Hello and welcome to Being Boss, a podcast for Creative Entrepreneurs. I'm Emily Thompson and I'm

Kathleen Shannon.

Hey bosses. For this episode, Fresh Books Plaut Accounting provided us with a special

report that they've conducted about the shift in the American workforce

toward self-employment

and women's place within the entrepreneurial workforce.

So, dear listeners, here's where I want to get really real with you.

We almost didn't publish this episode. And here's why. These

stats riled us up. And here's the thing. It's hard to talk about big issues elegantly.

Sometimes the right words fail us,

and sometimes we're not completely informed ourselves.

And sometimes, well, oftentimes, it's difficult to step outside of your own world experience and even privilege

to consider things from all angles. But here we are publishing the episode, not because we don't care about being a hundred percent politically correct

But because we're not sure that's even possible

We believe that in order to make change happen the kind of change we really want to see in the world

We all need to be thinking about these issues and talking about these issues imperfectly and with open minds.

Because if we're all just waiting to talk about it until we can say it perfectly,

which is what I want to do most of the time,

it's never going to get talked about at all, right? So all of this to say we are

learning, we are open, and we are trying our best to stand up for what's right. This conversation we had here is far from perfect, but we hope

that it inspires you to have conversations of your own.

Hey, if you're listening to this podcast and you haven't quite made the leap to

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