Gutsy Women (with Andra Day & Sen. Tammy Duckworth)

You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton

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Society & Culture, Government

4.3 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Hillary has always drawn inspiration from the “gutsy women” around her -- she and Chelsea even wrote a book about them. On today’s episode, we hear from two women who have defied expectations, overcome obstacles, and made some history along the way. First, Hillary speaks with Grammy-nominated singer and award-winning actor Andra Day. For the new film The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Andra immersed herself in the life of a woman who was supremely talented and fearless in shining a light on America's ugly history of lynching, even as she battled her own demons. Then Hillary talks to Tammy Duckworth, the senator from Illinois, about her new memoir, Every Day Is a Gift, about battling discrimination and picking herself up after loss, including a near fatal helicopter crash while serving in the Army National Guard. In a timely follow-up conversation, Hillary checks in with Senator Duckworth about her response to the rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.

Senator Tammy Duckworth is an Iraq War Veteran, Purple Heart recipient and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs who was among the first handful of Army women to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi Freedom. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 after representing Illinois’s Eighth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms. Tammy’s new memoir is titled Every Day Is a Gift.

Andra Day started out her career as an R&B singer and songwriter, with her debut album Cheers to the Fall, which was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 2016 Grammys. She joined Hillary to perform during the 2016 campaign, and performed in the virtual Inaugural Parade for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. She portrays Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday for which she received the Golden Globe for Best Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award.

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0:00.0	Attention Bachelor Nation. He's back.
0:03.0	The host of some of America's most dramatic TV moments returns with the most dramatic podcast
0:08.6	ever with Chris Harrison. During two decades in reality TV, Chris saw it all, and now he's telling
0:15.0	all. It's going to be difficult at times. It'll be funny. We'll push the envelope. We have a lot
0:20.6	to talk about. Listen to the most dramatic podcast ever with Chris Harrison on the iHeart Radio
0:26.6	app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You and me both is a production of iHeart
0:33.5	Radio. I'm Hillary Clinton and this is you and me both. Today I'm talking about and talking to
0:42.7	gutsy women. I have always been interested in the stories of individual women and the impact that
0:53.2	their lives have had on not only themselves and their families, but you know on professions,
0:59.8	on politics, on the economy, on science, you name it. And Chelsea and I wrote an entire book on
1:06.4	this subject actually called The Book of Gutsy Women because from the very time she was a tiny
1:12.7	little girl I would tell her stories about women I admired. But there was a big difference
1:18.7	when she was a little girl there were women doing things that she could herself see and experience
1:24.2	like her pediatrician was a woman. The mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas where she was born was a woman.
1:30.2	That wasn't the case for me when I was a little girl and my mother encouraged me to go to the
1:35.6	library and to check out books about Amelia Earhart or Eleanor Roosevelt or Maria Tallchef, the
1:44.4	fabulous Native American ballerina and so many others. Later in the show we'll be hearing from Tammy
1:54.6	Duckworth, an Iraq war veteran, a mom and now senator from the great state of Illinois.
2:01.6	But first I'm talking to the one and only, Andrew Day. I first encountered Andrew Day
2:09.8	through her music. Andra is an incredible singer with two Grammy nominations to show for it and
2:16.2	I got to see her talent up close when she joined me on the campaign trail in 2016.
2:23.3	And then in January she performed her song Rise Up as part of the virtual inauguration parade
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