This is Sarah Stewart Holland, and this is Beth Silverth, thank you for joining us for

Pantsuit Politics.

Welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics, where we take a different

approach to the news. Before we get started on today's episode, we are currently

booking speaking engagements for 2024. Now we've told you how much we love

doing this and how much we learn from being in your communities, however, we

also want to make clear that we bring an enormous amount of value, don't we, Beth?

We do. We have now spoken with small churches and libraries. We have spoken to

the global workforce at PayPal. We have talked to the student bodies at

giant state schools and small liberal arts universities. What we know is that

no matter where we are, when we leave, we get feedback that it was the most

engaging event the organization has had in years. Because we do in person what

we do here on the podcast. We don't shy away from hard truths. We always say we're

willing to talk about anything. We make great efforts to understand the challenges

before a particular community of people that we're spending time with. We give

grace and empathy so people leave feeling like we listen to their problems and

we offered realistic strategies to move forward. I told a group last week, Sarah,

it is important to me to be useful. Yes. I want to leave a speaking event

knowing that no one felt their time was wasted. We gave them something that

they could put into practice that very day. No, that is definitely an

orienting principle here at Pantsy Politics. We do not like to waste anybody's

time because I don't like to have my time wasted. That's right. It's my number

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