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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

557. Balancing Pregnancy, Motherhood and Work | Riley Gaines

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Riley Gaines returns to speak with Dr. Jordan Peterson about marriage, pregnancy, and what it means to pursue both motherhood and mission in a culture that tells women they must choose. Riley shares how her decision to keep fighting for women’s sports and biological reality has only deepened since becoming pregnant with a daughter—and why she refuses to slow down. The fight was already personal. Now—it’s as deep as lineage. This episode was filmed on June 23rd, 2025 | Links | For Riley Gaines: On X https://x.com/riley_gaines_?lang=en Watch or listen to “Gaines For Girls” on Outkick https://www.outkick.com/shows/gaines-for-girls?_gl=1*2dhubm*_ga*NDY5NDY0Nzc2LjE3NTAxODQ0NjM.*_ga_4PQFY920BX*czE3NTA5NTg0NzMkbzIkZzEkdDE3NTA5NTg0NzQkajU5JGwwJGgw Read “Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That’s Lost its Mind” https://a.co/d/hQOceSV Website https://www.rileygaines.com/

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0:00.0

Well, I understand first that you have a big event pending in your life.

0:04.0

We actually just announced we are expecting a little baby girl.

0:08.2

You've got a busy schedule ahead of you. What will that mean for you practically?

0:11.8

Full steam ahead. That's how I view it.

0:13.8

You know, you haven't been doing political work for very long, and yet you've had a massive impact.

0:19.0

Clearly, now we're not living in 2020 anymore.

0:22.0

I would say 2025 has been a total cultural, societal, political shift from then.

0:28.0

That shows that the system is responsive and maybe that sanity can hold out against insanity.

0:34.3

The family that I have, the home life that I have, my parents taught me to call out an injustice when I see it.

0:41.3

The claims that are being made to include men and women's sports on behalf of fairness are actually being made by people who, I would say, quite bluntly, they hate people like you.

0:52.3

They hate people who've managed to move themselves

0:57.2

ahead in consequence of virtue display, centering on fairness, is a masquerade hiding malicious envy.

1:06.6

It's not that they're upset that you're unfair. They despise merit. God has a way of laughing in your face when you express any sort of interest in your plans.

1:16.0

He very clearly had different plans.

1:40.8

He said different plans. Munich, Porto, Brussels, Lillestrum, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Gothenburg.

1:43.0

What do all these cities have in common?

1:50.5

Well, that's about a fifth of the European capitals and major cities that I'm coming to.

1:59.5

From the end of January to the end of March, and if you go to Jordan B. Peterson.com, you can find venue information and tickets.

2:02.9

I'm bringing my tour an evening to transform your life to Europe,

2:10.7

which seems, I'm looking forward to it, put it that way. I've got lots of information to disseminate from my last four books on the psychological side, and I want to share what I've

2:17.1

learned and what I have to say with everybody who attends.

2:21.1

And so that's Europe, end of January, end of March, 26.

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