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Jan 2021
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Episode 169 - Sarah Schaefer

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Sarah Schaefer (Comedy Central/MTV/Author) discusses saving a child's life as a counselor then not being promoted because she cried after, what it was like to host a tv show for MTV in the old TRL studio, and how she crushed it as at a law firm on accident for almost a decade. She also gives Brooks the inside scoop on how to write a book.

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