Welcome to That’s So Mental. Each week, comedians Ilana Cohn Sullivan and Cristina Fernandez will dive deep into the labyrinth that is the human brain. These ladies have no business giving advice on mental health, but they sure do have a lot of opinions and some experiences with full blown mental breakdowns. .
Alongside guest artists and actual mental health experts Cristina and Ilana explore what makes them tick, artistic blocks, and what it’s like to cope with a creative mind. Join them as they discuss different topics including motherhood, menopause, mantras and psychedelic therapy. Follow along on the journey!
Follow Ilana @ilanainla & Cristina @theonecristinafernandez on Instagram.
Theme Music: Mike Costantini
Sound Engineer: Kevin Lu
Special Thanks: Elizabeth Baquet & Dave Kneebone
Recording: Ninth Planet Audio
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Welcome to That’s So Mental. Each week, comedians Ilana Cohn Sullivan and Cristina Fernandez will dive deep into the labyrinth that is the human brain. These ladies have no business giving advice on mental health, but they sure do have a lot of opinions and some experiences with full blown mental breakdowns. .
Alongside guest artists and actual mental health experts Cristina and Ilana explore what makes them tick, artistic blocks, and what it’s like to cope with a creative mind. Join them as they discuss different topics including motherhood, menopause, mantras and psychedelic therapy. Follow along on the journey!
Follow Ilana @ilanainla & Cristina @theonecristinafernandez on Instagram.
Theme Music: Mike Costantini
Sound Engineer: Kevin Lu
Special Thanks: Elizabeth Baquet & Dave Kneebone
Recording: Ninth Planet Audio
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 2026, so put on a bright lip and get that short dress on to show off those legs - they're gorgeous! That's So Mental is 50 episodes deep and we are so grateful to each and everyone of you for listening week after week. We have some great guests coming up this year and we are so thrilled and grateful that we get to get down in the nitty gritty with all of these talented folks. So many insights!
Shoutout to previous guest Sofia Gonzalez for her wisdom.
Endorsements: Read a Thriller - Cristina is enjoying God Of The Woods by Liz Moore, Everyday Dose Coffee
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Email us at thatssomentalpodcast@gmail.com. Thank you to our producer and sound engineer, Elizabeth Baquet and everyone at Ninth Planet Audio. Theme song created by Mike Costantini.
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It's the last TSM episode of the year and we're joined by our lovely producer, Elizabeth Baquet, sharing so many great ways and organizations to get involved with in your community. Cristina is going hard at the end of the year and Ilana is staring at the wall. Both are acceptable.
Endorsements: Nick Cave , Turn towards hope, stay away from cynicism, check out the local markets, and volunteer at your kids' school!
Get Involved!
More Great Organizations:
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Thank you to our producer sound engineer, and guest, Elizabeth Baquet and everyone at Ninth Planet Audio. Theme song created by Mike Costantini.
Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely. Hosted on Acast.
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Community organizer, photographer, and creator of Hey Baby and Take Care Club, Gilda Davidian joins Cristina and Ilana to chat about how you too can be a wonderful helper in your community! For our month of December we're focusing on giving. Send us links to organizations that you love or donate to. We want to check them out!
Endorsements: Plant the seeds! (literal and metaphorical) Do the little thing, supplements (Cristina is is working with turmeric, magnesium, multi, creatine, D3 - Ilana likes that fish oil too), Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now
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Happy Birthday to That's So Mental!!!!! She's ONE year old and looking fly as hell! Here's a little shortie episode to let you know what's coming up this month of holiday mayhem. Cristina is an acts of service lady and Ilana is a gifts gal, what's your love language?
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This week Ilana and Cristina talk to LMFT Anne Ricketts who gives us some insight to her practice and explains so many modalities that can be helpful. Cristina and Ilana both love themselves some rage, but don't worry, they've been doing the work and healing. Cristina shares a helpful tool to calm the nervous system. Ilana overshares, but that's her thing! Hey friend, go find your micro moments of awe.
Get Ready for Some book recs:
Pia Melody - Facing Love Addiction
Lisa Feldman Barrett Seven and A Half Lessons About The Brain
Jillian Treckian - It begins with you
Melody Beattie - Codependant No More
Rick Hanson - Hardwiring Happiness
Marc Lewis - Biology of Desire
Endorsements: Where Will you be 5 years From Today - Written by Dan Zadra and Kobi Yamada, Stopping and smelling the roses,
Shoutouts: Rachel Troy, This is Not a Beauty Podcast,
Its Isabella's doc "seduce me" that Cristina was thinking of. And its strange. in the best way ever.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/seduce-me
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Actor, podcast host and genuine wonderful guy, Josh Meyers shares a window into pretty crushing depression that came and went. Cristina questions why no-one has diagnosed either of these hosts with manic depression or bipolar. Ilana remembers a time when she and Josh were neighbors and she almost went insane. California and all her beauty is discussed at length and Josh gives a peek into his new gig as the host of the California Now Podcast. He also shares how he ended up playing Gavin Newsom on all the late night shows.
Endorsements: The Telepathy Tapes, The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis on audio, The Waking up App in a sauna if you've got one!
Shoutouts: Strike Force 5, Esalen, Deetjens,
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If you're struggling with depression and having thoughts of hurting yourself or someone else reach out. Help is available. Dial 988.
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Author, actress and beautiful storyteller, Emily Barth Isler joins the pod this week and shares her journey with OCD and Synesthesia. Cristina questions the legitimacy of physical therapy.
Ilana had a tough nail salon experience and Cristina shares the saying, "lo barato sale caro," which means get the nicer thing, the cheap thing will cost you more down the road!
Endorsements: t The Burbank Book Festival, Saturday November 8th, Subscribe and Save and thinking ahead, Daily gratitude list
Shoutout:
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This week's hilarious and charming guest, Kristine Kimmel, can be heard weekly on her How to Survive Podcast. Kristine shares how deep diving on crisis information has actually done good things for her mental health, that, and medication. Cristina is done with the squirrel perverts in LA, Ilana was almost kidnapped, because of course she was. What hasn't this lady been through?!
Endorsements: Reading Classics, Listening to Michael Connelly Bosch series to fall asleep, Karaoke with friends, Doing the Work to feel better. Do that PT!
Shoutout: Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown, Stacy Levine
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Check out Kristine's podcast: How to Survive Podcast
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Cristina and Ilana are ready for fall! They're sweating, but they're ready. Julia Gallucci, LMFT, brings thoughtful, educational conversation to TSM. She discusses how to talk to your kids about porn, coping with OCD, and how not to accommodate your scared dog.
Endorsements: Generation Cult Podcast , Singing for the fun of it, Being in Nature.
Shoutout: Just Say This with Amy Lang Podcast, Good books for conversations; It's so Amazing Book, It's Not The Stork and Jane Borden's Cults Like Us. , Rachel Lawrence vocal coach.
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Actress Chloe Wepper joins Ilana in the studio to chat toxic work places, getting harassed in the streets, and the state of the world. These ladies acknowledge that you can't always power through the depression. Get the meds when you need to! Cristina is off filming a commercial but don't fret she will be back next week. Thank you to Chloe and Elizabeth for filling Cristina's big, gorgeous shoes.
Please send TOXIC workplace stories to thatssomentalpodcast@gmail.com. We want to hear them!
Endorsements: Group Therapy, Somebody Somewhere, Task
Shoutout: Jeff Hiller
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Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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Have you ever tried to diagnose yourself via google only to find your own young, sweet face staring right back at you?! TSM host Cristina Fernandez shares that magic moment and blows co-host Ilana Cohn Sullivan's tired mind fully apart. If you're not flexible you break! But you can still try and tape your face to hair to hold it up! If not there is always botox! Maybe someday.
Endorsements: Eyelash curling and Float therapy
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Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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Cristina and Ilana get their minds blown (expanded?) by actress, intuitive, and healer, Victoria Libertore, who awes the TSM ladies with her channeling of Liza Minnelli. We talk all things mediumship; Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing), Clairsentience (Clear Feeling), Clairaudience (Clear Hearing), and Claircognizance (Clear Knowing).
Endorsements: Crash Acting Studio,
Shoutout: Celeste Larson's Heal the Witch Wound, Alisha Gaddis, Sarah Finlay,
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Cristina and Ilana are back in time, it's summer and Corona was thriving. Join these ladies as they lean into their feelings. Did Ilana get dosed at Kreation Juice? Cristina accidentally OD'd on Wellbutrin and was having Severance Dolly Zoom moments (Tromboners) at lunch with her mom (thanks Hitchcock!) Maybe it's time we all move to Galicia?
Shoutouts: Leslie Stevens for being the best, Dr. Christopher Lee, Sherpa Casi Kneebone, Wild DreamLab
Endorsements: Working with people in person, Mel Robins 5-4-3-2-1, (wake up, hydrate, tidy, get outside, kiss someone you love)
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Thank you to our producer and sound engineer, Elizabeth Baquet and everyone at Ninth Planet Audio. Theme song created by Mike Costantini.
Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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Comedian and wonderful human, Barry Rothbart joins Ilana and Cristina in the studio this week to chat about the process of creating his podcast, Searching for Allan Rothbart. Cristina explains what to do if your air mattress breaks in the woods. And Ilana attempts to find people with good home lives to see how it's done. Do deadbeat dads still exist? Write in to TSM and share your dad story, we love them!
Endorsements: Atomic Habits, Dating your spouse, call a friend back east
Shoutout: The Shrink Next Door, Wellbutrin, Therapy...always
Find Searching for Allan Rothbart on Audible!
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Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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Comedian and postpartum activist, Angelina Spicer, has taken her pain and turned it into action, helping women all over the world. This accidental activist is such a badass! Did you know 70% of new moms have intrusive thoughts?! Cristina and Ilana are here to help bring light and transparency to all the hard topics. Here's a hot tip for breastfeeding; stick that nip through the bars of the crib!
Check out Angelina's show, Sept 20th, 4pm @spiceymoms are at @hollywoodimprov! Come out for a good cause.
Shoutouts: Ginko Biloba is making a comeback, Jessica Langer for the heads up that breast feeding is HARD,
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Solo babes Cristina Fernandez and Ilana Cohn Sullivan get into their feelings. And it's okay, they aren't robots, they FEEL! Would you let your kid date a robot? Larry and Mars make Lars. Let's be present in the world. How are you staying grounded and sane? Share your practice with us, we need it!
Endorsements: Watch Lena Dunham's Too Much with Megan Stalter, it's brilliant
Shoutout: Shoutout to Leslie Stevens from stopping Ilana before she went full robot world, Single tear master? Margot Robbie in Babylon
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Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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This week's extraordinary, beautiful, talented guest, Sofia Gonzalez joins the overly caffeinated tangent twins, Cristina and Ilana, with some HOT metaphors. Sofia shares her experience with Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) and intrusive thoughts. Goodbye Snakes! And her practice of radical gratitude. Can you be as excited about the rough stuff as the good? Give it a go! And BTW, hobbies are good for the soul, motivation and conversation starters.
Shoutouts: Magnesium, L-Theanine, Michael Caine's Biography, Henry Winkler's Biography
Endorsements: Good Hang with Amy Poehler, Las Culturistas, K-pop Demon Hunters, books! OLD BOOKS! The Inner Game of Tennis, Collagen Peptites
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Comedian, writer and Jersey girl dream guest, Jodi Miller, joins us in studio to talk important topics like postpartum after adoption, plump lips, and what trash she has in her bag, You can catch Jodi on Funny You Should Ask. Fentanyl and children ruin cocaine but they're still worth it.
Endorsements: Karaoke at Vitellos, kayaking, lip blushing
Shoutout: Dorien Davis hair, MDMA
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Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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Actor, voice actor and activist, Parvesh Cheena joins Ilana and Cristina today in the studio for some hot goss circe de 2008. Cristina educates them on how gossip is actually the most important form of communication. Did you know American's are loud, have white teeth, and always want water? This is how you find them in Europe. You need more fiber and to get your colon checked, and get that Psyllium husk! We are all cults - shoutout to Jane Borden. Microverse vs. Macroverse - stay local, be with friends, count your blessings!
Endorsements: The Queen of my Dreams by Fawzia Mirza, Let Them by Mel Robins, Gardening
Shoutout: If you get a chance, check out, “Im not a robot," a film about woman who fails captcha test. Dunbar's Number (By using the average human brain size and extrapolating from the results of primates, he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships.)
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Thank you to our producer and sound engineer, Elizabeth Baquet and everyone at Ninth Planet Audio. Theme song created by Mike Costantini.
Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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It's Book Club July and we will be announcing this month's book in a couple days! Ilana and Cristina are flying solo this week and are ready for summer, what are you all up to? Hit us up at thatssomentalpodcast@gmail.com. We talk post work and post show lows, financial literacy and the general state of the world. And Ilana cut bangs!
Endorsements: Eye Contact, Grounding
Shoutout: You Need a Budget, Financial Feminist Podcast
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Thank you to our producer and sound engineer, Elizabeth Baquet and everyone at Ninth Planet Audio. Theme song created by Mike Costantini.
Special Thanks to Dave Kneebone at AbsoLutely.
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