Introducing: When You're Invisible

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, I'm Maria Fern, and I want to invite you
to check out my podcast, When You're Invisible. I'm a
first gen daughter of Mexican immigrants who started off on
food stamps and got to the ivy leagues. I've always
felt like an in between her. I have roots everywhere
and nowhere. Because of my experiences and my families, I've

(00:22):
become a lover of people and stories that don't get told,
and that's what this podcast is for. I want to
share stories not of those with cloud wealth or power,
but of working class people and those who are mothered
by society. When You're Invisible is my love letter to
the people who make the world run and go unnoticed.

(00:43):
How would you define being invisible? Being looked over? It's
kind of people see a silhouette of a person and
not the actual person. I talked to people who have
helped me get through my years at Columbia University. They
would never respect us as they should have. When I'm
stuck in I'm still thinking about what had happened, so
I would brush it off. Who is it hurting that person?

(01:04):
Who isn't hurting you? Those who have helped me grow
and mature in the years since you go onto survival
mode and you're like, Okay, how do I just get
through the next hour? Am I going to need this
money for the next four or six weeks? There is
a story behind each person, and that if we are
able to embrace those people and just recognize that much

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a person, what a difference that will make and chat
with those whose work has gone unnoticed. I don't think
I feel seen ever, to be honest, don't these group
of people who sacrifice so much they remember on nine
eleven for those days and then we go back to

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our minds. I hope to build a community here that
will inspire you to have generous conversations with others that
are different from you, conversations that might help you see
life in an entirely different way. The golden rule, right,
if we treating each other the way we want to
be treated. If you're going through our hard time, you
want somebody to be empathetic, and we should do that.

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