Better Call Daddy

Actor, teacher, and dad Rob Brownstein joins host Reena Friedman Watts. You may recognize him as the pain doctor in the Michael Jackson documentary. He’s a working actor, and he talks about what that really looks like: the freelance hustle, the rejection, and the persistence it takes to keep going. Rob traces his path from budding musician to working actor, and what he learned along the way. He also talks about raising two daughters who are chasing their own dreams, and how being a parent has changed the way he thinks about life, art, and his own career. If you love the arts, or you’re trying to figure out how to support the people you love while building a life you care about, this one’s for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔥 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN What life as a working actor looks like, ups and downs included How parenting shapes your personal and professional growth Why passion and authenticity matter in any career A look behind the scenes of film and television How to build confidence and push through self-doubt ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Meet Rob Brownstein: working actor, teacher, and dad 05:15 – From musician to actor 15:30 – Supporting your kids’ dreams 25:00 – The reality of working in entertainment 35:45 – Building confidence and overcoming self-doubt 45:00 – Family, passion, and what matters most ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💬 QUOTABLE MOMENTS“You might as well find a job you love, because no matter what you do, it’s going to be freelance, and it’s going to be difficult.” “Confidence comes from having the proof that you can do something.”— Rob Brownstein ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━👤 ABOUT ROB BROWNSTEIN Rob Brownstein is a longtime working actor, teacher, and coach based in Los Angeles. His credits span film, television, theater, commercials, and voiceover, including Argo, Mad Men, The Office, Gilmore Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, Young Sheldon, Straight Outta Compton, Blonde, and Velvet Buzzsaw, among many others. He also appears in Michael, the recent and very popular Michael Jackson biopic, where he plays the burn doctor. In addition to acting, Rob runs An Actor’s Space in LA and has been teaching and coaching actors all over the world. He loves talking about the craft of acting, auditions, self-tapes, confidence, career longevity, and why acting classes can be valuable for actors and non-actors alike. Quick Links:IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115282/An Actor’s Space: https://www.anactorsspace.com/about ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ ABOUT BETTER CALL DADDYHosted by Reena Friedman Watts alongside her dad, Big Daddy Wayne Friedman, Better Call Daddy features stories of inspiration, resilience, and the wisdom that comes from experience.bettercalldaddy.com | Instagram: @reenafriedmanwatts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━KEYWORDS: Rob Brownstein, working actor, Michael Jackson documentary, acting, parenting, family, confidence, creative process, Better Call Daddy, Reena Friedman Watts, Big Daddy Wayne Friedman

What makes someone fall for extremist ideas, and what makes them finally stop believing? In this episode of Better Call Daddy, host Reena Friedman Watts sits down with TM Garret Schmid, a former KKK and neo-Nazi member who broke free of hate and converted to Judaism. TM shares the loneliness, trauma, and need for belonging that pulled him into extremism, the tragedy of his then-wife's kidnapping, and the years of therapy and self-reflection that helped him confront his past. Together, Reena and TM explore forgiveness, why people are drawn to hate groups, and why compassion and real human connection are the most powerful tools against hate. If you've ever wondered how someone leaves a hate movement, or whether anyone can truly change, this conversation is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - How a former KKK and neo-Nazi member came to embrace Judaism- The vulnerabilities and unmet needs that push people toward extremism- How trauma shapes relationships, and what healing looks like- Why compassion and community are essential to combating hate- How self-worth and self-reflection make lasting change possible ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 – Meet TM Garret Schmid: former extremist turned advocate05:15 – The journey to Judaism15:30 – Confronting trauma and the kidnapping25:00 – Why people join hate groups35:45 – How community helps us heal45:00 – Love, self-worth, and human connection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 QUOTABLE MOMENTS "If I can change one person's life with what I'm doing, then I have succeeded." – TM Garret Schmid "You need to listen to the people around you; it might change your perspective." – TM Garret Schmid ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👤 ABOUT TM GARRET SCHMID TM Garret Schmid is a former white supremacist who left extremism, converted to Judaism, and now speaks about understanding, compassion, and the humanity in everyone. He works with people struggling with identity and the search for acceptance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT BETTER CALL DADDY Hosted by Reena Friedman Watts with her dad, Big Daddy Wayne Friedman, Better Call Daddy features stories of inspiration, resilience, and hard-earned wisdom. 🔗 bettercalldaddy.com🔗 LinkedIn | Instagram: @reenafriedmanwatts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who needs to hear it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEYWORDS: former KKK member, leaving the KKK, KKK to Judaism, former white supremacist, neo-Nazi to Jewish, how to leave a hate group, how people get radicalized, why people join hate groups, breaking free from extremism, overcoming extremism, deradicalization, reversing hate, TM Garret Schmid, TM Garret, trauma and healing, forgiveness, Better Call Daddy, Reena Friedman Watts, Big Daddy Wayne Friedman

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