Episode 120 - Kristin Sokoloff
Citizen Podcast
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4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Host of the Dirty Side of Leadership podcast Kristin Sokoloff joins the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Citizen. We have a special guest today from the heart of Pacific Northwest |
| 0:25.9 | Retardia, Kristen Sobbelov. How's it going? Going well. Thank you for having me on. Yeah. I don't |
| 0:33.6 | understand how anybody still lives there, frankly. I know. I know. It's it's honestly. I really feel like |
| 0:39.6 | the Pacific Northwest. For us, Blue State conservatives, especially on the West Coast, you put armor |
| 0:45.8 | on every day. We're just unwilling to flee. Not not yet. Eventually, eventually will flee. But for now, |
| 0:54.0 | we fight. What is it that you do there? And how did you get into media, I guess, is a good place to start? |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, it's a good question. So I'm coming out of a 20-year banking leadership career. So this last |
| 1:08.4 | March, I am officially on my own. And so it really started when, you know, in 2020, I've always been |
| 1:15.6 | awake, I've always been conservative, involved in the community locally in politics. But in June of 2020, |
| 1:23.0 | my husband's a Portland police officer. And so as you can imagine, it was really rocking the household, |
| 1:28.8 | everything we were going through and watching him go through. And I couldn't take it anymore. It |
| 1:34.4 | couldn't be quiet. I had my personal social media. And you're not going to get very far when you're |
| 1:42.1 | basically ranting to family and friends and neighbors. And so I realized that wasn't effective. |
| 1:49.9 | And it was really divisive. And these are people that I've had long standing relationships with. |
| 1:54.8 | And so I recorded a rant. And it went viral on TikTok. And I immediately went from feeling |
| 2:01.8 | completely isolated as I was, as if I was the only one in the Pacific Northwest with my values |
| 2:08.4 | to having this built-in community. And I felt really empowered. And I wasn't alone anymore. And so |
| 2:14.7 | I started putting the truth out there about what was happening with the riots because they kept |
| 2:18.7 | saying they were mostly peaceful. Meanwhile, completely the opposite. My husband minimally just |
| 2:25.6 | minimal experience was being hit with a diarrhea bomb or a paint bomb or a bleach bomb, |
| 2:30.8 | right? The police officers were just being treated like trash. Yet the media wasn't even touching |
| 2:35.6 | on that. And so I was I was really outing that. And it took off. And I started covering stories. |
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