97: Women's March: Solidarity and Haters

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Management, How To, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.7 • 801 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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There is so much to say about my Women’s March on Washington experience. I want to share my story. I want to share the global impact of this movement. I want to tell you what it was like to spend 8 hours with over 1 million marchers. I want to capture it perfectly for you. But I cannot. It was so big and so impactful, I can’t find all the words. And you know I’m not one to be at a loss for words… Because I’m still feeling totally overwhelmed by the magnitude of this event a week later, I asked a few of my March friends to help me explain what it was like to March on Washington. Listen in to hear the most memorable moments of the day from 4 of my friends – and some of the raddest women I know. Listen in to hear how the logistics of the day played out, from getting off a red eye, to not peeing all day, to marching with Macklemore, to making friends with Trump supporters. Then keep listening. Hear about the haters I’ve encountered this week – the comments and conversations I saw online, and continue to see: “I don’t really get it. Women already have the same rights as men.” “I don’t see how this movement is helping anything.” “From the news coverage, I just saw a lot of angry women who didn’t have a unifying theme/message. It didn’t even make sense.” “I know a lot of really successful women. No one’s holding women back.” I’ll tell you what I told the haters – and hopefully you’ll find it useful information that you can share with any haters you encounter. From where I sit, I see the largest movement of global solidarity ever. I see action. I see power. I see hope. **Special thanks and huge hugs to my friends Dana, Beth, Angela and Christine who shared their March perspectives in this episode. And thanks to Angela for letting me march with your sign.** I will not normalize the behavior of this president. Links Mentioned: Article: Racial Gender Wage Gap Persists in US Despite Some Progress 6 year old Sophie Cruz’s speech on YouTube My March pics on The SMA Facebook page Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 97. Show notes for this episode can be found by going to
0:05.8	shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 97. Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host,
0:16.4	Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm here to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the
0:21.5	gap between motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little
0:26.4	more shameless every day because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of.
0:31.2	What kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in.
0:38.7	Welcome, friends.
0:42.8	I'm really excited to talk to you today because today I'm going to be giving you all the details of the Women's March on Washington.
0:45.3	So I got to do this last weekend.
0:47.8	And it was amazing.
0:50.2	It's really, really hard to put into words what the whole experience was like and how meaningful it was and how significant it was.
0:57.4	And I actually, I had to ask some friends to help me because I was like, there's so many big words I want to say.
1:03.1	But I feel like they still don't even begin to touch how incredible the experience was.
1:07.1	And I have to say that the power of my experience in D.C. was only amplified by what I saw
1:12.9	going on worldwide that day. And so, you know, when I was in it in the middle of the biggest
1:18.5	march, I thought, wow, this is huge. This is incredible. I can't believe this. But then as I was
1:23.3	getting on social media later in the day and that night and even the next day and all of this
1:28.3	week, I saw that this was so much bigger than just what I was experiencing in Washington, D.C.
1:35.1	And that has really continued to impress upon me the magnitude of the event since I was actually
1:41.7	at the event. So I had to reach out to some friends who were there with me.
1:45.2	Some of them I marched with some of them I didn't, but just people who were there at the same
1:47.9	time and get their input because I'm really having a hard time putting into words exactly what
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