On a recent plane ride home, a woman tapped me on the shoulder, slipped me a note, and shared with me about her documentary she was coming to Toronto to premiere. The documentary? Deconstructing Karen. The woman? Saira Rao. Today Saira and her Race2Dinner & Deconstructing Karen partner, Regina Jackson, join me to discuss the documentary, the dinners, the women and the whiteness. Discomfort, the goal, and why we need you.
 
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The One About Deconstructing Karen with Regina Jackson & Saira Rao

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Najwa is such a powerful writer that even if you don’t follow her, you’ve likely read, shared, or saved her work before. Her belief is that we can heal through words, and you feel that when you read hers. Today she joins us to share a bit about her story, her new book “The Only Constant”, opens up about change and our resistance to it, even though - it is a guarantee. 




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The One About Radical Acceptance, Authentic Love and the Agitation of Change with Najwa Zebian

Movie Star, 3x Webby Award winner, speaker, actor, model, tv show host and social media star Madison Tevlin joins us today. She shares with us a bit more of her journey through assumptions people make of her, and how her mom helped inspire “you can and you will” type attitude that we all see in Maddie today. She is smashing biases, and building a career and life for herself in so many inspiring ways that all of us can learn from and look up to. ⁠

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The One About How Down Syndrome Is The Least Interesting Thing About Anyone with Madison Tevlin

“None of us learns any of this in school. The people who really needed me weren't the already rich dudes who watch finance news, but my former self. The broke girl. The lost girl.”  - Nicole Lapin 

Today we break into discomforts around money, managing it, relationships with it, financial literacy and SO more. Nicole is a money expert tackling the topics we are often too scared to approach, and breaks it into baby steps that we can start taking. Her #1 podcast: Money Rehab, and her books: Boss Bitch, Rich Bitch, Becoming Superwoman and Miss Independant have all been helping others empower themselves to learn about finances and how today is as good a day as ever, it’s not too late to learn.

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The One About Financial Trauma and Anxiety, Debt, Investing and Learning How To Talk About Money with Nicole Lapin

Author of “Glow in the F*cking Dark” and “Buy The F*cking Lillies”, Tara Schuster joins us today for an incredibly note worthy episode (literally, grab a note pad and be ready to take notes). Tara dives into reparenting yourself, navigating jealousy of other’s stories, self care (it’s the cake, not the icing!) and so much more. 




CONTENT WARNING: mentions of suicidal ideation




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The One About Comparing Pain, Parenting Yourself and Living The Life You Truly Want with Tara Schuster

In her 20’s Jamie met a man, who happened to be a father of 3 and found herself in the new role of a step parent. Entering into parenthood part way, with a role that didn’t seem to have a lot of information and support, Jamie found herself frustrated and alone in the experience and decided to do something about it. Now, Jamie has a world-wide community of step-parents accessing support and guidance through the world of what is often painted as the “villain” and with some guiding words for us co-parenting folks, too. 




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The One About Deconstructing Karen with Regina Jackson & Saira Rao

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