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Episode Transcript
Welcome to Season four of The Womena Whalen Podcast. Am Yamini, your
guide into the fascinating lives of incrediblelocal women right from the heart of Massachusetts.
All of these like quote unquote stonerattributes they put on you just because
you use cannabis. Originally they thought, well, we're going to round all
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these animals up and gas them,We're going to poison them. Always had
stories kind of going in my head. I always made up stories to entertain
myself. What I was finding iswith these systems, they're not really getting
to the heart of the issue.The issue is we have too many pictures.
But I ended up putting my jobas the president of a company.
So get ready for an inside lookat how these nextdoor heroes in Valand are
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rewriting their career narratives. Once Irealized that there was nowhere else to turn
and that many moms parents were dealingwith this issue silently in their homes,
that's where it really became personal forme. But like, I kept reading
it because I I just was sofascinated by its badness, and then I
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this is what happens to me islike I think, well, that's an
interesting premise to people are trapped inan elevator, Who would I put in
that elevator? Uncover the powerful wisebehind theiry inventions. When I was with
a judge and it was the judgebringing us together as a family, and
it was really monumental to my life, where I wanted to then bring other
families together. I didn't realize thatanxiety was kind of sneaking up on me,
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you know, especially like no onereally likes to talk about, like
postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, andit's so common. But wait, there's
more. This season, we arebringing you exclusive insights straight from their inspirational
sources. Here are the voices thatdrive these women to pursue greatness. And
so I wanted to take this toother countries where there is no resource.
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Let's make a new conversation around cannabis, and let's include more women. The
time you're eighteen years old and everyoneelse is going out to college and I'm
like, what lights me up?I love sunsets and I love beautiful pictures
and making people happy. All right, If you haven't tuned in yet,
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you're missing out on the voices ofresilience, ambition, and drive don't just
take our word for it. Letour compelling episodes convince you. There are
so many women who do so muchand are so quiet about it. I
have met so many fascinating women inthis town. I love the privacy of
Whalen, but sometimes I having rootsin Asia and other parts of the world,
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sometimes you feel a little bit isolatedbecause you don't know if anyone else
do you know, do you understand? Do you empathize with what I'm talking
about? Join us on Women ofWhalen podcast because these stories are not just
heard, they have felt. TheWomen of Whalen podcast has brought so much
joy to my life and has introducedme deeper to people I've already even known
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and learned their stories. Learn thatwe connect in so many ways that when
you meet briefly at a PTO meetingor with the WCPR walking through town at
the library, like you can't catchthat. And you're capturing these stories with
this podcast, and it is incrediblefor us to be able to learn about
each other and realize the humanness ofus.
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