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Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Holly Fry, host of Stuff You Missed in

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Speaker 1: History Class, and as a woman podcaster, I know how

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Speaker 1: important it is to amplify women's voices in this space.

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Speaker 1: That is why I am so excited to be talking

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Speaker 1: with a woman who is on her way to be

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Speaker 1: one of tomorrow's leading voices in podcasting. She's one of

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Speaker 1: the ten winners of Seneca Women to Hear search for

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Speaker 1: the Next Great Female Podcasters, created in partnership with PNG

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Speaker 1: and The Card by Seneca Women, Howard by MasterCard and Deserve.

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Speaker 1: After six weeks of training at the Seneca Women Podcast Academy,

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Speaker 1: she'll be launching her own show on the Seneca Women

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Speaker 1: Podcast Network with iHeart. I am so so happy to

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Speaker 1: be sitting down with Dana Tririto today. And first, Dana,

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Speaker 1: I want you to introduce yourself and what your podcast

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Speaker 1: that you're developing is about. Well, you said my name,

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Speaker 1: Dana Trito. My podcast is The Memory Whisperer, and I've

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Speaker 1: been going by that name since I've been writing a

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Speaker 1: column on Alzheimer's for the last oh since two thirteen

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Speaker 1: into twenty thirteen. So that's the name of my podcast,

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Speaker 1: The Memory Whisperer. And I hope to help Alzheimer's and

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Speaker 1: dementia caregivers, all those affected the population anyway I can now,

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Speaker 1: this is, as you said, something that you have been

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Speaker 1: passionate about and working on now for almost a decade.

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Speaker 1: What made you decide to venture into podcasting with this

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Speaker 1: content this information? Well, I have a new book coming well,

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Speaker 1: my first book coming out in August what my grandchildren

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Speaker 1: taught me about Alzheimer's disease. And I thought, well, how

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Speaker 1: could I reach a lot of people. I listened to

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio a lot and some podcasts, and I thought this

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Speaker 1: would be a good platform for me to help caregivers

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Speaker 1: and affected individuals and reach more people. Now, you have

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Speaker 1: been selected as part of Seneca Women to Hear, which

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Speaker 1: is really a very cool and important movement where we're

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Speaker 1: trying to make sure that people that haven't been featured

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Speaker 1: in the podcast space get a chance to What does

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Speaker 1: that feel like to know that out of the many

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Speaker 1: many applicants you were selected. Well, you know, I had

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Speaker 1: to take a screenshot from my phone because I didn't

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Speaker 1: believe it, and I kept looking at it, and I

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Speaker 1: was very humbold very grateful, and especially grateful because I

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Speaker 1: can help the affected Alzheimer's population. That's my heart. They

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Speaker 1: don't have a voice, the affected individuals don't, and so

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Speaker 1: I can be their voice, and I can be their

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Speaker 1: voice over a podcast. You are about to embark on

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Speaker 1: a journey where you are really getting kind of a

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Speaker 1: boot camp style crash course in all things audio. What

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Speaker 1: are you most excited about in terms of what you

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Speaker 1: hope to learn and what you hope to take away

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Speaker 1: from it. I guess just the whole industry, what it entails,

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Speaker 1: how it's going to, you know, affect me in my life,

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Speaker 1: and how is it going to affect listeners. I just

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Speaker 1: I'm open to all this learning. It's just amazing. I wonder,

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Speaker 1: since this is a subject that you have really been

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Speaker 1: working on it for so long. As we've already said

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Speaker 1: what to give people a taste? Is the one thing

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Speaker 1: like that you wish that people knew about Alzheimer's and

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Speaker 1: dementia right now? Get educated. The doctors don't have enough

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Speaker 1: time after diagnosis, so they leave the doctor's office and

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Speaker 1: with the diagnosis of Alzheimer's or another dementia, and caregivers

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Speaker 1: don't know what to do, or the affected individuals don't

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Speaker 1: know what to do. So I hope I can be

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Speaker 1: a voice for that to help them mander or navigate

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Speaker 1: the diseased journey. I love that listeners are going to

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Speaker 1: have somebody who started just like them as a lay

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Speaker 1: person who can understand that experience of learning about this

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Speaker 1: very vast subject that we are still I mean, the

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Speaker 1: medical community is still learning about and you get to

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Speaker 1: be the bridge. So thank you for spending this time

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Speaker 1: with me today. I appreciate you having me. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Inspiring words from one of the winners of Seneca Women

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Speaker 1: to hear search for the next great female podcasters. So

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Speaker 1: excited to hear her podcast launching later this year alongside

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Speaker 1: nine other amazing podcasts from talented, up and coming female

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Speaker 1: voices with support from p ANDNG. Founding partner of the

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Speaker 1: Seneca Women Podcast Network with its brands like Pantine, Olay

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Speaker 1: world where we see equal, shoose equal, and here equal.

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Speaker 1: To learn more about the inaugural class of the Seneca

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Speaker 1: Women Podcast Academy, visit Seneca Women dot com.