So You Want to Change the World

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Can’t be that hard, right? We pass the mic to Nereya Otieno, one of Ann’s 2021 writing fellows, who sits down with two women who have started initiatives to improve the lives of a select few in hopes that it can spark a radical shift.

Tia Korpe is the founder of Future Female Sounds, a nonprofit organization based in Copenhagen that aims to make DJing accessible to women and gender-minorities everywhere. Cybille St. Aude-Tate is a chef and children’s book author and the co-founder of Honeysuckle Projects, a multifaceted endeavor to engage community and lineage through nourishment with Afrocentric ideologies at the center. And Nereya is in the process of starting Rising Artist Foundation, an organization to give grants to musicians who typically fall outside the existing funding system. They all redefine the idea of entrepreneurship as an act in service of community.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:06.0	I'm Amina Tussaud and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:08.7	What's up this week?
0:09.7	Today's episode was put together by Norea Othieno, who is one of two writing fellows associated
0:14.6	with my newsletter, which is not a CYG product, but that's how she and I got to know each
0:20.3	other.
0:21.3	And when she mentioned that she wanted to convene a panel of women entrepreneurs who are
0:26.4	working outside the strictly money-making space and trying to do things in service to their
0:32.6	communities, I was like, yes, let's have that conversation.
0:36.6	So I'm going to chat with Norea a little bit and then she is going to talk to two other
0:41.8	entrepreneurs.
0:42.8	Look, it really is like a telephone like pass the mic and then pass it again.
1:10.5	Here I am with Norea.
1:11.9	Thea is the founder of Future People Sounds.
1:15.0	It's a nonprofit organization in a global community and a booking agency, all representing
1:21.1	female and gender minority DJs globally.
1:25.0	And Sybil is a chef, a children's book author, and the co-founder of Honey's Circle Projects,
1:32.3	which is a lot of things as you'll learn.
1:35.3	But it is a multifaceted endeavor to engage community through nourishment and lineage
1:42.2	of Afrocentric ideologies, specifically in food and black food ways.
1:47.0	And what made you want to talk to these two entrepreneurs together?
1:51.2	First of all, I love food and I love music.
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