Kitchen Table Conversations - Charlotte ‘Burbs

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Health & Fitness, Politics, Parenting, Mental Health, News, Kids & Family

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Rachel Vindman is on Red Wine and Blue’s first-ever Troublemaker Tour, chatting with suburban women at kitchen tables in Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. This week, Rachel’s in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina. She sat down with three moms – Stacy, Stacey, and Anissa – to hear about what got them involved in advocacy work and what’s keeping their friends and neighbors from getting involved too. Public education is a huge issue in North Carolina, with small but ...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. This is Rachel Vindman, and I'm on Red Wine and Blues, first ever troublemaker tour.
0:09.3	I'm sitting down with suburban women in Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania to hear about what matters to them.
0:16.9	Welcome to my kitchen table conversations.
0:22.8	Hi, everyone, this is Rachel Vimmon and I am on the fourth stop of my troublemaker tour.
0:29.0	I am sitting at a kitchen table in Charlotte, North Carolina and I'm joined by two Stacey's,
0:35.3	Stacey Staggs and Stacey Swanson, and Anisa Knight.
0:40.3	I'm just going to let you guys introduce yourselves.
0:42.8	My name is Stacey Staggs.
0:44.4	I'm a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina.
0:47.0	I'm a parent of twin girls who just turned nine last Sunday,
0:51.0	and each of them have complex medical needs and disabilities. So they have been affected by,
0:59.7	most recently by the COVID pandemic, but we've been doing advocacy work to help them fully engage
1:05.7	in public education, health care access, and community inclusion really since they were born.
1:12.5	Hi, I'm Anisa Knight.
1:14.6	I'm fairly new to Charlotte.
1:17.0	We moved here in 2019 after I retired from the Air Force.
1:21.6	My husband and I have two children.
1:24.0	One's 14.
1:25.0	He's in the CMS system.
1:26.9	And my 10-year-old daughter actually goes to a charter school
1:29.7	in Uptown.
1:30.5	Hi there.
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