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articles and early access to Colette social events. So as many of you know

podcasting is kind of a weird business because a lot of the most popular shows consist of

podcasters interviewing each other which is kind of strange when you think about it because

technically I suppose we're all in competition against one another and so why do we spend

so much time just doing one big collective on-air schmoos? I've never really been able to

answer that question which is why I generally avoid interviewing other

podcasters but I do make exceptions and one of them is today's guest fellow

heterodox liberal Megan Downham as many of you will know from her previous appearance on the

Colette podcast, Megan is a New York-based book author, writing coach, social

media maven, and more recently the woman behind a new set of events where and here I'm going to

quote from her promotional materials intellectually curious aka problematic women

from everywhere on the political spectrum can talk honestly about complex issues and ask meaningful questions to which there are no easy answers.

Recently, Megan joined me to speak about the unspeakeasy and a dozen other things besides.

Megan, thanks for being on the podcast.

So I'm looking at some of the information here about unspeakeasy, is that how you pronounce it?

The unspeakeasy, yes. And so you've got very sophisticated graphics.

It connotes a kind of, as the name suggests, prohibition era secret

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