Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.

A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.

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

Happy New Year!

Happy 2019.

We're here. We made it. Did we make it?

Mm, debatable.

So every year we do an episode where we ask people that we love to give us some wisdom as we go

into 2019 and this year we're doing it a little bit differently.

We are asking women that we love to give you permission to do things that are probably good for you.

So this year we reached out to a handful of women who have kind of like different areas of

professional expertise, who we love in many different ways and ask them for what they are

thinking about as they're heading into a fresh year.

And when we listen to all of these voicemails together we sort of realize that they're all just

about granting permission. So the Brown sisters, Adrian Marie and Autumn Brown who have an

incredible podcast about our apocalyptic political times are giving you permission to liberate your

attention and just make small adjustments to what you were doing.

Atego Uwagba who is head of a community called Women Who and is all about professional development,

especially for self-employed and self-directed women is giving you permission to not reply to

email. Erica Chidi Cohen who is a doula and one of the co-founders of Lume and LA which she'll tell

you about. She's giving you permission to get to know your body better to develop body literacy

and our super close bestie, Samita Mukopadai who is the executive editor of Teen Vogue is giving

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