Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stefan.
Speaker 1: Ever told your production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works?
Speaker 1: This episode all about mentors and strong women in role models.
Speaker 1: Goes out to my mom because her birthday is tomorrow
Speaker 1: as we record this, but it was it was soon
Speaker 1: ish right whenever you hear it, And I did want
Speaker 1: to do a list of things I love about my
Speaker 1: mom because she's my favorite. Um. The number one thing
Speaker 1: is she's kind and kindness is one of my most
Speaker 1: valued traits in anybody. I haven't met her yet, but
Speaker 1: everything you've told of me, I'm like, she's the most patient,
Speaker 1: genuinely giving person. Yeah that just sounds like wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's very caring, she's empathetic. She calls me sweetness. She's
Speaker 1: strong and funny and fun and wants to make sure
Speaker 1: everyone else is having fun. She's handled a lot of
Speaker 1: tragedy with grace. She knows what your favorite meal is
Speaker 1: and we'll make it for you when you're sad or happy,
Speaker 1: or when she's just thinking of you. She has a
Speaker 1: southern accent that makes it hard for drive through employees
Speaker 1: to understand her. Really yep uh. The infamous example is
Speaker 1: when We were at a Zaxby's and she wanted water,
Speaker 1: and they thought she was saying order, so they thought
Speaker 1: she wanted a second order, but she was saying water
Speaker 1: or water? Is that a cuthern thing? Or is that
Speaker 1: the more like? I feel like that's southern. And there's
Speaker 1: a YouTube star who does that too, and he's from Atlanta,
Speaker 1: apparently in water water and every time he does it
Speaker 1: they make fun of him and put in translation. It
Speaker 1: was quite funny. It was one of those like who's
Speaker 1: on first? Just took forever. Eventually she was like, forget
Speaker 1: to order. It's fine. Um she does. She also gets
Speaker 1: a lot of modern things just slightly wrong. Back in
Speaker 1: my my chemical romance phase. She called them my potions
Speaker 1: addiction because she was combining fantastic. Actually, that sounds like
Speaker 1: a Harry Potter cover. Van should be. Wow. She's easy
Speaker 1: to talk to you. She's a great listener. She used
Speaker 1: to take the longer way to my gymnastics class because
Speaker 1: it had a steep hill that I liked going up
Speaker 1: and down and pretending it was a roller coaster. Um.
Speaker 1: Every year she hides Easter eggs just for me. You
Speaker 1: make a lot of money off those, A lot of money.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I know, I feel like I want to
Speaker 1: come over and so fun and there's money to be
Speaker 1: getting all the money. My favorite part about Thanksgiving is
Speaker 1: clicking with Fairwell. We drink course light out of silver,
Speaker 1: goblets are fancy. We're super fancy. She's brave. She's packed
Speaker 1: alone in all kinds of isolated places you can't find online,
Speaker 1: and she draws maps of those areas that she has
Speaker 1: shared with co workers in this office who've been curious,
Speaker 1: and she has a hands drawn maps so of you.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Um. She's happy to try new things like
Speaker 1: moonshine if you want to try. John Snow seemed to
Speaker 1: be here at a bar she's in even though she
Speaker 1: doesn't know what. Um. And one of my favorite pictures
Speaker 1: I've ever posted on Instagram. I was trying to show
Speaker 1: her what a selfie was and instead of looking at
Speaker 1: the camera, she kissed me on the cheek and it's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite pictures we've ever taken. That's adorable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she volunteers, she helps others. She remembers the little things
Speaker 1: that you mentioned and then brings them up years later,
Speaker 1: like remember how your favorite song when you were in
Speaker 1: seventh grade was that Matrix song for by p O D.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, I can't believe you remember. That's amazing. Um.
Speaker 1: She indulges me in my silly quest like going to
Speaker 1: every store to find a cheap PlayStation four, which we did.
Speaker 1: It took forever, but we did. She didn't laugh at
Speaker 1: me when I was nine and cried because I realized
Speaker 1: I would, in fact, never marry Ryan Gosling. It was
Speaker 1: out of the cars. It's a tough day for me. Um,
Speaker 1: She's excited to learn new thing. She'll watch a bad
Speaker 1: movie with me and listen to me talk about Harry
Speaker 1: Potter and Marvel all day. She encouraged me to travel.
Speaker 1: She forgives where I try to forget. She never tries
Speaker 1: to change me and all my weirdness. She's my cheerleader
Speaker 1: and she's in my corner and I love her and
Speaker 1: she loves me, and I know that she does, and
Speaker 1: her actions and in her words, she has made it
Speaker 1: impossible for me to think otherwise, even on my lowest day.
Speaker 1: And I could go on and on, but if she's
Speaker 1: listening now, she's blushing. Even though I'd like to do
Speaker 1: a whole podcast about her, probably should we can? Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: I would love to. Don't tempt me. Uh, And my
Speaker 1: mom and I look a lot of like. And sometimes
Speaker 1: people come up to me and they'll think I'm her,
Speaker 1: and instead of being like angry because she's older than me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, always so flatter. I love that. I'll love
Speaker 1: those pictures of the parents daughter group and they're like,
Speaker 1: are they sisters? Who was who was the older? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's we do. We do look a lot of like.
Speaker 1: I see it. But yes, this episode is not all
Speaker 1: about my mom, but I wanted to talk about her
Speaker 1: because it's her birthday, and also she has been a
Speaker 1: really beneficial and powerful role model and mentor in my life,
Speaker 1: and we wanted to look into why that's so important.
Speaker 1: And one of the big things is if you can
Speaker 1: see it, you can be it. We've said it so
Speaker 1: many times on the show before. It simplification, but it
Speaker 1: does open up so many doors you may have thought
Speaker 1: were closed to you if you see someone that you
Speaker 1: can see yourself in doing doing something. Studies have found
Speaker 1: this impacts men too. If men never see women doing
Speaker 1: a thing, whatever it might be, they might think women
Speaker 1: can't do it either. A study out of India found
Speaker 1: that one exposed to at least two female village leaders,
Speaker 1: men were more likely to vote for women. A recent
Speaker 1: theory suggests that role models are helpful in three ways behavioral, inspirational,
Speaker 1: and cential. One of the things that has come up
Speaker 1: a lot in our female first segments is these amazing
Speaker 1: women reporting how hard it was to do everything that
Speaker 1: they did without a role model or mentor someone they
Speaker 1: can look to to see because they're the first, um,
Speaker 1: there was no one like them. Do you get advice
Speaker 1: from or to learn from? Um? A recent study found
Speaker 1: that a nine percent of women made more aspirational life
Speaker 1: goals when around a woman they admire and middlely. The
Speaker 1: study was in part sponsored by Linquisine, but also by
Speaker 1: n y U College professor, so there's that. It found
Speaker 1: that after a conversation with a woman that they found inspirational,
Speaker 1: women were more likely to think about the things they
Speaker 1: wanted as opposed to what they believe society expected of them.
Speaker 1: Having a female role model can help women deal with
Speaker 1: all the self doubt and self criticism that often plagues
Speaker 1: a lot of us, especially when we do something society
Speaker 1: tells us isn't really for women? Is in a place
Speaker 1: women can succeed in isn't a space for women. The
Speaker 1: National Science Foundation recently sponsored a study that found that
Speaker 1: pair to male faculty, tenured or tenured track, female faculty
Speaker 1: were more likely to have mentors. Female assistant professors with
Speaker 1: mentors were more likely to get grants than those without
Speaker 1: a mentor. A study from the Air Force Academy and
Speaker 1: to economists at the University of California Davis found, as
Speaker 1: reported by Ray Fisman, over a slate quote, when a
Speaker 1: female instructor was put at the front of the classroom,
Speaker 1: nearly two thirds of the grade point gender gap evaporated.
Speaker 1: The study authors acknowledged the difficulty of isolating any one
Speaker 1: thing when it comes to improving grades, and that's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons they chose a military college for their study,
Speaker 1: with the hopes of minimizing as many of those factors
Speaker 1: as possible. A different study from KMPG found that women
Speaker 1: really want mentorship and really benefit from it. Reported that
Speaker 1: they needed a support group to foster the confidence they
Speaker 1: needed to be leaders. The same number indicated they'd learned
Speaker 1: the most valuable leadership lessons from other women. Several studies
Speaker 1: have shown mentorship to be especially helpful when it comes
Speaker 1: to women in tech. Still, even with a mentor, the
Speaker 1: ristoidn't rate for women and STEM fields is one out
Speaker 1: of four women compared to one out of ten men.
Speaker 1: The importance of mentoring our young folks can't be underestimated either.
Speaker 1: Negative stereotypes about women and stem impacts girls as early
Speaker 1: as twelve and when they started reporting a declining interest.
Speaker 1: Seen study found that black students were more likely to
Speaker 1: graduate if they had at least one black teacher between
Speaker 1: third and fifth grade. Other research found that women are
Speaker 1: more likely to enroll in upper level classes when they've
Speaker 1: had experience with a female role model in that field,
Speaker 1: even a minor one, and women can relate to issues
Speaker 1: faced by other women being the only one in the
Speaker 1: boardroom salary negotiations are being spoken over. Men can totally
Speaker 1: be good mentors for both men and women to However,
Speaker 1: one of the interesting side effects of the Me too
Speaker 1: movement is that, according to some studies, more than half
Speaker 1: of male managers are now nervous and avoidant when it
Speaker 1: comes to working closely with women. Mentorship is different from sponsorship.
Speaker 1: I just want to put that in there, which is
Speaker 1: sponsorship is valuable as well, uh, and this is when
Speaker 1: someone in a position of power speaks for you, vouches
Speaker 1: for you, actively helps advance your career. Um, And I
Speaker 1: did read there aren't that many pieces out there about this,
Speaker 1: but there are some about like stop looking from mentors,
Speaker 1: which you need as a sponsor. You probably benefit from both, right,
Speaker 1: But you know mentor. When we say mentor, a lot
Speaker 1: of what we're talking about is informal, although companies do
Speaker 1: have formal programs. And if this is something you're interested in,
Speaker 1: mentorship is in an involved process, which is a relationship beyond,
Speaker 1: then just let me help you with this one thing.
Speaker 1: And I know for my kids having a mentor it
Speaker 1: makes a vast difference someone that they can turn to,
Speaker 1: someone they trust, someone that they can help them in
Speaker 1: times of needs without feeling judged. And that's a lot
Speaker 1: of the mentorship. But it's not judging but helping. And
Speaker 1: I know according to one study, one very important study
Speaker 1: about adolescens, the likelihood of them reoffending or going down
Speaker 1: a negative have is lessened if they have one positive
Speaker 1: influence or mentor in their life and it makes a
Speaker 1: vast amount of difference in their future. Yeah, so pretty
Speaker 1: important stuff and we have some more important stuff to
Speaker 1: talk about, but first we have a quick break for
Speaker 1: words from our sponsor, and we're back. Thank you sponsoring.
Speaker 1: So now we wanted to talk about if if you're
Speaker 1: hearing this and you're taking oh my gosh, I gotta
Speaker 1: go out and get me a mentor finding one, let's
Speaker 1: talk about that. Uh. Like we said, many companies do
Speaker 1: offer a formal mentorship program, so be sure to see
Speaker 1: if that's an option where you work. However, we could
Speaker 1: definitely do better. Overall, m a program is valuable because
Speaker 1: it normalizes a work culture that promotes learning, growing and
Speaker 1: asking for help and and just having that structure in place,
Speaker 1: like knowing that this person is available or interested, very
Speaker 1: very helpful. Of note, you can get a mentor for
Speaker 1: non work stuff too, like just that somebody in your life,
Speaker 1: like my mom wasn't my mentor for work or anything.
Speaker 1: She's more of my role model but also a kind
Speaker 1: of a mentor. And that's the whole um idea that
Speaker 1: I was saying previously before the ad is this mentoring
Speaker 1: is just beyond this one thing. It's a whole life
Speaker 1: changing process, hopefully in a good way. When it comes
Speaker 1: to choosing a mentor A couple of things, UM, know
Speaker 1: what you want out of the relationship, and be able
Speaker 1: to communicate that. Do communicate that, and don't be afraid
Speaker 1: to be selective, be open to hearing constructive criticism and
Speaker 1: to actually heating advice. But for someone who has the
Speaker 1: experience you want, is qualified and passionate in your field,
Speaker 1: and has the bandwidth and desire to be a mentor,
Speaker 1: and is generally nice, I would say it will be
Speaker 1: a positive influence in your life. And this is more
Speaker 1: works stuff, And for me, I had a mentor for
Speaker 1: this job, although it was more back when I was
Speaker 1: a producer. My old boss, Roxanne, whose voice a lot
Speaker 1: of you may recognize as the one that has long
Speaker 1: introduced our fellow podcast stuff you should know and stuff
Speaker 1: you missed in history class. She was a great listener,
Speaker 1: She had your back, she had everyone's back. Um. She
Speaker 1: made time out of her day for me, gave me
Speaker 1: advice and constructive criticism and praise. She gave me ideas UM.
Speaker 1: And it also was very straightforward with me about the
Speaker 1: pros and cons of like pursuing certain positions at the
Speaker 1: company and work home life balance. And to this day
Speaker 1: we still meet up very valuable relationship to me. I
Speaker 1: think when it comes to this job, technically you learned
Speaker 1: from Saver as well as Caroline, but with unladylike are
Speaker 1: my mentor of what what the hell am I doing?
Speaker 1: And checking in I'm like is this good? Is this bad?
Speaker 1: Am I just completely off the chart and trying to
Speaker 1: do what I'm doing? And y'all of that. And it's
Speaker 1: been really nice to have because I could not imagine
Speaker 1: trying to do this and being like, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm doing because I don't. And it's That's another
Speaker 1: good point is it doesn't have to be I think
Speaker 1: when people think of mentors, they think of someone years
Speaker 1: older than you, way older and like, way more qualified. Um.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have to be that way at all. Um.
Speaker 1: And we'll come back to that too. Servas and studies
Speaker 1: show plenty of women are willing to be mentors. So
Speaker 1: why it's mentoring among women so relatively rare. The consensus
Speaker 1: seems to be women are afraid to ask, or for
Speaker 1: some reason or another aren't asking. Well. Of course, time
Speaker 1: commitment is a big thing as well. If you want
Speaker 1: to be a mentor or if you want a mentor,
Speaker 1: don't be afraid. You probably know a woman in your
Speaker 1: life happy to step in to fill that role. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be a super formal It can be, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be. Sometimes it does feel like it's kind
Speaker 1: of stockeration, like Hey, I really like what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You want to be my mentor? Well, you just you
Speaker 1: say anything in that voice. It feels a little starrish.
Speaker 1: You didn't like that voice. I'm just saying maybe your
Speaker 1: approach needs I'll I'm staring at you like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's like an eyebrow thing happen, which is funny because
Speaker 1: my eyebrows really can't move. Well, they're doing something right now,
Speaker 1: doing creepy way to go Samantha. Yeah, well, well we'll
Speaker 1: discuss this after the podcast. Um. And this brings us
Speaker 1: to how to be a mentor? Um. According to a
Speaker 1: d d I World study, women shy away from being
Speaker 1: mentors for three main reasons. Women don't ask other women
Speaker 1: to be mentors. A lack of time on the part
Speaker 1: of the mentor. Women don't feel they have an appropriate
Speaker 1: level of expertise to mentor, which is that damn imposter
Speaker 1: syndrome again and entering. It's not a one way street. UM.
Speaker 1: It's not only helpful for the mentee, but for the
Speaker 1: mentor as well. It's a it's a mutually beneficial relationship,
Speaker 1: or it should be. UM. As a mentor, you'll improve
Speaker 1: your listening skills, You'll you'll learn, you'll become more compassionate
Speaker 1: and empathetic, You'll push yourself to do better. I was
Speaker 1: a mentor in college and on and off informally in
Speaker 1: my career, and I found it to be super rewarding. UM.
Speaker 1: And I know I felt some anxiety and being a
Speaker 1: mentor that I wasn't good enough, didn't know enough. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I'm not the only one that feels like that.
Speaker 1: But the value of just having someone there listening, a
Speaker 1: person you can talk to. Don't underestimate that. Like, if
Speaker 1: you can do at least those things right, that's that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good foundation. UM. I remember once and I
Speaker 1: hope no one judges me for this, but I jokingly
Speaker 1: told a mentia of mine, I guess and what was
Speaker 1: a very serious to own there is no fate to
Speaker 1: no fate, but what would make and I was exhausted,
Speaker 1: and advice is hard and retired and I'm a nerd
Speaker 1: and I really just I was kidding. But weeks later
Speaker 1: she came up to me so grateful for my great
Speaker 1: advice and yeah that was a quote from T two
Speaker 1: Judgment Day. But it helped her, you know, Harmonader actually
Speaker 1: never like sees that movie feels such crushing betrayal. She
Speaker 1: stole that lit well. I didn't know what she was
Speaker 1: talking about at first, like, oh, what advice? And then
Speaker 1: later I was like, oh no, um, and yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you should do better than that, better than spounding quotes
Speaker 1: from James Cameron movies. But don't let yourself be too
Speaker 1: scared away from being a mentor because you're not perfect.
Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, you maybe and you just
Speaker 1: don't know it. When you form some types of relationships,
Speaker 1: it becomes kind of that way when you're there to
Speaker 1: help and and you could just be I'm a good friend,
Speaker 1: but I mean coming in and checking in. Of course,
Speaker 1: there's a balance. But you may be mentoring someone without
Speaker 1: knowing you're mentoring someone. That's totally true. There's so many
Speaker 1: people in my life that I don't know if they
Speaker 1: realize the huge impact they have. And one of them, Um,
Speaker 1: some when I met in China, I was so sad
Speaker 1: I had to leave. I was so sad, and she said, like,
Speaker 1: very simply, sometimes people come into your life exactly when
Speaker 1: you need them, and then they have to leave. And
Speaker 1: I still think about it to this day. I was like,
Speaker 1: does she do she do? But she probably has no idea.
Speaker 1: I still think about that. Um. Another thing, A lot
Speaker 1: of the key things a minty wants to learn from
Speaker 1: a mentor isn't so much technical but more um kind
Speaker 1: of personal, not personal, but like communication, skills, negotiation, leadership.
Speaker 1: So if you're thinking, oh, I can barely do this
Speaker 1: job myself, right, um, that was me. I'm not putting
Speaker 1: that on anyone else. But when I first started editing,
Speaker 1: I thought that A lot a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of people are more like how do I talk to
Speaker 1: my boss? Or how do I sell these skills that
Speaker 1: I have? How do I communicate better? How can I
Speaker 1: be a better leader? And how can I delegate things
Speaker 1: that aren't necessarily so skills such job based. I will say,
Speaker 1: I just used you for that literally ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1: She did. She so advertise you're willing this to mentor
Speaker 1: if you're in stim volunteers, speak to schools, volunteer and
Speaker 1: working with students. You know, Um, I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot to be said. I know in colleges they offer
Speaker 1: older students with younger students to help in different types
Speaker 1: of fields or whatnot. So that's always good to do
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, and I had that program in my
Speaker 1: school when I was in elementary school. And um, Zoe,
Speaker 1: if you're listening, Zoe, I remember you, and you you
Speaker 1: really inspired me. Uh yeah, so I very much see
Speaker 1: the benefit and things like that. Um. Some tips once
Speaker 1: you find a mentor mentee, have structured meetings with set
Speaker 1: times frequencies. This is more for the formal stuff, com
Speaker 1: prepared with goals and objectives as the mentee and homework
Speaker 1: as the mentor. Um. And that doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: like write this thing out, but more like maybe the
Speaker 1: will focus on this and you can work on this,
Speaker 1: starting to read this thing or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: You like the homework I do. I used to ask
Speaker 1: for extra homework. I was a nerd. You were, but
Speaker 1: you were I was just were Amantha. Now you are
Speaker 1: technically I'm too, just in different ways and visibility of
Speaker 1: how women work, which for a variety of reasons like
Speaker 1: children or elder care may be different than men. It's
Speaker 1: really really, really, really really important. Yeah, And my most
Speaker 1: recent meeting with someone who I wouldn't say she's my mentee,
Speaker 1: but she kind of reached out to me and was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in doing pursuing kind of what you're doing,
Speaker 1: and can we sit down and talk? And I was
Speaker 1: very upfront with like, I love my job, but it
Speaker 1: means X, Y and Z. It's from my home wife,
Speaker 1: it means this, and like just being open about what
Speaker 1: it really takes for you to do what, especially in
Speaker 1: the job like this where there's kind of a public aspect,
Speaker 1: like what does it take to get to where we
Speaker 1: are right now? And that's honestly exactly why I come
Speaker 1: to you and come to people who have been in
Speaker 1: this field for a very long time. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: pretend like I know what's going on. You know, and
Speaker 1: it's okay. You know your weaknesses, you know your strengths,
Speaker 1: improve your weaknesses, and this is how you do it.
Speaker 1: You seek it out and it's better to know, obviously
Speaker 1: than not know, and it's better to admit that you
Speaker 1: don't know. So how do I find help? And kind
Speaker 1: of like how I'm doing. I don't necessarily have an
Speaker 1: individual mentor. I literally seek people out in their specialties
Speaker 1: and or and the expertise because I know I can
Speaker 1: get this from you come like how people. People come
Speaker 1: in seasons. They have attributes and things that you don't know,
Speaker 1: which makes it an amazing thing, which is what I
Speaker 1: love about meeting new people. You find different things that
Speaker 1: you're like, oh wow, I can learn from that. Do it?
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely? And um I think one article I read
Speaker 1: kind of going off of that said you shouldn't be
Speaker 1: looking for mentors, but friend tours exactly. And so that's
Speaker 1: another way of looking at it. If you're not into
Speaker 1: this whole idea of like a more structured mentorship or
Speaker 1: you're just I don't want to say embarrassed, but maybe
Speaker 1: like a friend tours an easier thing for you to pursue.
Speaker 1: I mean for me, Um, I trusted. I have a
Speaker 1: huge trust issue in general, and I'm so much better now,
Speaker 1: but that was part of the thing, is like how
Speaker 1: do I trust you in all these aspects? And I
Speaker 1: don't want to be disappointed or I don't want to
Speaker 1: disappoint you all of those levels and being able to
Speaker 1: kind of bring people in your groups and lovingly do
Speaker 1: these things and then come up with a fact like
Speaker 1: I don't know this aspect again, let's talk and you
Speaker 1: teach me about this, and then kind of the same
Speaker 1: thing with you know, my exportas of social work. So
Speaker 1: I do get the hey, you're a social workers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and as annoying as it that can be, sure, I
Speaker 1: understand why, and it's actually very appropriate and smart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unless you're asking for a session, then that's weird, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't I feel like a lot of my friends who
Speaker 1: are nurses get the hate. Oh yeah, weird. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if they're off and you start randomly pointing at scars,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a different episode. Also, you can't
Speaker 1: have more than one mentor, and you can have more
Speaker 1: than one mentee. You can be both a mentor and
Speaker 1: a mentee. Your mentor can be your age or younger
Speaker 1: can be older, can be formal or informal. No labels
Speaker 1: as they say these days, um also also not quite
Speaker 1: the same. But seeing being it is important when it
Speaker 1: comes to our media, especially the media children consume as well.
Speaker 1: That's something we've talked about a lot, but worth worth restating.
Speaker 1: We do have just a little bit more for you listeners,
Speaker 1: but first we have one more quick break for word
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Speaker 1: we wanted to touch briefly on why this matters, even
Speaker 1: though I think it's been sprinkled throughout this episode already.
Speaker 1: At one there are more men named Dave. Then there
Speaker 1: are women total on the list of CEOs of the
Speaker 1: f t S. E really more named. I think like
Speaker 1: there were a bunch of names I saw on different websites. Roberts,
Speaker 1: I don't remember if I saw Robert, but I Dave
Speaker 1: stuck out Dave. Dave. Damn it, Dave. What is the
Speaker 1: quote from two thousand one? I'm sorry, Dave, I just
Speaker 1: can't do that. So I'm afraid I can't do that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Andrew, Yes, thank you. Andrew. Cameraports that although
Speaker 1: women do six of the world's work, we make amasly
Speaker 1: ten of global income and own less than one percent
Speaker 1: of the world's property. That's that's not my stomach does
Speaker 1: not like that. My whole body of the global income. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one pent of the world's property. That's I'm sorry, Yeah
Speaker 1: it is. Study after study has found that our companies
Speaker 1: and our economy as a whole benefits from diversity. Think
Speaker 1: of how many ideas were missing out on by not
Speaker 1: having women and other marginalized groups at the table, whatever
Speaker 1: table that might be. Think of how many ideas we
Speaker 1: would have missed out on if not for women breaking
Speaker 1: barriers and overcoming obstacles. You know, one of the things
Speaker 1: I think about social media. My coworker and I talked
Speaker 1: about what we're talking about different um issues that are
Speaker 1: happening and just kind of catching up and when when
Speaker 1: I'm going to coworker with my other job um. And
Speaker 1: she is a very strong black woman and I love
Speaker 1: her to death. And one of the things we're talking
Speaker 1: about was how she sees Twitter and how we see Twitter,
Speaker 1: and the differences that she's like, as she calls it,
Speaker 1: black Twitter. I already knew this, and then white people
Speaker 1: are saying bringing this along like that's been fifteen years,
Speaker 1: and the dynamic of the split is more noticeable now
Speaker 1: that we have that social media content of and even
Speaker 1: though it's still separated unfortunately and not as consumed or
Speaker 1: interchangeably consumed, I guess um that it's it's such a
Speaker 1: dynamic things like what are we missing out on you know,
Speaker 1: and then you start realizing because now you have ability
Speaker 1: to see that content, which is really really important. Absolutely
Speaker 1: it is UM and I one thing and I know
Speaker 1: we've talked about this before too, but like having that
Speaker 1: friends who is the strong person? Always worth like because
Speaker 1: sometimes people who are strong have their their days that
Speaker 1: are or they're down to or they're feeling down about
Speaker 1: themselves as well. And I in a mentor mentee relationship
Speaker 1: which can be doesn't have to be, but can be
Speaker 1: more of a like personal friendship relationship. Just good to
Speaker 1: keep that in mind, you know, check in, check in,
Speaker 1: always check in it on people. So that's about what
Speaker 1: we have to say about mentors and role models today.
Speaker 1: But we are introducing a new thing at the end
Speaker 1: of our episodes. We wanted to make sure that as
Speaker 1: we had previously had episodes about supporting women and supporting
Speaker 1: women in podcasting, specifically in our field, because we know
Speaker 1: the statistics, UM, that we continue to actually emphasize that.
Speaker 1: And so as I am learning this whole world of
Speaker 1: social media, UM, I've been checking out different Twitter sites
Speaker 1: and different podcasts. Twitter sites is that word like, how
Speaker 1: up to date? How good at this? What is this.
Speaker 1: I was on the Twitter site on the Twitter side,
Speaker 1: it told me it tweeted at me. Um. There's so
Speaker 1: many people who are asking for suggestions like female, Um,
Speaker 1: what are your favorite female podcast female lead podcasts? And
Speaker 1: so I'm going through every single one of them, clicking
Speaker 1: on like, oh like this one and I like this one.
Speaker 1: So for you that I saw was she Nangan's with Friends,
Speaker 1: hilarious content. I was just like, oh, yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to be your friend. Just her. She was interviewing a
Speaker 1: specific person. It was the you need to check it out, okay,
Speaker 1: nerdy bitches, it would be up your alley. It sounds
Speaker 1: like you know, and black girls do stuff too. And
Speaker 1: I enjoyed every bit of all of those things. And um,
Speaker 1: it's a really good content. So if you love listening
Speaker 1: to our stuff, go check their stuff out. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we would love to hear your suggestions for podcasts. We
Speaker 1: should be shouting out if you do a podcast. We've
Speaker 1: heard from some people, UM, let us know. And one
Speaker 1: of the ways you can do that is through email.
Speaker 1: Yep on the email site says that I'm not email
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, does it tweet at you too? I
Speaker 1: think so? Okay, cool? I think so our email is
Speaker 1: stuff Media mom Stuff at I heart media dot com.
Speaker 1: Our Twitter is at mom Stuff Podcast, and Instagram is
Speaker 1: stuff I've Never Told You. Thanks as always to our
Speaker 1: super producer Andrew Howard. He was there moments ago he
Speaker 1: decided to leave me like my songs. Oh he loves
Speaker 1: your songs. Um, and thanks to you for listening. Thank you.
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