffy talks about how she almost didn’t go to her audition for Newhart! She discusses many pivots, but also opens up about a deeply personal loss that changed her life & the life of her family more than anything else ever could.
188 min
194
Jana Schmieding
Jana Schmieding, star of Rutherford Falls on Peacock, discusses her pivot into a career she never thought she would have, plus being Native American in entertainment & dating while fat.
171 min
195
Meredith Salenger
Meredith Salenger talks about the new podcast she co-hosts with her husband, Patton Oswalt, plus she shares a bunch of pivots she’s taken since her earliest days on camera, right up until unexpectedly becoming a wife and a mother just four years ago.
183 min
196
Sheena Meade/Leslie Grossman
Executive director of The Clean Slate Initiative, Sheena Meade, talks about the moments in her life that led her to a calling that is changing lives for the better.
170 min
197
Stacy London
Fashion goddess Stacy London, formerly of TLC’s iconic series “What Not to Wear” discusses her pivot from helping people change their clothes to CEO of new company that is working to help anyone experiencing the “change of life”!
191 min
198
Heather Matarazzo
Heather talks about what it was like to be an actor who happened to be a child and about an important pivot that helped her find her way back from a very dark place.
203 min
199
Nikki Glaser
204 min
200
SuChin Pak
Former MTV news personality & current co-host of the “Add to Cart” podcast, SuChin Pak talks about a huge pivot she faced early in her career & how recent violence against the AAPI community brought up unresolved feelings from that time for her.
190 min