There are two happy women bringing you inspiring stories, politics, pop culture, and lifestyle

hacks, all with an eye to making our communities and our country a better place to live.

It's the Happy Women Podcast with your host Jen Horn and Katie Gorka.

Thanks for joining us and welcome to another episode of the happy women

podcast. I'm Jennifer Horn and I'm Katie Gorka and I am so excited because like

two of my favorite women on the planet together in one space today for this episode.

Of course you're one of those women, Katie Korka, but my other very incredible friend is Jennifer Van Larrh,

she is managing editor at red state which is an incredible

publication red state.com you should go there for all your latest news they

support independent journalists and it is just a it's a really great place to go to find

out what's really happening outside of the mainstream news media she's also

an superb investigative journalist you can give her a follow on social media at

Jen Van Larr. Jennifer Van Larr is here. Welcome to happy women Jen. It's so nice to have

you here. I'm so happy to be here because we've talked about this podcast a couple of times when I ran into you so I'm excited to finally get to be here and meet Katie.

Absolutely and we're going to talk about a lot of the stuff that you've worked on, but before we do, you obviously

did not pop out being an investigative journalist from your mama's tummy.

You had a long journey to get to where you are including like a

for a court reporter all kinds of stuff so how did you find your way into this

realm?

Yeah I never even thought about being a journalist as a kid I was going to be the first woman

president so we'll see. Then when I started working in politics I quickly

When I started working in politics I thought oh no way do I ever want to run for office that is way too much pressure

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