Life Outside Poker: Farah Galfond on Days of Our Lives, Balancing Poker & Family
Life Outside Poker w/ Connor Richards is a new podcast for PokerNews that focuses on poker players with successful careers and lives outside of poker.
For the first episode, Connor Richards spoke with soap opera actress and high-stakes poker player Farah Fath Galfond, who talked about her acting career spanning more than a decade, first discovering poker in Atlantic City and balancing poker with raising a family.
The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the hourlong interview with Farah Galfond by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.
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Time Stamps
| TIME | TOPIC | |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Intro | |
| 1:00 | Growing up in Kentucky and early acting career | |
| 4:35 | Days of Our Lives audition | |
| 6:10 | Mimi Lockhart storylines | |
| 7:48 | Losing yourself in character | |
| 10:30 | Deciding to leave Days of Our Lives | |
| 13:15 | Moving to New York | |
| 14:45 | First getting into poker | |
| 15:43 | Playing poker in Atlantic City | |
| 17:50 | One Life canceled and moving back to LA | |
| 18:48 | Seeing Phil on High Stakes Poker | |
| 19:20 | Connecting with Phil on Twitter | |
| 21:20 | Acting as a craft | |
| 27:25 | Learning from Phil | |
| 30:24 | What kind of father is Phil? | |
| 32:50 | High stakes tenure, moving up to $2k/$4k | |
| 34:25 | Balancing poker with being a mother | |
| 36:10 | Transitioning to tournaments | |
| 39:34 | Being numb to losing money | |
| 40:25 | Making comeback in Galfond Challenge | |
| 43:02 | Differences between Vegas, LA & Atlantic City poker scenes | |
| 46:25 | Raising the next generation of poker players | |
| 49:00 | Living in Vegas | |
| 53:35 | Period of your life you get nostalgic for | |
| 56:00 | Advice for your younger self | |
| 57:24 | Something that makes you hopeful | |
| 58:24 | Favorite life lesson from poker |
