From Homeless to Mayor: A Conversation with Konstantine Anthony

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As we come up on Thanksgiving and the holiday season, I started to think of all the things in my life I was thankful for and I kept returning to having a roof over my head. America’s homelessness crisis has become extraordinary and housing has becomes out of reach for so many Americans. Not just in the big cities, but all over the country. Yes, it’s partially a mental health issue, but it’s also a cost of living issue and greed issue. Everything has become too expensive, we don’t make enough money, and we can’t afford to live like we used to. Sometimes that means we can’t afford to live anywhere at all. Someone who knows this feeling first hand is Konstantine Anthony, the Mayor of Burbank, candidate for LA County Supervisor and former unhoused person himself. Join us for a terrific conversation about not only turning your life around, and to go from needing help to helping others, but what we can do to be that helping hand in this increasingly difficult world. As always, if you enjoy what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, including the knowledge that you’re allowing us to keep bringing you the best content possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thanks so much! xoPG Guest social: PLEASE consider making a small donation to his campaign. This guy is the real deal and we need to help politicians like him succeed. https://www.konstantineanthony.com/ Twitter: @KonstantineinCA Insta: konstantineinca Threads: konstantineinca Facebook: Konstantine Anthony MERCH STORE NOW OPEN: Check it out at: https://www.politicsgirl.com/store As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://trymiracle.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl https://shopbeam.com/politicsgirl http://honeylove.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	For about six weeks, before I was elected to City Council, I lived in my car on the streets of Burbank,
0:07.5	and I had a full-time job. I was working, you know, 60 hours a week and couldn't afford to pay the rent.
0:14.6	I can't tell you how many people have been couch surfing and they don't consider that
0:19.4	homelessness and I asked them well how long have you been couch surfing?
0:22.5	They say, well, you know, about six to eight months.
0:24.4	I'm like, that's you.
0:25.6	You're part of the statistics. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl Podcast. I'm your host Le McGowan, let's get into it.
0:43.0	For Thanksgiving I was trying to think what I wanted to talk about.
0:45.8	There are a lot of things in my life that I'm thankful for.
0:48.4	My continued good health with a terrible disease, the advances of modern medicine, my amazing family, including my spectacular teenage
0:55.4	son, who appears to be growing up into kind of a new kind of man who doesn't want to dominate
1:00.0	but collaborate.
1:01.4	My amazing husband who started this project with me and even though he runs his own company, still edits most of my pods in all of my rants. My father, who I'm building a new relationship with after the death of my mother.
1:13.0	My amazing in-laws who are basically Santa and Mrs. Claws if they lived in Oregon,
1:17.3	just the kindest people imaginable, and my father-in-law is also a legitimate Navy hero.
1:22.1	I'm deeply grateful for my friends, for having work that gives me purpose.
1:25.8	I'm grateful to the people in America who are waking up to what's going on, who are unhappy with what they're seeing,
1:32.4	and are putting in the work to fight back.
1:34.5	Watching what happened this year in Wisconsin and Ohio and Virginia and Pennsylvania, it gave me hope that people are
1:40.5	really starting to understand the stakes
1:42.8	and are simply not willing to just let go of our democracy and human rights.
1:47.2	I'm just so thankful people are starting to dial in.
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