Dr. Wendy Osefo
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82 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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But you're giving the police like $10 million. Why don't you take $1,000 and pay off all lunch debt so children are not getting kicked out of school? It's just all about equity. And I think that those conversations need to be had about how we're spending our taxpayer money.
Yeah, I think everyone is putting everything on the table now because it is an election year. And the election year is usually a tense time. I'm thinking back to 2016. I remember when that election was going on.
It's usually a tense time because everyone who feels as though they have been left out of the conversation starts knocking on the door and saying, excuse me, you forgot about me, as they rightfully should. If you are going to vote for someone, they should work for you. In a sense, our elected officials should work for us.
We're voting for you because we believe you're going to make our lives better. whether it's by enacting policy or whether it's by restricting policy. So I think that election year is just a time that everything bubbles up. I think that right now is just a really tense time in our country because it's an election year and we are also in a pandemic.
And, you know, that is just mixing and everyone is just tired and exhausted. People are dying. You know, so much going on this year. So this year is going to go down in the history books. Definitely.
Oh, that's so sweet. No, I feel that because my children, we have a dog. It's their first animal. She hasn't passed. She's still here. But our children, they have adopted birds and we have like a birdhouse and all that other stuff. And they were playing basketball. The ball rolled into the field and the ball laid beside the body of one of the birds. And my son... It was terrible.
My five-year-old was like, blue Jasmine and started screaming her name. I was like, oh no, they didn't take it that hard, but that was their first time. I think I even heard him say she's dead and I've never heard, you know, it's like, you know, it's hard. It's hard. Oh, my heart goes out to your son. Give him my name.
I'm sorry. Thank you so much. He's starting to do better. So thank you very much.
Okay, Nana. What does balance look like to me? Balance looks like, and I'll say this, and it may sound crazy, balance looks like failure, and I'm okay with it. Meaning, I know I cannot balance it all, and I know I cannot be 100% in all things at all times. And I have learned this year and a little bit of last year to be OK with that.
If my son has, you know, a big project for school and that's what we're focused on, that's what my priority is this week. So if I have to, you know, cancel some of my hits for TV because my son needs me, then so be it.
If I have a week that is a big debate that's coming up and I have to study for it and make sure I have all of my talking points, then, you know, that week Grubhub is going to be my best friend and I may not be mommy of the year cooking dinner. So balance means me realizing that some things I'm going to have to put to the side for just a short period of time until I handle upcoming deadlines.
And I'm okay with that. Before I used to do it all. And I have a daughter that just turned one. And I literally like beat myself over the head just to make sure, because I know she's my last one. And I just wanted to make sure I breastfed her and I had to go to one. And so many times I wanted to stop because I would have to pump before a segment. I will pump in between takes.
As you guys see on Real Housewives, there's like times where I'm like pumping. We traveled to Portugal and I brought back like over 100 ounces of milk like a psycho from a foreign country. I don't get it.
But I just feel like I always run myself into the ground trying to make everyone else happy that I realized in order for me, Wendy, to be okay, I have to be okay letting go of some responsibilities and not being super mom sometimes.
Oh, that's a great one. How do I approach that conversation? Well, all honesty, I always try to have a middle person. I'm a scapegoat type of person. Like, listen, I can't do it. And so I'll have, you know, my publicist or someone like reach out and be like, oh, something came up. It's not necessarily good, but... I'm a stickler for calendars. So I try to avoid those conversations.
Like when the school gives out the calendar for the year, everything is in my calendar. So I give myself 24 hours before, 24 hours after. Because if this is the date for the spring concert, that means we're going to have to practice. We're going to have a wardrobe, you know, make sure the wardrobe works. So if the spring concert is on a Wednesday, then I check out Monday.
So Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday is all, you know, for me. So it's, it's always about managing and my husband and I, we sync our calendars. He's super busy as well. He's an attorney. So he has a million things going on. So we always try to, one of us is always present. We try for both of us to be present, but we always have one of us present. Um, And it's worked so far.
So fingers crossed that it continues to work.
And when I say if you can, because unfortunately there are finances tied to everything, right? But if you can, start looking for help now. Everyone is like literally scrambling because things are going to happen.
And spoiler alert, if your school is going to open, still look for help because the moment, God forbid, one child, one teacher comes in contact with the virus, they're going to be in trouble. that school is probably going to shut down. So that's just a spoiler alert for everyone. Like, don't say, oh, perfect, my child's school is going to open, good to go.
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