Sarah Spain
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I'm not sending someone who's already strapped with racism and disability prejudice or anything else to the front lines and expecting them to do it. They've got all this other shit that people are throwing at them. So I can take it.
I'm not sending someone who's already strapped with racism and disability prejudice or anything else to the front lines and expecting them to do it. They've got all this other shit that people are throwing at them. So I can take it.
I'm not sending someone who's already strapped with racism and disability prejudice or anything else to the front lines and expecting them to do it. They've got all this other shit that people are throwing at them. So I can take it.
Well, and I think also, who do you surround yourself with? If you're someone who's going to be in a situation where you go into work every day and you deal with these awful things, how are you making sure that there are outlets to talk about it so that you're not just digesting and keeping it in and being miserable all the time?
Well, and I think also, who do you surround yourself with? If you're someone who's going to be in a situation where you go into work every day and you deal with these awful things, how are you making sure that there are outlets to talk about it so that you're not just digesting and keeping it in and being miserable all the time?
Well, and I think also, who do you surround yourself with? If you're someone who's going to be in a situation where you go into work every day and you deal with these awful things, how are you making sure that there are outlets to talk about it so that you're not just digesting and keeping it in and being miserable all the time?
Because even if it doesn't fix it, you can go talk to someone and at least get it off your chest that that wasn't okay. The behavior's not right. You know that it isn't right. Instead of being in it for so long that you become conditioned to accept it, in a way that transforms you into someone who doesn't see that there's something wrong.
Because even if it doesn't fix it, you can go talk to someone and at least get it off your chest that that wasn't okay. The behavior's not right. You know that it isn't right. Instead of being in it for so long that you become conditioned to accept it, in a way that transforms you into someone who doesn't see that there's something wrong.
Because even if it doesn't fix it, you can go talk to someone and at least get it off your chest that that wasn't okay. The behavior's not right. You know that it isn't right. Instead of being in it for so long that you become conditioned to accept it, in a way that transforms you into someone who doesn't see that there's something wrong.
When I started my career and I had not yet met my husband, he was more of a feminist than I was. I'd been working in sports where I was one woman in a room of 40 and being like, oh, it's good enough. And every once in a while I would say something to him and be like, that's messed up. I'd be like... Yeah, actually, it is. And like, what? Yeah, I shouldn't just take that.
When I started my career and I had not yet met my husband, he was more of a feminist than I was. I'd been working in sports where I was one woman in a room of 40 and being like, oh, it's good enough. And every once in a while I would say something to him and be like, that's messed up. I'd be like... Yeah, actually, it is. And like, what? Yeah, I shouldn't just take that.
When I started my career and I had not yet met my husband, he was more of a feminist than I was. I'd been working in sports where I was one woman in a room of 40 and being like, oh, it's good enough. And every once in a while I would say something to him and be like, that's messed up. I'd be like... Yeah, actually, it is. And like, what? Yeah, I shouldn't just take that.
And so who are you surrounding this podcast? If this is what you can get, keep listening to this because the voices are going to keep getting in there. But also, who are the women you surround yourselves with? Are they women who defend this behavior and stick up for their husbands when they're being awful? Mm-hmm. Are they men who are going to call out other men when you're not around?
And so who are you surrounding this podcast? If this is what you can get, keep listening to this because the voices are going to keep getting in there. But also, who are the women you surround yourselves with? Are they women who defend this behavior and stick up for their husbands when they're being awful? Mm-hmm. Are they men who are going to call out other men when you're not around?
And so who are you surrounding this podcast? If this is what you can get, keep listening to this because the voices are going to keep getting in there. But also, who are the women you surround yourselves with? Are they women who defend this behavior and stick up for their husbands when they're being awful? Mm-hmm. Are they men who are going to call out other men when you're not around?
Or are they the ones that are going to make you feel wrong for feeling activated? I think people underestimate how much their opinions about things change by who they surround themselves with. And if you're not willing to go around and make some tough decisions about who's in your ear all the time,
Or are they the ones that are going to make you feel wrong for feeling activated? I think people underestimate how much their opinions about things change by who they surround themselves with. And if you're not willing to go around and make some tough decisions about who's in your ear all the time,
Or are they the ones that are going to make you feel wrong for feeling activated? I think people underestimate how much their opinions about things change by who they surround themselves with. And if you're not willing to go around and make some tough decisions about who's in your ear all the time,
And say to those people, we're not going to have that conversation or I don't want to talk about these things with you because I don't think your opinion on it is humane or fair or right. And I, you know, set those boundaries on that because it gets in there. That's an answer to me.
And say to those people, we're not going to have that conversation or I don't want to talk about these things with you because I don't think your opinion on it is humane or fair or right. And I, you know, set those boundaries on that because it gets in there. That's an answer to me.