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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Michelle sits down solo with author, businesswoman, and all around multihyphenate, Elaine Welteroth, to answer a listener's question about a dating red-flag. Elaine tells the story of past romance with her own “Br. Big,” and how it nearly set her off course from the family goals she cared most about. Michelle talks about the importance of dating before marriage and highlights a concept that should be paid more attention: being the “chooser,” not the chosen.
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0:00.0 | So this is, I've never told anyone this, Mrs. Obama, but I'm going to tell you this, |
0:06.6 | because it applies to this person's situation. When I was 25, I happened to be dating. Don't |
0:13.9 | judge me, Mrs. Obama. Okay. Let's hear it. Okay. You promise. I don't know. I can't promise. |
0:19.3 | You can't promise. It's a safe space. It's a space space. |
0:21.5 | You have two daughters. |
0:22.3 | I'm sure they brought you some stuff. |
0:24.8 | Please. |
0:25.3 | And you've had to keep the... |
0:26.2 | And some things I've had to say, don't tell your father that, okay? |
0:33.0 | This episode is brought to you by Pinesol and Therflu. |
0:40.3 | Well, hey, hey! Oh, I am here. We are here chatting. I'm solo this time. I usually have my big brother Craig to join me in these conversations, but he's feeling under the weather. So, but we're going to |
0:55.9 | proceed without him because we've got a great question that is perfect for our guest. And I want to |
1:01.8 | welcome one of my favorite people, Elaine Walter Roth, who, you know, goes without any introduction. |
1:09.6 | She is beautiful, smart, sharp, awesome. Her resume, she's a New York Times |
1:15.6 | best-selling author, award-winning journalist, former judge on one of my favorite shows that I still |
1:22.5 | never got to go and sit and judge. It could still happen. Project Runway. |
1:29.4 | We'll see. |
1:31.3 | It's on my bucket list. |
1:38.4 | Another thing that you are known for is being at the helm of Teen Vogue, doing great things. |
1:39.8 | But you've also launched birth fund, which is a foundation that provides grants for midwifery birth support and holistic prenatal care for mothers. |
1:50.0 | And I didn't know about that work. |
1:53.0 | You're doing it all. |
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