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This week, Tommy is joined by the brilliant actress Lana Parrilla, who you know and love from playing some powerful women throughout her impressive career, including one of my favorites, the Evil Queen in Once Upon a Time. Lana is showing the world once again that she is a force to be reckoned with in her new series, The Rainmaker, which is out right now. Today, Lana opens up about playing a brassy and ballsy character like Bruiser in her new series, why she most relates to this character from her entire body of work, the powerful life lesson she learned through her audition process, what the challenges of living and working in a different country for six months are like, what she does to create a “home” wherever she lives for work, the Ireland dance parties that went down, if she really would do a Once Upon a Time reboot of some sort, the last time she watched Once, how playing The Evil Queen healed relationships in her personal life, the scenes of hers that she would show a Once Upon a Time newbie if they only had a few minutes, which character of hers she would want to be neighbors with, what’s on her Bruiser playlist, what character she would want to revisit, the advice she would give to her future self, what she has never said before (to a special someone), and so much more. 

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In this episode of “Shrink This!,”Lisa and Nick tackle the fantasy of the one perfect best friend. From awkward “my husband is my BFF” declarations to the cringe of codependent friendships, they unpack why expecting one person to be your everything is a fast track to disappointment. With sharp humor and some brutally honest self-reflection, they explore what it really takes to build friendships that work—even if that means spreading the love around.

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Imagine forcing your daughter into a loveless marriage to an English duke. Why? Because you want a divorce, money from the divorce, and the ability to hang on to your social standing. That was life among the rich in the Gilded Age and Alva Vanderbilt figured out a way to get what she wanted with her daughter as the pawn.

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Today, we talked about being guests other people's houses. 

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Today, we talked about being guests other people's houses. 

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Seems as if someone's bed is always breaking... this weekend, it was Skeery and then some callers!

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Seems as if someone's bed is always breaking... this weekend, it was Skeery and then some callers!

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