Welcome to A Bear on a Wire, a newsletter extension of Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best!

If you’re here, you probably are already a listener of our podcast “Busy Philipps is Doing Her Best” & know what we mean when we say we’re “a bear on a wire.” But if you don’t know, we’ll 100% explain it at some point & then we’ll forget that we explained it that one time & we’ll explain it again & you won’t mind because we’re friends.

The podcast is pretty self-explanatory. Every Wednesday we get together & share how we’re doing our best that week, which takes about 15 minutes & then we goof off, digress, rage, laugh and usually cry for another 2 hours and 45 minutes. Sometimes with celebrities! Even with all that, sometimes there’s just more we want to talk about with our friends in the interim six days between episodes, so we’re so grateful you RSVP’d yes to our invitation to the podcast after-party over here on Substack. Welcome! Please sit down. Would you like some nachos? (They are metaphorical nachos. They have so much cheese, though!)

A huge amount of content will be free all the time, but we’re also dreaming up fun bonus content for paid subscribers who are helping us keep the lights on. We know there’s not much to see here now, but we are just getting started, so BEAR with us? You see what we did there. By the way, we’d love to hear your thoughts & ideas for what you hope this place could be, for both paid & non-paid subscriptions.

We love you & we love that you are here with us!

xoxo,

Busy & Caissie