Name: Relationship Advice with Sabrina Zohar | You Made It Weird
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Relationship Advice with Sabrina Zohar | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-09. Transcript available.

Relationship Advice with Sabrina Zohar | You Made It Weird

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. You made
it weird. You made it weird. With Pete Holmes. Yes, you did. You made it weird.
What's happening, weirdos? This is Sabrina Zohar, who is the host of the aptly
named Sabrina Zohar Show.
She's a relationship expert. She's an entrepreneur. She's a media personality
and, like I said, a relationship coach.
So I thought it would be deeply interesting to sit down and talk with her. And
I was right. I'm very happy to say she is brilliant, thoughtful, interesting,
emotionally intelligent, and has a lot of great stuff to offer.
So I'm so glad. Stuff? You know what I mean. Insight. That's a better word than
stuff.
She's a lot of great insight to offer and a lot of laughs as well. So we had a
lot of fun and I'm so glad you're here. Not much to say up top.
Come see me on the road. Go to PeteHolmes.com. I'm going to be in Houston this
weekend. We are going to be in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
That's me and Nick Kroll and Kumail and Anthony Jeselnik. That's on July 19th.
Followed by Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston on August 23rd. Hope to see
you there, Boston.
New Hampshire, Spokane, Washington, St. Louis, Cleveland, Florida, Chicago,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. All of those are available on PeteHolmes.com.
And in the meantime, enjoy this chat with the wonderful Sabrina Zohar. I'm so
glad you're here. Get into it.
Genuinely, I used to drink those every morning because I don't drink coffee.
You don't seem like you need it. That's not a burn. I was listening to your
podcast. I kind of feel like a jerk that I said Emily will interrupt the show.
Do you know that it's where we're starting? Is that okay?
I'm a dick more often than I'm not.
I'm getting a little bit dickier as I get older and I'm like, maybe that's it?
Maybe that's just an excuse? I'm being myself more.
And like, I was telling, as I was walking them in, her publicist is coming, but
she's not here.
And that bugs me because now she's going to come in.
But it's not actually an inability to have compassion for someone who's running
late.
It's more of like an almost spectrum-y hyper-focus where I'm like, no, you're
here.
Me and Sabrina, we're going to start.
And now there's going to be these people walking in and there's just going to...
Who cares, though?
No, I get it.
I have ADHD.
My brain works differently.
That's what it is.
It's just, it's a different way of seeing things of like, this might...
To the normal person, to the average person, I say normal.
Big deal.
Right?
They're like, oh, no big deal.
You can say normal.
Neurotypicals.
Right?
They're like, when you have a little bit of a spicy brain.
And I actually have to explain that to people of like, yes, I work differently
than you.
Like, it's not...
We're not all the same lived experience.
I really appreciate that.
Thanks for that.
I think it might be a little bit...
I'm quick to claim autism, but it might just be ADHD, even though I got tested
for that.
Who cares?
No, I was just saying.
I'm so glad you're here.
Likewise.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for having me.
We were listening to your podcast just a moment ago and Katie said, is that sped
up?
And I hear it all the time.
And then people meet and they're like, so it's not.
Well, I didn't.
I did turn it off and go, I'm going to get this live.
Yes.
Because you were getting...
I think I picked a good episode of the Sabrina Zohar podcast.
Sabrina Zohar show.
Show.
Semantics, if you will.
Should have been podcast.
I bet if you type in podcast, it'll show up.
In hindsight, that would have made more sense, but here we are.
It's still a show.
It's a show.
You show up.
It is.
And you're doing it.
It was called something else and I got forced to change the name.
I know.
When you Google your name, as I do...
Duh.
For a little Reese, it says, why did Sabrina Zohar change the name of her show?
That's like the first thing.
Fuck.
I actually think the first thing is husband.
Oh.
But I don't even know if you're married.
Is that your husband?
Boyfriend.
That's your boyfriend?
Yeah, he works with me.
Who I just bossed around?
Yeah.
That's okay.
He takes it.
He's with me.
So he deals with enough of someone bossing him.
I'm a little dead.
But he was on...
He should be sitting right there enjoying the glow of his beloved.
Aw.
But how long have you been together?
Two and a half years.
That's a beloved status.
You can be beloved.
Long enough.
You can get some kind of like heavy language in there.
I was going to say, I'm okay with the heavy language on that one.
It's more when people are like, your husband, like, don't go that far.
Yeah.
Although, isn't it kind of fun when you're dating somebody and somebody says...
Sometimes it's like an unhoused person.
I'm not trying to be funny.
And they go like, you and your beautiful wife.
And I'll be like, I don't know if it was Trump.
You and your beautiful wife.
I don't know if it was that.
But I used to like it when someone...
Me.
Me?
Marriage material.
I would take it like that.
I know.
When people are like, your wife.
And I see Ryan chuckle.
And I'm like, not yet.
So there's a part of me that gets in there.
That's a whole other story.
But yes, he's very used to me talking fast, bossing him around.
Yeah.
Not bossing him around, but like being very vocal about what do I like and need.
So we're here for it.
I love it.
You're setting boundaries.
I'm here for it.
I'm set...
What did it...
Which boundary did I set?
Of no, I want you to go and deal with that because I would like to get started.
And it's like, yeah.
You know what, Breen?
Cheers.
Because Val, my wife, is very non-confrontational.
And I sort of am the confrontational one of the relationship.
And like, we're always trying to get the mix just right of where is...
Where do you say, you'll wait for Emily?
And whenever I do it, the reason I brought Val up is she'll be like, really...
It's not like a Prince Charming moment, but she's like, oh, I couldn't have
done that.
One of the main features in our relationship, and I just did this because I'm
always doing it,
is we'll decide we have to go.
We have to go.
We have somewhere we need to be.
But she's saying goodbye to everybody.
And I'll come up and I go, this is over.
But I do it with the hand.
And then we start walking away and Val's like, oh, and I just go, I'll just do
the hand again.
It's like playful jerk energy.
P-J-E.
Just leave it at B-J, and then that's it.
Yeah.
Perfect.
B-J?
B-J.
You said P-J.
Oh, whoops.
No.
It was your mind brain.
I'm like, B-J, right?
Yeah, that's...
We were talking...
We weren't talking about that.
It's a comedy podcast.
I think you upgraded it to B-J.
I took the assignment.
I'm going to make it weird.
So tell me...
You will.
Tell me you haven't yet.
Tell me why you...
It was called Do the Work.
Yeah.
I'm assuming that's been copywritten.
Is that the problem?
It was trademarked, yeah.
Yeah.
Do the Work.
Which is so funny.
It's like...
It's like, get out there.
Right.
It's like, oh, oh, okay.
Breathe.
You're like, oh.
Be yourself.
Yeah.
Have fun.
Be yourself is what stand-ups all say to each other as a joke.
Because that's what everybody says.
Yeah.
They're like, be yourself or have fun.
It's like, okay.
I'm not going to do either of those, but cool.
Yeah, yeah.
I can't.
Yeah.
That's easier said than done.
But so who sued you or who ceased and desisted you?
It was some dude in Arizona.
And because everybody thought it was this one creator that has quite a bit
called Do the Work.
And I'm like, no, she and I are cool.
Like, that was never it.
She actually was like, kudos when I named it that.
And for me, like, I don't know, I started this thing and I bought this phallic-looking
mic
on Amazon.
And it was very pretty.
And I literally took a selfie of me on the counter being like, I kept telling
friends, like,
what should I call this show?
And they're like, I don't know.
I kept being like, why aren't we doing the work?
They're like, call that.
Do the work.
And I was like, okay.
Do the work.
And I just thought, same to you.
Who could have trademarked this?
And I have a clothing company called Software.
And I was always told you can't trademark usable words.
Okay.
So I let it go.
A year and a half later, I'm literally sitting down to record.
And at this point, the show is doing so well that even I was shocked.
I didn't, I didn't expect this.
Yeah.
Fun.
That never happens.
Limiting beliefs were tested at that point.
Oh, good.
And I got, I literally had this email and as I'm putting my phone down, Ryan's
like, put your phone down, babe.
It's time to record.
And I'm like, one more second.
And I just see it and just like, cease and desist, do the work.
And I was like, I couldn't comprehend what that meant.
It meant stop doing the work.
Yeah.
You're doing too much work.
And I was doing too much work.
Fucking tell my therapist that.
And I literally, I put my phone down and it just, that was the beginning of the,
like, the worst three weeks of my life.
Oh, really?
It got nasty?
Oh my God.
It got nasty because they didn't even want to have a conversation.
And they were like, two weeks, we're going to be, you don't change your name.
We're going to take time, take down requests.
We're going to come after for revenue and all this.
And I'm like, I'm a new business owner.
I don't know.
So talking to the lawyers, I'm doing all this stuff.
Had to change it.
Do you watch, have you, I don't want to say it's a boy movie, but I will say
more boys than girls that I know.
I think it's John Wick.
I'm kidding.
It's the social network.
Have you seen the social network?
Oh yeah, yeah.
From back in the day.
He gets a cease and desist and he just throws it away.
And I'm not saying that's what you should have done.
But I admire, I'm a real rule, believe it or not, as much as I'll tell your
beautiful beloved to go wait for Emily and make a little kind of joke about how
inconvenienced I am.
That's, that's one way I'm comfortable being a petty bitch.
But if somebody gives me a cease and desist, I just go like, we must stop.
I wanted to end him.
And I was like, that's not legal.
So.
You mean murder then?
No, I was close.
Why?
Because they were so rude about it?
It was, yeah.
I mean, granted he had his lawyer and it was just this arrogance.
Like if you go on his website, he's like, we go after the trademark and you're
like, yeah, relax, man.
Like you do it for yourself, but you just sound like you're salty.
You sound like you're salty and you're upset that I'm doing something that has
nothing to do.
He's in real estate and fitness.
Nothing to do.
And it's called do the work, real estate fitness.
Just do the work.
That's it.
So shout out to his business right now.
And so I literally, because how can we find out more about his business?
How can we do it?
I was going to say, how can we sign up?
How can we, how can we do the work?
Uh, so it was, there they are.
Hello.
I have a fresh apology.
It's already, it's okay.
We didn't wait, Emily.
Uh, can you close that door?
Jesus.
Just so you know.
Were you not racing a podcast studio?
I'm just kidding.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
We have animals.
I'm so sorry.
I didn't, I thought maybe you work, you do work together.
But on a scale of one to 10, how appropriate was it for me to say, will you go
out, wait
for Emily?
It was a 10.
I told him I was like, boundaries.
It was boundaries.
That's a good man.
Here we are.
Look, we're supportive.
You're welcome, Emily.
You're welcome.
It's a great, safe space.
Yeah, it's a safe space.
You're welcome to a Vita Coco.
Is it Vita Coco?
Vita Coco?
I should know.
Anyway.
We love you.
We love you, Vita.
Yeah, there you go.
Okay, so this is the derailment that I was anticipating, but what were you just
saying?
It's on you.
Oh, fuck.
So now my brain's shuffling.
You couldn't call it do the work because of a real estate fitness company.
Yeah, so essentially you had to change the name, and in that moment, it's like
a breakup.
It's like a shitty break