Let's Go To Lunch and Vote (with Andrea Pollack)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

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

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week on the pod, we were joined by a Virginia mom named Andrea. For years, she thought she hated politics — she says it just seemed like a reason for “people to be mean to each other.” But as last year’s election drew closer, she noticed that her friends and family weren’t talking about it. Everyone said they were too exhausted after the first Trump presidency. Andrea understood the feeling (who isn’t exhausted by Trump??), but she couldn’t stand by and do nothing. So she started a Troub...

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0:00.0	Every one of us can just pick up the phone and call a friend.
0:04.0	Every one of us can send a text and say, hey, you want to go to lunch and vote?
0:08.0	You know, every one of us can call a friend and say, hey, I know you've been having trouble getting out.
0:13.0	Can I give you a ride over to the polls?
0:15.0	We came to make a change.
0:19.0	Hi everyone, welcome to How Did Not Lose Your Shit.
0:22.6	I'm Katie Paris, and I'm the founder of Red, Wine, and Blue.
0:26.2	And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief
0:30.2	people officer here at Red Wine and Blue.
0:32.6	In a few minutes, we are going to get to hear LaFonda's conversation with a mom in Virginia named Andrea.
0:39.8	She's amazing.
0:41.1	And she went from thinking that she, quote, hated politics to leading a red, wine and blue,
0:48.1	troubled nation, local group in her town called Childless Cat Ladies.
0:53.4	We have some important elections coming up next week.
0:57.7	That's November 4, 53,000 open seats, local elections all over the country.
1:04.8	And Virginia has got some especially important races.
1:08.7	So I am super excited for your conversation with Andrea. Thanks for
1:12.0	holding down the fort without me. Well, you had a lot going on. So I was happy to do it. And my
1:18.9	conversation with Andrea was great. I was glad that I got to talk to her. She was amazing.
1:25.1	And I love the name, Childless Cat Ladies. So I got to learn a little bit
1:29.4	about her Trouble Nation group and how it's grown. The names of these local groups all across
1:34.3	the country just give me life. I think we should have a rule that we only interview the ones with
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