Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Co-Founder Meredith Walker on the Unscripted Path

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Closing out our For the Love of Women Who Built series, we have Meredith Walker, the Co-Founder of Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, an organization which is dedicated to helping young people cultivate their authentic selves. They emphasize intelligence and imagination over “fitting in.” Meredith Walker began her television career producing the Peabody and Emmy award-winning Nick News with Linda Ellerbee, and then went on to head up the talent department for Saturday Night Live, where she met and became fast friends with Amy Poehler. They shared tales of their own upbringings and dreamed about how great it would be to create something to help girls get through their own awkward teen and pre-teen years. They started Smart Girls with a “mix of great planning, and luck, and not planning,” and now they help girls all over the world navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. Meredith shares her personal story of following the “unscripted path” and encourages those of us who have had an unconventional life’s journey to embrace what we care about and recognize the value we add to our world.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For The Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to counts, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, this is Jen, welcome to the podcast.
0:23.7	So before we start introducing our guests for the show, I wanted to let you know that
0:27.6	a brand new segment we're launching with this series.
0:30.6	It's called Jen's Favorite Things.
0:32.5	You may remember that back in the fall, we did a show that featured myself and my amazing
0:38.0	gift guru has been brand-in because, uh, it wasn't as anybody who knows me knows.
0:44.8	If I was in charge of the gift giving in this family, everybody would just get, like,
0:50.0	I don't know, socks and gift cards to Chili's.
0:53.5	He's the one.
0:54.5	He's the guy.
0:55.8	So we got so much response from that favorite things episode, so many of you wanted to know
0:59.8	more about not only these unique, unique gifts and products from vendors that a lot of you
1:05.7	hadn't heard of, but these are all companies who are giving back in some way to a charity
1:10.3	or a cause.
1:11.3	They're making their communities better, the world better.
1:13.5	So we decided to make this an ongoing segment.
1:16.9	And just for you, dear podcast listener, we'll have special exclusive offers for our For The
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