Scream In Your Car, Resist & Repeat (with Nikki Kidd and Sarah Slackert)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, News, Mental Health, Politics

4.7 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This week on the pod, we interviewed two moms in Chicago who were arrested last year for protesting outside of an ICE facility. Nikki and Sarah said that they wanted to draw attention to what’s happening in this country by using their privilege as white suburban moms — moms not so different from Renee Good in Minneapolis. Not everyone has to go out and get arrested to stand up for immigrants in their community. There are so many ways to get involved, from helping your school with a food drive...

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0:00.0	We got to get that rage out.
0:02.7	Screaming in my car was super helpful for me.
0:05.5	Yep, good.
0:06.3	Feel it, work through it, and then figure out smart ways to be strategic about making a difference.
0:18.1	Hi, everyone.
0:19.4	Welcome to How to Not Lose Your Shit.
0:21.2	I'm Katie Paris.
0:22.3	I'm the founder of Red Wine and Blue.
0:24.6	And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people
0:29.6	officer here at Red Wine and Blue.
0:31.6	Last week, y'all, we were all devastated.
0:34.9	We continue to be by the murder of Renee Good and Minneapolis by a member of ICE. We had already planned to speak today to two moms in Chicago, Nikki and Sarah, who had been arrested last November while protesting ICE. Their story was already inspiring suburban moms who were stepping up to defend their
0:55.7	neighbors, risking their own safety. But with last week's news, our conversation with Nikki and Sarah
1:01.3	was just more timely. It's more important than ever. LaFonda, how you feeling? Did our conversation
1:07.7	with Nikki and Sarah help you lose your shit just a little bit less?
1:12.9	I don't know.
1:14.1	I think the answer to that is probably no, but it still is inspiring to see people taking action and doing things in their community.
1:23.5	I don't think after the events of last week and the continued, I think abuse of power is the only way abuse of like power you shouldn't have of ice.
1:33.9	I don't think that anything can help me not lose my shit.
1:37.1	Permission to lose your shit this week.
1:39.2	I think we are all going to continue to lose our shit a little bit over this story and just ICE in general right now.
1:49.6	And it feels like it's just the power of social media and the algorithms.
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