Jen Gottlieb

I will put my pity party in a container because you got to feel your feelings.

Get yourself out of your feelings or they're going to show up in different ways and your family's going to hate you because you're going to be resentful.

I'm pissed.

I'm going to grieve for the next hour or I'm going to go, you know, for the rest of the day, I can be pissed off.

But once I'm done being pissed off, I'm going to reflect and see what did I learn from this failure or this fuck up or this no or this rejection.

I'm going to move forward with a new plan.

Give yourself a container.

The biggest mistake is that people are upset forever or they hold onto it or they hold resentment.

That's like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.

If you hold resentment towards somebody else, it's only hurting you.

You got to let go and you got to move on.

So take your moment, be upset, then be like, okay, I'm done.

This is my container.

I'm over the container.

And now I'm moving forward, looking at what I learned and how am I going to turn this no into a yes.

My whole That Metal Show portion of my life ended.

It ended with a big bang.

In one week's time, the guy that I thought I was going to marry broke up with me, kicked me out of the apartment because he was cheating on me with one of our friends.

And my show got canceled.

And so I went from living in this multimillion dollar apartment on the Upper West Side to living in a tiny little bedroom with a window that faced a brick wall with six other actors in an apartment.