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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Life Beyond Likes and the Importance of Real-World Friendships with Isa Watson

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by author and founder and CEO of Squad Isa Watson to discuss the burgeoning social media platform (2:38) and her new book ‘Life Beyond Likes’ (5:35), plus advice for parents raising kids in the age of social media (14:03). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Isa Watson Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

Welcome to another episode of the McCarty Cellars Podcast.

0:17.6

Today we have with us just an amazing and amazing guest,

0:21.3

talented, brilliant, beautiful all all the things but I so Watson how are you

0:27.3

I'm doing well today. How are you? I'm good. What's you working on? I mean I like the scenery and the backdrop. It looks like you're in a pleasant space.

0:36.0

I'm at my home. This is like the first apartment I've like really turned into a home. You know that like that shifts when you get like a certain part of adulthood and you're like

0:45.6

Being grown you grown yeah exactly all the thing well look we start each one of our shows by having our guests walk us through the arc of their careers and you've been a scientist, a corporate executive and now you're a lot of other things, author, writer, commentator, you name it.

1:02.7

Walk us through your various career stops,

1:04.8

and why are you doing the work that you're doing now?

1:07.4

Yeah, so I grew up in a big Caribbean family,

1:10.2

but I'm from the other Carolina the North Carolina the better I don't recognize

1:15.6

Okay, okay got it cool cool so so no my my dad is kind of old school

1:20.2

immigrant engineer his philosophy in life was if you can't build it you

1:23.4

shouldn't be using it so from the time I was seven back in the comp USA

1:27.0

circuit city days he was always taken me to buy the parts of a computer before so I

1:31.7

could you know my systems and that more often to me getting my first job as an organic

1:37.8

chemistry researcher at 14 years old in the labs at UNC Chapel Hill. Fun fact about that, my best friend who was my first lap partner

1:46.0

is Dr Kismekia Corbett, who we know created the

1:51.0

leather creation of the Madonna vaccine.

1:52.8

So full circle stop, just actually literally talked

1:55.4

to an hour ago.

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