Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend. A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussaud. And I'm Anne Friedman and it's 2016. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

I mean, I love the New Year. I'm like one of those people. I love the New Year because I'm also a

January baby and January is like on every measure fresh start time. I love that. It's true.

Shout out to all the Capricorns in our lives. Go people. Capricorn women dramatically over

represented in my life. Yeah, no, it's true. My brother is a Capricorn too. It's like amazing.

So many. Yeah. And even like, yeah, just tons of January babies. I think like whenever I did

the math on like what month everyone was having sex to create all these January babies, I was like,

not a lot going on in that month. I don't remember what month it is. Was it like April or something?

It was like, yeah, something like that. I'm like, I don't know how to count back. I don't know either.

Somebody do the math and tweet. I like, I'm like, this one time I figured it out. Like, I can't do it

on my fingers right now. A long, long time ago. Yeah. That's amazing. You know, so this week is a

phone, a friend episode. And I really wanted to start the New Year off kind of on a banger and

call up one of the most accomplished and amazing ladies that we know, Shani Hilton. Who is from

the future? So appropriate for a New Year episode. I mean, Anne, you already know this. Like,

Shani is so amazing. And you know, the way that she just lives her life is so delightful.

And so it's a real pleasure to talk to her. Like, I talked, we talked about her boss lady moves

at Buzzfeed. And just general self-care. She's really into gardening right now. And like all of the

weirdo TV that we're watching. And you know, just how to be like a cool chill lady. Like her vibe is so

rare. Yeah, it is true. It's like the number of people I know who are, who kind of have, and she has

a super important, powerful job. But like, is also not a, not a crazy person. You know, is like, is like

a, a downed earth woman who cares about all these other aspects of her life and like lives a really

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