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- 0:00Speaker 1: Um yeah the showers the truck stops that we have
- 0:03Speaker 1: to like this i'm talking interstate like people who like
- 0:05Speaker 1: are living on the road but again the transport industry
- 0:08Speaker 1: is a lot more than just this niche like there's
- 0:11Speaker 1: a lot of people that just get to go home
- 0:12Speaker 1: every night but the truck stops that we go to
- 0:15Speaker 1: like next to no healthy nutritious food options so if
- 0:19Speaker 1: you have not had time to prepare for your week
- 0:22Speaker 1: you are really stuffed um the truck stop showers are
- 0:26Speaker 1: atrocious most of the time um But like you just–
- 0:33Speaker 1: in my shower bag, I wear Crocs because I cover
- 0:35Speaker 1: my feet the most I can. I take really nice
- 0:38Speaker 1: smelling body wash so you feel nice. It takes a
- 0:41Speaker 1: nice moisturizer. You can do little things that make you
- 0:43Speaker 1: feel nice as well. There is definitely a stereotype in
- 0:47Speaker 1: the industry of what a truck driver is like and
- 0:49Speaker 1: I'm really hoping that by me showing up, it shows
- 0:52Speaker 1: that you.
- 0:52Speaker 2: Don't have to necessarily be that.
- 0:54Speaker 1: You can– if you just– some people– You know, I've
- 0:58Speaker 1: got people in my community who have been a nurse
- 1:01Speaker 1: and their whole career, their kids are finally growing, moving
- 1:04Speaker 1: out of home. They're like, I want to be a
- 1:05Speaker 1: truck driver now. It's what I've always wanted to be.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Now I'm going to go do it. And by them
- 1:09Speaker 1: seeing my videos, they see that they can too. And
- 1:12Speaker 1: that's all I hope is just representation is enough just
- 1:16Speaker 1: by showing up shows that you can. I'm not trying
- 1:18Speaker 1: to give anyone special treatment or like say that like it's.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Going to be easy. It's not. But if you have.
- 1:24Speaker 1: the ability to sit in that car and drive for
- 1:27Speaker 1: hours and you love being out and about, it's a.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Great job for you. You can make really good money
- 1:31Speaker 2: as well.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you mentioned too, like the feminine side with
- 1:36Speaker 3: your hat. And I know earlier we were talking about
- 1:39Speaker 3: how you like to try not to focus on the
- 1:41Speaker 3: gender aspect of it. Because like you said, I mean,
- 1:44Speaker 3: also with Instagram and things, I think there can be
- 1:46Speaker 3: too much of an emphasis in a bad way on
- 1:48Speaker 3: gender on a certain, you know, female trucker or whatever.
- 1:52Speaker 3: And people are going to think a lot of things,
- 1:54Speaker 3: not just trucker. But you did say like you like
- 1:58Speaker 3: to wear your pink hat and you like to show,
- 2:03Speaker 3: I suppose we call feminine colors, right? But I was
- 2:07Speaker 3: going to ask you like, what do you think it
- 2:10Speaker 3: means to be feminine and a woman? Because I mean,
- 2:14Speaker 3: if you're a truck driver and you're trucking, and you're
- 2:18Speaker 3: not wearing pink and you're not wearing your hat, maybe
- 2:21Speaker 3: you're not wearing your pink boots, like what is deeper
- 2:26Speaker 3: for you to that meaning? Because I would think with
- 2:29Speaker 3: being in this industry so long, like you'd have to
- 2:31Speaker 3: have a more core foundation for what it means to
- 2:34Speaker 3: be that because many people would probably just judge you
- 2:38Speaker 3: based on appearance, but your appearance isn't going to always
- 2:40Speaker 3: match that.
- 2:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:42Speaker 1: I just, I always show up quite feminine like with
- 2:45Speaker 1: my stature because biologically I just am. how I am.
- 2:51Speaker 2: I'm a lot smaller. I'm only 5'4. You know, I'm
- 2:54Speaker 2: quite small.
- 2:58Speaker 1: As a woman, we can bring– I don't know about
- 3:00Speaker 1: the feminine thing because feminine– I'm trying to lean more
- 3:05Speaker 1: into my femininity, which is really a struggle for.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Me at the moment because, for example, I actively.
- 3:14Speaker 1: Avoid– women roles within my home. And it's because I
- 3:19Speaker 1: think for the last decade, I've tried so hard to
- 3:24Speaker 1: fit into being like an equal that I really didn't
- 3:30Speaker 1: want to fall into any of the stereotypes that is
- 3:32Speaker 1: a woman role. So I don't like when people say
- 3:37Speaker 1: it's a woman's responsibility to cook for the family. Like, well, why?
- 3:43Speaker 2: Like I, like it should be everyone's role.
- 3:46Speaker 1: And so I'm trying, like this morning I've, I'm trying
- 3:50Speaker 1: really hard to learn how to cook and I'm trying
- 3:53Speaker 1: really hard to learn how to meal prep meals for
- 3:56Speaker 1: us for when we're out on the road.
- 3:58Speaker 2: So I've cooked a meal.
- 4:00Speaker 1: This morning before our meeting I've put on a beef
- 4:03Speaker 1: stew in a slow cooker and I've got three more
- 4:05Speaker 1: meals to cook today.
- 4:06Speaker 2: But the only reason I'm able to do this is
- 4:08Speaker 2: because I'm home alone.
- 4:08Speaker 1: I don't feel like anyone's judging me because, like, this
- 4:13Speaker 1: is meant to be something that I'm, like culturally I'm
- 4:15Speaker 1: just meant to be good at or enjoy and I
- 4:18Speaker 1: just don't yeah um so I really have I think
- 4:22Speaker 1: I've really lost touch of a few of the things
- 4:25Speaker 1: that I I probably would just be really good at
- 4:28Speaker 1: if I didn't like try so hard to push a
- 4:31Speaker 1: gate away from it all because I've just tried to
- 4:33Speaker 1: be one of the guys for so long that like
- 4:36Speaker 1: I've I've actively like been repulsed by anything when it's
- 4:38Speaker 1: like oh you.
- 4:39Speaker 2: Should just do that because you're a girl well that's
- 4:42Speaker 2: the woman's role um.
- 4:44Speaker 1: So I think that's a really, I'm really like kind
- 4:47Speaker 1: of in a bit of an awkward space with that
- 4:50Speaker 1: question at the moment. I'm in a transition period of
- 4:53Speaker 1: like I have been the person who's been out working
- 4:56Speaker 1: for 87-hour weeks, working away, just grinding, and now I'm
- 5:01Speaker 1: the one at home and I really struggle with this
- 5:03Speaker 1: role of being like a housewife. It doesn't sit right
- 5:06Speaker 1: with me. But also at the same time, I've just
- 5:08Speaker 1: got to like take a breather and just accept that
- 5:13Speaker 1: it's not necessarily a bad thing. Just because I can
- 5:16Speaker 1: lean into this doesn't mean I'm losing touch with this
- 5:18Speaker 1: person who I've worked so hard to be over the
- 5:20Speaker 1: last decade.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Yeah, I've always struggled with that.
- 5:25Speaker 1: I've never wanted, you know, growing up it's always been like, oh,
- 5:28Speaker 1: all the wives and girlfriends go into that room and
- 5:31Speaker 1: all the girls hang out and the boys are going
- 5:32Speaker 1: to hang out over here. And I've always struggled with
- 5:34Speaker 1: that because I naturally just find men conversations more interesting
- 5:39Speaker 1: or like I want to be out on the bikes
- 5:40Speaker 1: with the boys and I don't want to be the
- 5:42Speaker 1: girls getting lunch ready for everybody. That's like a chore
- 5:46Speaker 1: for me. I want to be out doing the fun things.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Why do the boys get to do the fun things?
- 5:49Speaker 1: So I've always struggled with that. I definitely haven't answered
- 5:53Speaker 1: your question how you asked it, but that's an area
- 5:57Speaker 1: that I guess I struggle with. Because especially online, I'm
- 6:01Speaker 1: very conscious that I don't show up and I don't
- 6:04Speaker 1: sexualize myself.
- 6:06Speaker 2: And that's really sad as well that I have to
- 6:07Speaker 2: think of that.
- 6:09Speaker 1: You know, like I Sometimes I'll go to film something
- 6:11Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, shit, I'm just going to change
- 6:13Speaker 1: that into something less form-fitting so that I'm not showing
- 6:16Speaker 1: the shape of my body or I'm not showing off
- 6:19Speaker 1: too much because then very quickly as you do that,
- 6:22Speaker 1: then you are instantly put into this pigeonhole of, oh,
- 6:25Speaker 1: you're just doing it for attention.
- 6:27Speaker 2: So I've always been just to try.
- 6:29Speaker 1: And like size up my clothes and stuff like that.
- 6:31Speaker 1: And now that I'm not, I'm trying to relearn of
- 6:34Speaker 1: like what do I actually like and how do I
- 6:37Speaker 1: want to show up in my personal life.
- 6:39Speaker 2: I don't always have to be.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Wearing the baggy clothes and covering myself up because people
- 6:43Speaker 1: can respect you if you show up more feminine, I guess.
- 6:48Speaker 1: But it's just like our community, our society, as soon
- 6:53Speaker 1: as you show any kind of curves in a woman's body,
- 6:56Speaker 1: she's sexualized.
- 6:57Speaker 2: And I just never wanted to fall into that.
- 7:00Speaker 3: No, I mean, I totally understand. I've never liked cooking.
- 7:03Speaker 3: I learned because I got married and, you know, I
- 7:07Speaker 3: grew up in an Italian home. there was always cooking happening.
- 7:10Speaker 3: I just never cared about it. I wanted to eat it.
- 7:13Speaker 3: I really did. I loved eating it, but I was
- 7:15Speaker 3: just never interested in learning. And honestly, like I've never
- 7:20Speaker 3: been into baking. Um, like there were so many things
- 7:26Speaker 3: and honestly, I felt uncomfortable in more sexualized. If you
- 7:31Speaker 3: want to say that clothing, even for a nice event, um,
- 7:35Speaker 3: because I just always would associate that with something bad.
- 7:41Speaker 3: Like that's just in my mind. Like I would be like,
- 7:43Speaker 3: that's not real femininity. Like it was just, it was,
- 7:49Speaker 3: I struggle with the exact same things. And I think,
- 7:52Speaker 3: and like, I really like big sweaters and I like
- 7:56Speaker 3: big sweatshirts and I really enjoy no makeup. And it's
- 8:03Speaker 3: interesting to see that it's a mix of insecurities, but
- 8:07Speaker 3: also I just don't like it. I don't want to
- 8:12Speaker 3: put the work into it. It takes a lot of time.
- 8:16Speaker 3: But I want to look presentable. But I think that's... Yeah,
- 8:21Speaker 3: I agree with you, though. It's really hard to even.
- 8:28Speaker 3: Sort through that. Cause I feel like it's a mix
- 8:30Speaker 3: of insecurities and a mix of just, what if I
- 8:33Speaker 3: just don't like it, you know, like other people do. Yeah.
- 8:36Speaker 2: So like, um,