Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Gemina Jamel. I hope you're well. I'm fine. I am,

yeah, I'm doing a new job and if you want to know what that job is, you can head over to my Instagram

where I did a little announcement, which is something I don't normally do. But this job was so

ridiculous that I had to, I had to just make a 20 second moment of it on social media because

it's the, well, it's my biggest blog yet and if you followed me for a while online or you've

been listening to this podcast, you'll know why it's so ridiculous for me to be doing this and

how excited I must be and also terrified. And that's the last I'll say on it because I'll just

leave it to you to see if you want to investigate. Okay, so more importantly, today's guest

is exceptional. She is one of the great young stand-ups of our generation, I feel like and

her last special girl, Daddy, is so inspired and funny and thought-provoking and just,

oh, she's just great. I wish I was more like her and I was thrilled when she responded to my slide

into her DMs by saying yes, she would come onto my podcast to speak about some really difficult

issues and so I have a myriad of trigger warnings for you today but my guest today is Beth

Staling and I want you to know her first and way for most for her extraordinary talent.

But people who've been following her career for a while may also know that she was the victim

of assault of domestic abuse and she spoke out about it publicly years ago and it wasn't

that assault I wanted to discuss with her today because God knows how many times she's had to

bring it up and rehash it again and again and again over the years because that's what we do to

survivors and also I don't ever want to retraumatize anyone on my podcast. So what we did talk about

instead and we ended up spending quite a lot of time on it was the aftermath of speaking out

about sexual violence or any kind of violence that you receive especially when you're a woman

and that as a subject just not often enough covered we you know we I mean if at all we offer

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