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Speaker 1: This is Outspoken. The podcast is not afraid to say

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Speaker 1: exactly what you're thinking. Our names are Amy Kate and

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Speaker 1: Sophie Torba. We're identical triplets, but we often don't have

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Speaker 1: identical opinions, so sometimes things can get heated. Outspoken covers

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Speaker 1: all things reality TV, influencers, entertainment, and issues facing women.

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Speaker 1: That is so fatch. Thank you, thank you for joining us. Now,

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Speaker 1: this definitely isn't the podcast we thought we would be

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Speaker 1: recording today, and to be honest, we were pretty reluctant

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Speaker 1: to do so. But upon reflecting about why we started

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Speaker 1: the podcast, we really thought it was important to do so. Now,

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Speaker 1: for those who don't know my sisters Amy and Sophie,

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Speaker 1: they were both reporters at Channel seven and they were

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Speaker 1: unfairly dismissed when Amy became a victim of sexual harassment. Now,

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Speaker 1: going back to the reason why we started the podcast,

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Speaker 1: we felt like we lost our voices in that whole scenario.

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Speaker 1: So we wanted to create a podcast where we could

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Speaker 1: talk about whatever we wanted, where I suppose we could

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Speaker 1: inspire women to stand up for their rise, and that's

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Speaker 1: why we decided to call the podcast Outspoken. We also

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Speaker 1: think it's important to stick up for yourself and speak

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Speaker 1: out about something that you don't really find just or fair,

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Speaker 1: And in this instance, there were so many questions raised

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Speaker 1: over this matter that we thought we really needed to

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Speaker 1: address them. Now, the matter, of course, involves a podcast

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Speaker 1: that we released on Tuesday morning, and in that podcast,

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Speaker 1: we dissected Shameless's transition from journalists to influencers, and we

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Speaker 1: spoke about what happened when you turn into the subject

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Speaker 1: that you critique. Now, we felt like we provided a

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Speaker 1: fair and balanced analysis of the podcast. However, later that night,

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Speaker 1: we received a review that really surprised us. Now that

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Speaker 1: review was from Genevieve Day, who is Shameless's manager, and

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Speaker 1: the review read the copycat style is a shame or

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Speaker 1: it could have added new voices and opinions. Now, can

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Speaker 1: we just say there was some comments regarding whether this

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Speaker 1: comment was real. We have received a message from gereneviev

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Speaker 1: confirming the comment is from her. Now, this is from

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Speaker 1: her a few account on Instagram. Yes, and also she

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Speaker 1: has left reviews on Shameless's podcasts and Love et cetera podcasts.

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Speaker 1: They're quite glowing reviews obviously, so we are one hundred

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Speaker 1: in no way hating on Genevieve at all. We want

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Speaker 1: to discuss Genevieve's actions, not her as a person, and

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Speaker 1: important for us to discuss. So, Genevieve is the director

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Speaker 1: of influencer and talent management agency Day Management, so she

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Speaker 1: Reality Check and of course Shameless. And it's fair to

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Speaker 1: the fact that the podcast she manages Shameless. Of course,

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Speaker 1: they have been very outspoken on the fact that they

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Speaker 1: have labeled as trolling comments. And it would be fair

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Speaker 1: to say that the review we've received from Genevieve wasn't

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Speaker 1: in one sense they're calling out others for critiquing their podcasts,

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Speaker 1: but then their manager is then slamming other podcasts. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely safe to say the review we received from

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Speaker 1: an attempt to punch down at us. It actually did

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Speaker 1: write a bad review. And I suppose that gets us

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Speaker 1: on to the point about what these sort of star

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Speaker 1: ratings and reviews mean for small businesses, because a review

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Speaker 1: you go on there and give them all one star review,

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Speaker 1: because some people have defended Genevieve's comments saying that our

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Speaker 1: podcasts and a number of other podcasts are a copy

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Speaker 1: and I do think that there is room for everybody.

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Speaker 1: There's so many amazing podcasts that I listen to that

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Speaker 1: say that, you know, just because you love one, there

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Speaker 1: can't be another pop culture podcast out there. One listener

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Speaker 1: Who cares if they're a similar format? I listened to

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Speaker 1: So I think it's important. Perhaps people should be able

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Speaker 1: hopefully the ones that we have been receiving, and in

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Speaker 1: no way do we want to incite people leaving negative

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Speaker 1: comments on anyone's walls. This is meant to be a

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Speaker 1: positive space. I think if you've got nothing constructive to

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Speaker 1: And I want to say that we love reading the reviews.

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Speaker 1: Even though we have received some constructive feedback, we would

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Speaker 1: podcast on a high by mentioning some of our favorite

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Speaker 1: female led podcasts. And the first one I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk about was Life Uncut by Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne,

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Speaker 1: and it has become a favorite of mine and a

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Speaker 1: It is fantastic. They cover all things, love, relationships, just

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Speaker 1: juicy stories. There's also Courtney Magnance podcast, which is the

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Speaker 1: I just love how raw and real Abby is. Then

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Speaker 1: of course I'm loving love, etc. And shameless. How can

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Speaker 1: you go past shameless? There's also Sarah's days podcast, The

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Speaker 1: And we'd also love to hear all of your podcast suggestions,

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Speaker 1: so if you could leave them in the comments below,

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Speaker 1: and if you've got a podcast that you've just started,

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Speaker 1: way we can. So thank you so much again for

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Speaker 1: listening to the show. We do hope you did enjoy it,

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