Jennifer Zamparelli: 'There's a lot of kink shaming. There's not enough talk about pleasure and desire, in a positive sense'

""I suppose I've done so many taxing jobs - not in a financial sense but going into nightclubs at two o'clock in the morning, that kind of thing. So much hustle," she says. "So when you're sitting in a studio doing a radio show, or you're going on set and shooting an ad... Declan Lowney, the director, told me years ago [on set], 'You're so interested. You're always standing around watching everything.' Only because I was so grateful.""

""Because when you get to that level, the hustle will stand to you. You appreciate things more. And I do see it in a lot of younger [people]... I always remember some people that were newer into the business, they'd have maybe an arrogance to them, and I'm like, 'Oh God, you've no idea how lucky you are.' It's such a lucky position.""

Jennifer Zamparelli fronts a new podcast about Ireland's sex and dating scene and speaks openly about her relationships. She describes making compromises with her husband, abandoning ego-based career decisions, and stepping out of her radio comfort zone. She recounts early jobs including cleaning toilets as a chambermaid, working in a cabling company, pulling graveyard shifts in a New York bar, and selling hairdressing promotions on Grafton Street. She attributes later success to graft and tenacity from those roles and says the hustle fostered gratitude and appreciation for opportunities. She notes some newcomers display arrogance and lack perspective on their luck.

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