WEBVTT - Dr. Jill Biden - part 2 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.200 Hi, everyone, it's Sophia. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:13.200 Welcome to Work in Progress. We're back for part two 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:22.119 with doctor B. Let's get back on stage. I know 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.080 for you, women's health is a big life calling. You 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:32.400 launched the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research. Why 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.960 was that the next right thing for you as the 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:36.600 first Lady? 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.440 Well, you know, I was in the White House. I 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.040 was grading papers. It was a Saturday, I think it 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.000 was near Easter, and Maria Schreiver came in, First Lady 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:51.080 of California. I'm period and former first Lady, and so 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.880 we started talking about women's health. And she said to me, Jill, 0:00:54.960 --> 0:01:01.160 do you realize that all the research until the mid 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:07.320 nineteen nineties has been done on men. No women in 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.200 those studies, no research men. So all the diagnoses we 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.640 would get, all the prescription medicines were based on men, 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.319 their you know, physiques, their weights, et cetera. Oh, and 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:24.640 even the mice were male mice. How can you, I mean, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:28.600 how can you study menopause in a male mouse? 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.280 I mean right, it's crazy. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:36.240 So anyway, so I went to Joe after Maria and 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.319 I spoke. I went up to him and you know, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.920 I said, Joe, there's a big problem. We have to 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.679 solve it. And he said, you're right. So, I mean, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.120 this is what I love about Joe. He took a 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.440 problem in and he tackled it, and he, you know, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.280 found an answer. So we started the White House Women's 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:57.120 Initiative on Health and in one year we put a 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:01.560 billion dollars into funding and research. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:06.600 For women's health. Now, and you know, we. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.840 Got to keep going. Women have to keep fighting for ourselves. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.800 We do. I mean in all areas, which I'm sure 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:16.080 you agree, in all the social areas. We have to 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.359 keep fighting the things that have been taken away from us. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.200 We can't give up. I'm a sixties girl. A lot 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.520 of you girls are women here who were in the sixties. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.919 Look what we had to fight for, equal rights, equal pay, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.000 women's sports. How about money for women's sports, and so 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.720 much that we fought for and we got to an extent. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.760 But now it seems like it's rolling back. So we 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.919 have to say to the younger women, come on, take 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.840 up the mantle and move forward. I mean, I'm just 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.080 you can tell I'm passionate. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.240 I'm with you, you know, and I think it's so 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.959 important that we all know the stats. 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.200 I mean ladies, we need to know. But also like 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.160 shout out to all the guys here. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.720 You're here to listen to you ladies, talk like you're 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.360 on the right side of history. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.120 And you should know these facts. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:05.720 You know. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.119 You saw us through some of those fights. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.639 I am part of the first American generation of truly 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:20.520 free women, the first nineteen seventy four you couldn't until 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:21.280 nineteen seventy four. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.480 Well, in nineteen seventy three, obviously, wrote which they took. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:28.240 Nineteen seventy four was when you could finally lease an 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:29.480 apartment on your own. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.480 I believe nineteen eighty eight was. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.120 The first time a woman could get a bank loan 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.400 by herself. Nineteen ninety three it was the first time 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.400 we were included in a clinical trial. And guess what, 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.080 It's also the same year we could finally wear pants 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:40.960 on the floor of. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.280 Congress, nineteen ninety three. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:48.000 Like when you think about how it's been a hot second. 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.080 Yeah. And by the way, we couldn't even. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:51.800 Get the era ratified because by the time we got 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.080 the forty eight state to sign it, all the bros 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:57.280 in the halls of government were like, m took too long. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.240 We're not gonna let you have it. So the idea that. 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:04.160 We've even been totally free is a ruse. But what 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.960 we've made like just close enough to equal progress that 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.280 they're panicking And now the tradwives are on Instagram and 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:12.880 now they're like. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.520 Women shouldn't vote, and I'm like, excuse you. We had 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.000 a revolution about this, Like yeah, what? 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.479 So that feels like everybody gets a little bit of 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.560 info to take home. You're welcome for your initiative. When 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:32.400 I saw you doing this investing work, I was so 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.800 excited about it because it's been an area of importance 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:36.440 for me. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.200 I am so lucky to be in. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.839 A community of incredible women. I'm so lucky to have 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.880 intergenerational friendships with incredible women who've shared their stories. And 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:52.719 the disparities in healthcare, not just for women but for 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.799 women of color are insane and it only can happen 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.480 because there's so little money for us in general. So 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:02.200 just a few more things for you to take home. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:02.880 You're welcome. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.960 Well, wait a minute, it was in nineteen seventy four. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.680 That was about when I got my first teaching job. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.480 Up do everything anyway, I got my first teaching job, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.560 and I was telling you this or who anyway, I 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.560 forget who I was telling. But anyway, it's been a 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:19.160 long book toory. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:19.560 You're doing it. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.480 Okay. So the same week that I was hired, I 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.159 was hired in an English department. I got seven five 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.080 hundred dollars more nurse my first job. A man in 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.599 the same English department, same job. You know what, he 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:40.880 got ten thousand? Yes, yes, crazy. And I went to 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:41.479 buy a car. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:42.000 Guess what. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.000 They made my father's co sign. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.520 Yes, yeah, they made my father co sign for this. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.400 I mean, you know here, I had my own teaching job. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:51.280 I was so proud. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.799 And then they're saying, ah, get your father. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.640 Yeah. And that's the thing. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.280 The independence didn't matter because the policy hadn't caught up, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:07.039 and the women's health investing in particular is honestly a 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.400 crisis we have to solve. Only one to three percent 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:15.720 of all private healthcare research and development dollars go to 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.960 conditions that affect women. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.520 So we're fifty one percent of the population. There's literally 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:23.080 more of us. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.359 Everyone came from us, and we get one percent of 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:26.760 the money. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.400 The math is not mathing. Less than two percent. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.880 Of private healthcare investments in capital target women's specific. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.239 Conditions and only five percent of all. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.440 Overall global R and D is dedicated to women's health. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.559 So when you're hopefully signed up on the five calls, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.440 app to bug your elected officials. 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:49.960 Bug them about. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:55.720 This also, and encourage them to continue the work of 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:58.320 the Biden's Healthcare Initiative on women. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:08.000 Because we should, we should, we should? Yeah? Yeah, now, Oh, 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.040 I have so many more questions. I'm looking at the timer. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.000 I'm starting to panic. Okay, We're gonna be fine. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.880 I'm curious because I know out of that I got 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.280 to see you guys talk about it at CGI a 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:19.120 couple of years ago. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:24.360 I know the cancer Moonshot initiative is so deeply. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:27.640 Personal for your family, and I'm curious, in the years 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.800 since you announced the research funding and the moonshot, are 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:36.000 there any really exciting developments you want to share with people, 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:40.640 Because health hardship is terrifying, and sometimes when we have 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.520 good news, I feel like we should shout it from 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:42.880 the roof. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:47.400 Yes, I mean there are a lot of advancements in cancer. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:53.840 I you know, cancer has been rampant really in my family. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.120 Both my parents died from it. My sister had a 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:03.080 stem cell transplant with because of lymphoma and lived. She's great. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:07.720 And then you know, our son Bo died of gliablastoma, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:13.800 and which was really tough. I mean we did everything 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.960 we could, I mean everything, the diet, the I mean, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.720 going to different trials, getting him on different medicines, and 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.560 you know, it was just one of those things that 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.960 I just as a mother, I mean I just never 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:35.760 ever ever believe that, you know, God would take him. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:39.440 And now I mean there's this cruel irony that, with 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.000 the cancer Moonshot and all that we've done for cancer 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.560 and will continue to do that, my husband, you know, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.120 ended up with stage four prostate cancer, which is bad enough, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.240 but I want to tell the men here in the 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.920 audience that prostate cancer they do have a cure for. 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:05.679 I mean, you can be cured from that. Unfortunately, for Joe, 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:10.840 it metastasized to his bones and that just changed the 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:15.400 whole ball game. And so now Joe will live, I 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.959 mean his whole life will He will live with cancer, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:24.520 which means that he's on really strong medicines that make 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:30.199 him really tired and you know, have such strong side effects. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.000 And so we keep fighting and you know, and there's 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.480 so much that really that we're going to continue to 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.840 do and I you know, people cannot forget to go 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.200 get their screenings. I mean, I think in COVID everybody 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.480 was scared to death to go into a hospital at 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:52.000 doctor's office, and so the screenings went way down. But 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.360 I want you all to think about this, if you 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:59.240 can think about all of you who are should be 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.440 getting like a mammogram or a dexa, you know, the 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:05.719 bone skin. You just stick your hand in an X 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:11.680 ray machine. It doesn't hurt or anything. Prostate cancer, breast cancer. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:17.480 You know you may not know this, but in the 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.760 early nineteen nineties, four four of my friends were diagnosed 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:28.920 with breast cancer and I thought, oh my god, what 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.720 can I do. I have to do something. And I thought, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.360 I'm not a doctor, but well I am a doctor, 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.880 you're a doctor. So I developed a program. I went 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.800 into every school in the state of Delaware, and it 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.920 was so long ago. In Dover High School, they made 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.400 the girls have a permission slip because we were saying 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:58.400 the word breast. Honest to God, that's the truth. And anyway, 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.200 we went in with breast models and we showed women 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.599 what it felt like, you know, a lumpy breast or 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.320 if you could feel something in your breast, and we 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:13.360 taught them good health practices. And anyway, I did that 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.280 I think for twenty years. Wow, and then I you know, 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.240 I finally had to stop because I was a second lady. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.880 But that was my beginning of work, you know, trying 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.160 to fight against awareness and prevention, which I think is 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:31.880 really where we should be focusing, is prevention with all 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:33.240 these cancers. Yeah. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.959 So yeah, so think about it. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.800 Think about getting your screening if you haven't. And I 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.280 know it's hard, and I know you're afraid a lot 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.400 of you, but you're going to be more afraid if 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.040 you get that negative diagnosis like Jogott. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:47.480 Yeah. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.480 Yeah, Well we all wish him very well. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:53.679 I know, please tell him. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.280 Boston said, happy anniversar, and thank you. I mean, frankly, 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.640 we're very lucky. But he lent you to us on 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.880 your anniversary. It's like we got a gift. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.320 So I hope we. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:09.199 Can send some real positivity his way. And I think 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.320 it's a really amazing thing that you've chosen not only 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.880 to do the advocacy work, but so many of these 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:22.400 moments that are so devastating for families. As you've shared, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.720 you as a family have shared with our families, and 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:30.840 you've made us all feel less alone in grief or illness. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:34.760 And I'm guessing I can speak for everyone in the 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:38.560 room in this moment when I say thank you, because 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.760 to know you're not alone in that that also helps 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:43.520 save people. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.840 Well, everybody's touched by cancer. I bet every person in 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.920 this auditorium has been touched by cancer by someone they 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.360 love or themselves. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:56.160 I think there's. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:01.080 Something about the presence with which and the frankness with 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.360 which you speak about it, though, that not everybody does. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:07.400 And I want to give you your flowers for that. 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.520 You really you know, you've chosen to model not just 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.400 the good. And you talk in the book about how 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:20.280 sometimes the job of a first lady is to sit 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.840 with people in grief, whether that is a family who's 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:28.280 lost someone to cancer or mothers who've lost their sons 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:33.400 in Ukraine. I mean you've made it universal in a 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.640 way when a lot of people want to put it 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.880 on the bottom shelf and not talk about it. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:44.240 Do you see the willingness to sit with grief. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.400 As a form of activism also, well I never thought 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.480 of it that way, but definitely for me. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.160 And I'll just speak for myself as a former first Lady, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:02.040 I felt that when Americans something tragic had happened, like UVOLDI, 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:09.199 horrible Maui, the fires in Maui, surfside in Florida. I mean, 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.319 there were so many times when Joe and I would 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:18.440 go and sit with families and just talk to them 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:24.960 and empathize and about grief, and I just think that's 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.840 part of the role of a first Lady and a 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:33.960 president to take care of people who are experiencing grief 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:38.480 and loss and so. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:46.359 But well, it's just such a gorgeous act of compassion. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:53.360 We miss it. I miss compassion so much. You know, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.040 you you. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:59.560 Have spent fifty years together. You share wonderful pieces of 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.240 your really relationship. I love that he had to propose 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.920 five times. I'm like, good for you, doctor b. But 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.440 you also share about your female friendships. You know, you 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:15.680 talk about your sisterhood. You also talk about the peculiar 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.240 pressure placed on women in the first place. How you 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.880 write in the book about this, and I think most women, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.240 while we've never been the first Lady, we get this part. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.760 You say that being the first Lady could feel like 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.480 a catch twenty two because you're encouraged to use your 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.560 platform to do good, but not be too aggressive in 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.280 pursuing policy goals lest you be seen as overreaching. And 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.680 if you knew too little about what you were talking about, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.400 or maybe pretended to to not be overreaching, I don't know, 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:49.320 then you're like some kind of embarrassment. So the balancing act, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.520 you know, your story is specific, but the balancing act 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.800 I think is very universal for us. How have you 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.080 figured out how to do that? And are your female 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:59.440 friendships kind of the key? 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.320 Well, I think they probably are the key. And I 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.600 think every first lady has done the role a different way. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.920 I mean, if you remember roseland Carter sat in on 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.720 cabinet meetings, and I don't remember that she was criticized 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.320 for that. It was just like that was part of 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.520 their partnership, and so she did. God forbid I should 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:25.000 sit in it on a cabinet meeting because then it 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.360 would look I mean I was criticized. I went to 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.760 one in four years that I walked in to talk 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.800 about women's health for like ten minutes. And so it's true. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.320 You can't know too much or know too little, or 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.200 be aggressive or not aggressive enough. So it is a 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.720 fine line, and you know it's nice to I mean 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:52.800 I always felt like so supported by really the women 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.680 in my friendships. I mean they've meant the world to me. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.080 Of course, as you know, I have four sisters. But 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.360 the cool thing is like I've been supported like my 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.360 friends Mary Anne and her sister in laws here are 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.560 Annie and her parents are here, people that are just 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.560 have been, and people in my staff are in this 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.000 audience who work for me like yeah, BP. I mean, 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:23.040 you know, and I've always felt that support and it's 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.800 a really important part of my life. And I don't 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.879 know whether it came it stems from growing up with 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.160 four sisters and being so close to my mother and 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.960 my grandmother's I mean it just was. I mean, my 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.280 poor dad, honestly, God, he said, even that is a female. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:48.240 But he felt overwhelmed. But he handled it, okay, he 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:49.120 could hold his own. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:49.840 I love it. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.119 Who when you think about inspirational women, who inspires you 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:54.720 these days? 0:17:55.119 --> 0:18:00.680 Oh my gosh, there are so many inspirational women today. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:04.160 For instance, I just wrote a note to Billy Jean King. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:06.400 Great Us. 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:12.160 Does anybody know why she got her college degree? Yes? 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.439 And she got her college It was in the paper. 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.720 You must have missed it, but I thought, good for you. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.360 I mean, remember that tennis match and she was the winner. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.640 I mean, I love nineteen seventy three. 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.560 Yes, I love female athletes and what they're doing because 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.119 I feel like, you know, having gone through the Title 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.600 nine and money for women's sports, that women's sports is 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.800 finally coming into its own and. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:38.520 I love that. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.439 So they inspire me and the women I think, you know, 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:51.040 in women's in health research, I mean these young scientists 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:56.359 that are making all these discoveries for endometriosa, osteoporosis. I 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.280 mean some of you in here are maybe a little 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.600 bit older. And I know, is now this new and 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:08.280 hot topic no pun intended, is menopause. So now we're 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.080 centering on that. But I have to tell you, I 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.800 mean I'm past that. I'm like this next wave. And 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.159 I told my daughter, I'm in my last quarter and 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.240 she's like, Mommy, don't say that. But anyway, there are 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:27.240 all these women postmenopause who are like, is this normal? 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.760 I mean the things that we are now experiencing in 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:34.840 our sixties and our seventies and our eighties, like we 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.080 don't have answers. We don't have answers. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.080 Because the mice are men. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:46.200 Yes, well, so there has to be a national conversation 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.200 about aging so that when something happens to you or 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.600 your spouse, you don't say, what the heck is this? 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.880 That we have facts and we know where we're going. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.000 We got to start this as American. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:05.639 Yeah, especially when you think about you know this notion 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:07.920 that this is a country built on a dream, right, 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.000 the American dream doesn't stop because you retire. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:11.720 That should be. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.119 Your best life. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:15.560 If you get to retire, you should be like living 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:15.840 it up. 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:19.480 I want you to be having a time, and you're right, 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.240 you shouldn't be looking around going what's happening to me? 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:27.600 And does anyone care? You know? It should shift? 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:29.280 It should. 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.359 I have a couple of just like quick little fun questions. Okay, 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:38.320 the last few minutes, if I may, you're not in 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:40.320 the fish bowl anymore. But there are still lots of 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.120 people with the badges around them. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.520 Thank God for them. I had to honestly, God, thank god. 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:48.359 Oh they're so wonderful, so great. 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.920 I had to run back into my dressing room to 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:52.560 grab something and like four. 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.760 Dudes turned up. I was like, it's just me, just 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.880 hobgobbling around. I just needed my papers. 0:20:56.920 --> 0:21:01.840 Please don't tackle me, honestly, so kind. I just can't 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.760 thank them enough, all of them, Thank you, Thank you 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:05.640 secret service. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:10.240 Pretty incredible team you have. Yeah, what does a typical 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:11.399 day look like? 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:11.840 Now? 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:12.199 Like? 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.520 Can do you open windows? How often do you. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.879 Wear for a walk? Actually we do have bulletproof glass 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.119 in the back of our house because now we have 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.560 to write because there's like a lot of craziness and 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.960 but a typical day. I'm an early riser. I love 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.719 the morning, and so I get up early. And we 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:38.800 have two new black lab puppies. Okay, so here's a 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.560 quiz question. Their names are Scout and Boo. Where does 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.400 it come from to kill a mockingbird? 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:46.080 Yes? 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:51.480 Good, some of you are readers. I love that. So anyway, 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:54.400 so I make sure the dogs and Willow are all 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.760 fed and taken care of, and then I just sit, 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:01.879 like you know, just sit and have quiet and just 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:07.000 appreciate really my life and what I've been given and 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.919 the opportunities. And then I go to exercise every morning. 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:17.439 And I went this morning to bar and if you 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:23.800 know bar three, wow, So I cycle, I do bar pilates. 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:28.199 You know, I'm a big exerciser. And then I have 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:30.840 like a ton of things to do between women's health 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:35.400 and writing, and you know, Joe's writing his book. He's 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.720 always home. I always have to make him breakfast. He's 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:38.520 a terrible cook. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:41.399 So the day is full. 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:44.959 You know. Usually my kids, my grandkids are in and 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.480 out of the house. They're bringing their friends. I mean 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.719 half the time, I don't even know who's sleeping in 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:53.439 my house, you know, because I just come with their friends. 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:56.080 And that's the way I want it. That's the way 0:22:56.080 --> 0:23:02.600 it's always been, and everybody's welcome, and so anyway, that's 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:03.520 that's my life. 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:04.399 I love that. 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:06.120 I think a full house is kind of a. 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:08.400 Yeah true, yeah, yeah. 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.439 What as our exercise guru on top of all the 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:16.000 other things you do? What what's this phrase that you've coined, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:17.640 soul cycle diplomacy. 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.320 Oh, this is so much fun. So when I would 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:25.119 go to foreign countries, I would still cycle because they 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.800 have soul cycle all over the world. And so it 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:34.840 was we were in England and and so I cycled there 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:41.600