Our job, I think, for mental health purposes, is to find our torch and carry that torch and not try to carry 20 torches, but just take our torch, walk in the direction that we feel is right and true.

And if other people want to come with us, that's terrific. They don't have to, and it doesn't mean that our torch isn't meaningful. B, our W.

We came to make a change.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome to How to Not Lose Your Shit.

I'm Katie Paris, the founder of Red, Wine, and Blue.

And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue.

Okay. So there's no doubt that elections are important. It's how we ended up with the national nightmare we're all going through right now. But it's also how we can stand up for our families and neighbors at the local level.

I haven't heard anyone talk about running for office as self-care, but that was before today.

We talked to two badass women, Jill Barkley-Roy and Kate Barr, who said that running and helping other women run doesn't just make a difference. It actually

helps them feel better. Jill is the director of Emerge Action Fund, an organization that trains

women's run for office, and Kate has been fighting against gerrymandering in North Carolina

for years. And now she's actually running for office as a Republican as a really smart way

to beat those unfair maps. You know, I thought it was really cool how both of them talked about

whether it was running for office, as both of them have done, or getting other women to run for

office, how it really brings them peace. I mean, Jill talked about

how like she's done a boot camp for 25 women who wanted to run for office for the first time

and how it just like helped her sleep well. You know, she was energized, it brought her peace. And

Kate talked about how doing the intense work of running for Congress, again, helping other women run.

Like, that's sort of how she stays sane.

That's how she doesn't lose her shit.

I related to that a lot.

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