She Should Run: Erin Loos Cutraro’s Vision for Equal Representation

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Erin Loos Cutraro has a vision some may describe as bold, but actually, it should be our reality: half of the people running for office should be women (and spoiler alert: women who run win at the same rates as men!). But often, starting when we’re little girls, women don’t see themselves as qualified leaders, or feel they don’t have enough experience, connections, or time to jump into the political arena. Erin is passionate about removing those perceived obstacles and clearing the path for more women to run for office—starting at the all-important local level (did you know 99% of elected offices are at the local level?). Erin launched She Should Run, a nonpartisan organization that encourages and equips women from all walks of life to run for office. Erin and Jen talk about why it’s so important to have policymakers with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and how we can start small by getting to know our local officials. Erin believes women participating in government is the key to solving systemic issues in our neighborhoods and our nation, which lifts up everyone. If you’ve ever thought you could bring a fresh perspective to the political landscape where you live and beyond, Erin’s here to tell you: you should—and can—run!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to counts, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey guys, Jen Hatmaker here, your host of The For the Love podcast.
0:26.8	Welcome to the show today.
0:29.0	As you probably know, we're in the middle of a series called For the Love of Powerhouse
0:32.9	Women, which is exactly what it sounds like.
0:36.5	I am essentially having the good fortune to talk to a bunch of incredibly intelligent,
0:44.0	incredibly powerful women doing very meaningful, important work in their fields.
0:49.8	And I mean, I'm just fired up from all of them.
0:54.6	Every one of them, inspiring and exciting.
0:57.6	And this whole series has just sort of resparked my imagination for what is possible.
1:04.8	And not only what is possible, what's already happening out there.
1:07.7	We just tend to get so bogged down right now in like one kind of story.
1:12.5	You know, the news cycle prefers a certain kind of story.
1:15.8	And so what's good to remember is that there is so much amazing work going on at this
1:21.8	minute out there.
1:22.8	It is not all doomsday.
1:24.6	There is there are women out there changing the landscape of their careers and of their
1:28.9	fields.
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