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Hi, I'm excited to be here today with Gemma Hartley, who is a journalist and author,

specializing in feminism, pop culture, health and wellness, and more.

She has been published in Women's Health, Glamour, The Washington Post health and wellness, and more. She has been published in women's

health, glamour, The Washington Post, Red Book, and other publications. Her article in Harper's

Bazaar, called Women Aren't Nags, were just Fed Up, was viewed two billion times, that's

billion, and sparked a national discussion about emotional labor. Her book, Fed Up, a follow-up to the article, comes out November 13th.

Gemma lives with her husband and three children in Reno, Nevada.

Welcome to Gemma.

Hi, I'm happy to be here.

So, okay, what did it feel like to write an article that get viewed two billion times?

That's insane.

It was.

It was nuts because I had no, I had no idea it was going to go

viral. You don't really have a sense of those sort of things. So it was, it blew me away when it was

shared like, you know, half a million times within a week. I didn't even know articles could do that.

And it just, it blew my mind because I wrote this thinking it was just going to reach like a small number of women that, you know,

look just like me, have lives like me and, you know, would relate to me.

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