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Pamela Mitchell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
174 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

you know, we need hotter content on the site.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

You guys, you're so puritanical in the US, but, you know, we're not that puritanical over here in the Netherlands, so we need hotter content.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

Now, for those of you who don't know, like all that weird shit porn that's on the internet, most of that comes out of the Netherlands.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

So, I understood their need for hotter content.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

But I have to say, I enjoyed my job.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

I had a good time.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

And I took that job just as seriously as I had taken all the rest of my jobs.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

But unfortunately, the rest of my world, they didn't have that same attitude.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

My mother, she didn't tell anybody where I worked for the first two months.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

And my grad school roommate, didn't matter that this was an amazing job title and all that other stuff, she said, and I quote a friend of ours, I can't believe Pamela has sunk so low.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

And my sister, the born again Christian one, well, she started praying for my lost soul.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

But the worst moment came when I went to an internet business conference.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

I went up to the microphone during the Q&A session, and I stood up there and I said, Hi, I'm Pamela Mitchell.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

I'm vice president of international for Playboy.com.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

And the audience started to laugh.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

And I looked out over these people laughing, and I was just humiliated, like I used to be when the little kids would laugh at me when I was young.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

And I thought, oh my God, this job is the biggest mistake of my life.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

I have worked so hard to be taken seriously, and now people are laughing at me because of where I work.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

Afterwards, I was still a little off, but I was waiting for, to speak to the moderator, and a woman comes over to me and she says, Ms.

The Moth
Grit and Gumption: The Moth Radio Hour

Mitchell, Ms.