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Hey, everyone, it's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Hello and welcome back to work in progress, friends.

Today we are joined by an old friend of the podcast who is absolutely one of the most inspiring humans that I know.

None other than Shannon Watts, the founder of Mom's Demand Action, which is the nation's largest grassroots group fighting against gun violence.

She has gathered over 10 million women from disparate geographies, backgrounds, political parties.

She is known as a summoner of woman's audacity.

And she used Mom's Demand Action not only to fight for the future of our families

and our children, but also as a field experiment for mobilizing women. She has figured out what

fires us up and keeps us engaged. And though she passed the baton of leadership at Mom's Demand

Action to another leader so she could take a much deserved year off after working seven days a week, almost 24 hours a day for 11 straight years on this, did she take a sabbatical? No. She decided to write a book.

Shannon is here to discuss her new book, Fired Up, How to Turn Your Spark Into a Flame and Come Alive at

Any Age. I can't wait to hear about the lessons that she's learned, the gems that she's gleaned,

and the way that she sees women as a bonfire when they gather together, work for community, and

figure out what truly makes them happy.

Let's dive in with Shannon Watts.

Hi, my dear, and welcome back to the show.

I'm so thrilled to be here with you.

I'm just so excited.

We're here in person, too.

I feel like you and I have to, so often when we want to be together, figure out what city we're going to overlap in during what month

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