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🗓️ 14 June 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Our second episode of the Pass the Mic series is with my good friend Taira. Taira is a dog mom, wife, and loves trashy reality tv shows. She is here to talk about life growing up as a minority, what it was like to date and marry into a white family, and how she thinks about raising mixed children in today's climate.
Time Stamps:
(3:20) Who is Taira?
(5:30) Constant Moving
(8:15) School
(12:36) 8th Grade
(17:00) Black Hair
(26:28) Interracial Dating and Marriage
(34:40) Working with Kids
(52:00) What We Need to Do Right Now
(1:04:30) Where to Find Taira
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0:00.0 | What's up you guys? Happy Sunday and welcome back to brunch with Des B. I am your host |
0:05.7 | Des also known obviously as Des B. If you're new here, what is up? I'm so glad to have you and if you're not new here, welcome back to another episode. |
0:15.0 | As you guys know, last week I started my first series that I would call Pass the Mic. |
0:22.0 | Within Pass the Mic, my goal is to give the mic. Within pass the mic my goal is to give the microphone |
0:25.4 | metaphorically and also here on my podcast to someone else and for now we are |
0:32.0 | primarily focusing on women and men in the |
0:35.2 | black community right now amplifying their voices sharing their stories |
0:39.9 | maybe adversities they've had to battle through, |
0:42.8 | as well as the real life crisis, which is racism. |
0:47.5 | Throughout the past few weeks, |
0:49.6 | I've been in contact with quite a few people, |
0:51.8 | so we have some awesome episodes to come and I'm |
0:54.5 | actually also going to expand past the mic to a kind of open invitation to |
1:00.8 | whoever really has a story to share and deserves a platform to share it on. |
1:05.8 | So I'm really excited for some upcoming guests from all different walks of life as well |
1:10.9 | as different backgrounds and beliefs. |
1:12.8 | So I'm very, very excited. |
1:14.4 | If you haven't already yet, guys, |
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1:20.6 | If you could drop a little comment, give a little love I would really appreciate it as you guys know I do not profit off of this podcast at all So just having your support sharing the stories sharing the stories of the people that are coming on my podcast |
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1:40.3 | myself or the guest on the podcast which is all going to be linked in the show |
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