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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuffone

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Speaker 1: never told your production of I Heart Radio. So today

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Speaker 1: we have a special edition of Women Around the World

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Speaker 1: and we're featuring an interview by Nicola Mitchell of the

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Speaker 1: amazing organization Girls Who broughtch And this interview was sponsored

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Speaker 1: by Loreal and their Women of Worth initiative, and several

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Speaker 1: of the women we've featured on this segment have been

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Speaker 1: recipients of this amazing award. Pass honrees have accomplished some

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Speaker 1: really impressive and amazing stuff as Champions of the underserved,

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Speaker 1: including impacting legislation and Nobel Prize nominations. If you want

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Speaker 1: to learn more about the inspiring stories behind this year's

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Speaker 1: group of nominees the work they've been doing, and you know,

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Speaker 1: if you want to vote for this year's national hountery,

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Speaker 1: you can check out Women of Worth dot com. But today, yes,

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Speaker 1: we have a wonderful interview with a past honoree of

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Speaker 1: the program, Nicola Mitchell. Um quick content learning brief mention

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Speaker 1: of sexual assault and violence. But yes, let's jump right

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Speaker 1: in and we're so excited to be talking to Nicola today.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here. Hi, everybody, thank

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Speaker 1: you for having me. I am so honored to be here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we are so honored to have you. Can you tell

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Speaker 1: us a bit about Girls Who Brunch? This is Nicola

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Speaker 1: Mitchell and I'm the founder of Girls Who Brunch Tour Well,

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Speaker 1: Girls who Brunches, my baby. It's an organization that I

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Speaker 1: found it back in two thousand and fifteen. We take

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Speaker 1: low income, at risk girls and we put them with

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Speaker 1: trade girls and foster care girls who are group homes,

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Speaker 1: and we put them with girls from a better circumstance

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Speaker 1: and um, let him have fun teach them. Nobody knows

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Speaker 1: anyone's background and we're subliminally teaching them at this ain't time.

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Speaker 1: So as of date we have service twenty seven thousand

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Speaker 1: girls due to the pandemic internationally because now we're in St. Lucia,

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Speaker 1: England and Bahamas. We loved us because it definitely goes

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Speaker 1: right in line with what we were talking about when

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Speaker 1: it comes to women lifting up other women and coming

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Speaker 1: So this is amazing. Um, can you talk about how

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Speaker 1: Girls Who Branch, I was, Um, I'm a writer in

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Speaker 1: my real life. A lot of people do not know that.

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Speaker 1: They just know me as a Girls Who Branch to

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Speaker 1: And two or three months later, we created the first

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Speaker 1: Who Brunch um that has had since you've created it.

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Speaker 1: So to be a Loreal Paris woman of worth, it

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