Hello friends, welcome. Always delighted to have you with me and today I am extremely

excited to be sharing this conversation with you. My guest today is the former Governor of Massachusetts,

the former Republican nominee for president, and a current

senator from the beautiful state of Utah, Bit Romney.

So let's dive in.

I'm Sharon McMahon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

I have to say that you are perhaps my most requested podcast guest right behind Taylor Swift.

I'd rather watch Taylor Swift, that's for sure.

Right behind Taylor Swift is Mitt Romney. People have been bothering me for more than a year and so I'm so happy to finally fulfill their request and such an honor to meet you.

Thank you so much.

Very kind. Well people have so many things they'd like to know so I'm just

going to jump right into it. What was it like growing up in a political family?

Well, actually, you know, I sort of see myself as having grown up in a corporate America family

because my dad, during my most formative years and that's sort of between I don't know 8 and 16 he was first a

vice president and then a president of a car company they made ramblers and now jeeps

this was a very popular car during that time period. He was the first advertiser on the wide wide world of Disney. What was it called the anyway that it was a sunny night show on Disneyland. Yes, yes.

And so I, you know, I thought all about cars.

I grew up in Detroit.

And I got my dad to the office and he would show me the models

that they were working on for the coming years. We talk about the difference

between the Ramblers and the Fords and the Chevys and the Plymouths and what our advantages were and disadvantages and so forth. So that's kind of how I grew up and then when I turned 15, almost 16, my dad decided to get involved in politics.

And that was a big shift and he pulled me into it. As a matter of fact, he had to collect signatures

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