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Call Your Girlfriend
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What better time to be lifting up the people we love and growing together? Brooke Baldwin of CNN joins us to discuss the groups of women - or huddles - that make collective change happen at work, in activism, sports, and our personal lives. And we revisit our own notion of Shine Theory.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for big friendships everywhere. |
| 0:05.0 | That was really good. Thank you. |
| 0:11.0 | Who am I? I'm Amina Tisso. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm Anne Friedman. I was like honestly, we talked, we wrote so much in our book about |
| 0:21.0 | like the word bestie not being a good fit. And I know that this is just like the warm, cosy, |
| 0:26.0 | opening lines that we always use. And so we haven't changed them. But I was like, you know what? |
| 0:30.0 | Like as I sit here and say the word bestie every week, I'm like, we just need to like use our own vocabulary sometimes. |
| 0:36.0 | You know what I mean? I thought you were gonna go the opposite way and say that you were reclaiming bestie |
| 0:41.0 | from the big friendship crowd. |
| 0:45.0 | I was like, I'm here for that. For most haters who wrote big friendship, we're here to defend bestie. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, those big bossy haters who love vocabulary so much they had to make new vocabulary. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm like, what's wrong with bestie? |
| 0:59.0 | I'm mostly our presumptuous with our new vocabulary words, aren't we? All the time. |
| 1:03.0 | We really are. But also I'm saying this because I've been my for you page on TikTok is |
| 1:08.0 | inundated by this like bestie meme. You know where you just yell out to your bestie. |
| 1:11.0 | But like, hey, bestie. And I'm like, what? Like I want to participate in this. |
| 1:15.0 | You do it. You literally participate in this meme every single week we record the podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | I don't know how to tell you this and I'm reclaiming. I'm reclaiming bestie from. |
| 1:25.0 | Okay, hey, bestie. Hi, bestie. |
| 1:29.0 | And we are in a big friendship, not a best friendship. |
| 1:33.0 | Oh my god. |
| 1:36.0 | I feel a spiraling out of control with this conversation. |
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