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How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Fearless Women Uplift Each Other (with Sophia Danner-Okotie)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Health & Fitness, Politics, News, Parenting, Mental Health, Kids & Family

4.7892 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Lately there’s been a surge of attacks on diversity - affirmative action was overturned by the Supreme Court, Harvard president Claudine Gay was forced out of her seat with people calling her “a diversity hire,” and anti-DEI bills are popping up all over the country. So this week, as we start Black History Month, we’re talking about attacks on diversity programs. We got the chance to chat with Sophia Danner-Okotie, a small business owner in Atlanta, to talk about how difficult it is to get ...

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0:00.0

I have hope in rightness, okay?

0:09.0

I have hope that if we stand behind rightness, eventually we'll get there.

0:19.0

We've got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

0:26.0

Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.

0:33.4

Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman.

0:39.6

And you're listening to the Suburban Women Problem. So lately, there's been a surge of attacks on diversity. Affirmative action was overturned by the Supreme Court. The Harvard president, Claudine Gay, was forced out of her seat with people calling her a

0:54.2

diversity hire and anti-D-EI bills are popping up all over the country.

1:00.3

I know y'all talked last week about how right-wingers, Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens said they

1:06.0

wouldn't even want to be in a plane with a black or female pilot, which is just utterly ridiculous. So today,

1:14.6

as we start Black History Month, we're going to be talking about attacks on diversity programs.

1:20.1

We'll get to chat with Sophia, Dana, or Cody, a small business owner here in Atlanta

1:25.0

to talk about how difficult it is to get business loans as a woman

1:29.1

of color. And one of the firms that invested in her, the fearless fund, is now even under

1:36.0

legal attacks by extremists. I think before we get into the news and start talking about the news,

1:43.3

Jasmine, we need to talk about something that happened to you a couple weeks ago.

1:48.4

Can you tell us the story?

1:50.0

Yeah.

1:50.4

I actually feel like this all ties in together, strangely.

1:53.6

You know, it does.

1:55.1

Exactly.

1:56.4

Last week on the house floor, I went to the well to speak about a very important issue in Georgia,

2:05.2

and that is Georgia's absolutely horrible maternal mortality rates. And it's bad enough that the

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