Hello, welcome. So excited that you're here. I'm so excited to be sharing this

conversation with Charlotte Alter. Charlotte is a senior time correspondent and

she's the author of a book about millennials and politics and

she had so much to share that I found absolutely fascinating.

millennials think very differently about government than their predecessors do.

So without further ado, let's just dive right in and you're going to hear some very eye-opening

interesting things about we are the ones we've been waiting for.

I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

Hey Charlotte thank you so much for joining me today.

I'm so happy you're here.

Thank you so much for having me, Sharon.

One of the things I am so excited to chat with you about is about millennials in politics.

millennials in leadership and I was so intrigued by your book because it really focuses on what is currently shaping

millennials but I want to start really with the title of your book the ones we've

been waiting for tell me how did you land on that and what does it mean?

That's a great question.

So the ones we've been waiting for,

it's taken from this Barack Obama speech.

But I think the really important word in this phrase is

ones that we're talking about a plurality of people. We're not talking about one single savior who is going to come along and

magically fix this country, really power being exercised in the plural.

And I think that that's one of the things

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