75: Barbara Boxer | The Thrill of the Fight Back

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.8 • 12.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Barbara Boxer (@BarbaraBoxer) served as a United States Senator for California from 1993 to 2017 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993. She is the co-host (with Nicole Boxer) of podcast Fight Back, and author of The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life.

What We Discuss with Barbara Boxer:

The life experiences that fueled Barbara's involvement in politics with the passion of an activist.
How to get tough when the odds are stacked against you and you just want to quit.
The concept of courage -- how it develops and how to summon it when you really need it.
How to seek common ground and get things done when it seems like you're never going to see eye to eye with your colleagues.
How Barbara really feels about the relentless attention of her social media trolls.
And much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show I'm Jordan Harbinger. I'm here with my producer Jason DeFilippo and today's
0:05.1	conversation we're speaking with former senator Barbara Boxer 24 years as a senator for California
0:11.3	also a decade in the house of representatives. She's also the host of fight back with Barbara and
0:15.9	Nicole Boxer on podcast one. I gotta give her credit she's done a whole heck of a lot
0:20.8	in her time Jason the art of tough is her book fearlessly facing politics and life and so
0:27.6	long career in government known affectionately I'm sure as a pain in the you know what by a lot of
0:34.0	guys in the government because she is really stuck up for what she's believed in. She's known for
0:40.0	her passion on the issues and let me tell you she's got plenty of that. She was one of the original
0:44.0	ladies fighting upward in what was and still largely is a man's world here in politics and government.
0:50.8	Today we'll discuss how to get tough when the odds are stacked against you and you just want to
0:55.7	we'll discover how to seek common ground when it seems like you're never going to see eye to eye
1:00.1	with those around you enough to get anything done and we'll explore the concept of courage
1:05.2	how it develops and how to summon it when you really need it. There's plenty more like this in
1:09.9	the episode as well. She's just a lovely person. I don't care what your politics are you're going to
1:15.6	want to give Barbara Boxer a hug after this and of course as usual we've got the worksheets for
1:20.5	today's episodes so you can make sure you solidify your understanding of the key takeaways here
1:24.9	from Barbara Boxer. That link is in the show notes at jordanharbinger.com slash podcast.
1:31.4	All right here's Barbara Boxer. I found it funny that your first election your slogan was
1:36.8	Barbara Boxer gives a damn. So even back then actually carrying was like a differentiator.
1:43.5	Yeah I mean it was so interesting. First of all scared me to death when I as I thought back on
1:48.8	taking such a risk with a slogan using the word damn. Oh my god today you couldn't get away
1:55.4	with it but what happened was I had a very hard primary race with a wonderful woman and she and I
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