Hot and Bothered with Cecile Richards
Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We're together in NYC with the iconic Cecile Richards. Cecile is the president of Planned Parenthood, and announced earlier this year that she's stepping down. She tells us why she's leaving, how she felt after testifying before Congress for nearly five hours, and what's next. (A political career perhaps?) Her new book is Make Trouble with the #goals subtitle Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story. Come for the juicy behind-the-scenes memoir about the fight for repro rights and her front-row seat to her mom (and former Texas governor) Ann Richards' life and career. Stay for practical and inspiring ways to lead and make social change.
Reading List:
Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead--My Life Story
Cecile's 2015 testimony at Congress's sham anti-choice hearings
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long-distance festies everywhere. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Amina Tussaud. |
| 0:06.2 | And I'm Anne Friedman. |
| 0:07.3 | Hi Anne Friedman. |
| 0:08.5 | It's a big day. |
| 0:09.4 | It's a very big day. |
| 0:11.6 | When we started doing this podcast four years ago and we had our like vision board |
| 0:16.2 | or who we wanted to talk to on the show, this next person was definitely top three. |
| 0:22.2 | This morning, thinking about speaking with her, I was like making notes about questions |
| 0:26.0 | to ask her and was like actually tearing up thinking about this. |
| 0:29.1 | I know. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm really upset about how terrible the weather is because I felt like it couldn't dress |
| 0:33.8 | my best for her today, you know? |
| 0:35.6 | Same. |
| 0:36.6 | Okay. |
| 0:37.6 | Who is it? |
| 0:38.6 | And she's going to walk in here looking fabulous. |
| 0:39.6 | Always. |
| 0:40.6 | It is one of our favorite women leaders in the cosmos, Cecil Richards. |
| 0:48.4 | Ah. |
| 0:59.1 | So, Cecil Richards was president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America starting |
| 1:17.9 | in 2006 and she stepped down from that role earlier this year. |
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