The Honegger Family in Conversation with Police Officer Tonya Jefferson
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week we continue our series on the Art of Difficult Dialogue with a special change of format as the whole Honegger family sits down with Officer Tonya Jefferson, a police officer in Austin, Texas.
In this conversation Officer Jefferson, Jessica, and her kids have a thoughtful, honest, and hopeful exchange about race in America, defending the police, and how we can live better - together.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honeger, |
| 0:05.3 | founder of the Social Impact Fashion Brand Noonday Collection. |
| 0:09.5 | Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort |
| 0:16.4 | and going scared. All right this week's episode is a little bit different than normal and it's extra special because we've |
| 0:26.4 | never done anything like this before. Today I am joined by Austin Police Department Sergeant Tanya Jefferson and my three kids, |
| 0:38.4 | Amelie, Jack, and Holden. |
| 0:40.8 | Sergeant Jefferson has worked in the police department for 23 years. |
| 0:47.0 | She was the first African American woman to be on the APD Motorcycle Unit. |
| 0:52.0 | She has served as a district representative. on the APD motorcycle unit. |
| 0:52.6 | She has served as a district representative |
| 0:54.9 | and as a detective. |
| 0:56.6 | And she's the mother of an incredible daughter. |
| 1:00.0 | We extended an invitation to have Sergeant Jefferson and my kids partake in this combo |
| 1:05.8 | because my kids started asking a lot of questions to me over the summer and I had more questions to ask back to them than I had answers to give them. |
| 1:18.8 | I think more than anything right now I'm wanting to teach my kids nuance how to hold tensions and how to see |
| 1:28.3 | things from different angles and inside other people's perspective. |
| 1:33.0 | Where you live or what experiences you've had with law enforcement |
| 1:37.0 | are going to impact how you enter a discussion around law enforcement. |
| 1:42.0 | And I was finding that my children were being very, very one-sided. |
| 1:47.0 | So I wanted them to hear from someone in law enforcement. |
| 1:52.0 | Originally, I thought, you know what guys, let's just have a police officer come into our home that police is our neighborhood and let's just get to know him or her. |
| 2:02.0 | But then I thought, what if I actually recorded that |
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