Rue McClanahan: Every Kick's A Boost

About this episode

This episode discusses Rue McClanahan's journey and the advice she received from her mother regarding overcoming rejection in her television career.

This week, we're dropping an episode from our sister podcast, "We Regret To Inform You: The Rejection Podcast". In this podcast series, we talk about the mountain of rejections famous and successful people had to overcome and how they did it. In this episode, we talk about the golden piece of advice Rue McClanahan’s mother gave her when she was told she’d never make it in television.  We know you want to listen to all the ads in this show. On the off-chance you  don’t ,  subscribe ad-free here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Terry O'Reilly

Topics covered

• rejection
• television
• advice
• success
• overcoming obstacles

Keywords

• Rue McClanahan
• rejection
• television
• advice
• success

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Organizations: We Regret To Inform You: The Rejection Podcast, Acast

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