Racial Justice, Workplace Advice, New Dolan Family Mystery, Sweeney Sisters Book Clubs. Entertainment Tips

Satellite Sisters

Mudbath Productions

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today we talk about taking action in the area of racial justice, both personally and professionally,then we've got some workplace advice (Stop The Unmasked Sneezing!), some entertainment ideas and a family controversy about our grandfather's actual line of work. Train conductor? Brewmaster? Truck Driver? Who knows. COVID-19 pandemic continues to have wide effects. Julie talks about education and cites info Students Falling Months Behind During Virus Disruptions. Liz is working on her approach to an "exposure budget" based on this story Five Rules To Live By During A Pandemic. Lian has interesting info on what college will be like in the fall. In Working it Out, Liz cites Forbes article: Dear White People, Ten Action Steps You Can Take To Promote Racial Justice In The Workplace and recommends this excellent podcast: Women At Work Podcasts from HBR: Sisterhood is Scarce and Sisterhood is Power. Podcast here. Find out more about Dolly Chugh’s book, “The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias,” here: http://www.dollychugh.com/book/ BRING YOUR OWN BOOK CLUB: LIAN'S TALKING ABOUT THE SWEENEY SISTERS. Lian will be hosting free book club discussions about The Sweeney Sisters Book Club every Wednesday night in June and July on Crowdcast. All details for free sign-up at www.liandolan.com and on all Satellite Sisters social media. Entertaining Sisters: Julie recommends reading Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia to Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton. OFFSTAGE online event from New York Times Events - a nice way to spend Thursday night if you need a touch of Broadway! Next week's show is a special on parenting during the time of pandemic. Lian has a thread started in the Satellite Sisters Facebook Group for your questions and suggestions. Lian Dolan's new book The Sweeney Sisters is available at www.bookshop.org To listen to Lian's new Satellite Sisters playlists, download the Spotify app to your phone. Spotify. Search on Satellite Sisters and you'll see the white logos for her playlists. You'll also see blue logos for more than 840 Satellite Sisters episodes. For all information about all things Satellite Sisters, go to our website: https://satellitesisters.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Satellite Sisters. What's a Satellite Sister? The person you call when the best thing in your life happens or the worst. The person that gets you up, gets you going, and
0:13.8	gets you through. And every once in a while changes your mind. This
0:17.8	podcast is part Pep Talk, part weekly check-in. Like grabbing coffee with a
0:21.7	friend. Thanks for being here. Welcome to the satellite
0:24.8	sisterhood.
0:25.8	You're listening to Satellite Sisters. We're glad you're here today. I'm
0:33.2	Leon Dolan in Pasadena. I'm a writer and producer and I'm happy to be with my
0:37.8	sisters to give a chat. Give a chat today. What's up Joel? What are you doing
0:42.3	there in Dallas?
0:44.0	The same old thing I'm doing every week, Lee, and I am here in my closet.
0:49.0	Happy to be here, as you would say.
0:51.5	I'm the oldest sister. I'm an empty nester, I do satellite sisters, and then of
0:57.0	course I have a giant role as Urban Nana, a grandmother to five grandchildren. We're on school break now, so Nana Academy's kind of rolled up, but other than that, I'm just happy to be here.
1:11.0	Okay.
1:12.0	What's going on in Santa Monica?
1:14.0	Well, this is Liz.
1:15.0	I'm the middle sister.
1:16.0	You know, the big revelation this weekly and I've realized after all this time now that I'm doing a lot of
1:21.0	laying on my living room floor looking up the ceiling trying to do exercises on my own
1:25.6	That I have a lot of small cracks in my ceiling that I'm not sure I'm not sure why were they always there are they new I don't know because I never looked at the
1:35.3	ceiling so much lien so there you go revelation of the week wow they they just keep coming
1:41.6	there's a lot of a lot of learning going on.
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