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How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

We're Uniting To Stop Project 2026 (with Rebecca Bramlett and Janice Robinson)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, News, Mental Health, Politics

4.7892 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Red Wine & Blue is back from the holidays and ready to tackle 2026! So it feels right that we were joined for our first pod of the new year by two of our favorite RWB colleagues, Rebecca and Janice. All last year, Rebecca did the hard work of tracking Project 2025 as Trump put it into place, one dangerous policy at a time. So of course we had to ask what her strategy has been to do this depressing research every day without losing her shit! She told us that the antidote has been seeing th...

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0:00.0

We need to tell a better story than their project 2026. I want to focus on our project

0:06.6

2026. We came to make a change. Hey, everybody, welcome to How to Not Lose Your Shit. I'm Katie

0:14.7

Paris and I'm the founder of Red Wine and Blue. And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care

0:20.1

advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue. And I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor, self-care advocate, and the chief people

0:21.6

officer here at Red Wine and Blue. So today we are joined by two of our amazing colleagues,

0:28.8

Janice Robinson and Rebecca Bramlett. Rebecca has been doing, y'all, hard work. All right,

0:37.2

over these last many, many months.

0:39.3

She has been tracking Project 2025 and now Project 2026 so that this administration can't put its extremist plans into place without anyone noticing.

0:52.1

And then we have Janice, who is our program director in North Carolina, where they've been

0:56.8

fighting to protect their neighbors and our democracy.

1:00.7

And they've been having a lot of success.

1:02.2

So you can imagine that doing either of these difficult jobs day in and day out might

1:07.5

make anyone lose their shit.

1:09.6

So it was really interesting to connect with them

1:11.8

about their work and what gets some hope. LaFonda, what did you take away from talking with

1:17.1

Rebecca and with Janice today? And hey, we survived 2025. Welcome to 2026. We're here.

1:25.9

We survived. We made it through. It was touch and go, but we're here.

1:30.5

I took away from our interview that our team, what I already knew, honestly, our team works

1:34.6

really, really hard. I think I've said this about Rebecca's work all year. Like, it's amazing

1:41.2

that you can track Project 2025 every day, read that news, get those alerts,

1:47.9

synthesize that, write it down, put it in a way that it helps other people understand it and

1:53.7

not lose your shit every single day. And the fact that she does that and has been doing that

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