What Celebrity Memoir Book Club Hosts Learned From Keke Palmer's Memoir: 'I'm Not My Work, But I Do My Work'

Celebrity Memoirs Literary Club the hosts devoted themselves deeply to Keke Palmer’s new book!

On the November 26 episode of the podcast, Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton chatted Master for Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrativewhich came out on 19.11.

As the hosts discussed the journey the actress and multimedia star, 31, has taken through her work, Hamilton recalled how Palmer wrote about the impact of people’s perceptions of others.

“She understands the power of words and how someone else’s perception can affect your perception,” the podcast co-host recalled. “I learned to separate my performance from my personal emotions. I am not my job, but I am doing my job. This marks the beginning of my process of detaching from my own feelings.”

This helped Palmer, who landed her first small role in the film in 2004 Barber shop 2 at the age of 10 and went on to play the main role in True Jackson VP, “manage feedback clearly and grow as an artist.”

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In written form A master from mePalmer told PEOPLE that she also learned a lot about herself. “My diving into my stuff is less about you saying, ‘Me too,’ and more about you saying, ‘Let me dive into my things.’ Because when you’re digging, it’s like, ‘Okay, I can move forward with that awareness in a way that will allow me to not hold myself back.’

The podcasters also explained how Palmer talked about the challenges of being a black child star in the spotlight, noting that “she talks about the triple bind of a child actor, wanting to be the perfect child, the perfect student, the perfect co-worker.”

Keke Palmer at SiriusXM Studios on November 20, 2024.

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“She says that in addition to wanting to impress everyone and then support her family, she also has the weight of a black woman and the weight of a black kid in the public eye, with no room for mistakes or childhood mistakes because everyone is counting on you,” Parker continued.

“It’s always been a thing with me,” Palmer told PEOPLE of her trip. “I’m in a mature scenario, I have these older experiences in the workplace and with my sense of purpose,” she says, “but then again, I’m just a regular 31-year-old with all my immaturities.”

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Keke Palmer on ‘The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’.

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Hamilton also addressed how Palmer rewrote her story using her child’s fame as an “opportunity” to help her family.

“The more I think about this book, what it seems to be really about, it keeps saying, you can write your own narrative,” Parker said. “You can tell your own story. And I really think there’s a lot of power in that and in what you’re saying… ‘Don’t let anyone disempower you by telling you what your story is.’”

“Tell yourself that,” she continued. “Be a winner, not a victim of your story. And so a big part of this book is about: ‘I wasn’t forced to support my whole family at 12 years old. I was lucky enough to support my family and, like, break generational curses. And, like, how lucky I am that I had a community that sacrificed so much for me, so I paid back.’”

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