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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woke F Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Long Island Bunker.

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Speaker 1: with the newly anointed CEO of Girls Who Code, doctor

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Speaker 1: Terica Barrett. Welcome to woke f and congratulations on your

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Speaker 1: thank you for your wonderful introduction. Your excitement is infectious

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Speaker 1: I was in a staff meeting and explained to some

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Speaker 1: staff members that I am an introvert, which is something

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Speaker 1: that you know, many of the staff just did had

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Speaker 1: no idea and someone said to me, you know, thank

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Speaker 1: you for doing everything that you're doing every day, as

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Speaker 1: hard as it may be, free you because you're doing

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Speaker 1: it for our girls. And I almost wept because she

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Speaker 1: said it in a way that I had never said

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Speaker 1: it to myself. I think as women just barely holding on,

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Speaker 1: and I want to just say, true confession, I am

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Speaker 1: barely holding on to my kids who are disengaged who

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm losing every day to YouTube, you know, minecraft,

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Speaker 1: endless tutorials and all kinds of things. You know, we

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Speaker 1: all have sometimes our parents are loved ones who are

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Speaker 1: struggling with different things. It's almost as though COVID has

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Speaker 1: amplified and magnified every challenge that we've ever faced. Professional

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Speaker 1: my advice is to just first know that you're not alone.

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Speaker 1: I don't know any woman who isn't struggling, regardless of

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Speaker 1: role or title. I feel like I'm stepping into this

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Speaker 1: because of a need, not because I am somehow you know,

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Speaker 1: special or different or superhuman. I'm doing it because our girls,

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Speaker 1: and especially our girls of color, need this advocacy in

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Speaker 1: this support or your anchor might be your own family.

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Speaker 1: I know it's true for me as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think about my mum in Jamaica, I think about

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Speaker 1: my kids. I think about what I represent for every

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Speaker 1: brown girl looking at this transition and saying, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: she's the CEO of you know, one of the largest

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Speaker 1: girls organizations in the world. Find your piece, your anchor,

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Speaker 1: your moments to stay whole because our hair is on fire. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know which way is up or down.

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Speaker 1: I don't even have a full size refrigerator, and I

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Speaker 1: know that's not a big problem, but I just want

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Speaker 1: to say that in COVID everything has broken in our

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Speaker 1: home and we don't have anything working. And again, that

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Speaker 1: is small, very tiny compared to what people are facing.

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Speaker 1: But I use humor a lot. I laugh when I

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Speaker 1: can't cry. Whatever is that grounds you? Meditation is big

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Speaker 1: for me. I wouldn't call it exercise without putting very

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Speaker 1: large air quotes on it because I'm not breaking a sweat.

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Speaker 1: But I feel good about myself after twenty minutes because

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Speaker 1: I did something. Find people who affirm you know that

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Speaker 1: you know we're all going through it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just so grateful for my fellow women who support

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Speaker 1: me that can tie to support each other we are

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Speaker 1: special that way, and we're going to get through this

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Speaker 1: and we're going to make up the ground and we're

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Speaker 1: going to do better than we ever did because we

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Speaker 1: have no choice. But it's who we are, I think,

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Speaker 1: and so I just stay as optimistic as I possibly can. Well.

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Speaker 1: I think that we are going to do better than

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Speaker 1: we've ever did because we have leaders like you that

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Speaker 1: are taking the helm, that are doing the work, and

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Speaker 1: that are inspiring us along their journey. Doctor Driga Barrett,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining wikaf and I hope

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Speaker 1: that you will come back, as you know, grab the

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Speaker 1: reins of girls who code and bring us along on

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Speaker 1: this journey. Any which way that we can help, we will. Oh.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful again. Thank you so much. Your show

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Speaker 1: is wonderful, this platform is wonderful, and please keep doing

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Speaker 1: what you're doing in elevating voices and things that are

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Speaker 1: so critical for everyone. Thank you for who you are

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Speaker 1: and what you're doing. No, thank you as always, dear friends.

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Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power

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Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. See after Labor

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Speaker 1: Day