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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and welcome to Stuff. I've never

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Speaker 1: told you a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into our topic today, which is an

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Speaker 1: interview we're very excited about. I'm so excited we did.

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Speaker 1: Just want to say this episode may not be suitable

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Speaker 1: for younger listeners. UM, so I would recommend listening to it,

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Speaker 1: um listeners. You may remember a couple of months ago,

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Speaker 1: we did a classic episode with an updated intro about

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Speaker 1: oh Say, and I also guessed on the podcast tech

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Speaker 1: Stuff to talk about that, and we thought that, uh,

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Speaker 1: we would we would get someone who knew a little

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Speaker 1: so we have with us Laura Haddock, founder and CEO

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Speaker 1: of Laura de Carlo. Hey, Laura, thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Hi, it's really awesome to be here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're so glad to have you. UM. Can you tell us, Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's start with some basics, some basics first about yourself

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Speaker 1: and then about oh say, the products that we're discussing today. UM. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: like I said, my name is Laura Haddock. UM, I'm

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Speaker 1: the founder and CEO at Laura to Carlo. UM. Just

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Speaker 1: for those of you that don't know, De Carlo is

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Speaker 1: actually a family name, so that's why gets a little confusing. Um.

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Speaker 1: And my background is actually in healthcare. I spent over

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Speaker 1: Navy as a nurse. UM. I ended up uh coming

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Speaker 1: But I ended up back in uh uh studying premed

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Speaker 1: like that was amazing, And then I looked at, you know,

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Speaker 1: was just like, okay, yeah, how do I do that again?

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Speaker 1: doing was actually I have an obsession with anatomy and physiology,

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Speaker 1: that that was a blended orgasm, and a blended or

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Speaker 1: gasm is when you stimulate both the clitters or the

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Speaker 1: But what most people don't know is that that's all

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Speaker 1: a part of the same rogenous physiology. But the clitter

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Speaker 1: So what we're doing what I when you you get

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Speaker 1: And it's not easy to do it's um, It's basically

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Speaker 1: It was like, listen is ridiculous. There should be something

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Speaker 1: So I started thinking, like, how do I create something

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Speaker 1: problems that I would have solved? And there were three

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Speaker 1: big problems that I saw immediately. Um. The first was

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Speaker 1: trend in that data. The other two things that I

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Speaker 1: commonly known as the mimicry of human motion. So I

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Speaker 1: But we've actually taken that social mission and put it

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Speaker 1: anybody listening, like you, really you got to do your homework.

431
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Speaker 1: You need to educate yourself about what's actually going on

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Speaker 1: with the laws and it. And I remember, like you know,

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Speaker 1: even even two years ago, even when I was even

434
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Speaker 1: when I was in midshipmen, when I was in the navy, um, like,

435
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Speaker 1: I just I didn't really pay a lot of attention

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Speaker 1: to the world around me. And I I would implore

437
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: people to to do a little bit of homework. I mean,

438
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: get on get on your phone and google it. The

439
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: fact is the lawmakers that are creating these anti abortion

440
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: builds don't know a thing about not even just female physiology,

441
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: but phys theology period these men are making our laws

442
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: that take away our bodily autonomy, not just ours. If

443
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: if this goes up and actually ends up changing the

444
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: language at Roe v. Wade, this doesn't just affect females,

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00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: This effects everyone's bodily autonomy. What bodily economy is is

446
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: let's say you go to the hospital and your brother

447
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: needs it needs a blood transfusion, and you have the

448
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: same type blood. Let's say you hate your brother and

449
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: you don't want to get in your blood. If we

450
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Speaker 1: change the language at Roe v. Wade, you have to give.

451
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Speaker 1: They take your blood forcibly. That's what we're talking about.

452
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: Those are the kind of changes that we're talking about.

453
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Speaker 1: We're not just talking about taking away a woman's right

454
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Speaker 1: to make choices about her own physical body, which I'm

455
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 1: sorry is your property and no one else's. People need

456
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: to understand that the people that are making these laws,

457
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: I don't know the first thing about human physiology. They're

458
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: they're making insinuations about skinmale bodies. They don't make a

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Speaker 1: damn that of sense. Um. There was a text of

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Speaker 1: representative Um that seems to think that abortion providers actually

461
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: cut into women's bodies, like he actually thought that an abortion,

462
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: was this very infection which is absolutely assinine. Um. You know,

463
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Speaker 1: there was another one who another guy, another text law

464
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Speaker 1: lawmaker who said that getting a rape kit is them

465
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Speaker 1: was they could they could just go in there and

466
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Speaker 1: get a woman cleaned out. I think they came literally

467
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Speaker 1: said clear woman out to end the pregnancy. And um,

468
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Speaker 1: and I'm sure you guys know the infamous one of

469
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Speaker 1: the Missouri congressman that said that, um, if all, if

470
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Speaker 1: it's really a legitimate rate that the female bodies has,

471
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: has ways of shutting it down, give me a freaking brain.

472
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: This is absolutely ridiculous. These men are making our laws

473
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: about our body. And I'm sorry, I don't care if

474
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Speaker 1: you're if you're all the way, if you're completely liberal

475
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: or uh, completely conservative. The fact is when you look

476
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: at the like you look at a man making a

477
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: law about your body, no matter what your stances, whether

478
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: you're religious or whether you are like a completely conservative,

479
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: when you look the fact that these men have one

480
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: is making the law about your body, and you realize

481
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: any kind of Nope, that's the problem. Okay. So then

482
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: then it comes to start doing start doing the the

483
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: homework about like how can you make change there? Are

484
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: a lot of petitions going around right now. There are

485
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 1: a lot of ways to UM. It's like, if you

486
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: have the funding available, you have the funds available, donate,

487
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: donate to the Yellow Fund, donate to these. There are

488
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Speaker 1: there are lists that are trying to help women get

489
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Speaker 1: elected to congress or into into all sorts of UM

490
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Speaker 1: government seats. But there are all sorts of ways for

491
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: you to get involved and even just have your name

492
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: to a list like share something, Share like a way

493
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: for somebody to get like right around the awareness that

494
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 1: we need funding for this. The only way when they

495
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: make an impact is if you vote with your dollars

496
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: and you have to actually get out in freaking vote.

497
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Speaker 1: Please get out and vote, because the last thing that

498
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: I want to see is when you know, people think, oh, well,

499
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Speaker 1: you know Trump's not going to get reelected because he's

500
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: the maniac and all right. The people that start thinking

501
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: that are the people that don't go and vote because

502
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Speaker 1: they don't think that that's a possibility. I need you

503
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: to go vote. You need to go vote. You need

504
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: to vote for our bodily autonomy period. And his story

505
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,719
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's really frustrating because I know that

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people that I've spoken to

507
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: that are like, oh, yeah, I just never voted, like

508
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: I didn't think it. I didn't actually think you would win. Yeah,

509
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: And and okay, well if you don't think you would win,

510
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: or if you if you don't think that the person

511
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: you think is a terrible idea for office is gonna win,

512
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 1: then go vote anyway. So, um, it's and it's far

513
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: as being like my personal opinion, um is, And on

514
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: my personal opinion, it's absolutely blows me away that you

515
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: can call these people pro lifers. Because if we're gonna

516
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Speaker 1: let a ten year old child dyeing custody, that's not

517
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Speaker 1: pro life. If we're gonna if we're gonna be transgent

518
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: transgender people until they literally die, that's not pro life.

519
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: If we're going to murder countless people of color, that's

520
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: not pro life, right, and forced pregnancy is not for life.

521
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: It is the removal of bodily autonomy. It is anti choice.

522
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: So that's so insanely like riled up about it, but

523
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: you're everybody here is. So it's so on edge about it. Honestly,

524
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: I don't think you could get away with not feeling

525
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: some type of emotion with what's happening, whether it's one

526
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Speaker 1: side or the other, because it is a really heated

527
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: issue and it is about um, your personal rights when

528
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, and so you've got to

529
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: be angry because it affects you, affects again everyone, as

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00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: you said, Yeah, and I love that perspective. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: it's some and I do of sen people realize that

532
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: like we have, Um, I've spoken to U especially, we

533
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: have we have a general council available that I can

534
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: talk to about just about any single sense. That's a

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00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: part of an accelerator that I'm involved with. And you know,

536
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: even I didn't realize like the kind of effects that

537
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: this change of language could have on a review way.

538
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: Like the fact is like they've changed this language just

539
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 1: changes everyone's right, not just the emails ability to get

540
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: into abortion. It's it's so it goes so much deeper

541
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: than that, and it's not pretty. And I guarantee you

542
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: if people truly understood the that's the weight of this

543
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: issue and how their male rights will be taken away

544
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: as well, UM, people will probably look at this a

545
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: little bit differently. Yeah, yeah, I would agree, Um, and

546
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: that kind of um, segus always fun for topics like this.

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00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: That kind of relates back to something UM that I

548
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: wanted to ask, which is, UM, why is talking about

549
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: something like jose having open, open conversations about it and

550
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: female pleasure as opposed to like male pleasure, which is

551
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: just understood to be a right, but figing out pleasure

552
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: for so long has been No, that's taboo, we don't

553
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: talk about it again. As we saw on Twitter, a

554
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: main mentioned that men literally tweet back at women saying,

555
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's not true women like sex. You know,

556
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: if women don't have like like you just can't happen,

557
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: and blows my mind, like it's two thousand nineteen. How

558
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: do you not understand what's happening? Exactly? Yeah, it's UM. Well,

559
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: and like I said, I like talked about it a

560
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. It's about it's about education. It's about

561
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: understanding that the pleasure is is okay, it's accessible and

562
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: UM and the way that we have continuously demonized female

563
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: sexuality for so long is simply unacceptable. I mean, I

564
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever heard of the Madonna for complex,

565
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: but that's basically the inabilities for UM like people to

566
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: stay in a committed, loving relationships because we have this

567
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: obsession with uh, we see women as either saintly Madonna's

568
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: or or total prostitutes and um, you know, we view

569
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Speaker 1: women as and we teach women that they are supposed

570
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Speaker 1: to be um, you know, completely completely proper, never have sex,

571
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: never think about sex, never do anything sexual, be um

572
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: completely chased. And but when you get married, you're supposed

573
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: to be a total horn in the bed and you're

574
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: supposed to know exactly what you're doing. And they don't

575
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: even but we don't even get the opportunity to even

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00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: talk about it, let alone experience our own bodies or

577
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: or explore our own bodies. So um, personally, let's be honest,

578
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: every single person listening to this podcast touched themselves before

579
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: they were a teen. UM. And there's nothing wrong with

580
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: young people exploring their own bodies on their own terms.

581
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 1: But we we talked to kids, we talk to people

582
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: like that is like, there's something terribly wrong with trying

583
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: to understand your own body or understand your own pleasure.

584
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: And when we do that, we demonize sexuality. You demonize pleasure.

585
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: We make people think it's not okay, UM, particularly for females.

586
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: Uh to to understand their own bodies, to love their

587
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: own bodies. And when we do that, we create a

588
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: very a very binary chasm between men and women where

589
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 1: women are not allowed and men are. And that that

590
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Speaker 1: tool like that, that approach to sexuality doesn't just stop

591
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: its sexuality. It is completely systemic throughout the way that

592
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: we approach gender and that that effective way that we

593
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: approach women in the border room, that effects the way

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00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: that we approach women on the train, the way we

595
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: approach women in the household, the way we approach women

596
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: with health care, and the way that we you know,

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00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: the way that doctors speak to them. And so, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it starts with spects. It starts with understanding that your

599
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: body is perfect the way it is and the way

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Speaker 1: you identify with your body and your sexuality, your gender,

601
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: your presence is perfectly normal and there's nothing wrong with

602
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: it and you should explore it. So that's a big

603
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 1: part of our mission is to really push for people

604
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: to understand that it's okay to explore that sexuality because

605
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: that is liberating, it's empowering. Understanding that you have some

606
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,439
Speaker 1: control over your own pleasure. That's empowering because that ends

607
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: up trickling down to the way that you act, the

608
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: way you walk right in the boardroom, the way you

609
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Speaker 1: walk in the grocery store, the way you talk to

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Speaker 1: your doctor, the way that you talk to your husband,

611
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: or you know, even in the the way you make dinner.

612
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Speaker 1: So and and it's not just for men and women,

613
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Speaker 1: it's for people that that might not identify as either.

614
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: It's about understanding how you identify and your pleasure and

615
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: no one, no one's the same, and accepting that we

616
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: don't get get to make decisions about somebody else's personal

617
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: preference or identity. Um, and that's the only control you

618
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: have is over your own preference and identity. That's when

619
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Speaker 1: we can actually start to understand each other a lot better. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm just sitting at you up, we're

621
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: just nodding heads essentially. Well, okay, so what we're doing.

622
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: What we're doing so say is why does this really significant?

623
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Speaker 1: Is this product literally helps you to learn, It teaches you,

624
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Speaker 1: It helps you, helps to educate you about your own mind.

625
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Speaker 1: Because what happens is you actually put this inside, it

626
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Speaker 1: actually conforms to the interior anatomy so that it fits

627
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Speaker 1: and so then it's stay put so it and all

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Speaker 1: of the functions, the G stimulation, the critteral stimulation, the

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630
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Speaker 1: so they are completely customizable. So what this allows you

631
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Speaker 1: to do is allows you to learn more about your

632
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Speaker 1: own body and about your own pleasure and how you

633
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Speaker 1: get there. So when you can start to do that

634
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: and learn more about your own pleasure, then you can

635
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Speaker 1: take that knowledge and you can tell your partner this

636
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Speaker 1: is exactly what I like. It's amazing, and you can

637
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Speaker 1: now help me get there. So what that does is

638
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Speaker 1: it actually brings people closer to betther it a lot

639
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Speaker 1: of people to understand one another better. So when I realized,

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Speaker 1: you know, crap, I'm going to be the CEO of

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Speaker 1: a text to my company, so this is going to

642
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Speaker 1: be interesting. Um, we have like, oh this is it

643
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: was It was a little and hear me because um,

644
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: you know you you kind of have to reserve yourself too,

645
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: you know. Understanding this is the rest of my life now, Um,

646
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm forever gonna be known as the specto CEO probably

647
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: and uh and and but when I started to understand

648
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: the the ability to teach, the ability for education, the

649
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 1: ability for UM for gender equity within this space because

650
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: of this education and being able to help couples and

651
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: people understand each other better UM and hopefully erase those

652
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: sexual stigmas. That's when I got really excited. I was like, yes,

653
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: I am so signed on now. So it's and I

654
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: think that, UM, that's actually we run into that issue

655
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: a couple of times with UM with when we hire employees.

656
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:13,359
Speaker 1: We find the most perfect fit, people that have like

657
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: the perfect skills, and I have glad. I love my

658
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: team so much. They're so amazing. I'd like I could

659
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: get like cheered up about it. I love them. They're

660
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: absolutely in kind of UM when like a couple of

661
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: times when people have come on, they're you know, they're

662
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: a little bit apprehensive about the fact that you know,

663
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: it's it's sex text, it's technically the adult industry. Then

664
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: we sit there and we talk about how this particular

665
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: product can change how we view sex and how we

666
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of the the adult industry,

667
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: how we want to break that mold. We want to

668
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: be mainstream. We want to teach people about pleasure, about

669
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: sect without having a segment wrapped around it, and about

670
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: what we want to do in bigger spaces where gender

671
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: equities involved, And we talk about the the values as

672
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: a company, about respect, empowerment, and integrity, and about how

673
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: that drives every decision that we make, including the one

674
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: to release the press release about the e S, including

675
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: the one that throws us to say, we don't want that.

676
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: We don't really want the word back unless we can

677
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: actually make policy changes. Those are scary decisions to make.

678
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: But when we know that that drives that, UM, those

679
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: values drive your decisions. UM, it was really amazing. Values

680
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: drive your decisions, and then you can never make the

681
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: wrong choice. And so when we've had that talk with

682
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: new employees coming on UM, as soon as we talked

683
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: about that, it's pretty much hard to not get them

684
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 1: to sign on the data line. It's amazing and fun

685
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: and but like I said, it's uh kind of positioning

686
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,840
Speaker 1: yourself and trying to know like how how deep do

687
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: you go? How how much do you envelop yourself and

688
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: controversial issues like orsition, like being like but I mean

689
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: those are as a business, extremely touchy issues to get

690
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: involved in. Every single time we have the chance to

691
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: make a decision about whether or not we do get

692
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: involved in something like that. It's it's always been yes,

693
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: we do, because that's what we believe in, and it's

694
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,760
Speaker 1: always been the right choice. And I think the fact

695
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: that and it's not just the fact that people respond

696
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 1: to it, um positively because they believe in the same choices. UM,

697
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: it's that we truly believe it's the right choice. And

698
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: I think that even our investors believe that it's the

699
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: right choice. They see that, they see the positivity and

700
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 1: the profitability in being an ethical company that has believed

701
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: that are rooted in true equity, in seeing um, you know,

702
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: men and women and minority easy and uh, people with handicaps,

703
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: everybody be able to sit at the same table to

704
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: make decisions about products that change our lives and make

705
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: decisions about policies that change our lives. They see, they

706
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: see the good in that, they see, um, that that's

707
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: the right thing to do. So it's like I said,

708
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: it's been a wild ride, but we're not done yet, No,

709
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: not at all. Um. We have a little bit more

710
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: to discuss, but first we're gonna pause for one more

711
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: quick break for working more sensitive and we're back. Thank you.

712
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: And I feel like every week we get an email

713
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:59,640
Speaker 1: from a listener about um, um bro bro gamer like, yeah, yeah,

714
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: bro Topia things like that, and it sounds like you

715
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: and every everyone on your team are really spearheading like

716
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: a space and are more inclusive space. Um So, could

717
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: you talk a little bit about um ways that people

718
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: can do that what you think is going on with

719
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: inclusive inclusivity and diversity, because I do think that we're

720
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: like at a point of I'm hoping we're at least

721
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: talking about it, um yeah, and any advice for people

722
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: out there, um, I think we definitely are a space

723
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: where I think it's actually popular to talk about it.

724
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: It's just the the issue is, does do people truly

725
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: understand how to pursue creating an inclusive and diverse space

726
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: or do they just want to talk about it? Right? So,

727
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: part of what we're very committed to doing is in

728
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: part of uh Like, the definition of one of our

729
00:45:55,080 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: values is um is about being biased towards actions. It's

730
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: it's making sure that we're not just talking about things um.

731
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: Uh So. Part of part of the definition of the

732
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: integrity is that you know, we're always truthful, were truthful

733
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: of ourselves, were truthful with with our community, and we

734
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 1: hold ourselves accountable, but we always move with a bias

735
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: towards action. So, like I said, we can talk about

736
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: creating these spaces, but if you're not doing anything, you're

737
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: not doing anything. So UM, truly understanding how to do

738
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 1: that is is creating framework. Um, you have to create

739
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: a framework, you have to create those values. You have

740
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: to understand what it's like to be in somebody's shoes

741
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: who is in a minority space. And you may not

742
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: be able to truly understand what it's like being in

743
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: their shoes. But what you can do is is create

744
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,160
Speaker 1: the safest space possible for those individuals. Because somebody that

745
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: doesn't feel safe one isn't going to sign onto your company,

746
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: but to their never gonna thrive. If you it's I mean,

747
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: then we're just talking about masilo parierarchy of needs. You

748
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: don't feel face, you have a roof over your head,

749
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, stood in your stomach, you can never thrive.

750
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: So what we're trying to do is create a space

751
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 1: where um, it's space for people to talk about their opinions,

752
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: about their thoughts, about their values, about their culture, UM,

753
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: about like how they view religion or what their religion is,

754
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: and and truly be open minded and never passed judgment

755
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: on anyone. UM. But always talk about ideas and talk

756
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: about values, and we approach ideas and we might attack ideas,

757
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: but we never attack the individual. We we might say, hey,

758
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: I'm really curious about this idea, or how how this,

759
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: how this happens, or you know, YadA YadA, but um,

760
00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: you never attacked the individual. And also creating a face

761
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 1: space too is is also understanding that sometimes people don't

762
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: want to talk about their culture. They will they will

763
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: bring that to you. Sometimes people don't want to talk

764
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: about the fact that they're thinking they're thinking about having

765
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: a kid because it makes them feel unsafe. Sometimes people

766
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: would don't want to talk about how they how they

767
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: do their hair because it makes them feel ostracized. So

768
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: understanding that if like putting yourself in your in their shoes, um,

769
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: and understanding the things that might make them feel unsafe

770
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: when you even when you just want to have a

771
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: casual conversation, when people will have a casual conversation about

772
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: something that makes them feel comfortable, that could actually make

773
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: somebody else feel very uncomfortable. And to me, that's selfish.

774
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: When you just approach somebody and you say, hey, so

775
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 1: who braise your hair? Um? Maybe they don't want to

776
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 1: talk about who breaks their hair. Maybe you should let

777
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: them talk about it when they are comfortable talking about it. Um,

778
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't be asking female, so, how many kids

779
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: are you planning on having? Maybe I'm not finding on

780
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: having any. Maybe I was said it. Who says it's

781
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: your business? Who says that that's going to impact the

782
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: way I work? Um? So it's it's really about just

783
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 1: creating a safe space where people feel like they can

784
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: live their best lives and they can have their own

785
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: opinions and thoughts and viewpoints without ever feeling like they

786
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: might be personally attacked for those thoughts and viewpoints. Um. Because,

787
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,840
Speaker 1: to be very honest, part of the reason I'm hiring

788
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: these people is because I want those thoughts in view points.

789
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: I want these these um these ideas that aren't an

790
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: alignment with my own so that I can think about UM,

791
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 1: so I can think about how we can change things

792
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: for the better, because if we keep innovating inside of

793
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: the tunnel, we're not going to go anywhere. So UM,

794
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you've heard the term.

795
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: I think it's homofully it's the it's dependency for for

796
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: people to only hire people that um or or or

797
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: to see it with people that look like them and

798
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: talk like them and sound like them, and one of

799
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,439
Speaker 1: the same schools and you know, the same color skin,

800
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: the thame type of hair like And I've seen people

801
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: do that, they hire in a funnel and you never

802
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: get me there because everybody has the same damn line

803
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: of thoughts and so understanding. Yes, it's not just about

804
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: it's not just about diversity. It's not just about creating

805
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: equity and creating inclusive spaces. It's about understanding the impact

806
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: of having that diverse face and having a face space

807
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 1: for people to truly innovate on their own and be

808
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: able to feel like they can have their ideas and

809
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:44,320
Speaker 1: their thoughts and not feel attacked. Um So, I doesn't

810
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,879
Speaker 1: want to come full circle. People talk about diversity, they

811
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: talk about inclusivity, and a lot of the time I

812
00:50:50,480 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 1: feel like people are talking about in their aud love it.

813
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: It's true, I love it. Did you ever imagine you

814
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: would be here out of curiosity? You know what? Actually?

815
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: UM not here? No, I I always wanted to do.

816
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 1: I was one of those people that I went to school.

817
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: I got a Fullloride scholarship as a nurse thing as

818
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: a as a Navy nurse, and I had to drop

819
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: out halfway through. UM. So I'm one of those kids

820
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: that I couldn't even I didn't finish school. And it

821
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 1: was partially because I was like, is this really what

822
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: I want to do? Maybe this is what I want

823
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: to do. I never quite knew what I wanted to do.

824
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,719
Speaker 1: All I knew is that I wanted to lead, and

825
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: that I had some some opinions that people seem to

826
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: really garner to, and and you know, people tended to

827
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: want to follow me and and I at some point

828
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: I realized I wanted to be in a position the leadership.

829
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: And I literally one day I was like, I think

830
00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: I just want to be a CEO. I mean they

831
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: do all of the things, they're never more deaths obvious

832
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: because it's totally overworked. So that sounds like a great idea.

833
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 1: And UM, I I ended up and doing. I ended

834
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: up as an executive assist for a few months for

835
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: UM a different company. UH and and I realized, yeah,

836
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: I bet I could do this better. And probably about

837
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: six months after that, I found the Lord of Carlo

838
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 1: and um it was. I feel like I was the

839
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: kid that never knew what I wanted to do. And

840
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 1: I think at the same time, I always knew what

841
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I just couldn't actually define it.

842
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: Who who goes to school or who grows up in

843
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: in in elementary school or even in high school and goes,

844
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a CEO of something or other

845
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 1: at some point in my line. You don't. But I

846
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: do know that I wanted to leave. And I know

847
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: that the reason that I I went into the Navies

848
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: because I wanted to lead. I wanted to become an officer,

849
00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: and that wasn't that wasn't in in the cards for me.

850
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: But uh, I knew that I still wanted that, and

851
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:10,720
Speaker 1: I kept driving towards it. And like I said, nobody,

852
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: nobody ever just goes and I think I'm gonna be

853
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:18,359
Speaker 1: the CEO of this sex place company something. But but

854
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: it was the biggest moment I realized that this is

855
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Speaker 1: exactly what I was meant to do. Is when um,

856
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:27,280
Speaker 1: I realized the kind of the kind of change that

857
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: we could profer for the rest of society and the

858
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: kind of impact that we could create. And that really

859
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 1: kind of revolutionized the way that I looked at it,

860
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: and I've I think I've embraced it from the from

861
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,439
Speaker 1: the get go, and I'm just like, I'm I'm either

862
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: bald in or I'm just or I'm completely out. We're

863
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 1: going to sail and we've never looked back, and we've

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00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: been We've been going really hard since day one. I

865
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 1: think a lot of people can relate to see what

866
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: you just said of feeling like you never know what

867
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: you want to do and at the same time, you

868
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: know there's there's something you just you don't know what

869
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,479
Speaker 1: it is. And I think a lot of listeners will

870
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: find comfort or at least like, oh, I'm not the

871
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,919
Speaker 1: only one that feels that way. Um from hearing that.

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Speaker 1: UM yeah, before we close out, is there anything else

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Speaker 1: you want to include? Um? Any questions we didn't ask

874
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: that we should have asked. UM I think actually just

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00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: too um So, just to remind everyones we are going

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00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: to do that pre so this summer, so um it

877
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: might be the only way that you can get your

878
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 1: hands on, let's say, before we do the official launch,

879
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: which will be this fall. Um So, if you go

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00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: to our website, if Laura de Carlo Corom with l

881
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: the Carlo d I c A R l O dot com.

882
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: You can actually sign up for a newsletter. Um, if

883
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: you sign up for our newsletter, then you probably also

884
00:54:55,800 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: get a little bit more information about the other producing Um.

885
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 1: So uh that and you'll you notified about the pret down.

886
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: And then I think the other thing is for folks

887
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: that are listening that I might not know what they

888
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: want to do, or they might be down on themselves

889
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,760
Speaker 1: about you know, maybe not finishing school or not feeling

890
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: like they know what they want to do with their lives.

891
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: They're not having directions. Um, there was a lot of

892
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: time where I felt like I had no idea where

893
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: I was going, and I like I didn't have any direction.

894
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely a perfectionist, and I hated that. I

895
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: felt like it made me left of a person. And

896
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: I know that the entire most of my life and

897
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,839
Speaker 1: then especially in the first year and all the way

898
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: up until now, I still UM experience UM imposter syndrome.

899
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: Crazy like this, this inability to understand how powerful I

900
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: can be and how much how much experience I've already garnered,

901
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: and you know, in the last two decades, and I

902
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 1: don't give myself enough credit on a daily basis, and

903
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 1: particularly as females, um we do that to ourselves. So

904
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: for the people that don't feel like they're enough, you

905
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: definitely are. And it's it's there. It's just it's about

906
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: it's about getting to that point and realizing your dream

907
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: and absolutely not giving up. Just don't give up and

908
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:29,920
Speaker 1: don't stay quiet. Do you believe in something? Because I

909
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: didn't and I still never thought that we would get here,

910
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: but we did and we're still going and that's what

911
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: it takes. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, we we talked about that

912
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, And I know for some people

913
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: they hear it and they're they're you're when you're in

914
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: that like low place, and you you just think, no,

915
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: I don't need someone else telling me that I have

916
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: to keep trying. But it's true. That's true. It is.

917
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you like in the before I did

918
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:08,040
Speaker 1: where before I founded the company, like there were months

919
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: at a time where I would try on a daily basis,

920
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: literally on a daily basis, there were people that basically

921
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: told me, oh, that's a cute idea of when I

922
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: talked to them about my business plan, I like, you

923
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: want it eat a dick right am once again. So um,

924
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: and it's it's it's not easy, it's never and it

925
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: doesn't get easier. I'm going to be really honest, but

926
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 1: it does become more and more and more rewarding and

927
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: it and I I've always felt like a high purpose,

928
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: but today I feel like I have more purpose and

929
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: I did definitely have more like to deal with. And

930
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: definitely the imposter syndrome doesn't go away, it doesn't get easier,

931
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: but it sure as I was rewarding. There you go, beautiful,

932
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: there you go. We're so excited to have you. And

933
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: we should say this isn't a sponsored episode. We're just fans,

934
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: and we also think it's important to discuss, like we've

935
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: been talking a lot about female pleasure lately and how

936
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: it's so yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, not a sponsored episode,

937
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:24,919
Speaker 1: just just fans. Yeah, my name on that waiting list

938
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: somewhere so I can find that. I'm not gonna lie.

939
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 1: I keep telling, and he was like, we gotta, we've

940
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: gotta talk to her. We gotta talk to I need

941
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: to know. I need to know what it's gonna come out.

942
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm a little too excited. Maybe we've been like on

943
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: a ram page this morning too. I'm just like perfect

944
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: on all of the issues. I love it. Yeah, good

945
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: good fit. Yeah. Samantha always gives away her scheme on air.

946
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:52,479
Speaker 1: I don't know why you do that. I do, don't.

947
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: I always give away your plan, your master place. Why

948
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a good like this for anyone, Because you're

949
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: already going to know how to know. I think that's

950
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 1: the perfect nemesis. Um. So, Laura, I know you gave

951
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: the website. Is there any other place you want to

952
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: shout out where people can find you or any other

953
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: resources or anything like that. Yeah, I mean we're on

954
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: social media and um, we're actually we're growing really faster.

955
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: To really please be sit down in a during a

956
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: marketing meeting, it was like, holy moly, really that's great. Um,

957
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: but you can find us on Instagram and on Twitter

958
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: at Laura de Carlo. Again that's l O r A

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Speaker 1: d I c A R l O underscore h q

960
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: um and you can find me personally. Um, I'm linked

961
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: to both. Um in the in my last name is Haddoc.

962
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: Probably actually gonna change my name to de Carlo because

963
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: people are really confused about it. But um, people are

964
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: calling me Mr Carlo all the time, like yeah, yeah, yeah,

965
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And we're also on Facebook, uh so um yeah,

966
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: coming and come and find us because we do have

967
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 1: some pretty funny that we put up and we do

968
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: talk about some of the hard issues um so uh

969
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: And like I said, I've got a great social media

970
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: team that we're putting together. In our digital marketing team

971
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 1: is is pretty amazing as well. So um, they've always

972
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: got really great content and just like yes, harms up

973
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: in the year please so awesome. Well it's fun. Yeah

974
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: that sounds fun. Yeah that team yeah hey wait oh sorry,

975
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 1: you should definitely expect that out listeners. Um. You can

976
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,360
Speaker 1: also find us on Instagram as stuff I've Never Told

977
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: You and on Twitter at mom Stuff podcast an emails

978
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: at stuff Media, mom Stuff at iHeart media dot com.

979
01:00:50,200 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: Thank you so much Laura for joining us. Yeah, I'm

980
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: so excited. I know, I can't wait. I'm We're getting

981
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: so quotes and I'm just like it's pretty much selling

982
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: itself right now, right I am. Yeah, I'm I'm just

983
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: a balling nerve pretty much all day every day and lately,

984
01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 1: but it's I think it's all good, all good. Thanks, yeah,

985
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: thanks as always to our super producer Andrew Howard Andrew,

986
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,880
Speaker 1: thanks to you for listening stuff I've never told you.

987
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: His protection off I Heard Radio's How Stuff Works. For

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