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🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. We are going to waste no time today because we |
0:12.1 | have one of my favorite people in all of the land. And her name is Carrie Washington. |
0:18.4 | Carrie Washington is an Emmy-winning, SAG and Golden Globe nominated actor, director, |
0:23.7 | producer, and activist. She received widespread recognition for her role as Olivia Pope in |
0:29.1 | the hit drama scandal. In 2016, Washington launched her production company Simpson Street whose projects |
0:35.4 | include confirmation, American Sun, Emmy award-winning live in front of a studio audience, the fight, |
0:41.9 | and little fires everywhere. Washington is a lifelong activist and founder of Influence Change, |
0:47.8 | IC-21. She has been honored as one of Time Magazine's 2022 Women of the Year. She has just released |
0:56.9 | her memoir thicker than water and it's on sale now. Pod Squad, during this interview, you're going |
1:03.1 | to hear us talking a lot about a family secret that was revealed to Carrie just recently in her |
1:10.0 | life. And we're not going to tell you exactly what that secret is because it's a spoiler for the |
1:14.6 | whole book. And we really don't want to ruin the story for you. And also, it doesn't really matter |
1:20.7 | because when you hear us talk about Carrie's family secret, just know we're talking about every |
1:25.8 | family secret that every family has ever had. Okay, enjoy. Carrie, Washington, I've been |
1:34.3 | really looking forward to this hour for a very, very long time. Yes. Me too. I love you. I love you. |
1:43.2 | Haven't gotten to spend a ton of time with you, but I feel so connected to you. You're one of |
1:49.2 | the few people that no matter what they're doing. I'm like, okay, yes, I'll do whatever she's doing. |
1:56.8 | I trust you so deeply. I just wanted to ask you a quick question that I thought of this morning, |
2:03.2 | which is, did you see me fall down the stairs at Tracy Ellis Ross's first? No. No. |
2:10.7 | Did you really not? I missed that. Was it before dinner or after dinner? Oh my god, Carrie, |
2:17.2 | it was before dinner. And I fell down the stairs like completely like my shoes flew, my purse flew, |
2:23.1 | my dress was up my ass in front of Diana Ross. Okay. This morning, I thought, I wonder if she |
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