How Do You Hustle with Kami Dimitrova

How Do You Hustle with Kami Dimitrova is a series of interviews with comedians about their day jobs. Dog walking, freelance gigs, or corporate 9-5's... we’re all sleep-deprived and hustling to make our dreams come true. Tune in every week for a new episode! Follow Kami on Instagram (@kamiindahouse) and Twitter (@kami_tweets) Kami Dimitrova is a comedian based in Brooklyn. You can see her perform original characters monthly at the UCB theater in Hell’s Kitchen as a member of Characters Welcome. She has created comedy content featured on Funny or Die’s homepage and hosted shows featured in The New York Times. She was the host of Scary Mommy’s live trivia show game show on Facebook and was last seen on a national spot for Popeyes. She studied improv and sketch at The Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and Second City in Chicago. In her past life, she was a journalist at ABC News.

Performing Arts
Comedy Interviews
Careers
1
John Trowbridge
110 min
2
Tom Thakkar
51 min
3
Chrissy Shackelford
78 min
4
Laura Lyons
80 min
5
Michael Hartney
"Huge if true."
119 min
6
Mike Cabellon
"If you dont go to an audition because your boss told you not to, you’re gonna regret it for the rest of your life."
60 min
7
Glo Tavarez
"Do not be afraid of being on welfare, medicaid and do not be afraid of being dead broke."
86 min
8
Andrea Coleman
"I would not be able to do any of this if I didn't have mentors. I feel like I have to have it because I wouldn't have any direction...they help connect me to my intuition."
73 min
9
Shem Pennant
"It's such a weird up and down journey continuously....why not just not stress and enjoy the moment you're in."
66 min
10
Octavia Leona Kohner
"Dwelling on mistakes you made is perhaps not the most helpful thing...young people make a lot of mistakes. Forgiving yourself but learning from it is essential."
60 min
11
Eric Feurer
"You can always think you can get better and improve. Otherwise what's the point, really."
100 min
12
Woody Fu
"I was making more money than I ever made...but I called it a velvet coffin. It's very nice and warm...but I felt very isolated."
53 min
13
Jesse Roth
"I used to take hustling as such a point of pride...but I started to realize that it wasn't."
64 min
14
Sarah Smallwood Parsons
"I'm very bad at relaxing....I'm really trying to be better about like letting myself have non-productive time."
95 min
15
Emma Vernon
"I tried to juggle a comedy career and a marketing career for as long as I could..."
47 min
16
Corin Wells
"I would advise people that their time is precious. When I think about my job...I allot a certain amount of time to it and that's all the time that it f*cking gets."
75 min
17
Patrick Keene
"I hate working...and I can't really get past that. I think as I get older, [I think I'm] going to have to find a way to turn this kind of stuff into a career."
91 min
18
Mike Zakarian
"It's this weird emotional rollercoaster. Am I putting enough pressure on myself?"
64 min
19
Mimi Hayes
"You’re better off trying something out and sucking at it and failing and then trying something else, than never doing it at all. And all those things do build on each other. "
62 min
20
Joseph Lymous
“I am a black, gay interdisciplinary artist with emphasis in comedy and self liberation.”
57 min
21
Sylvie Wang
"You really can’t help or do anything good for anyone else until you’ve dealt with your baggage."
60 min
22
Kendra Augustin
"I would rather do what I love than just survive."
46 min
23
Nicole Adsit
Nicole talks about finding the best day job that works for you.
60 min
24
Marnie B.
"You can’t have a plan B or you’re expecting to fail."
39 min
25
Welcome to How Do You Hustle!
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