Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance besties everywhere.

I'm Amina Tusso and I'm Anne Friedman.

Ooh, and it's a week two of our break.

Woof! I'm excited about today's rerun interview because it is an interview that I did with Samantha Power,

who is President Biden's nominee to be the USAID administrator.

Maybe by the time this episode runs, she will be the USAID administrator.

Yes.

She was the US ambassador to the UN under Barack Obama, Michelle Obama's husband, Samantha Power and I spoke in October 2019 about her book,

The Education of an Idealist and Memoir.

Call Your Girlfriend, it's time you had the talk, give your reasons, say it's not her fault.

Ready you, just met somebody new. Tell her not to get obsessed, taking a lesson, everything you say.

I've actually been thinking about that book a lot because one of the things that she discloses in this very political memoir obviously,

you know, like she talks about her personal life, but she really, she talks about her anxiety disorder.

And I love it when people are generous with talking about the mental health of things that they struggle with.

And it was one of those things that when I was reading it, I was like, I was like, what?

The US ambassador, the UN also has anxiety?

Wait, you mean a really powerful and accomplished person has anxiety?

Shocking!

But I just, I don't know, it just made her so much more human to me, not that I didn't think she was in a human, but I guess it's just I'm saying the power of sharing, you know, like something so simple and yet so common.

And I don't know, it made me feel as a kid say, very seen.

Hmm, I love that.

Also, what is Memoir for? It is for like the stories behind the stories like that because I do think there's another world in which she writes a memoir that's just like,

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