1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Holly Fry, host of Stuff You Missed in 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,760 Speaker 1: History Class, and as a woman podcaster, I know how 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: important it is to amplify women's voices in this space. 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: That is why I am so excited to be talking 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: with a woman who is on her way to be 6 00:00:18,239 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: one of tomorrow's leading voices in podcasting. She's one of 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,319 Speaker 1: the ten winners of Seneca Women to Hear search for 8 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: the Next Great Female Podcasters, created in partnership with PNG 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: and The Card by Seneca Women, Howard by MasterCard and Deserve. 10 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: After six weeks of training at the Seneca Women Podcast Academy, 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: she'll be launching her own show on the Seneca Women 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: Podcast Network with My Heart. I am so delighted and 13 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: grateful that I get to spend time today with Lola. Lola. 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: But Lola, before I say anything about you or ask 15 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: you more questions, I want you to introduce yourself. Well, 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: my name is Lola, obviously, and I'm a mom believe 17 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: in Chicago, and you know, dedicate my life to creating 18 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,639 Speaker 1: spaces and the right conditions for women to feel safe 19 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 1: about telling their stories and just you know, working their 20 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: way to where they can become advocate for themselves and 21 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: creates just you know, joined the party and create a 22 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 1: better world for everyone. At what point were you inspired 23 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: to take that determination and that mission that you have 24 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: into the podcasting space. At what point where you like, 25 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: this really needs to be a podcast? Uh BEI Something 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: incredible happened um in northern Nigeria in two when armed 27 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: men stromed the school and kidnapped close to three girls. 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: It started this bring Back our Girls campaign, which caught 29 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: the attention of the whole world. Then I began to 30 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 1: notice a pattern and that that in the days and 31 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: weeks following that experience went After that news broke, the 32 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: media outlets told the story of the kidnappings and left 33 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: out the names of the girls. I mean, I really 34 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: truggle with it. So it was at that point that I, 35 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: you know, I decided to take my own pain and 36 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: you know, and help women create spaces where they could 37 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: tell their own stories. Because it became clear to me 38 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: that when we're not telling our own stories, we just 39 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: don't exist, you know. So that that I think is 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: what fills the gap, what fills in the gap that 41 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: women need to tell their own stories if we want 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: to be highlighted and don't want to become footnotes in 43 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 1: larger stories about whatever else someone thinks has a better 44 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: angle than our identities. And you know, so I started 45 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: a community on Facebook and we have you know, since 46 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: grown to a combine total of two million women who 47 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,840 Speaker 1: live in more than one countries. So we've been finding 48 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: our voice, refining our voice over time over the past 49 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: six years, and it's just the real natural next step 50 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: that we need to you know, leave this private spaces 51 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: and start telling our stories and showing that we exist 52 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: in the larger world. And that that's why having a 53 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: podcast is just the best thing that we can do 54 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: to start getting women out of the shadows, women from 55 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: emerging cultures out of a shadow, and bringing us into 56 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: the larger conversation the rest of the world is having 57 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: about you know, the progress about you know, starting to 58 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: limits the impact of patriarchy, about shutting down and misogyny 59 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: and gender violence. So it is just, you know, it's 60 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: the natural next step to the incredible and massive social 61 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: movement that started about seven years ago. I am glad 62 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: that you mentioned your movement because there is a movement 63 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: going on to create more representation for women in the 64 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: podcast space, and you have been selected as one of 65 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: the Seneca Women to hear. What did that feel like 66 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: when you found out that you were one of the winners? Essentially, 67 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: it was absolutely everything. It felt like the universe lightning 68 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: up to say to me. Yeah, Now, I have to 69 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: tell you, that is a yes, a resounding yes that 70 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: women like me don't often get. It always feels so lonely. 71 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: You feel like you're the only one who's doing everything 72 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: for everyone, and oftentimes that's the case. But Seneca Women 73 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio saying yes to me, it didn't it. 74 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: It felt it felt like validation, and it also felt 75 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: like they weren't just you know, saying yes to me. 76 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 1: They were saying yes to a nation of women that 77 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: I lead, that I'm working with every day, that I'm 78 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 1: walking beside every day. It's literally one of the best 79 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: things that's ever ever happened to me and the movements 80 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,919 Speaker 1: that I've been creating. So what are you with all 81 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: of this passion hoping to learn from the Seneca Women 82 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: Podcast Academy so you can explode what you're already doing 83 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: into a bigger space. It is one thing to have 84 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: fire in your belly to change the world. It is 85 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: quite a another thing to have access two people, to 86 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: creative sponsorships, and to have access to you know, the 87 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: tools to make it happen. And that is what Seneca 88 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: Podcast Academy can do for me, is to show me 89 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: the right way to bring the message that I have 90 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: about women from emerging cultures to the rest of the world. 91 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: You know, here's the right way to do it, and 92 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: there's a way to accelerate the impact that you can have. 93 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: I think that this has the potential to take my 94 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: hands and walk me through the process. That's a dream 95 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: that I never expected to see happen. Oh, I can 96 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: tell you right now, I will be your first subscriber. Lola. 97 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for spending this time with me 98 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: and telling me about your passion, and I cannot wait 99 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 1: to see what's next. Thank you. Inspiring words from one 100 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,919 Speaker 1: of the winners of Seneca Women to hear search for 101 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: the next great female podcasters. So excited to hear her podcast, 102 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:09,799 Speaker 1: launching later this year alongside nine other amazing podcasts from talented, 103 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: up and coming female voices, with support from the card 104 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: by Seneca Women, powered by master Card and Deserve. 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