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Comfort Food with Kelly Rizzo

Comfort Food with Kelly Rizzo

Kelly Rizzo 55 Episodes Aug 19, 2026

In January 2022, Kelly Rizzo’s life changed forever when she suddenly lost her husband, Bob Saget. What followed were a lot of tears, a lot of conversations, and a new way of moving forward. Comfort Food is a podcast about honest storytelling and real conversations that offer comfort, clarity, and perspective. Through conversations with friends, notable guests, and solo episodes, Kelly explores important topics with warmth, humor, and thoughtful takeaways. It’s real, relatable, and designed to help listeners feel a little less alone.

Episodes

Joey Zauzig: The Internet's Best Friend on Dating, Divorce, and Climbing Cringe Mountain
Joey Zauzig: The Internet's Best Friend on Dating, Divorce, and Climbing Cringe Mountain Aug 19, 2026 59:43 Kelly sits down with Joey Zauzig, aka the internet's best friend, and this might genuinely be the most fun episode of Comfort Food ever. Joey is the wildly popular content creator and Instagram personality known for his direct, no-BS take on dating, relationships, and real life, and the energy between these two is absolutely unmatched from the first second.They get into everything: how Joey went f
Finding Out Your Grandfather Is Charles Manson
Finding Out Your Grandfather Is Charles Manson Aug 12, 2026 51:30 What would you do if a DNA test revealed you were the granddaughter of the man behind some of the most infamous murders in American history?That is exactly what happened to Sophia Maddox. At just 22 years old, she learned that her grandfather was Charles Manson. Her father never knew who his dad was, spent years searching through ancestry databases, and then one day a half-brother called with news
Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships in my 20s and 30s.
Things I Wish I Knew About Relationships in my 20s and 30s. Aug 5, 2026 17:47 This week Kelly is going solo, and she is getting real about the relationship rules she wishes someone had handed her back in her 20s and 30s. The kind of wisdom you can only earn the hard way, through mistakes, growth, and a whole lot of lived experience.Kelly covers the big ones: why cheating isn't just wrong but genuinely not worth the anxiety and guilt it costs you, the trap of getting too dru
When One of Your Best Friends Becomes a Widow Too
When One of Your Best Friends Becomes a Widow Too Jul 29, 2026 50:40 Some conversations you plan for a long time because you know they're going to matter. This is one of them.Kelly sits down with one of her closest and dearest friends, Melissa Mickelson, for a raw, honest, and deeply moving conversation about widowhood. Kelly lost her husband Bob four and a half years ago. Melissa lost her husband Dean nine months ago. And as Melissa puts it, she watched Kelly go t
Lindzi Scharf on Losing Her Daughter and Choosing Joy Each Day
Lindzi Scharf on Losing Her Daughter and Choosing Joy Each Day Jul 22, 2026 1:02:21 Kelly has been wanting to have this conversation for a long time, and she's so glad she finally did. Her guest is Lindzi Scharf, a writer, entrepreneur, and mother who lost her daughter Evan at just three and a half years old to an incredibly rare mitochondrial disease. Evan was only the 27th child in the world known to have her specific condition.What makes this conversation so special is the way
My Worst Breakup Ever
My Worst Breakup Ever Jul 15, 2026 27:04 Kelly is going there. She has hinted at this story before, but this is the first time she has ever shared the full, unfiltered details of her worst breakup ever. And yes, it is as shocking as it sounds.It was 2015. Kelly was 36, living with her boyfriend, had just bought a house with him, and was basically planning a future together. Then the day before the movers arrived, he sat her down and ende
Alison Victoria: Redesigning and Rebuilding Your Life After It All Falls Apart
Alison Victoria: Redesigning and Rebuilding Your Life After It All Falls Apart Jul 8, 2026 54:26 Content warning: This episode contains a candid discussion of suicidal thoughts. Please listen with care.Kelly and Alison Victoria have been friends for years, both Chicago girls with more in common than they ever got to explore until now. This is the conversation they've been wanting to have, and Alison chose Comfort Food as the only place she'd tell this story for the first time.For the first ti
John Stamos Revisited: A Comfort Food Classic
John Stamos Revisited: A Comfort Food Classic Jul 1, 2026 50:17 This one is so special, and Kelly is so glad to be bringing it back.When Kelly first dreamed up this show, John Stamos was one of the very first people she thought of. He's a beloved actor, musician, and New York Times bestselling author of "If You Would Have Told Me." But more than any of that, he is one of her dearest friends and one of the greatest sources of comfort she's had since losing Bob.
Why I Chose Not To Freeze My Eggs
Why I Chose Not To Freeze My Eggs Jun 24, 2026 18:04 Egg freezing has become almost a cultural mandate for women in their 30s. And if you haven't done it, people want to know why. Today I'm talking about why I chose not to, and what that decision taught me about knowing yourself, trusting your gut, and pushing back on the idea that there's one right answer for every woman.This isn't an anti-egg-freezing episode. It's an honest look at the pressure w
Catt Sadler: Plastic Surgery, Facelifts, and the Truth About Aging Gracefully
Catt Sadler: Plastic Surgery, Facelifts, and the Truth About Aging Gracefully Jun 17, 2026 59:03 Okay, this one is a little different from our usual Comfort Food conversations, and honestly? I'm so glad we went there.My guest is the gorgeous and refreshingly honest Catt Sadler, and we get into two topics that I think so many of you are going to relate to. First: plastic surgery. Catt was truly one of the first women in the public eye to openly document her facelift (plus neck lift and upper b
John Mayer Revisited: A Comfort Food Classic
John Mayer Revisited: A Comfort Food Classic Jun 10, 2026 1:04:21 This week I'm over in Europe, so I'm taking a little time off from recording. But I could never leave you with nothing, so I'm bringing back the episode that means the most to me, and that also happens to be the biggest "audience favorite" episode from Comfort Food Season 1: my conversation with John Mayer.John and I went through an incredibly difficult time together in the wake of losing my husba
Do You Believe in Signs From the People We've Lost?
Do You Believe in Signs From the People We've Lost? Jun 3, 2026 15:08 Do you believe in signs from loved ones who've passed? Kelly never really did. It felt a little woo woo, not really her thing. But after losing Bob, she had a few experiences she genuinely cannot explain, and she's sharing all of them in this episode.Three stories. The doves that appeared over Bob's funeral with no explanation (Lori Loughlin was there and assumed they were hired), the wooden figur

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