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Speaker 1: Now, release slowly again, deep in, helle hold release, repeating

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Speaker 1: I'm Debbie Brown and this is the Deeply Well Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place to land, a

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Speaker 1: podcast for the curious and creative who are ready to

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Speaker 1: expand in higher consciousness and self care. I'm Debbie Brown.

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Speaker 1: This is where we heal, this is where we become.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode, Oh my god, we are going to go

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Speaker 1: with you today. Award winning journalist, New York Times best

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Speaker 1: which won the twenty twenty NAACP Image Award for Outstanding

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Speaker 1: Literary Work. At age twenty nine, she was named the

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Speaker 1: youngest editor in chief in Conde nas history, where under

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Speaker 1: her leadership, team Vogue evolved into a platform that elevates

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Speaker 1: marginalized voices and amplifies political discourse. After spending more than

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Speaker 1: a decade climbing the ranks of magazine journalism, Elaine can

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Speaker 1: on Redesigning your Career debuted in twenty twenty one and

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Speaker 1: has helped thousands navigate career transitions. Now, her popular new

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Speaker 1: to say the least has just birthed something so powerful

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Speaker 1: for women. Welcome to the show, Elaine.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Debbie. That was beautiful.

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Speaker 4: I could listen to your voice all day. I could

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Speaker 4: just listen to you read me the alphabet.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Okay, I'm going to leave you a

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Speaker 4: Please, yeah, I feel like I'm dropping my I'm like

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Speaker 4: getting more breathy and getting more vivy just listening to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you're so generous. Ele. We have so

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Speaker 1: much to talk about. Thank you so much for joining me.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you were doing really powerful things in the

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Speaker 1: world before we get into like the big thing that

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Speaker 1: your work from Afar is you have been weaving purpose

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Speaker 1: remember in that moment how monumental that was and how

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Speaker 1: much that shifted things, I think for so many people,

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Speaker 4: And I think the beauty of being a storyteller and

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Speaker 4: as you said so beautifully, purpose, to beat the thread

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Speaker 1: You hit the nail on the head in a few

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Speaker 4: Transfer it into spaces where I felt we needed more spotlight,

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Speaker 1: Deeply. Well, I hope everyone is really connecting to this

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Speaker 2: Totally.

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Speaker 4: I relate to what you're saying, and I think it's

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Speaker 4: And I hope it's inspiring to journalists who are listening,

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Speaker 1: many profound ways. You typically can be an excellent kind

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Speaker 4: Yes, I love that so much. You have just put

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Speaker 4: Regardless of what I'm doing in journalism, whether it's traditional

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Speaker 4: And that is an identity I relate to. I proudly

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Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, yeah, I guess that's my title.

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Speaker 4: And I think that now that you've framed it that

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Speaker 1: And Nate gifts, Yeah, Nate gifts skills amassed, you know.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and she starts conversations that matter in a world

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Speaker 4: mattered to her that then became to that that then

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00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 4: began to matter in the public zeitecase. And she's still

440
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 4: doing it now. So shout out to Oprah with that.

441
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,120
Speaker 4: I love Oprah, we are your children. We are so

442
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,360
Speaker 4: grateful for your life.

443
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. She will forever be the north Star.

444
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 4: And even when I saw her recently on her special,

445
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 4: was just like, look at Oprah, still doing Oprah.

446
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 2: This is what she's always done. Fine, looking so fine.

447
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 4: But but what I love about her is that she's

448
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 4: always leaning into the nuance.

449
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 2: Yes she is.

450
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 4: She is inviting us into the gray spaces in a

451
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 4: world that tells us it's either black or white and

452
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 4: that we are meant to be divided and you're on

453
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 4: this side or that side. She invites us into the

454
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 4: common ground that is that is the great area in between.

455
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 4: And she did it with Ozembic, She's done it with

456
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 4: I mean, over the years, she has expanded our consciousness

457
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 4: around things that might seem really controversial or very polarizing

458
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 4: and helped us find through our own empathy and humanity.

459
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: That we can.

460
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 4: She expands our understanding absolutely, you know, and then therefore

461
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 4: our connection to each other. And I'm just in awe

462
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 4: of HER's that And that's truly when I look at

463
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 4: when I interrogate, like what I'm here to do, it's that.

464
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Whenever you know, the few times

465
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: that criticisms kind of pop up about her, I'm always like, oh,

466
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 1: you didn't watch her every day after school? And it

467
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,719
Speaker 1: shows that part because if you really, I mean, I

468
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:53,719
Speaker 1: would run home as a child, run home three pm

469
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: in LA and I'd be.

470
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 4: Like four pm in North California.

471
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: Yes, it was parenting, It was you know it. The

472
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 1: way that she even was unashamed about the pain points

473
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: of her life, to me is one of the most

474
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: striking things that I think changed us cellularly on an

475
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 1: emotional level. People that watched her, you know, your ability

476
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: to own your story and not be reduced by it.

477
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: She embodied that.

478
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 4: Yes, she was the original influencer in that way, yo,

479
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like, because journals are trained

480
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 4: to not talk about themselves, you're not meant to be

481
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 4: a subject. But the way that she generously shared herself

482
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 4: with us, her vulnerabilities, you know, the secrets of her

483
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 4: weight loss journey, for example. She has just given us

484
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 4: such an intimate look into who she is and the

485
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 4: soul of this person and the character of this person.

486
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 4: And it's made us grow to trust her, and so

487
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 4: she can she can now shine that light on any

488
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 4: topic and we will follow her. We will follow her

489
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 4: and wherever she will go, we want to see where

490
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 4: she wants to flash her light next.

491
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 2: And you know, we trust that she is.

492
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 4: She's a guiding light for us because she has been

493
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 4: vulnerable enough to let us see inside her, her heart

494
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 4: and her and her soul and her story.

495
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: You know, the consistency of her integrity, the consistency of

496
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: her character. You know, in the world, whether she is

497
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: out about behind a camera, in front of a camera,

498
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: it's just like you can't make that up. You know,

499
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 1: you can't make that up. It's the proof and the

500
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: truth of her life.

501
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: This is like a full This can totally be like

502
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 2: a full Oprah Club.

503
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: Podcast just about loving Oprah me too, because you know what.

504
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 4: Put some respect back on Area's name when people seeing

505
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 4: her be misunderstood, Oh my god publicly has It's like

506
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 4: I take it personally, like like you, I watch her

507
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 4: show every day four o'clock after school. I had a

508
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 4: friend that we would we would call on the commercial

509
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 4: breaks to chat about what we just saw.

510
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 2: That's we were lost in. And she has built.

511
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 4: Up so much equity that if you come for her,

512
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 4: I will come for you.

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00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?

514
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 4: Like That's how I feel. And in this era, I

515
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 4: do think she's misunderstood. I do think that this younger

516
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 4: generation doesn't even quite understand what she has always meant

517
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 4: to us and the generations that came before us. So

518
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 4: it's really I love that this randomly came out here

519
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 4: because I feel like she deserves this love and this

520
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 4: ode and like it's up to us to carry out

521
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 4: her legacy and to tell because I will tell you

522
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 4: my mentee, who is twenty like early twenties, she's like

523
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 4: so wait, like who is Oprah?

524
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 2: Like why do people care about? Like did she have

525
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 2: like she had like a show or something right, And I.

526
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 4: Was just like, oh, this is sacrilegious, Like what so

527
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 4: we got to keep saying her name and talking about her,

528
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 4: her legacy and what she means that is so interesting

529
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:56,440
Speaker 4: now whatever.

530
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: Forever and even because we could, I mean, we could

531
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 1: go right. But it's like, I think one of the

532
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: things that I've consistently heard people say in a way

533
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: that makes no sense to me is like, oh, well,

534
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: she built a school in Africa, but does she care

535
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: about black people here? And I'm like, what has she

536
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: done for black people? She exists, She exists. Everything that

537
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: she has touched has been in service to black people

538
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: and to women and to the expansion of consciousness in

539
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: so many ways. You know what. I think about the

540
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: reach of who she puts her hands on, who she

541
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: gives her glance to, her attention to, and the reach

542
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: they have. And to me, that's always what really shows

543
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: a person's character and who they are as a leader.

544
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: It's who do you empower? Who have you helped, who

545
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: have you elevated? Who have you seen gifts and talent

546
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,719
Speaker 1: in and gone out of your way to help that

547
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: come to fruition. That's the real sign. It's not about you.

548
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: It's more than you, and it's about everything else that

549
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: you create. And I mean I think that just that,

550
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: just that that can show for itself really seamlessly.

551
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 4: And just people people having an opinion about what other

552
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 4: people should do with their purpose. Yeah, it's irrelevant. You

553
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 4: can go do what you were put here to do.

554
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 4: You have no that is the big I just want

555
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 4: to start there. You know, how dare you have a

556
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 4: critique about what somebody else should do with the massive purpose?

557
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 4: Like especially somebody her, the massive purpose that she was

558
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 4: placed on this earth with in all the ways that

559
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 4: she has manifested that for the benefit of.

560
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: All and the heart that comes with that much visibility,

561
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: because that's a sacrifice.

562
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 4: You go build your school for Black American children, please do.

563
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: If you're not in the arena, right, if you're not

564
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: putting yourself on the line to serve, to live your purpose,

565
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: to even be still enough to figure out what it

566
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: is or to help another find theirs, what's the criticism?

567
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

568
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: Right, Like what can really be said? You have to

569
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: get in the arena. You have to be doing something

570
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: in order, in my belief, to have the right to

571
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: criticize what someone else is doing.

572
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 4: I agree with that completely, and I just you know,

573
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 4: you are called to service. You have to understand that

574
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 4: about about about purpose and work in general, right, Like,

575
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 4: of course Oprah could do all of those things, but

576
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 4: she waits for the call. She was called to build

577
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 4: that school in South Africa. That's a divine calling. How

578
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,719
Speaker 4: dare you criticize what God called her to do and

579
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 4: that in the ways in which she was obedient to

580
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 4: that calling?

581
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean? That's how I see it.

582
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: What are you doing?

583
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 2: Okay?

584
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, moving forward a little bit.

585
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 2: You have pivoting.

586
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: Pivot, time to pivot. Ope, we love you you. So

587
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,920
Speaker 1: we're both mamas and we are.

588
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 2: Both little boys.

589
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: Little boys. Oh God, I love being my son's mother,

590
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: being a boy mom me too.

591
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 4: Who knew I thought I was such a girl's girl.

592
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 4: I mean, I am a girl's girl, but I love

593
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 4: being a boy mom.

594
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 3: Right.

595
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: Who knows what's to come? But it you know, part

596
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: of what I'm seeing as we make our way to

597
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: really kind of dive into the birth fund is I'm

598
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,919
Speaker 1: also seeing the depth of the experience of you being

599
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: a mother, and I'm seeing kind of the effect and

600
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: the profound impact your son has had on your life,

601
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: which then of course influences your work. So tell me

602
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: how being a mom and being connected to your beautiful

603
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: son's energy has expanded the way you experience your purpose

604
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: and your service in the greater world.

605
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 4: It's even surial wing you say your mother or were mothers,

606
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 4: because I remember most of my life not being a

607
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 4: mother and not knowing when that would happen for me.

608
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 4: And it certainly was not in my immediate roadmap when

609
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 4: it happened to me. And I wasn't even in the

610
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 4: place where I could receive that blessing in the in

611
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 4: the in the in the way that now I understand,

612
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 4: like how how big and how just the magnitude of

613
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 4: the gift of motherhood. I didn't see it that way

614
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 4: at the time, and I'm just so humbled, Like you know,

615
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 4: I have built this career with such intention, and I've

616
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 4: navigated my life with just that instinct you're talking about,

617
00:35:54,080 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 4: and I've trusted that, and motherhood was just something I

618
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 4: surrendered to. It required a completely different, like operating system.

619
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 4: I adopted a completely different operating system. Everything I've done

620
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 4: in this world has been the result of striving, setting

621
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,799
Speaker 4: an intention, like making it happen. It's almost like this

622
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 4: masculine energy, and becoming a mother was about the exact opposite.

623
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 4: It was about releasing control, relinquishing control, surrendering to a

624
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 4: higher power, to a divine plan that came in divine

625
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 4: timing that was not my timing. And so even the

626
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 4: process that that metamorphosis, that grief, Yeah, that like, oh,

627
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 4: my identity is shifting and not on my terms and

628
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 4: not in my timing, and that with that came so

629
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 4: many humbling lessons. And then for me, pregnancy brought many

630
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 4: humbling lessons. I had a physically very challenging pregnancy, and

631
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: then mentally and emotionally I was impacted. And then you

632
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 4: compound that with the broken maternal the broken medical system

633
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 4: and the maternal health system in this country that underserves

634
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 4: mothers and families and particularly black women at every socioeconomic level.

635
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: And let me say that again, because I.

636
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 4: Think that there is a misconception that if you have

637
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 4: resources and you have you know, education, and you have

638
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 4: wealth and good networks, like you'll be spared. And that's

639
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 4: not the case. And even for me being a journalist

640
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 4: and being aware of the stats around the maternal mortality crisis,

641
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 4: I still really didn't. It wasn't an issue that hit

642
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 4: home for me until I became pregnant and was out

643
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 4: here looking for a doctor and that process ultimately, you know,

644
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 4: the process of being a mother and looking for care

645
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 4: and not finding it in the obvious places and having

646
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 4: to search outside of the traditional path and finding this

647
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,720
Speaker 4: like oasis of support and care in an alternative path

648
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 4: that I had never considered before, which was Midwiffrey. And

649
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 4: you know this, this, this whole kind of world opened

650
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 4: up to me that my son led me to and

651
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 4: it wasn't a part of my plan. And if you

652
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 4: had asked me three years ago what Midwiffrey is, I

653
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 4: would have been like, what is that?

654
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 3: You know?

655
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 2: I didn't even. I didn't even it wasn't on my radar.

656
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 4: But now and if you would have said to me,

657
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Speaker 4: could you know, would you ever see yourself starting a

658
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 4: whole new venture that is focused on expanding access to

659
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 4: mid with free cared, say absolutely not, like maternal health.

660
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 4: It's like, these are terms that felt like I don't know,

661
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 4: something like politicians focus on you know what I mean

662
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 4: this is? And I think that's again part of the

663
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 4: problem is that I think the concept of maternal care

664
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:26,280
Speaker 4: feels like it's fringe until it's you, until you are

665
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 4: staring into the cracks of this system and you see

666
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 4: how you can fall into it, and you see how

667
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: you can become a statistic and you don't know who

668
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 4: to call for help, and you don't know what your

669
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 4: options are to access better care like this is in

670
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 4: this country. This is such a crisis that is like

671
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 4: our biggest open secret that we are not addressing because

672
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 4: we are waiting for someone else to We're waiting for

673
00:39:54,520 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 4: someone else to fix it. We think that it's philanthropists, politicians, lawmakers, hospitals, doctors,

674
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 4: birth workers jobs to fix this. But when you look

675
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 4: at the numbers and when it comes to maternal mortality

676
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 4: in this country, they are soaring and we're not talking

677
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 4: about it enough. And it is not a fringe issue.

678
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 4: It's an issue that impacts every family. We all have mothers, right,

679
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 4: This is if we care about life, if we care

680
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 4: about family, we should care about this issue. And so

681
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 4: this is a moment for me, going back to your

682
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 4: original question about purpose, This work with Birth Fund is

683
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 4: the culmination of every everything I've ever done, of every

684
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 4: skill set that I've picked up along the way of

685
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 4: every relationship that I've cultivated, every ounce of equity and

686
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 4: credibility that I have built in my career was for

687
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:05,959
Speaker 4: this moment. It is not a pivot, It is a culmination.

688
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 4: It is a career culmination moment where I can finally

689
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 4: It's like a light bulb when out I said.

690
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 2: Oh, that's why, that's why you've been so good to me. God,

691
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 2: That's why.

692
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 4: This was a setup so that when you deposited this

693
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 4: into my spirit, when you called on me, I could

694
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 4: pick up and I could, in this earthly realm make

695
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 4: phone calls to Serena Williams and you know, influential people

696
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 4: in this world that can help elevate this message, that

697
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 4: can help raise resources in real time for families that

698
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:53,479
Speaker 4: could make this conversation relevant, like you equipped me, God

699
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 4: uniquely to be able to do this, to stand in

700
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,479
Speaker 4: this gap for families, to do it, for the mothers

701
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 4: who've lost their lives unnecessarily, like senselessly. Eighty percent of

702
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 4: the maternal mortality. Maternal mortalities in this country are preventable.

703
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 4: Eighty percent. These are not deaths that are that you know,

704
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 4: childbirth is just you know, it's tough, it's you know,

705
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 4: it's a life or death thing. It is, but eighty

706
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 4: percent of these deaths are preventable. And when you when

707
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 4: you look at other high income countries all across the world,

708
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 4: their outcomes are so much better than ours. And the

709
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 4: thing that they all have in common is midwifery care

710
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 4: is their default birth care model. It's covered by insurance,

711
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 4: it's covered by their government, it's normalized in their culture.

712
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 4: And when you look at America, most people don't even

713
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 4: know what a midwife is. And that's by design. That's

714
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 4: by design. And none of this I knew. Like so

715
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,200
Speaker 4: for anybody who's like, oh, it's going over my head

716
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: a little bit, it did go over my head as well.

717
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 2: We were not taught about this.

718
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 4: It's part of it's part of our design, it's part

719
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 4: of our conditioning. When you look at the history of

720
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 4: midwif free midwiffree is midwives, Black midwives in particular, they

721
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 4: birthed our country. They birthed our nation, and obstenetics and

722
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 4: the whole industry of obgyns, which we are taught as

723
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 4: the gold standard of medical care for you know, birth work. Yeah,

724
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 4: that was an industry that was invented around for profit model.

725
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 4: And when you really interrogate the way that that system

726
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 4: was built, it's built for profit over patients. And when

727
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 4: we really start to ask questions about what we were

728
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 4: taught about what constitutes a normal, safe, healthy birth experience,

729
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 4: we realize he we don't. We weren't taught very much

730
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 4: other than give up your authority to a doctor. Yeah,

731
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 4: listen to the doctor, do what they say, and that's it.

732
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 4: But the beauty of Midwiffery and how it's transformed my

733
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 4: life and not just the thing that I didn't realize

734
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 4: about the gifts that my son would bring me in

735
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 4: the gift of motherhood, is that it extends so much

736
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 4: beyond just getting that baby out of you. Like the

737
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 4: gift of motherhood, like the way that you bring in

738
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: your child is a rite of passage, and it's deeply

739
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 4: spiritual and it is a sacred. It's a sacred experience.

740
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:53,280
Speaker 4: And I think that in this country, unfortunately, the medical

741
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 4: system has stripped away what is sacred about childbirth. And

742
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 4: for me, I was someone who was very conditioned to

743
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 4: trust the medical system, find a doctor, get the epidural,

744
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 4: have the baby, like knock me out. I don't even

745
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 4: want to be there. For it like I am not

746
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 4: that girl, I am not the wo woo girl. Like

747
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 4: this is brand new to me. And so what I

748
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 4: can say as someone who has been converted because of

749
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 4: my first person lived experience is that I for me,

750
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 4: birthing became the most empowering experience in my life. That

751
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 4: changed me fundamentally, That expanded my purpose in my work,

752
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:45,439
Speaker 4: expanded my identity in ways I never anticipated, gave me downloads,

753
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,720
Speaker 4: spiritual downloads. I don't even talk about this part really

754
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 4: because I don't know if it's ever a safe environment

755
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 4: or if people will hear it in the way that

756
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 4: it's intended.

757
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 2: But I know that this is a safe space for

758
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 2: that here. Yeah, the spiritual.

759
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 4: Downloads that I got through the sacred container that home

760
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 4: birth and midwives created for me has fundamentally changed my

761
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 4: walk in this world. So when people say why are

762
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 4: we talking about wherese, I'm like, why, that's.

763
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 2: Just you have the baby, you move on.

764
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 4: The way that you have that baby can either empower

765
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 4: you or disempower you for the next chapter of your life.

766
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 4: And if we as women understood that having a child

767
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 4: and the way we choose to have a child can

768
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 4: unlock our power to ourselves, like, wake up to your power,

769
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 4: or the exact opposite can happen. If we reframe birth

770
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 4: in that way, then we understand that this work is

771
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 4: of the utmost importance at a time when women are

772
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 4: under siege in this country. Our autonomy, our bodies, our power,

773
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 4: our choices. There's a war on women right now. And

774
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 4: so the way that we can reclaim that for ourselves

775
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 4: is one way, just one way is through more autonomy

776
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 4: and our birth choice. And I want to give that

777
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 4: to women. That's really what Birth Fund is about. Having

778
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 4: experienced this, I'm like, this should not be a luxury.

779
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 4: This should be accessible to any birthing person who has

780
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:42,200
Speaker 4: been made to feel unsafe in a surging, soaring maternal

781
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 4: health crisis. You should have other options. You should know

782
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 4: what your options are, and those options should be accessible

783
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 4: to you. And I want, I want women. I'm not

784
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 4: here to push Midwiffree on people. I'm not here to

785
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 4: push home birth on people. But I am here to

786
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 4: help educate and enlighten folks about your choices. Yeah, right,

787
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 4: so that you feel like you have some agency. And ultimately,

788
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 4: if this is a choice that appeals to you, I

789
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 4: want to make sure that there are resources available to

790
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 4: you that make that choice, that light off in life

791
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 4: saving choice available to you. And so that's what birth

792
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 4: Fund is. We are raising resources from individuals, from corporations,

793
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 4: people outside of the medical system, outside of legislators who

794
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 4: are taking too long to make the changes that we need.

795
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 4: And we need those changes too, and we're working on

796
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 4: that too. But it's and not or we're not waiting

797
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 4: for systemic change. We're making change right now and we're

798
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 4: opening our pockets. We're leading or leading with what we

799
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 4: can give first, and then we're creating this funnel where

800
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 4: it's like we're meeting people where they're at. Whatever you

801
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 4: can give it goes to a family, even if it's

802
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 4: five dollars. No amount is too small. And I will say,

803
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 4: I'm coming to you today. I think I'm more emotional

804
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 4: today and I'm more like, I don't know in your

805
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 4: world that would be like.

806
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 2: Heart chakras open today, it's open. It's like wide open.

807
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 4: It is because I just like all the work that

808
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 4: we've been doing has culminated in literally what we are

809
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:16,359
Speaker 4: doing this week, which is finally meeting the.

810
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 2: Families Oh wow.

811
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 4: That we're funding and we're introducing them to their funders

812
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 4: and you are seeing this like real human connection, this

813
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 4: human generosity, what we can do with our spirit, with

814
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 4: our gifts, with our resources to help empower and change

815
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 4: people's lives, like in real time, and it actually doesn't

816
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 4: take that much, you know. And so to see people

817
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:45,319
Speaker 4: like John Legend and Chrissy meet this beautiful mother of

818
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 4: seven who's homeschooling all seven of her children and this

819
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 4: is the first time that she's going to have access

820
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 4: to a home birth.

821
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 2: To have birth on her terms, and like it's just

822
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 2: it gives me chills to it's so special.

823
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 4: Today Alexis o'hanian met this mother in d C. And

824
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 4: he's from you know, and we're pairing people with people

825
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 4: from cities that they're connected to.

826
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 2: So John Legend grew up in Ohio.

827
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 4: He's talking to a mother of seven in Ohio and

828
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 4: it was just amazing. Alexis o'hanian's talking to this mother

829
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 4: in DC and she's, you know, having her third child

830
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 4: and she's a birth worker, but this is going to

831
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 4: be the first time where she's actually going to get

832
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 4: to benefit from the work that she does for other people.

833
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 4: And it's just this is this is heart work. Like

834
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 4: this is purpose work, Like this is what if if

835
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 4: I leave this planet tomorrow. I'm like, yes, I have

836
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 4: that bio and those titles and those things. You might

837
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 4: you might remember me for that, but this is what

838
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 4: I want to be remembered for, because this is what

839
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 4: all that built towards.

840
00:50:56,239 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: Deeply well, I want to kind of speak to some

841
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: of the nuanced layers that I think are also behind this,

842
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: because I really want to underscore how important it is

843
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: to think about not just this work, but that kind

844
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: of portal time that we're speaking to, of a woman

845
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: birthing something right, bringing something to the planet. It is

846
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 1: a divine experience. There is no way around that. And

847
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: it is this truly portal experience that, depending on what

848
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: you have access to, could either as a woman, keep

849
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: you completely stuck and disempowered, or it could be you know,

850
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: the expansion of consciousness, the ubleveling of love, the healing

851
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: of what we call generational curses, you know, the birthing

852
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: on the planet of the bigger work. And you know,

853
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:55,439
Speaker 1: some of the nuance and some context even behind these

854
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: conversations about women's bodies that I always think of is,

855
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: you know, for instance, to the formulating or the creation

856
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 1: of gynecology and obg yns and speaking to the importance

857
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 1: of why black women deserve this. Gynecology was created on

858
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: the backs of Black women through the person who invented

859
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:24,880
Speaker 1: the field, experimenting on black women's bodies, experimenting on their vaginas,

860
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:29,200
Speaker 1: on their wombs. You know, it's horrifying, it's horrible. So

861
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: reclaiming this is also reclaiming that for our ancestors, you know,

862
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: and when I think about, you know, a big conversation

863
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: that has been happening, I think for all of our

864
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: lifetimes around reproductive rights and whether you're pro choice or

865
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: pro life or whatever you resonate with, you know, you

866
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: hold inside of you. But a piece that no one

867
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 1: speaks to is that people are only concerned quote unquote

868
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: concerned when there is a fetus in the What I

869
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: never hear said out loud is please have the baby,

870
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: and this is how will help you. Right, Like everyone

871
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: wants to yell at women and argue and discuss and

872
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: oppress their bodies, but I don't ever hear someone saying, no,

873
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: we want you to give birth to this baby and

874
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: here's how we will help you. Because the number one

875
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: reason that women terminate pregnancies is actually poverty, yes, and

876
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: so that's another you know, It's like when we think

877
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: about when I think about the work that you've birthed

878
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: with this, not only are you creating safety for allowing

879
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: children to come into this world that sacred experience, but

880
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: you are creating the sacred container that surrounds them with

881
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: the love and compassion that is necessary for life and

882
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: that is deserved by every life that enters this world.

883
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: And that is typically the thing that so many women

884
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: do not have the opportunity to give their children. It

885
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: is the feeling of welcoming, of loving, of celebrating. We

886
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: see that on TV a lot, right because you often

887
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: see on TV birth happening between a two parent household

888
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 1: that usually has you know, no like present trauma. That

889
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: is bringing the baby into the world to a big

890
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: family that's going to help them with a great baby shower,

891
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: and they're coming home to this beautiful room that's decorated

892
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: for them. That's not necessarily the average experience of most

893
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: people that bring children into the world. There is a

894
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 1: lot of pain in it for a lot of people,

895
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 1: a lot of hopelessness that you never want to extend

896
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,439
Speaker 1: to your child who doesn't want to be a great mother,

897
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: you know, but to give them this as the pillar,

898
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: as the backbone behind them, it changes the way that

899
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: you can navigate loving someone, being there for someone, all

900
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: the things that we don't talk about enough that we

901
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: actually do have to learn when we first become mothers,

902
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,920
Speaker 1: and especially depending on what your childhood was like or

903
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: what your experiences are. You know, very often people are

904
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: creating a love for their child they didn't feel for themselves,

905
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: and it's such sacred, dignified work, it's such honorable work.

906
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,640
Speaker 1: So I'm just hearing like the depth of purpose and

907
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:25,400
Speaker 1: what you've created, but not only all of the ways

908
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: that it is going to profoundly alter women physically, but

909
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,280
Speaker 1: also the intended good will that this sets forward into

910
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: their family lineage.

911
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 4: I receive that, and I'm so glad that you are

912
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 4: highlighting the intersection between the maternal health crisis and the

913
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 4: financial crisis that we're in, because that is something that

914
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,319
Speaker 4: we want to address upfront. And I think, you know,

915
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 4: one of the things that is important about this work

916
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 4: is while we are stubbornly, singularly focused on expanding access

917
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 4: to midwif free care and lifting that up as a

918
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:12,439
Speaker 4: solution because I think there are many organizations and many

919
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 4: people doing great work around improving maternal health conditions in

920
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 4: this country, but I think they're often doing it with

921
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 4: like a diffused focus that people can't really grab onto.

922
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 4: So I think if we focus on this one thing,

923
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 4: we can make a difference.

924
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:27,200
Speaker 3: Right.

925
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 4: But the way that we're approaching partners is, this is

926
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 4: what we are going to do. Will you help us

927
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:38,839
Speaker 4: in this and what can you do right? Because we

928
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 4: know that this is a complex problem and the poverty

929
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 4: piece is massive, and so I am so honestly one

930
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 4: of the biggest blessings and another reason you caught me

931
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,400
Speaker 4: and I'm telling you today this was a divine appointment

932
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 4: with you today because we were supposed to talk like

933
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 4: a month ago, I wouldn't have had this same posture.

934
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:04,919
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have had the same story to tell because

935
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 4: I wasn't at this point in the story yet of

936
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 4: the building of Birth Fund. But literally today I got

937
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 4: to see kind of like the fruit of our labor,

938
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 4: not just in meeting these families, but also in our

939
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 4: presenting partnership with so far we are about to share

940
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 4: with the world this massive financial commitment that they've made

941
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,919
Speaker 4: to birth Fund, but directly to these families. So each

942
00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 4: of these families are getting ten thousand dollars invested into

943
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 4: their and invested into their family through a newborn vault.

944
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 4: This is what it's called, and it has a high

945
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 4: interest higher interest rate than any other checking or savings accounts,

946
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 4: like ten times the national average and more than that,

947
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 4: they are being paired with a certified financial planner that

948
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 4: is going to sit with them in their family to

949
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 4: help them map out their family's financial future.

950
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 2: Okay, they are.

951
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 4: Building a bespoke financial literacy program that's going to give

952
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 4: them step by step, a step by step guide for

953
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 4: how to budget for their family from the newborn stage

954
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 4: until college. This particular vault that they're gifting them is

955
00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:23,000
Speaker 4: also going to help them earmark savings for college for big,

956
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 4: big moments like this is the type of financial literacy

957
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 4: and preparedness that we are not as a country equipping

958
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 4: families with. And yet we're shaming them when, as you say,

959
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 4: they make the decision, fifty percent, fifty six percent of

960
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 4: families do not feel fifty six percent of people in

961
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 4: this country do not feel that they can afford to

962
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 4: expand their family Yeah, So before we are shaming people

963
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 4: for why they are terminating pregnancies, we should be first

964
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 4: of all compassionate and understanding empathetic about the conditions that

965
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 4: they're living in that they wouldn't want to bring a

966
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 4: child into and doing our part to help shift those

967
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 4: conditions and make it a better environment to bring a

968
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 4: child into this world. And that's what this work is about.

969
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 4: And so you know, partners like SOFI are just coming

970
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 4: to the table and creative additive ways that are expanding

971
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 4: our program and kind of creating this wrap around support

972
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 4: model that we can use as a model for what

973
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 4: the government should be doing and frankly what private business

974
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 4: should be doing. So you know, we've gone to like

975
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 4: this is what I mean by like literally everything I've

976
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 4: ever done has culminated in this work. Every brand partnership

977
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:43,080
Speaker 4: that I've ever worked with, Oh, believe that they got

978
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 4: had up about birth Fund, and believe that many of

979
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:49,200
Speaker 4: them came to the table creatively. Bobby is one of

980
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 4: I'm an investor in Bobby. It's a woman led formula company.

981
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 4: They came to the table and said, yeah, we want

982
00:59:56,160 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 4: to help, and we will sponsor a year of lactation

983
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 4: support for your families in addition to giving them free

984
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 4: formula for a year if they need it, if breast

985
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 4: feeding isn't successful for them, or if they make a

986
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 4: different choice. We've talked to baby lists who makes you know,

987
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 4: baby registries. They're giving our families fifteen hundred dollars in

988
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 4: gift cards. So the things that they thought they couldn't

989
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 4: afford suddenly they can't. Like, we're making this this comprehensive

990
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 4: like package for families that, like I wish I had

991
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 4: access to. I think every family deserves to have access to.

992
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 4: If you're taking on the ultimate sacrifice of expanding the

993
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 4: population in this country, somebody should be giving you some

994
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 4: rewards for that, you know, not shaming you and not

995
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 4: just hitting you with these bills and this care that's

996
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:47,600
Speaker 4: so below par. So I feel like what we you know,

997
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 4: we are living in a time that's very dark. It

998
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 4: can feel very heavy, and it can feel like like

999
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 4: the light, it's hard to find the light sometimes even

1000
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 4: when you're a light seeker. And I feel really powered

1001
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 4: by being able to take back my power and focus

1002
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 4: on what is the change I want to make, What's

1003
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 4: the kind of world I wish I could live in?

1004
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 4: And how can I create that even just for one person?

1005
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 4: Because that's enough. And that's the thing that got me

1006
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 4: started on this path. Like when I heard the call,

1007
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 4: I questioned it. I was like, is this even going

1008
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 4: to be?

1009
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 2: Like? What's is this impact going to be great?

1010
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 4: How much would I have to raise to really have

1011
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 4: the kind of impact we need to make in this country?

1012
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 4: Like I would need to raise like millions and millions

1013
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 4: and millions of dollars? And then I just and so

1014
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 4: I kind of kept ignoring this call. I would I

1015
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 4: was not picking up this call. I was not And

1016
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,640
Speaker 4: then on top of it, I was like, oh my god,

1017
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,440
Speaker 4: I have so much to do already. How am I

1018
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,160
Speaker 4: going to make time for this? And then kind of

1019
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 4: like pregnancy. Honestly, it's kind of like my reaction to pregnancy.

1020
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh no, we don't have time for

1021
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 4: that right now. No girl, or plate his pull come

1022
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 4: back another day. Like it was very that I was like, ooh, girl,

1023
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 4: we don't have time for all this. Also like I

1024
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 4: don't honestly truly, and I feel like you're getting off

1025
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 4: a lot. It was like a therapy session, but I'm

1026
01:02:10,320 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 4: like I have I've carried some wounds with me from

1027
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 4: the corporate world, and I have enjoyed working as kind

1028
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 4: of a free agent, not really having to rely on

1029
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:27,280
Speaker 4: teams that I've built and cultivated. And I knew that

1030
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:30,920
Speaker 4: this calling was big and that it was going to

1031
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 4: require a team, and that it's not something I could

1032
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 4: do by myself, and that scared me, and that's also

1033
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 4: why I put it off. And then I was called

1034
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 4: to do healing work around some of the wounds I've

1035
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 4: been carrying around with me quietly, no one sees them.

1036
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,960
Speaker 4: I had them there there, and I've had to do

1037
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 4: some like deep personal development healing work in order to

1038
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 4: be the person who could answer this call and who

1039
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 4: could carry out this mission. And so I feel so grateful.

1040
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 4: Again it all comes back to my son. I feel

1041
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 4: so grateful to that powerful little soul that chose me,

1042
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 4: that made way for all of this expansion in every way,

1043
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 4: and he brings so much joy, Like this conversation is

1044
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 4: so serious, but like our home is so silly. I'm

1045
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 4: so silly at home with him, Like he's like the

1046
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 4: lightest part of my life, and it balances out this

1047
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:31,439
Speaker 4: type of work. And also this work brings so much joy,

1048
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 4: and it brings so much light and levity too, But

1049
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 4: I just feel I feel grateful that, like I had

1050
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 4: to get over myself and so much of what I

1051
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 4: was caring and I had to let it go in

1052
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,080
Speaker 4: order to say, Okay, yes, Scot, I will take this call.

1053
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 4: I will take this call. I will I will follow

1054
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 4: your lead. I will do this even if and I

1055
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 4: started small, it was like I don't even feel confident

1056
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 4: enough to call anybody else and convince them to help

1057
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 4: me with this yet. So I'm just going to do

1058
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 4: it as like my own little birthday fundraiser, and I'm

1059
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 4: going to put my own little money into this fundraiser,

1060
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 4: and I'm going to ask my community if they want

1061
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 4: to be part of it, you can do it, and

1062
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:10,440
Speaker 4: like I'm not going to make a big deal out

1063
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 4: of it. There was no like follow up post, there

1064
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 4: was no like press announcement. It was just like, let

1065
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 4: me just see if like people will show up, yeah.

1066
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 2: And it was.

1067
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 4: It was it was like it was like having a

1068
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 4: birthday party online, like not knowing anyone who was going

1069
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 4: to show up to it. And then and then somebody

1070
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 4: called me, They're like, did you see that you exceeded

1071
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:35,000
Speaker 4: your fundraising goal in sixteen hours, and I was like

1072
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 4: what And I went on and I was like, that's it,

1073
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:39,720
Speaker 4: bet God, Yeah, I got you.

1074
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 2: Okay, So I hear you like, that's.

1075
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 4: The this is my sign, this is the this is

1076
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:48,440
Speaker 4: the case study. This is like the proof of concept

1077
01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 4: that I needed. I am going to take this little,

1078
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:56,040
Speaker 4: simple one to one community support model where if it's

1079
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,400
Speaker 4: with the intention, if I Elaine wells Wet one person

1080
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 4: can so for one family in my community to have

1081
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 4: this empowered safe birth experience, then I have done important work.

1082
01:05:09,720 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 2: I've done enough.

1083
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 4: This is going to have generational impact and if I

1084
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 4: can inspire other people to and by the way, in

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Speaker 4: that sixteen thousand dollars that we raise in those sixteen hours,

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Speaker 4: we were able to support not one, but two families.

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Speaker 4: And I was just like, we can scale this, Like

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Speaker 4: this is a simple one to one community model that

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Speaker 4: we can scale overnight. I know ten people right now

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Speaker 4: I could call who can afford to cover the cost

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Speaker 4: of multiple people's birth experiences.

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Speaker 2: And then wait, all those corporate partners I've been working.

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Speaker 4: With all these years, all these deals I've been drafting

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Speaker 4: and slanging from my magazine editors, because please believe editors

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Speaker 4: are also salespeople. We know how to keep a magazine afloat,

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Speaker 4: and it's with the support of sponsorship. We know how

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Speaker 4: to go out there and sell something we believe in,

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Speaker 4: stories that we believe in.

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Speaker 2: That's what this is is.

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Speaker 4: It's just like everything felt like an AHA moment about this.

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Speaker 4: It was like I could see the stars aligning, I

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Speaker 4: could see it all connected. It was like beautiful moment.

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Speaker 4: It was like a beautiful mind moment, you know. I

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Speaker 4: was like, I see how this can happen. And what

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Speaker 4: it required, though, was other people's belief. And that's something

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Speaker 4: I can't control. I have to have the belief. I

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Speaker 4: have to have the conviction that's strong enough to make

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Speaker 4: the case, and then it's up to them and every DeBie,

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Speaker 4: every person I called on my wish list said yes,

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Speaker 4: come on, every everyone. Sometimes I just have to sit down.

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Speaker 4: I'm just like I need to lay down and just

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Speaker 4: let this marinate, Like did this happen?

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Speaker 2: And we're just getting started.

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Speaker 1: And there's a couple things that I really want to highlight,

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Speaker 1: especially as it speaks to purpose one. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: generously sharing that you know you had to kind of

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Speaker 1: step back and do some self exploration and see you

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Speaker 1: know where the shadows and what is being repressed and

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Speaker 1: how can I meet it? Because that's a part of

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Speaker 1: purpose too. You can get the call, it doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: the call is ready to go. You have the seed

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Speaker 1: of awareness that has planted in you with God's voice.

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Speaker 1: And then sometimes we have to do the work necessary

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Speaker 1: to rise to God's occasion, you know, to rise to

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Speaker 1: the occasion of purpose. And that's why and we've been,

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Speaker 1: I must say, we have been beautifully illustrating this throughout

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Speaker 1: the episode. That's why. Purpose is this really this this

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Speaker 1: slow growing formula, this equation that presents itself and unveils

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Speaker 1: itself in your life over time. And it's not just

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Speaker 1: a quote unquote title right.

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Speaker 2: Where it's not.

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Speaker 1: It can't ever just be one thing. It's the totality

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Speaker 1: of all of it. But sometimes we do have to

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Speaker 1: pause and prepare to get to that next evolution of

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Speaker 1: what the purpose is. It's just it's so beautiful, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's so powerful for everyone listening, I would love

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Speaker 1: if you would share two ways. First, if anyone listening

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Speaker 1: is really like filling this deep inside and saying I

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Speaker 1: have something to give to this, how can someone come

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Speaker 1: on and really pay it forward. And also for anyone

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Speaker 1: that's listening and saying I really need this, what's the

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Speaker 1: best way for them to get connected to this work?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I love that.

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Speaker 4: So we've made it so easy for people to be

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Speaker 4: a part of this by opening up the fundraiser on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: So while we have these incredible corporate partners and these

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Speaker 4: incredible individual donors like Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian and

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Speaker 4: all these great people, it's not just for rich folks

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Speaker 4: Like this is that there is an Instagram fundraiser that

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Speaker 4: is live and it will not be live forever. It

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Speaker 4: is running through May tenth, just before Mother's Day, and

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Speaker 4: so May eleventh actually is when it ends. And so

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Speaker 4: I would humbly ask, if you have a heart to give,

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Speaker 4: give what you can give it there and it will

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Speaker 4: go directly to families who will benefit from this kind

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Speaker 4: of transformative care. And then in terms of people who

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Speaker 4: are desiring this care. On Father's Day, we are going

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Speaker 4: to open up applications publicly. Once we've closed this first

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Speaker 4: public raise and we know exactly what our capacity to

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Speaker 4: give is, there will be an open call for applications

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Speaker 4: and it will be designated based on the regions where

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Speaker 4: we have participating birth workers, and we're building this thing

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Speaker 4: really thoughtfully, really slowly. Birth is life or death, and

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Speaker 4: so it's important that we are working with the most

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Speaker 4: qualified the birth workers who have the best outcomes, and

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Speaker 4: we're vetting those partners and we'll be growing our network

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Speaker 4: over time. So for those who are looking for that care,

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Speaker 4: you can stay tuned and check in with birth Fund

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Speaker 4: on Instagram around Father's Day. Also, just stay tuned, like

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Speaker 4: follow us, because there's news all the time that we're

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Speaker 4: dropping and there will be different opportunities to get involved

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Speaker 4: along the way. We'll have different kind of pop up

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Speaker 4: events throughout the year and that sort of thing as well.

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Speaker 2: So amazing, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: At the end of every episode, I ask each guest

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Speaker 1: to provide those listening with a little bit of soul work.

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Speaker 1: So this is something that after they've heard this episode

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Speaker 1: and until we meet again next week, they can really

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Speaker 1: kind of savor and integrate everything that they've heard. And

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Speaker 1: it could be as simple as like a thought starter,

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Speaker 1: a journal prompt, an exercise of some sort or practice.

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Speaker 1: But what should the soul work be for everyone listening?

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's a big question, Oprah, fruit of that tree.

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Speaker 3: I guess I would say, what's coming up for me

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Speaker 3: right now is what's calling you? And I think sometimes

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Speaker 3: you have to get quiet to hear that call. And

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Speaker 3: if you already know what's calling you, I would my

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01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 3: public question would be what's holding you back from picking

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Speaker 3: up that call?

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Speaker 4: And is it you know, whatever that is. I think

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Speaker 4: this is an invitation to examine that, work through that,

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Speaker 4: heal that because whatever that is, it's keeping you small.

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Speaker 4: And you were called to greatness and you were called

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Speaker 4: to service that will benefit more than you. So I

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Speaker 4: think sometimes the call is to get out of your

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Speaker 4: own way, and that certainly was a call for me

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Speaker 4: that I had to answer first before I could answer

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Speaker 4: this call.

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Speaker 3: So that's what I would share.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: This was so great, Debbie.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for creating that space and have

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Speaker 4: this conversation. I have not had a lot of conversations

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Speaker 4: about birth one, but this one feels different and I'm

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Speaker 4: very grateful for it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much. Thank you for the

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Speaker 1: work that you were birthing in the world. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for sharing your light, thank you for answering your call.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 1: This is such an important, powerful work that doesn't just

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Speaker 1: affect the women of this lifetime right like this is

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Speaker 1: lineage work, this is generational work. We've shifted a pattern

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Speaker 1: in our family system for good and it changes the

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Speaker 1: way people get to be in the world. So thank

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Speaker 1: you so much and thank you for coming now. Mistay

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