Sunday Pick: In celebration of Pride Month | from Design Matters
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🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In celebration of Pride Month, we’re revisiting conversations with accomplished LGBTQ+ guests—Carol Leifer, Paul Tazewell, Sonya Passi, Leisha Hailey, and Kate Moennig—about the journeys that led them to fulfilling professional lives and the influences that shaped who they are today.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Sunday, Elise Hugh here. |
| 0:05.8 | Today we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from Ted, |
| 0:10.6 | handpicked by us for you. |
| 0:12.7 | June is Pride Month in many states and countries around the world, |
| 0:16.4 | in honor of the infamous Stonewall riots in New York City that so many attribute to the start of the |
| 0:22.8 | modern LGBTQ rights movement, which includes conversations host Debbie Millman has had with |
| 0:28.4 | accomplished LGBTQ plus guests, Carol Leifer, Paul Tazewell, Sonia Pasewell, Sonia Pasey, |
| 0:35.3 | Leisha Haley, and Kate Menig. |
| 0:42.0 | They talk about the journeys that led them to fulfilling professional lives and the influences that shaped who they are today. |
| 0:44.3 | You can find episodes of Design Matters wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:48.2 | Learn more about all of Ted's podcasts at podcast.com. |
| 0:57.4 | In that moment, it crystallized for me that this was my life's work. |
| 1:02.8 | All of those things, I think, were additive to create what I do now. |
| 1:11.7 | From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. |
| 1:18.9 | On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world |
| 1:22.6 | about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about, and working |
| 1:27.4 | on. |
| 1:28.4 | On this episode, in celebration of gay pride month, we're going to hear excerpts from some |
| 1:33.2 | of the interviews Debbie has done over the past year. |
| 1:36.3 | There were comedy albums playing in my house all the time. |
| 1:40.6 | It always fascinated me, and I thought that looks like fun to do. |
| 1:57.5 | I started this podcast 20 years ago. 20 years ago, George W. Bush was president and had endorsed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. |
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