Tiffany Haddish: The Mindset Shift That Took Her From Sleeping in Her Car to Thriving in Hollywood

Change something. Do something different. When I get depressed, when I get sad, when I get, like, frustrated or I get in that dark space, I feel like that's my body and my soul telling me, we not comfortable here. We don't like this. You're doing something you ain't got no business doing. Change it. We were born crying. That's the first mode of communication. Let them toxins out. And I think crying is a removal of old beliefs and a replacement of new ones. I don't want to see nobody suffering. If it's a kid watching this, you don't have to go look for no trauma, because trauma will come and find you easily. But how you respond to it, you're going to have to use that crap that comes into your life, that trauma that comes into your life, and you're going to have to use it as fertilizer and try to grow into the thing that you always dreamed of being. When you react to situations, reaction can show mental illness, but responding shows intelligence and awareness. I try to respond to situations and I react. Sometimes I react. Sometimes I'm not mentally well. Sometimes I need a nap. I find the funny in the trauma. And we all have trauma. How you handle your trauma is going to determine the quality of your life. Every human needs family.

Well, we know the biggest killer in many respects is loneliness, right?

That's why you need family, even if it's family that get on your nerves. You can laugh at them later, but you need that. I have seen so much bad . I'm chasing the laughs. I'm chasing the joy. I'm trying to find it in every single time.

most people know tiffany haddish as one of the funniest women on the planet what far fewer people know is the story behind her success before tiffany's incredible career there was trauma there was homelessness there was heartbreak and some truly dark moments yet somehow despite all of this she emerged as one of the most joyful optimistic and resilient people i've ever met in this conversation we explore how she learned to find light in the darkest moments why she believes our words shape our reality, the power of visualization, and how choosing joy became her greatest act of survival and, in turn, success. This isn't a conversation about fame. This is a conversation about hope, about resilience, about self-belief, and about why choosing joy might just be one of the most powerful acts of self-care available to any of us. So without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with one of my most favorite people, the one and only Tiffany Haddish. Tiffany Haddish. I've always, I've known you for a while now, four or five years. And how do I properly pronounce your surname? Is it Haddish?

Well, Haddish is... That's

how you say it, right?

That's how I say it for the American speakers and for people, you know, just keep it easy. Haddish.

Haddish.

But, I mean, if you're from where my father's from, from Eritrea, you would say Haddish.

Haddish.

Haddish.

Huh.

Yeah.

Who knew? Everyone now.

I did. Now you do.

So for the listeners, I think the thing that I would love to really unpack today is joy, hope, happiness, human connection, optimism. You know, all of the things that we don't do a tremendous job of measuring in a lab, right? We do try