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A place where women stop getting f*cking interrupted · The Naked Room

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  SPEAKER_00: What's up, roomies?
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  SPEAKER_00: I am sitting here recording this voice memo on October 2nd with a glass of wine
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  SPEAKER_00: in my left hand celebrating the fact that tomorrow is my 43rd birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this episode, this bonus, this mind dump that I'm about to do is coming out on my birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just feeling really reflective.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like most people are probably reflective on their birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're like, what is my last year looked like?
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  SPEAKER_00: What is my last, for me, like what has my life looked like since I turned 40?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm really,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like,
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  SPEAKER_00: I realize I'm really hard on myself and I have high expectations for my life and
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  SPEAKER_00: the things I want to achieve,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I want to take a moment and I hope that you'll stop and take a moment to do this
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  SPEAKER_00: as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm like, I've done a lot of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've done a lot of brave things, especially since I turned 40.
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  SPEAKER_00: I left my job.
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  SPEAKER_00: I took a big leap of faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been really hard in a lot of ways these last two and a half years since I left.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was this weekend,
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  SPEAKER_00: three years ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: that my husband and I had a conversation about how I haven't been happy in my job in
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  SPEAKER_00: a long time and how I should think about Like,
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  SPEAKER_00: if I want to think about leaving it, then he's got my back.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was a really big decision.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was so easy to say, yes, that's what I want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I gave myself a six-month runway.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, April 2024, I left.
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  SPEAKER_00: I walked out.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the rest, as they say, is history.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there have been a handful of things recently, lots of things recently, actually.
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  SPEAKER_00: That have like fired me up and reminded me why I even like wanted to leave that job
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  SPEAKER_00: and then why my path has led me
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  SPEAKER_00: starting this podcast, Telling Women's Stories.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm really excited for the episode next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my friend Ashley,
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  SPEAKER_00: who's a photographer who I met while I was still in the photography industry.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not like I've left the photography industry.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just, I left Red Bull.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm really excited for her to be able to tell her story because she's incredible
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  SPEAKER_00: and her story is also like nothing most people have experienced.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, right, this is why I'm freaking doing this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is why, this is my why.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's because for so long in my life, I felt like I was getting talked over a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: My voice wasn't being heard.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so my feeling is the way that I can support other women is to give them a space
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  SPEAKER_00: and a platform where they're not getting interrupted and where they can speak freely
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  SPEAKER_00: and not feel like someone's going to talk over them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I think about that, it really, really fires me up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the last year,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be honest with you,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is challenging basically being a
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  SPEAKER_00: one-person operation as far as doing the editing
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  SPEAKER_00: and doing social media, doing all of the pieces.
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  SPEAKER_00: A podcast is not meant for one person.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's funny because people will be like, hey, so what are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: What projects are you working on?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, my podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, what are you doing besides that?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I don't think you understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a lot of work.
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  SPEAKER_00: But there's a reason for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I have faith.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, yes,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting fired up saying this because it's my birthday and I can do
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  SPEAKER_00: and say whatever I want.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can't get bad news and good wishes come true on your birthday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yes, I want it to grow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want it to become something bigger.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I want it to be this thing that feels like a safe haven for women to realize
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  SPEAKER_00: that they aren't alone in the things that they're experiencing and that this feeling
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  SPEAKER_00: of like there's got to be more to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we can all support each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, as I'm recording all this, I'm like, oh, right.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is my bigger why.
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  SPEAKER_00: I haven't lost sight of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that my whole life up until now has been
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  SPEAKER_00: for this,
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  SPEAKER_00: like, But it's just.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the bigger purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the bigger purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like everything has been leading me to this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just want y'all to know that I care so much about your story
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  SPEAKER_00: and what means something to you and how you tell it and giving you a space
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  SPEAKER_00: to be able to talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It matters, especially like It's always mattered.
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  SPEAKER_00: But right now,
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  SPEAKER_00: as a lot of women's rights are being rolled back,
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  SPEAKER_00: and as we see things like the Cornell 7 happening, it's not new news.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's nothing new.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: It just keeps fucking happening over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of that is fuel for my fire to keep going because we all deserve to be heard
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  SPEAKER_00: and we deserve to feel like we're not getting fucking interrupted.
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  SPEAKER_00: So happy birthday to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that you all will keep coming back and sharing your stories and I want
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  SPEAKER_00: to meet more of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's keep this thing going.