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Tamara Thompson

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876 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

I even spoke to Gidget.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

I was like...

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

We have this gentleman that wants to go for, you know, it's like, it's like trying to accommodate, but like, cause you know, they're traveling and they're like, well, let's match make, but let's play Tetris.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

Yeah, yeah, so...

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

you know, rewind back like 20 plus years.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

So I was, uh, I was unhappy in my career in the fitness industry.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

Um, and my family, this was when YouTube was starting to come out and we're like, what would you do with YouTube?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

There's like parkour videos and silly cat videos and vlogging.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

I was like dancing around with a hairbrush singing eighties music, you know, where's I'm like, what do you do?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

Um, but, uh, yeah, I was an alcoholic.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

I was unhappy in my career.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

There's a lot of things going on in my life and, um, just accepting myself.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

And so, um, I went through this, this

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

uh, basically experience where I was dumped from my, my first love, which happened to actually be a woman.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

And so I went through the process of really, um, coming out, um, of the closet, um, which was one of the things that I really had to find out about myself.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

So I hid that for quite a while.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

And, um, I went through this spiral of alcoholism.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

Yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Rock Bottom to Reinvention – Tamara Thompson’s Turning Point

So