150: How to Talk About Race, Identity & Activism Online w/ Franchesca Ramsey

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to navigate topics like race, identity and gender in the unpredictable online world, today’s episode is for you. Franchesca Ramsey is here to talk about the ups, downs and hard-won lessons of real communication in the age of social media rants, trolls and call-out wars. Maintaining a productive, rewarding relationship with fans doesn’t require a social media addiction. It means doing good work that people respond to. @chescaleigh via @MarieForleo

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Marie Forleo, and this is the Marie Forleo podcast. If you want to talk about your business, your life, your health, your relationships, and even more, I gotta tell you, you are in the right place we do it all with humor
0:14.3	and heart so let's dive in. Now if you've ever wondered what it's like to
0:20.9	navigate topics like race and identity and activism online,
0:25.1	my guest today has some valuable lessons to share.
0:28.3	Francesca Ramsey is a social justice advocate,
0:31.5	comedian, actress, writer, video blogger, and sought after speaker
0:36.0	with over 38 million views on YouTube and over a half million followers across social media.
0:41.9	Her work has been featured on MTV, The New York Times, and the BBC.
0:46.5	A former writer and correspondent for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, Francesca's the host of the
0:51.4	award-winning MTV web series Decoded and co-host of the podcast Last Name Basis.
0:57.6	Her docu series Francesca recently premiered at Sundance and her first book,
1:02.4	Well, that escalated quickly. premiered at Sundance and her first book,
1:02.6	well that escalated quickly.
1:04.9	Memoirs and mistakes of an accidental activist
1:08.0	is available now.
1:09.5	Francesco!
1:11.6	Thank you so much for coming back. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Okay people this I don't know if you can check this out. I'm going to try and hold it up so you can see all of these cute little tabs and this is only like a tiny fraction of what I've underlined or marked
1:25.9	and this is the galley copy. Now we have the real copy.
1:28.4	Francesca's book.
1:30.0	Congratulations. Thank you so much.
1:32.4	I know I texted you and I was like, girl.
1:34.8	Oh, it's so good.
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