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IN CONVERSATION: Jamila Rizvi

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on the show, there’s a little less of the dumb stuff because we are joined by the inimitable Jamila Rizvi. In her own words, Jamila is an author, presenter and political commentator. She is is author of the best-selling Not Just Lucky, a career manifesto for millennial women and The Motherhood, an anthology of letters about life with a newborn. Jamila is currently Editor-at-Large of the Nine Network’s Future Women where you may have heard her as host of their podcast Future Women Weekly. You can follow her on Instagram here and Twitter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We all know periods can be complicated ever changing and often misunderstood. I mean why doesn't anyone ever actually tell you how to first use a tampon properly or that getting an RUD would hurt this much?

0:10.0

I know that's why Libra is on a mission to bridge the gap between what you're told and what you actually experience.

0:15.8

Did you know 75% of girls start their first period with negative emotions?

0:20.3

And 59% of women wish they'd been taught more about periods throughout their lives.

0:25.0

Libra is here to help you navigate your menstrual journey with confidence and care from your first period to your last.

0:30.0

If you've ever felt dismissed with it's just a period and I'm sure we've all heard that before, Libra says it is never just a period. It is so much more. Share your experiences at

0:40.4

www. Love Libra.com.

0:43.0

When this baby came along who I admittedly not really prepared for,

0:47.0

I just didn't know what to do.

0:49.0

Because I defined myself by being good at my job

0:52.0

and suddenly I didn't have a job to be good at and I really went what's the point of me like what what am I doing I remember around day nine or ten my husband coming home from work and I screamed at him and said I had ruined

1:05.3

my life. Hello and welcome to Shameless the podcast for Smart Women who love dumb stuff.

1:27.4

This week on the show there's a little less of the dumb stuff because we are joined

1:30.8

by the inadable Jamila Ritzvah.

1:33.2

In her own words, Jamila is an author, presenter,

1:36.1

and political commentator.

1:37.7

She's the author of the best-selling, not just lucky,

1:40.4

a career manifesto for millennial women and the motherhood an anthology of

1:44.7

letters about life with a newborn. Right out of university

1:48.2

Jamila worked for the Rudd and Gill-Eyed governments before leaving

1:52.0

Canberra to head up mama mia as editor-in-chief.

1:55.4

Just because there's not enough work stuff in her wake, Jamila is currently editor-at-large

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