Jess Weiner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 078: Cultural Changemaker Jess Weiner on Becoming a Successful Advocate · 10 Oct 2017 podcast

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I found that that's actually been a good balance for me because I don't always want to talk shop with the same shop people.

Like sometimes I just need someone to be like, wow, you walked into that office and said that, or wow, you, you know, you made that beautiful presentation to say how passionate you were about that topic.

Like, that's incredible.

And so I may not be looking at those things in the same way.

And I think finding a lot of different voices to contribute to your journey.

Money as an advocate is very important.

It's become a lifeline for me because otherwise I um I lose sight of of the small wins.

And I think when you're you know, look, when you're in the

in the fight and the journey of getting people to have a deeper understanding about something they don't know about, it's a process.

And that's the other thing is I've had to develop more patience than I ever thought I would have in my life.

Yeah.

That was that was w a lot of it was about six years of of work internally and

Yeah, and there's lots of days you come home and you think I mean, listen, even a more recent example is I work with movie studios now.

And trying to get them to change their representation of, you know, women in front of and behind the camera and whether it's in Barbie or in studios like that, you know, you come home and you're like, this is never gonna happen.

This is never gonna happen.

And then something happens.

And then you realize that for me, the long game and my intention around the long game is changing a system.

And I imagine Debbie is very similar to what you and your community are talking about as well.

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