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That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

Get Informed on the Issues: Keri Potts

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Listen to Sarah's conversation with former ESPN colleague Keri Potts, who details her own sexual assault experience and then explains the important role that the media plays in the way that sexual assault stories are received by the audience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Three times a week, the right time with Bommani Jones podcast brings you the latest from technology,

0:05.1

music, and the very best analysis of the games. Plus, there's a robust community of friends,

0:10.1

including Dominique Foxworth for Foxworth Fridays. That's the right time with Bommani Jones on

0:15.2

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and on ESPN's YouTube channel.

0:20.6

Welcome to That's What She Said with Sarah Spain, a podcast about, well, whatever the hell I want,

0:32.2

actors and musicians, athletes, comedians, neuroscientists, wine experts. If I find somebody

0:37.6

interesting, I'm bringing them to you. We'll talk about how they became who they are, how they

0:42.4

found success, battle failures, and how they ended up here, talking to me. Hey everybody,

0:47.7

welcome to That's What She Said with Sarah Spain. I'm out in New York all week,

0:51.9

filling in hosting around the horn for Tony Riali. So today's podcast is actually a re-air of one

0:57.5

that I thought was particularly timely right now in light of Dishon Watts and signing with the Browns.

1:01.6

It's with my former colleague, Carrie Potts, who's a survivor of sexual assault. She tells her

1:06.4

harrowing story of escaping a man in Italy on this podcast. She's also an award-winning communications

1:11.9

pro. She's got 20 years of experience working for a bunch of companies within sports and

1:15.6

entertainment, women's economic policy, and the nonprofit sector. So she spends a lot of the

1:19.9

podcast sharing some of the information that I was able to be privy to a couple years ago as part

1:25.2

of one of the seminars she would give fellow ESPN employees about how we talk about sexual assault,

1:30.8

rape, harassment, domestic violence, using the right language, educating ourselves on it,

1:35.5

and making sure that we're smart when we talk about it on the air. And she really stressed what an

1:39.4

impact we have as communicators and how we can shape so much of how the audience views things.

1:44.3

I was blown away not only by her presentation, but the reaction that so many people in the room,

1:48.5

particularly men had to what she said and how counter it was to so much of the conditioning

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