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Dec 2020
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Dawn O'Porter

Earwolf & Jameela Jamil
About this episode

Author, director, and tv presenter Dawn O'Porter joins Jameela to discuss their friendship and how they first met, Dawn's experience having her partner Chris O'Dowd experience a career high while hers was at a low, discovering you are "the girl next door," loving work and loving being a mother, honest conversations with her sons, and her new book Life In Pieces.

This Christmas, please consider giving to choose.love to support and empower refugees in need.

If you have a Wrong Turn of your own to share with Jameela, email a voice memo to PersonalDisasterStories@gmail.com, and we may include it in a future episode!

Jameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamil. Her Substack is A Low Desire To Please.

You can find iWeigh transcripts on the Earwolf website

And make sure to check out I Weigh’s Instagram, Youtube and TikTok for more!

Jameela's Substack is A Low Desire To Please, you can also find her on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Our consulting producer is Colin Anderson.

Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey.

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