Part freelance designer, part stand up comedian, Brandy Thomas has made a name for herself in the world of the unconventional. She initially started her career in the field of graphic design when, at the ripe age of 20, she repeatedly called a local marketing firm every day until they agreed to give her an interview. This unrelenting, self-sabotaging persistence would prove to be both a blessing and a curse throughout her life and career as she went from being a full time employee at a stable company, to a struggling freelancer unable to make ends meet, to a lost, starry-eyed entrepreneur who was on a mission to change the world, to a now cynical, exhausted, stand up comedian who’s kind of just sick of it all.She currently resides in upstate New York where she runs her freelance design business, Mile One Creative, co-hosts two podcasts, Comedians for Hire and Eat Your Feelings, and co-produces the 3-year running Last Call Comedy Show in NYC. Has she mentioned how exhausted she is?
Brandy Thomas Vroom Vroom Veer Stories
Grew up in Round Rock Texas outside of Austin; her Dad traveled all the time for work; there was a naked homeless man that ran for major and almost wonWent to college for marketing and while attending hustled her way into a receptionist job with a marketing firm; taught herself how to use all of the design software packagesShowed the manager a business card design that she did on her own time; he let her move from the receptionist position to a design positionWorked there and learned how to manage clients; when she left she took some clients with herWent to a comedy show and realized that she had been writing comedy for a long time; did stand-up gigs 5 days a week while living in NYC; also hosts a show in NYC once a monthStarted a podcast to talk to comics about all the "other" jobs they have to do to make ends meet when comedy doesn't pay the billsHer other podcast she co-hosts with her sister who is a personal trainer; her sister will provide health and fitness tips and Brandy makes fun of the tips, but eventually takes the advice
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Mile One Creative Design
Comedians for Hire
Eat your Feelings (iTunes)
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