1149: Divorcing in a Pandemic (and Other Tough Stuff) with Kimberly Seals Allers

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Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Kimberly Seals Allers is a maternal and infant health advocate and tech founder. Her latest passion project is Irth (as in Birth but we dropped the B for bias), a "Yelp-like" review and rating app that addresses racism and bias in maternity and infant care. In her conversation with Farnoosh, she shares the inspiration of Irth, a well as her own personal pregnancy journey. Later, she speaks candidly about her challenging divorce and the surprising financial moves she made during that process. Kimberly offers key advice on how women of color can best navigate this recession and how all women can prepare for a divorce in this moment. More about Kimberly: She is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist and advocate for maternal and infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on birth, breastfeeding and motherhood at the intersection of race, class and policy. To learn more about Kimberly and her work, visit BirthWithoutBias.com and KimberlySealsAllers.com. Follow her on social: @theirthapp on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money
0:03.3	Seals Allers, journalist, advocate and entrepreneur.
0:07.8	You're listening to So Money with award-winning money
0:11.0	Guru Farno Shorabi. Each day get a 30-minute dose of
0:14.7	financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers,
0:19.3	and from Farnuus yourself. Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:26.0	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:28.0	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:31.0	Welcome to So Money.
0:34.0	I had decided during my, you know, while I was going through a divorce to leave my, you know, well
0:40.0	well-paying job because it was really in thinking about this now that divorce
0:45.5	was certainly a tipping point for me to realize that I could not maintain my career
0:51.6	and be the mother that I needed to be for my children
0:54.7	particularly through this tough transition.
0:57.0	Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm your host,
0:59.7	Farnoosh Terabi. Today's guest is Kimberly Seals Allers founder of the app Earth,
1:06.1	IR TH, as in birth, but without the B for bias. And I, you know, initially invited her to the podcast because I wanted to learn about this amazing technology and her advocacy work helping women of color through birth and motherhood and the impact of race, class, and policy
1:25.9	on this journey that so many people take for granted but for some women is such a unique
1:31.5	and struggling experience.
1:33.2	But oh, did we discuss so much more?
1:35.9	You just heard Kimberly talk a little bit about her divorce.
1:39.4	And the surprising steps she took to navigate
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