That Time I Interviewed...Dee Barnes!
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
5.0 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. |
| 0:11.3 | And in this space, we have conversations that very few people have. |
| 0:15.0 | I love nuance, but more than nuance. |
| 0:17.4 | I really like to think deeply about the conditions that we find ourselves in every day. |
| 0:21.8 | And this is what this space is all about. So come on in. Leave your judgment and your closed |
| 0:27.9 | mindedness at the door. Open your heart. Open your mind and come on in and challenge yourself |
| 0:32.9 | to think more broadly. Hope you enjoy. Let me welcome legendary journalist as well. Dee Barnes is here with me and Dr. Carita Mitchell. Welcome. Hi. Hey, sister. How are you? We are good. Yes, yes, yes. I'm glad to be here. I think my light is a little bit too bright. Yeah, that's all right. Just leave it off to the side. That's fine. There you go. |
| 0:54.5 | Nope, not there. There, like that, like that. Exactly. Should be facing you. All right. I'm glad you, you know, that you come in in this time because we're also having a conversation about how this society treats women, how a woman's role. I'm working on something called the Women's Empowerment Network. |
| 1:12.9 | And, you know, initially I was like, is, is. treats women, how a woman's role. I'm working on something called the Women's Empowerment Network. |
| 1:12.9 | And, you know, initially I was like, is that heavy-handed? But I was like, no, our first, |
| 1:16.9 | the first teachers that we have, most of us is our mama, you know? That's the first voice. |
| 1:22.9 | However you feel about her, that person has usherhered you through to life and there is a responsibility |
| 1:29.9 | in exchange. And usually if we're being honest, you know, our first good teachers were women. For |
| 1:35.6 | me, it was Mrs. Johnson in the fifth grade. I remember her like it was yesterday. And it was |
| 1:38.9 | Sister Joan. I had a nun to teach me Latin that changed my life, you know, when I was in high school. |
| 1:44.1 | And it feels like everything's upside down. |
| 1:47.7 | You know, the voices of women, you know, are marginalized in so many ways. |
| 1:51.5 | But it's the thing that's going to get you from here to there. |
| 1:53.9 | And there's no war. |
| 1:54.9 | There's no war. |
| 1:55.8 | It's just, it just is. |
| 1:56.9 | It's the nurturing spirit of women must be acknowledged. |
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