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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Danny and Samantha. I don't go to

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Speaker 1: step I never told your production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: And we are going to go ahead and put a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a content warning on this episode of

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Speaker 1: Women Around the World. We are talking about sexual violence

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Speaker 1: a little bit and talking about domestic violence. We're not

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Speaker 1: going to talk about a specific murder case that happened

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Speaker 1: within Romania, So both of those things are going to

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Speaker 1: young lady who has doing some amazing things to advocate

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Speaker 1: for women and young girls in her community. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, we always want to put this in there.

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Speaker 1: But any I have a question for you before we start.

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Speaker 1: As a teenager, were you a part of any like

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Speaker 1: girl's own or girls specific clubs? Um, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't think I was. I don't think I was. I

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Speaker 1: how you be in business like her in vague memories

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Speaker 1: So I think I wasn't in the Brownies for one year.

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Speaker 1: I definitely did that, I would, I guess. I guess

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Speaker 1: I was a cheerleader that was focused on of course

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Speaker 1: I was part of that, but it wasn't a commanderie

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Speaker 1: Today we want to talk about Sophia Scarlett. UM. I

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Speaker 1: think she goes by Sophie, That's what I've seen in

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Speaker 1: When we do research for these segments, we look to

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Speaker 1: Scarlet is the epitome of that. To me, she's a force.

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Speaker 1: And most of the information on her is from her

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm tired just hearing what she's been doing.

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Speaker 1: Peace Prize nominee. So when we say people are doing things,

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Speaker 1: what else Scarlett accomplishes. This is so fantastic. Yes, and yes,

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