Hope Won! (with Jess McIntosh)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, News, Mental Health, Politics

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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By now, you’ve probably heard that Democrats won big across the country last night. From Governor and Lt. Governor in Virginia to Proposition 50 in California to school boards and city councils across the country, the people made their voices heard. And some of the biggest swings, especially in Virginia, were amongst suburban women. This win goes far beyond the races that were on the ballot last night. This is a win for every American who wants to preserve democracy, common sense, and decency...

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0:00.0	Hope won. I mean, that's what people who didn't get to vote yesterday, they still get the hope.
0:06.4	And that's why it matters so much.
0:10.1	RWB, we came to make a change.
0:18.8	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us on How to Not Lose Your Shit.
0:23.6	I'm Katie Paris, the founder of Red Wine and Blue.
0:26.2	And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief
0:30.7	people officer here at Red Wine and Blue.
0:33.1	LaFonda, you know what's helping me not lose my shit right now?
0:37.4	I'm going to be able to guess.
0:39.4	I think that a lot of people, because it's been on all the social medias and all the big
0:46.5	medias, you know, yesterday, last night and today, know that there were these huge wins in
0:53.0	New York City with Zoran Mandami.
0:55.0	There was Virginia with Abigail Spanberger in New Jersey for the governor's race.
1:00.0	In California for the Proposition 50.
1:03.0	But you know what fires me up.
1:05.0	You know what fires me up.
1:06.0	It is all of these local elections and unexpected places where I think people have just been feeling
1:14.1	so much chaos and like, what can we even do? Are these elections even going to work?
1:20.2	Yes, they did. And it's just, I feel like it's giving me some semblance of solid ground, you know, to stand on where there's just been so much
1:31.6	uncertainty, so much chaos. We've been saying all year, let's block out the chaos of DC. Let's
1:37.4	focus on our local communities. This can work. This can work. But I'm going to be honest, I was
1:43.4	trying to like manifest that into existence through the
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