Building relationships with your neighbors is the foundation of political action.

RWB, RWB, we came to make a change.

Hi everyone, welcome to How to Not Lose Your Shit. I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time

yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue. And I'm

Katie Paris, founder of Red Wine and Blue. This week, we are joined by Amanda Littman, a mom, author,

and the president of Run for Something, an organization that supports young and diverse

people running for office. But even though she runs a political organization, she said that

the most political thing she did last year was actually host weekly dinners for her friends.

And Katie, we have committed to hosting a dinner each in March. Tell me what you thought of

our conversation with Amanda. I mean, any conversation that gets me to make like a hard concrete

commitment at the end of it, like you know it's touched something inside of me because I'm kind of already feeling

overwhelmed busy in my life as a mom, as a woman running an organization with you. It takes up

a lot of our lives. But I felt compelled by the end of this conversation. And I'm super

curious how many of our listeners

will listen to this and come to the same place. So I didn't think I was going to get there.

I'm going to say that outright. So Amanda, yeah, she has held these dinners. She and her husband

have hosted them at their apartment every single Saturday night in 2025. When I first heard this, I was like, I don't know.

I'm not sure if I got a little bit of a headache or if I like kind of felt a little

nauseous or when I first heard that.

Like over-stimulation to me.

It sounded like a lot of stimulation for you like over, just feeling scheduled, like

too much programming was sort of my first reaction.

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