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The Dream

Health vs Wealth

The Dream

Little Everywhere

Health & Fitness, Business, Society & Culture

4.615.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and current single payer healthcare advocate, Gina Viola, joins host Jane Marie to talk about what keeps her motivated to do good work.


You can find out more about Gina's work here:


Insta: @ginaforla


...and more about single payer healthcare in California here:


https://www.carlcare.com/



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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jane Marie, and this is the dream.

0:05.8

I am a mother of two public school children now in college. I am a small business owner for the last, I guess, 30 years now. I have an employment agency that specializes in staffing trade shows. That's my day job.

0:20.3

Wait, see, what?

0:21.2

I love trade shows.

0:22.6

Do you know that I spent the first 10 years owning this business having to tell people what a trade show was?

0:27.7

Comic-Con changed all of that.

0:30.8

This is Gina Viola, who ran for mayor a few years ago and lost, perhaps because of her lofty goals, which include single-payer health care.

0:42.2

My first question, tell me why someone does that.

0:46.2

Well, so in the beginning.

0:48.8

Were you the president of your eighth grade class?

0:51.0

Like what?

0:51.8

Okay, so my aunt says, I never had a facebook until i was running for mayor

0:55.9

in 2022 so it was my one concession i made is now there's a gina viola on facebook i know but my aunt went

1:04.3

on to the facebook page and said oh this is perfect gina was mayor of the playground. She was always mayor. It was like,

1:12.6

that is so funny. I'm a really reluctant leader. Like, I love to go and be a participant.

1:19.2

I love to do the heavy lifting. And lo and behold, I always end up in that leadership space.

1:26.7

A reluctant leader, but also like a type A controlling type.

1:30.4

I don't want to spend all day figuring out where six chairs go. That's the biggest, that's the biggest

1:36.0

complaint people would have working with me is they're like, you're not letting anybody else do

1:39.9

anything. And I'm like, I just want to get it done. I know. So we can do the thing.

1:43.3

Well, does that interrupt your life anywhere else? Like, I have that problem where I'm like, I just want to get it done. I know. So we can do the thing. Well, does that interrupt your life anywhere else? Like, I have that problem where I'm like,

1:47.3

well, I'll just do it better and faster. So I mean, I've gotten a lot better at it in the last 10

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