Introducing The Women

Every week, host Rose Reid interviews changemakers, disruptors, and trailblazers from all over the world and across the aisle. The Women is now available wherever you get your podcasts. Listen here.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, you're never a hero in your own hometown. I
will tell you that, no matter what happens, I'm always
a disruptor. I'm Rosaried, the host of The Women, a
new podcast from I Heart Radio featuring intimate conversations with
today's most remarkable trailblazers, getting to the core of who
they are as people and professionals. When I announced to

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the world that I was going to transition, it was
just a moment of joy for me. Because ye women
of color, I do receive regular stream of online abuse
and death threats. I was shocked, shocked up I got elected.
You're not going to see any fanilizes. But you're also
not going to see anything under here. This is just
I'm just free to be right now. These women are

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artists and politicians, amateur kickboxers, mothers and lovers who didn't
back down in the face of resistance. On the Women,
we want to find out what was her first stand,
how does she navigate success and failure, and what are
the cost of fighting for others. I'll speak with Dr

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Monahannah Tisha, the pediatrician who exposed the front water crisis,
risking her career to challenge Michigan authorities go after me
all you want. This has nothing to do with me,
But this has everything to do with my kids. A
chat with my own teenage icon, the sixties singer, songwriter
and activist Buffy St. Marie. We were being told in

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the nineties it was no war I yet now and
I'll find out why former CIA agent Valerie Plane is
now running for Congress. Everything prior to that was all
about being discreet. But then when I realized I had
a voice, that I could speak about things that I
really care about, whether it's nuclear weapons, whether it's proves
part of depression. These are just a few of the
twenty six extraordinary women you'll meet this season. It's like

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one of those things you don't know if you want
to be someone's friend or be them. It's like one
of those shows. Yep. We launched November twelve with a
new episode every Tuesday. Subscribe I'm to the Women Now
on the I Heart Radio app, on Apple Podcasts, or
wherever you get your podcasts. M h m hmmm.