Lemonada.

This is Sarah Stewart-Holland.

This is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Flashback 2018, a special episode of Fancy Politics. As we think about the 10 years,

we have been making this podcast. We're revisiting each of those years. It's really been interesting

to pull on the threads of things happening today and see where they connect with our recent history.

Today we're going to revisit 2018 a year that I found to be the hardest of the last 10.

There's so much to discuss here, and we'll dig into all of that in just a moment.

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Next step, let's rewind the clock to 2018.

Music Next up, let's rewind the clock to 2018. Okay, Sarah, I mostly remember therapy from 2018.

That's what I remember about 2018.

I mean, I've been putting like a little label for myself on every year. And I did write that 2018 was an emotional year. Yes. It felt very emotional. And I have to be honest that some of

it is personal because 2018 is the first year that I did pantsuit politics full time. So I quit my full time job at the end of 2017. The draft of our book was due in February of 2018. So January was like a scramble to get that draft done. I was trying to build a business coaching practice in addition to doing

the podcast because I wasn't sure we were going to make enough money for it to work for me to be

full time with the show. So I think that I was just frantic most of the year. Are we going to be

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