She Inspired Me | Everyday is a Story
Shannon Cason's Homemade
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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Watching my daughter speak at a rally reminded me how much I miss the stage. Sometimes inspiration comes through the people we've first inspired.
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| 0:00.0 | When I saw my daughter Zoe take the microphone, something woke up inside of me. |
| 0:05.7 | Every day is a story. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm Shannon Kaysen. |
| 0:08.7 | Make sure you like and subscribe. |
| 0:10.9 | My daughter Zoe speaks. |
| 0:12.9 | I mean, she's a speaker. |
| 0:14.0 | She won a few state-level deck of competitions, and she went on to compete in the nationals, |
| 0:20.7 | and she's competed in junior United |
| 0:23.7 | Nation competitions. These are all high school competitions. Deca is for marketing and business |
| 0:31.2 | and then United Nations is more political and Zoe's pretty good. I've seen her do it. She's |
| 0:36.6 | pretty good. She's good she's good at it. |
| 0:40.3 | Her mom does activism, voter activation work throughout the country. And Zoe goes on those |
| 0:46.1 | trips too. They'll go around the nation and her mom will be speaking on the importance of voting. |
| 0:51.9 | And Zoe will be right along with her. And recently, they went to a rally in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 0:59.1 | And my ex-wife, she had told me they had a great turnout in Columbus, |
| 1:03.8 | and it was in front of the Capitol, and she was telling me about all the people. |
| 1:09.1 | And then she said, Zoe even spoke. |
| 1:11.7 | And she looked up the recording on her phone and she passed it to me. |
| 1:17.6 | And I watched and I was amazed. |
| 1:20.7 | I mean, I've heard Zoe do her thing. |
| 1:23.3 | So I wasn't like amazed like she hadn't done this before. |
| 1:26.7 | But it was just something about this time. |
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