Tamara Thompson

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738 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 28 Apr

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford · From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point · 28 Apr 2026 podcast

But I think that was probably the most embarrassing thing, other than being pulled over and people just seeing it over time, like walking the line, like, oh, you don't take the test, you know?

That's a great question.

So, you know, after sobriety came into play, went back, you know, finished film school, basically started a production company.

But when I started a production company, I also had to like I wanted to make sure that I had enough clientele where I didn't have to have a corporate job, too.

So when I graduated.

This was kind of crazy.

So graduated and I was like, okay, cool.

I got a degree.

You know, I'm like 30.

World is my oyster now.

Why isn't the phone ringing?

So I went out and put applications out.

I was offered a position for $12 an hour.

This is back in like 2012.

That you could have got.

And my brother at the same time, so we're about seven years apart, but he was going through the process, even though he's seven years younger, this was like me going back to school.

And he gets a job at Amazon for just a flat $88,000, like out of the gate, right, as a developer.

And I was like, I was just offered $12 an hour.

I was making more than that at the gym.

So I went back and I negotiated.

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