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Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

Becoming a Better Ally and Coping with Trauma with Nancy Lublin, Bea Arthur, and Tanasha Driver

Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

Studio71

Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jeannie wants to be there for you, so she's checking in and brought in her friends Nancy Lublin, Bea Arthur, and Tanasha Driver of the Crisis Text Line to discuss how we can battle systemic racism all while taking care of our mental health. Jeannie and the women of the Crisis Text Line take questions from Jeannie's FAM to address everything from how to put your desire to become anti-racist into action to how to address racism in your own community. Plus, Jeannie chats about how to have the tough conversations with family and most importantly, yourself. To reach the Crisis Text Line, text HOME to 741741 Ayana Therapy Join The Difference Therapy for Black Girls Violet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Listen honey. Hi fam, man this is a crazy week. How do I even start this? Well, I'm going to start this.

0:20.0

Well, I'm going to start off by explaining why I'm in pajamas, because I honestly haven't

0:26.7

gone out of them for four days.

0:28.8

I might have showered.

0:30.7

I don't really care about that right now, to honest with you and this is all surrounding the last few weeks of news not just behind George Floyd and his brutal murder that we all witnessed but But Brianna Taylor, the confusion behind that

0:45.2

and obviously that deplorable devastating video footage

0:50.0

we saw with Amad Arbury and the millions of names behind that that we may never know just because

0:55.1

someone wasn't pressing record. You know I always reach out to you, fam, to talk to you

1:00.3

about any issues that you're having with relationships and health and your wellness, but these last few days,

1:06.8

the influx of questions I've gotten, obviously you guys are all dealing with as heavy of a heart

1:12.2

as the rest of our world surrounding these topics

1:15.8

around racism.

1:17.3

So when I was listening to all these questions,

1:21.5

I have to be honest with you. I too felt so distraught and also so heavy with not knowing how to stay positive in my answers

1:31.7

towards you or even guide you in the right direction.

1:34.0

And that was the one time I was like, Genie, you're not meant to answer these questions by yourself.

1:38.0

So don't take on this burden alone and instead sit back and listen and see where you can learn as well in such a

1:45.0

heavy topic like racism and systemic racism that we all deal with today.

1:49.5

So I reached out to one of my dear friends, Nancy Lubin, who is on with me right now.

1:54.8

Nancy, you are the co-founder of an amazing TextHelp hotline that is available to us all.

2:01.7

It's called Crisis Text Line and just through our

2:06.1

fingertips at our very own phone this text line is open 24-7 to field people's

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