My Dead Mother Texted Me From The Other Side. A Voice Predicted My Career First | Lisa Kudrow

**Lisa Kudrow** (0:00)
My mother passed away in 2020 when she passed. She flew around and woke everybody up. I don't think that's weird at all, except she didn't wake me up. I'm left out of things a lot. Am I just really annoying? The next day, people are texting. It said in all caps, MOM. I didn't write that. And then another text, MOM. My friend went, Lisa, your mom texted you.

**Mayim Bialik** (0:22)
Emmy Award winning actress Lisa Kudrow, the iconic Phoebe from Friends, talks about her career, her spiritual journey and how she was guided by an inner voice to begin her incredible acting career.

**Lisa Kudrow** (0:34)
Don't you ever feel like there's something that you just know and there's no reason you should know it? Wouldn't you call that guidance? When it's really important, you get the information. When I would come home around senior year, maybe before I was watching people on David Letterman, seemed really phony and thought, oh my God, Lisa, when you're on Letterman, please just be yourself. Wait, what? I don't know what it was, an inner voice. Why would I be on Letterman for some evolutionary theory?

**Mayim Bialik** (1:01)
Do you come from a science background?

**Lisa Kudrow** (1:03)
I was pre-med. I was really interested in studying evolution of behavior.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:08)
People love to ask, how are you different from your character?

**Lisa Kudrow** (1:11)
I thought, I should get to know Phoebe a little better. That's when Jennifer Aniston gave me Bringers of the Dawn.

**Jonathan Cohen** (1:17)
You've discovered something about yourself.

**Lisa Kudrow** (1:19)
Yes, I started realizing there's more going on. I think we're here to experience whatever this is.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:25)
Do you mean in life or in death?

**Lisa Kudrow** (1:27)
Both, all of it.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:32)
Evening.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:33)
Buyers remorse.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:34)
Buy a new car?

**SPEAKER_4** (1:36)
I'll be moving in. Let's get started.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:38)
Sorry, I think there's been a mistake. I bought it from Carvana.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:42)
You what?

**Lisa Kudrow** (1:42)
Yeah, great price.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:43)
I even have seven days to love it or return it.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:46)
So there's no...

**Lisa Kudrow** (1:47)
No, no Buyers remorse.

**Jonathan Cohen** (1:48)
More like Buyers rejoice.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:51)
I guess I'll let myself out. Congratulations. I mean it.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:55)
Buyers rejoice.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:56)
Buy your car today on Carvana.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:58)
Limitations and exclusions may apply.

**Mayim Bialik** (1:59)
See our seven day return policy at carvana.com.

**Jonathan Cohen** (2:01)
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**Jonathan Cohen** (3:16)
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**Mayim Bialik** (3:24)
Hi, I'm Mayim Bialik.

**Jonathan Cohen** (3:25)
And I'm Jonathan Cohen.

**Mayim Bialik** (3:26)
And welcome to our Breakdown. I'd say this is one of the most unusual episodes we have ever done. I'm just going to go ahead and say it. We have Lisa Kudry. She played Phoebe on Friends for a decade, a multi-award-winning actress who happened to reach out to me personally. She slid into my DMs to say, I think your podcast is amazing.
What followed was a conversation off the record, at the end of which I said, would you ever come on our podcast? And she said, what would I have to talk about? Well, turns out, a lot.

**Jonathan Cohen** (4:01)
I don't even know what to say. This conversation was so amazing. Like, every time I thought there wasn't anything else to talk about, she reveals something that's truly unbelievable from her mom, texting her from the beyond after she passes to Lisa's own intuitive abilities, signs that she got before she started acting that foretold what her life would be like, and even her experiment with remote viewing.