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This is Our Body Politics. I'm the creator and host, Farai, Chidea. I started this show nearly three

years ago to fill a void. Women of color were sounding the alarm across our country on the pandemic, on threats

to democracy, on reproductive rights. I knew I had to build a platform where black women and all

women of color would be heard. That's why I've been so excited to bring on our guest hosts.

Now we're sharing three amazing interviews by them about telling stories, building businesses,

and finding happiness.

Our first guest host is Natasha Alford.

Natasha is vice president of digital content and a senior correspondent at the Griot,

a digital media network focused on the black community with the largest black newsroom in America.

Her forthcoming book, American Negra, comes out in 2024.

Natasha has said about her work, quote, journalism is a form of teaching. I decided to create the media I felt wasn't there, and I feel the same way, Natasha. So here she is in conversation with

another trailblazer, Alicia Fernandez Miranda. At 40 years old, Miranda decided to

step back from her successful career and start over as an intern in a brand new field.

Her journey of self-discovery is the subject of her book, My What If Year, a memoir. Let's listen.

Welcome to the show, Alicia. Natasha, I am so excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

We are so excited to have you. This journey that you went on, got to admit, kind of sounds like a dream.

I think secretly, all of us wish we could do something like this. But you did not approach this

lightly. You were a Harvard-educated CEO of your own company,

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