#866 - Christine Hassler

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Christine, we're live.

How you doing? We talked a lot before this podcast. We even said we weren't going to talk. We were like, I don't want to talk to you too much. A lot of stuff to talk about.

But damn, we got into everything. Christie Brinkley, Fibonacci Sequence.

Christine Hassler (0:17)

Tony Robbins.

Joe Rogan (0:18)

Tony Robbins. We covered a lot of ground.

Christine Hassler (0:20)

Crime.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Crime. Boyfriends as dogs, as protective dogs.

Christine Hassler (0:25)

Yes, protective dogs.

Joe Rogan (0:28)

How did you get to become a life coach?

Christine Hassler (0:32)

Oh gosh. That's a little.

Joe Rogan (0:33)

Was it the worst?

Christine Hassler (0:34)

No, no, no, no. It's just a long, it's not, I never planned on it. And I don't really even like that title.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

What's a good name?

Christine Hassler (0:40)

I haven't come up with a better name for it.

Joe Rogan (0:42)

Let's come up with one.

Christine Hassler (0:43)

But maybe by the end of the show, we'll come up with something better. So that's your job, Joe. Okay. To figure out my new title by the end of the show.

So I started out in Hollywood, actually.

I moved out after college to LA. Mainly because growing up, I was teased a lot. I was massively insecure. And if you've got something to prove, Hollywood's a great place to come do it.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

So you came out here to like, oh, fucking show you people.

Christine Hassler (1:07)

Yeah, I'll show you. Yeah, since I didn't fit in, I didn't have a lot of friends and boys didn't really ever like me unless they wanted to cheat off my paper.

I became addicted to achieving. And I was like, what can I be? I wanna be somebody. Like if only I was somebody.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

How old were you?

Christine Hassler (1:21)

How old was I? Oh gosh, when it started, 10, eight, something like that.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

That's when you started wanting to prove yourself?

Christine Hassler (1:29)

Well, that's when the teasing started happening.

And that's when I started to feel like I didn't really fit in, and I needed to find a way to feel worth something. So overachieving kind of became my way to do that. And then at 10, I was diagnosed with depression and put on Prozac at 10

Joe Rogan (1:45)

What?

Christine Hassler (1:46)

I know. We'll bookmark that combined.

And so from a very early age, I really thought something was wrong with me. I didn't fit in. And so I had to come up with these compensatory strategies to feel worthy, to feel validated, to feel like I mattered. And so I just became like straight A student, addicted to achieving, went out to college. I grew up in Texas, went to Northwestern, graduated early, and was just committed to moving to Hollywood and working my way up. As an actor, I mean, as a kid, I was an actor. I tried that for a little bit. And then I was like, whoa, this is way too much rejection. I can't deal with this.

I want to go on the other side of the camera and pursue this career in Hollywood. And I didn't know what exactly I was going to do. I thought I was going to be a producer or something like that. But I came out, I was 20 years old, and I applied to the William Morris Agency to be an assistant. They're like, you have to go through the training program, which is like pushing mail carts around. And I did not want to do that. So somehow I got a desk, like really early, and started working for the head of TV packaging, and quickly learned I did not want to be an agent. Like I just didn't like it. It was crazy long hours.

I was treated poorly. It was just a hellish job. And it was a lot of selling. I didn't really like that either.

So I left and actually went and worked on The Man Show.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

You did?

Christine Hassler (3:03)

I did. I was like, maybe I'll like production. So first season of The Man Show, I was there, which was kind of a blast and also just crazy. It was a crazy show to work on. I mean, Jimmy and Adam were always like super awesome to me, but I was a young girl, PA, running around, the juggy dancers were everywhere. I was like, what am I doing here? So I quickly got out of production and then started in comedy development at Paramount. I started scouting comedians and going to comedy clubs and finding people that I could represent and bring in, maybe get deals for them.