🎙Episode #016: Liz Glazer (Law Professor Turned Stand-Up Comedian)

👋🏻 Greetings from Washington, D.C. to all 371 of you on the podcast e-mail list. Thanks also for helping me cross the 10,000 download threshold last week (even when I could not get it together to publish a new episode)!

In this belated April Fool’s day special, I speak with Liz Glazer who is a former lawyer and tenured law professor who is now a full-time, professional stand-up comedian and actress. Liz is graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago Law School. After law school, she worked in the real estate department at Fried Frank in New York City before joining the faculty and receiving tenure at Hofstra University Law School. At Hofstra, her scholarship focused on issues facing the LGBTQ community. Her work is published in the Northwestern Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal among others. But in 2015, Liz left her position at Hofstra to pursue a full-time career in stand-up comedy where she recently won the 2020 Boston Comedy Festival. She performs all around the country in-person and now via Zoom. You can learn more about at her at dealizglazer.com or on Twitter @ElizabethGlazer.

Liz was also recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal here.

In our conversation we discuss success, rejection, and serendipity; how her student note allowed her to follow her dream to become a law professor; and then how a combination of a magical first stand up act, an academic disappointment, and a once-in-a-career financial opportunity led her to find her true professional calling and more importantly true joy as a comedian. 

Liz is the wife of an old friend and I am so glad she agreed to take the time to come on the podcast and share her story (and to do so with such openness and candor).

See you next week,

Jonah