We've got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

Suburban women helped determine the 2020 election, but there's more to us in the headlines

would have you believe. The suburbs aren't a homogeneity of white people in perfect houses.

Real change is happening in the suburbs, and we have things to say.

When women share their personal stories, walls come down and barriers are broken.

Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.

Hi, everyone. Thanks for listening. I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman.

And this is the suburban women problem. Thank you for joining us. Today we're going to chat with Maya Guy, a suburban mom from Virginia who recently decided to run for school board. And then after that,

I get a chance to talk with Nan Whaley. Nan has been the mayor of Dayton, Ohio, since 2013, and she's now running for governor of Ohio.

Both Maya and Nan decided to take the next step, just like I did a few years ago when I decided to run for state representative here in Georgia.

And there are a lot of reasons

we might run for office or decide to take another big step in our community. But it often comes

down to what's happening around us in our family and in our neighborhoods. And so speaking of which,

Amanda, on top of everything else going on in your community,

another upsetting event just happened.

Could you tell us about that?

Always.

Yes.

So a friend, a fellow mom, a neighbor, you know, went to our council meeting to support a proposal

for community conversations about race.

And part of a reasoning was that there are a lot of unconscious and implicit biases that can have real impacts on people.

So a personal example she gave was when she and her son, who was six years old, were canvassing our neighborhood, going door to door, handing out campaign flyers.

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