Every week, Busy and Caissie ask their guests about a major pivot they’ve faced in their lives. Whenever anyone chooses to generously share something that is so deeply personal while also being incredibly relatable, their stories are unforgettable. This week, author and queer activist Glennon Doyle, journalist Lisa Ling, actor and director Natalie Morales, actor Julia Duffy, comedian Nikki Glaser, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Season 5 Shea Couleé and actor, comedian, writer and director Ike Barinholtz are all talking about events, sometimes joyful, sometimes incredibly painful, that wound up changing the direction of their lives. TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of suicide, rape and eating disorders and death.

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It's me, your friend Busy Philipps! My creative partner Caissie St. Onge & I love making things that we believe people need & will love & we’ve had so many plans. We had plans to do a TV show that would shake up late night! And we think it kinda did! For six months. We adored our genius, scrappy creative team at “Busy Tonight” as much as we loved our audience, so when we broke the news that we’d been canceled, we vowed to get back up & make even bigger plans to invent a whole new way of doing things in the entertainment biz, to reunite our beautiful staff & change the game for everyone! An entertainment Utopia! And we were so close, then...the world changed. Now those plans are, at the very least, on hold. So, we've shifted gears, like everyone has had to, & with our friends, we're just doing our best, taking it slow & talking to fascinating friends about how *they* are doing *their* best. They’ll tell us all about those times in their lives when a setback actually led to the right thing. Maybe it was a job that didn't pan out, but opened the door to an even more perfect one, or maybe it's how they studied for years to do the thing they thought was their calling, only to fall into something else that felt like kismet. The thing is, we want to share those moments because right now EVERYBODY is having one of those moments. Maybe we'll all learn something life-changing or maybe we'll just have a conversation where we break down in tears, then laugh at ourselves for crying. Whatever happens, we can assure you, Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best!

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Do you love dog-barking ASMR? This week, Busy is in Los Angeles at Emily BB’s house with her dog, Alfie. Caissie is staying in New York at Casa Kismet, and in her husband’s mind, she and Busy are living together like Laverne & Shirley. Find out what happened to some couture clothing Busy was about to borrow from some stylists and how the first taping of Busy This Week went for QVC+! Plus, an honest discussion about frustrations they’re feeling at the state of the world.

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Inked

This week, Caissie went to Retta’s Pink Party in LA, then stayed up all night to catch an early flight to NYC where she landed, ran to Casa Kismet, threw on a sparkly jumpsuit and rushed to the Writers’ Guild of America Awards where Busy was presenting. Find out who Busy spoke to at the event that had her losing her mind. And find out who she was too star struck to talk to, but who also made her lose her mind again later in her Instagram comments. And hear how Caissie’s doing, being back in the Big Apple for the next few weeks while she and Busy make their late night show Busy This Week for QVC+, premiering May 8th. Beeteedubs, Busy is actually so busy that she’s declared she no longer has time for BS, and drops a couple radical honesty bombs you won’t want to miss.

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Busy This Week! Literally!

This week, Busy’s Girls5Eva co-star and friend Sara Bareilles is back to talk about what it’s like to try to write songs when you’re not sure what you have to say. She tells us what’s next for her (hint: one thing is musical, another thing is matrimonial) and why we all deserve comfortable pants.

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This week, Busy is back in New York City and as she and Caissie reflect on the horrific killing of 7 foreign aid workers with World Central Kitchen in Gaza, Caissie attempts to articulate her mounting frustration with the social media discourse, as Busy advocates seeking out actionable items above all else. Then, everyone’s day gets brighter when comedian, actor, writer and producer, John Early, from Search Party, The Afterparty, At Home with Amy Sedaris and the new season of Girls5Eva plus much more, joins the women to talk about his hilarious upcoming movie, “Stress Positions” (opens April 19th) and the time Taylor Swift just personally texted him and asked him to appear in the music video for her song Antihero.

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John Early

This week, Busy and Caissie share their thoughts on the explosive Max documentary Quiet on Set about the behind the scenes misconduct and abuse on the sets of several Nickelodeon children’s shows, plus they recap the arguments heard by the Supreme Court about whether access to abortion pills will be restricted. Then, Grammy winner, Tony and Emmy nominee, Phillipa Soo, stops by to talk about her experience as a child trying to break into the entertainment business and what the gasp uttered by her iconic character, Eliza, at the end of Hamilton might mean. Plus, she talks about her latest pivot, to being a children’s book author with her debut book, Piper Chen Sings, out this week! Finally, Busy and Caissie discuss an amazing afternoon they spent, meeting Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and celebrating her new memoir, One Way Out, with a whole bunch of wonderful women. CONTENT WARNING: Frank discussion of sexual assault, child sexual abuse and sexual assault

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