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Not fearing change is what makes you a game changer. | Haley Taylor Schlitz | #GamechangerZ
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Welcome to my new series!!! To me, a game changer is someone who is HUNGRY. A person who recognizes their inner power while giving credit to those who helped inspire them on their journey.
Haley Taylor Schlitz, J.D. is a 20-year-old Gen. Z activist! She's an alumna of TWU and SMU in Texas. She is THE YOUNGEST Black SMU Law graduate. Recently, Haley helped pass the Crown Act into law in Texas and she currently teaches social studies. She's a #gamechanger!
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Introduction of Host and Guest
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Hello, welcome or welcome back to another episode of the Feel Your Feelings podcast.
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I'm your host, Victoria Makinjewola, and today I am joined by a very special guest.
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I'm so honored to have her on my podcast.
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Her name is Haley Taylor Schlitz.
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She is a homegirl from Dallas, from the DFW area, and she... Let me pull up her profile, y'all, because it is extensive.
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Okay, so she's an educator, a lawyer, an activist, an author, a public speaker, a thought leader, and so many things.
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She's the youngest SMU law graduate.
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And I don't even think I've covered half of those titles.
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But welcome to the Feel Your Feelings podcast.
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Thank you for joining me.
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And how are you
Haley's Journey and Achievements
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feeling?
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Thank you for having me.
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I'm feeling so excited.
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This took a couple of tries, like two or three with calendars.
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So I'm really glad.
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Thank you for being understanding.
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I'm in the middle of a move, but I'm very excited to be here.
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Thank you so much.
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And I appreciate you taking the time out, you know, of your schedule and everything.
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So my first thing that I want to ask you is like, who is Haley?
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Because you have many titles.
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First and foremost, I follow you on threads, right?
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And so first of all, this is the Game Changers series, and you are one of the people that I definitely wanted to talk to because on threads, you posted like a couple weeks back, you said, let's get a thread going for a hashtag Gen Z activist.
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I'll start 20 years old with my JD and teaching social studies in Texas.
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Just helped pass the Crown Act into law into Texas.
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2020 Biden delegate, actually the youngest one, and ran for my local school board, taking on Patriot Mobile and moms pushing book bans.
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So who is Haley?
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Because you have many titles.
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So how would you describe yourself?
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So, yeah, I mean, like, that's definitely like, you know, on threads, especially since it's so new, you know, really just getting into the into the app.
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But yeah, that definitely does kind of highlight where where I'm at right now.
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I graduated law school last year, I just finished taking the bar, I have been
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I taught for the last academic year and I just started my second year of teaching fifth grade social studies.
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So when it comes to my career path, I'm a lawyer and I'm a teacher.
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So exactly where I want to be and only bigger dreams from here.
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And more personally, I have a lot of hobbies because I was homeschooled.
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My mom signed me up for a lot of extracurriculars and a lot of them became things that I very much enjoyed and passionate about.
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So I played the piano for
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10, 11 years now, and the heart for five or six.
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And I love to read and do art and be outside and play sports.
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And I just like there's a lot a little bit of everything, you know, because my mom like she really made sure that our homeschooling experience is integrated.
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So that's that's kind of more on a personal note.
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I very much like the creative side of things.
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It's a nice relief from the law.
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Yeah.
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That's amazing.
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That's amazing.
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I'm glad like, you know, you're 20 and you get to, you know, still live your life as a 20 year old.
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So that's great.
Creating Your Own Path
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So your bio says that you don't find your path, you make it.
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What does that mean to you?
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I always say that when I'm doing speaking engagements, and I'm really glad you asked that because for a lot of people they may think like that kind of sounds cliche or that sounds very generic.
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But I've actually been very fortunate to be able to live that exact like quote that I just like kind of randomly came up with that I really emphasizing on people because
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I mean, it's, it's, I try to make it like what it sounds like when I'm talking to, especially groups of students.
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And I hope that my story and that quote inspires them to take a more active role in not just their education, but their lives and be like a more active player or character in it.
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A lot of times, you know, like it's, it's known, but people don't think about it like this, that, you know, education is just a tool that you can use to, to thrive and excel.
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But it's definitely not like the end all be all is not the only way.
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And even even if you like have to have to be public school, have to be in private school, have to be in charter school or homeschooling, like, you know, some people that, you know, religious purposes or whatever it may be, only homeschool or some people they have to be in public school.
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And that like is that should not matter.
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And obviously policies are working to equal that playing field.
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But at the end of the day, regardless of what you're what where you're at,
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Um, the quote is really supposed to mean that you are not going to stumble across your, your, a shell of you that you can jump into or a path of golden lights.
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Like a lot of people who are maybe taking gap years or who are just like, don't really know who they are, what they want to do, think that they'll find themselves by doing a certain thing or not doing a certain thing.
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And I always try to encourage the students to think about it as, like I said, something that we maybe know, but don't realize that we're not acting in accordance with.
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is that you have to be the active player, you have to be the driver, you have to be the main person in your life that's controlling the outcome, and you make what you want your life to be.
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And of course, some people have more tools than others to pave this path.
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And there's a fight that's going on to write policies to equalize that and give everybody the same toolbox and the same starting point, the same opportunities or the opportunities that are equitable.
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But at the same time, having that healthy mindset of this is life's not just happening to you.
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You know, this is your life.
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You make it what you want it to be.
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You create it.
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You're not walking down a predetermined path is really what it's supposed to be.
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And like I said, it might sound cliche, but when you dissect it, hopefully I inspire students to see that that's not just something I say as like a cliche or overly generic.
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It really is something that has had a lot of meaning to me in my life.
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Well, you're heading home with that, literally me.
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So I can hear I can feel your passion, you know, while you're talking.
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So what are you most passionate about right
Passion for Education Reform
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now?
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So that's a great question, because right now I I'm like I said, I'm starting my second year of teaching and what possibly might be my last year teaching before I go into public policy and not that they're mutually exclusive, but my last year of solely teaching.
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And that's exactly where my passions lie.
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My undergraduate degree was in education.
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And like we touched on at the beginning, I graduated law school last year.
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And it happened to be when, thank you, it happened to be when I was 19, but that was never the intent.
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I mean, it's been a passion of mine since I was like 13 or just starting college that I wanted to change the way the public school system looks, the way it's structured, the way it functions, the nitty gritty, the general, like all of it.
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Like I really think that it needs a
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factory reset in the sense of you just really approach it with a whole new mindset of modern day.
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It was crafted for when the country started.
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That's what it was made for.
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It was made for that population and that version of America in mind and we're very, very starkingly different now.
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Almost, one could argue, opposites now.
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And
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That's something that I mean, like a lot of things have to play catch up.
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And one of those is being a public school system and education.
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And, you know, not not everyone can private school and not everyone could do private school or charter school or home schooling or whatever it may be.
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And they shouldn't have to to be there, be their best selves and be successful and thrive.
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And that may mean 19 and a doctor, 19 and a lawyer, 19 and whatever, 13 and whatever.
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Like regardless of age though, every student should be able to thrive.
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So that's exactly where my passions lie, which is why like you hit on I ran for school board, which is why my undergraduate degree in education, I wanted to go to law school and I went to law school because combining my undergraduate degree in education with law school is crafting public policy on education.
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So that's the next steps.
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I definitely love teaching.
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I want to continue doing that.
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Like I said, it's not mutually exclusive in any way.
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But yeah, that's where my passions lie, at least career wise.
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That's awesome.
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And like, you can have multiple passions, like something that I've definitely had to learn over time is like, just because I'm in one field.
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And mind you, I have two degrees of bachelor's and a master's.
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And I felt like that I had to stay in that field, which I studied media and communications and journalism, and I had to maybe stay in journalism to go places.
Advocacy for the Crown Act
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But
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my interests are spread out so i'm like no i can do i can do a podcast i can do this too so exactly yeah that's really cool so i want to talk to you about um the crown act how did you help to pass the crown act into law in texas
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So it took a lot of work and a lot of advocacy.
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The Crown Act was proposed last session as well, or like drafted and submitted last session as well.
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But it didn't get through.
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It was published or like submitted too late, honestly, in Texas.
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They're not in session for that long.
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So when they are, it really is like just cranking out
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You know, new policies, new drafts, new bills.
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And so a lot was going on.
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And even with all of the advocacy and all the people going down to the Capitol and the press conference that we did, it was still just too late.
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You know, it didn't get to the floor and it didn't get a vote.
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So I didn't get to make it out.
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But this session, you know, like with the momentum of last session, with all the recognition and the support that it had gained over the course of between the two sessions out here in Texas, it finally got a chance to make it further in the process.
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And I like I said, I was there at the press conference last session.
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I went down to the Capitol God knows how many times over the course of this session.
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and went down and just advocated and spoke about why it's important from a student's point of view, from a teacher's point of view.
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And for those who don't know the Crown Act bans hair discrimination, discrimination based on natural hair and hairstyles, both in education and in the housing market when you're shopping for houses, selling houses, et cetera.
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So, um, that, yeah, that's what, that's what it does.
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And so I was able to speak from not only a member of Gen Z, which are the students in our public schools right now, my friends, my peers, like they are in the schools.
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Um, and you know, people that I, you know, interact with on a daily basis with it within the advocacy realm.
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So they're my peers and friends.
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And then also as a teacher and my colleagues and peers in that realm, um, that, you know, the understanding their experiences and navigating wearing hairstyles and so forth in your, in your career and not just teaching, you know, other people who,
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have been on the news and had to tame their hair.
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There are people who've been in it, like every, every medium, there's been people, I'm sure you can find somebody who will share a story about hair discrimination.
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So very important.
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And I was able to go down there and I was very happy that I was able to share those experiences and walks of life and intersectionality that I bring to the table to, you know, express to our representatives why this is so important.
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Yeah.
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And what does that mean to you and those who look like you?
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Because I recently did an interview with my natural hair and the lady that interviewed me had her natural hair out too.
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And like, it wasn't until after the fact that I realized I was like, I just did a whole interview with my, like my hair.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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Her natural hair.
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And it wasn't like a big, like, Oh my gosh, you know?
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So like, exactly.
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I mean, it's such a big win.
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It is.
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And it's things like that, like things that a lot of people maybe take for granted who don't have to experience discrimination based on their natural hair or just, you know, maybe have never come across before or didn't realize how deeply rooted it can be.
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Those microaggressions are real.
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And, you know, if you felt like while you were doing this job interview, even if she never said anything, even if she didn't even necessarily do anything overt, you can feel people's energies.
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Students can feel people's energies.
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So when their teacher is looking at them and, you know, like something like they never said anything, never did anything.
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But the student feels that that passive aggressive or that aggressive energy and those those microaggressions that they're on the receiving end of.
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And it definitely has an impact.
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It would have had an impact on you during your interview if you felt that.
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Studies show that when there's plenty of statistics, as a more broader sense and not just hair discrimination, when you make somebody, they had a test where they had, I think it was men and women, and they had them write one control group where they just wrote their name and started taking a test.
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And it was a test, like a fifth grade math test, like something that they could do.
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And then there was another group where they had them identify their gender,
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before they took the test and the women in that group did worse because you're reminded of the fact that society doesn't expect you, doesn't think that you're smart, doesn't think that you're capable.
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And even if you never, like they never said that, that was just one question about like, please also put your gender.
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And same test, nothing else changed.
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obviously a diverse group enough group of people where they would have had a same medium of like education level and understanding of the test and it's things like that where when when you're part of a group that's discriminated against or judged or something along those lines and you're reminded of it so when you're a student and you're just trying to learn but your literal dna is being discriminated against or when you're in a job interview and somebody's like yeah you know like we really like you but do you think you'd be able to tame your hair if you came and work here
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that wouldn't know that you would suddenly go from being really excited to feeling like this was not the environment for you yes yeah and so it really is a huge win for for everyone i mean every just period but on top of that especially the people who are on the receiving end of this who are just trying to navigate and thrive in this in in this country and constantly are facing discrimination and a lot of it is race-based discrimination
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or like founded and rooted in race-based discrimination, because, you know, I mean, it's our DNA.
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Like, this is exactly what it is.
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This makes us who we is in every element of it.
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So it definitely is a huge win.
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And like I said, for me as Gen Z, for me as a teacher, for me as a lawyer, for me as a person, just as somebody who lives here in this country, it's a huge win for everyone.
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But after the advocacy and the value that it really will provide, it's something that, you know, I saw and
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was really pushing.
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Yeah.
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And thank you for what you do.
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I just want to thank you for what you do.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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And keep doing it.
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So what's next for you?
Public Policy Aspirations
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kind of touched on and it's not like I there's no I haven't drafted there's nothing like right right that I drafted or planned yet but I definitely want to go into the public policy realm being an elected official I want to work with nonprofits or other companies that lobby and advocate for certain policies with elected officials there's definitely because when I say that I want to go into education policy when people ask like oh what kind of where do you want to be like what kind of where are you and I say education is what I want to work on they're like oh you know what does that look like because it's not like criminal law where that's like
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you know, very like familiar for people.
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And so there's a lot of different ways to do it.
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I always tell them you could be a representative and not that you have to be a lawyer to be a representative, but you can go into that.
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And now that you have this foundation and the laws and how to write them, how to research them, how to read them, et cetera.
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You could be a really good representative in that sense.
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And, you know, potentially and do good work and you have a solid foundation.
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And additionally, you can work for nonprofits or work with nonprofits, work with other organizations and advocates, or you could be, you could lobby.
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There's a lot of options.
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So I definitely, to answer your question in short,
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I definitely think that I want to go into public, the public policy realm deeper, whether that be with an organization or as elected official.
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But I want to continue teaching too.
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I love my students.
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Amazing.
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Amazing.
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you can do both.
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I think you can do both.
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Why not?
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Why not?
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Okay, so I'm really excited to get into these game changers questions, game changers specific questions for you.
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So are you ready?
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Yes.
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Okay, let's do it.
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So what makes you a game changer?
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So I think a lot of times, like on the, that's a great question, because I think on the surface, people would think what makes me a game changer is that I'm like the youngest person in the history of this country, the youngest black person in history of this country to get their law degree.
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And that's not ever, that was never the goal.
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Like when my mom pulled me out and homeschooled me, when I started my undergraduate degree, when I started law school, it wasn't the goal.
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Of course, the goal was to graduate within the allotted time.
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Three years is how long you're supposed to be in law school.
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Like that, of course, was the plan.
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But it was never like the beacon to be like, I want to be the youngest and I want to get this record.
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So I think a lot of what drives me and a lot of how I try to be a game changer is to hopefully lead, inspire, and relate to others and allow them to also or encourage them, I guess is a better word, to thrive and succeed in whatever that looks like.
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And so like I was hinting on earlier about the quote that I always say, I do speaking engagements all over the country, and I try to share my story with the hopes that it inspires them to be
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do the, to craft their journey in a more ambitious way and not be as passive as maybe a lot of people don't realize they are.
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And I think that with a lot of the advocacy that I'm doing, not just in politics and public policy, which also is a huge game changer for like, you know, politics is just a huge game changer for the country, but not just in that, but also encouraging and teaching other people how to do that as well, how to advocate for themselves, how to like, you know, build what they want to see, whether that be their own personal journeys or, you
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you know, building the elected officials and what they want those to look like with their votes or building the policies that they want to see by being an elected official or by advocating and reaching out to their elected officials, like really just being more active in their lives.
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And that includes public policy, that includes politics.
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Obviously, it touches everything in our lives.
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So I think to answer your question in shorter, I think that I really try to be a game changer.
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And in every facet of my life.
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And I try to do that by inspiring and leading others in a way that maybe they didn't even realize that they needed to be ignited in.
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And hopefully they'll be more active in their lives and in public policy.
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What is some game-changing advice that you've received?
Inspirational Influences and Role Models
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So some game-changing advice that I've received that I always, always, always tell my students is that,
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If you're not sure what you want to do as you're going through your high school degree and trying to achieve your, you know, get your diploma, a lot of times people will try to take a gap year or think that they need to take a gap year to figure out what they want to do.
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Potentially, you know, like saving money from going to university and not knowing or maybe wasting time.
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And it kind of is like all rooted back to the quote that I try to say because it's like generic on its face, but this is exactly why.
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That it's so much safer to start college
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get exposed to and I always encourage them to consider community college if you're not sure if college is for you there's trade school and careers and if you know that you want to go to trade school or start your career like obviously if you're not sure you can always take a community college class so much less expensive than universities you can take a college class see if college is for you you'll find out right then if college is for you and if it actually is not what you thought it was like not as hard not as difficult like as difficult transition what like you really do fit into this better than you thought
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Now you know and you didn't have to take a year to figure out to get there or figure something out.
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Like, so like in short, my mom, she gave me the advice that you don't want to stop moving.
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And I think that there's this quote, this question where it says, if you were in the exact same spot as you are right now, five years from now, would you be happy?
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And everybody always answers that question.
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No, like everybody that I've asked.
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No.
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And it's like, well, you know, like, why is that?
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And it's because they have goals and you want to achieve them.
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So basically, if you're in the same spot, you would feel like you just wasted five years, you just spawn.
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And instead of being 20, I'm 25.
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Nothing else is different.
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That's unfortunate, because I have goals.
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And then the next question is like, then why are you afraid of change?
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Like, why are you afraid of taking that step, taking keeping moving and taking a gap year with no other intention is stopping moving, at least in this academic realm.
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Again, if you're trying to like start your career, you got this job, you got this training,
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full steam.
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But if you're taking a gap year to consider college or something, you should definitely expose yourself to college classes.
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That is the best way to see if you are fit for colleges to try it.
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And if you try one class at community college, it's so much cheaper and it's not for you.
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That was one class that you took.
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It's like $300.
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And that's not like extremely affordable for everyone.
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But if you spend that gap year working to save money for that class, you try it.
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You see if you like it or not.
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Like that's still moving because you're still working toward a goal rather than like not really being, not really having a certain direction you're trying to move.
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And I like to make the analogy where if you when you're in school or when you're in your trade or when you're in your, you know, higher education or at your job, you're constantly moving.
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And as you move, things that were too far in the distance to see start to come into vision.
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So when you're getting your master's, as you're getting closer and closer to graduating, maybe new jobs are coming up that you'll be available for.
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Maybe like things that you would never have been able to see if you stopped moving because you didn't know if you wanted to get a master, you didn't know if you wanted to do this.
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As you keep moving, things will keep passing by and they'll become in your vision.
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And if you start taking college classes, you get exposed to things that maybe never would have been otherwise exposed to you.
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Like in your everyday life, you're probably not exposed to philosophy very often or psychology or whatever it may be that they're teaching you about.
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Maybe that is your passion.
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Maybe that is something that you can discover about yourself, but only if you keep moving and expose yourself to those classes.
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So that's something that my mom passed down to me and in short, basically did not stop moving.
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And I always encourage TCC or that's my local community college, but whatever it may be, or your local CC.
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And it's cheaper and transfer students just as a note get accepted.
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It's so much higher rates, even to the Ivy Leagues, than fresh out of high school students.
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So it is not detrimental if you start at community college and you're like, I wish, you know, like now I know college is for me.
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I wish I would have just went to college.
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You can still get accepted and graduate from that four-year university.
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And you'll go in with credit.
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So it won't take you four years.
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It's not a waste of time.
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It saves so much money.
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You can you get exposed and get to do the trial and error before you get there.
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So you have a higher chance of being at the top of your class like it is so so beneficial.
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So the really long answer but that is definitely what that is definitely a piece that always stuck with me and changed my life.
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infinitely is what my mom said.
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For sure.
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And your mom has some golden advice, which perfectly leads me into my next question is, who is one of your biggest role models?
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Yes, I mean, it did, because my answer is my mom.
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She is my biggest role model.
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I mean, just her life, obviously her as the mother figure and my mother in my life, obviously.
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But that aside, what she's done with her life, she's an emergency medicine physician.
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And she was born in Compton and her father was the second person shot and killed in the Rodney King civil unrest.
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So, yeah, so before like that is a huge factor.
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And what inspired her to want to be a physician is to help people.
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And and, you know, you always hear that when people, you know, like, why do you want to be a doctor?
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Like to help people.
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But like in a very much more personal tone for her own.
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seriously, like, like being emergency medicine, being there for people as as they're in their potential last seconds, like being the person who can help them and save them save their lives.
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And that that would have made all the difference for my mom and her father.
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And so she her story and obviously, that's just such a broad overview and only the beginning, but her story is so, so inspiring.
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And she's such a hard worker.
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And obviously, she was the determining and turning factor in my life, not just because I was born her
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but also because of the advice she's given me, the guidance she's given me, the coaching she's giving me, like she and continues to give me and will continue to give me.
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She's just everything.
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So yeah, definitely when people ask like, who was your biggest role model?
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Or who was the game changer that inspired you?
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Or who's like the beacon or anything along those lines?
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It's always, always, always my mom in every, every medium of my life.
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And of course, there are other amazing women out there who also inspire me.
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But
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mom's top rank yeah you pretty much you pretty much answered the question that comes after that is what makes that person a game changer what makes your mom a game changer yeah yeah she she is somebody who like oh this this this podcast she would also probably be a fascinating conversation to have with her too because her story like this is such a good podcast and such a good idea and her story is is a really awesome one i'm not biased at all
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But her story is a really, really awesome one and really inspiring, you know, not just for me, obviously, as her daughter, but also as somebody who's reflecting and is now older.
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So can take myself out of the daughter position and put myself in more of a generic position and see how she impacts other people.
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It's just it really is the world of a difference for me in my life and in so many others.
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Man, that's awesome.
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I'm thinking about my mom now.
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So.
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Yeah, for sure.
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Okay, so I want to get into some speed round questions for
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you.
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So basically, you just can respond with like one or two answers, one or two sentences, just short and sweet.
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Short and sweet, basically.
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Okay, so what's the last song that you listened to?
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Probably Calm Down.
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What is it?
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Harama?
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Yeah, there we go.
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Love it.
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Love it.
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I was listening to this song earlier.
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I love it.
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Nice.
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I finished this sentence.
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I truly believe that...
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I truly believe that if representation matters, if there's somebody in, if you could see somebody who inspires you and look up to them, it really will make a huge difference in your trajectory.
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Love it.
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My favorite book is?
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Oh, my favorite book is, I don't know, outside of like a professional academic sense, because there's way too many.
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Probably Tell Me Three Things.
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It's I love romance novels, and that's just a lovely one.
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That's actually a really good question.
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You've asked an open handle.
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Yeah, I'm going to look it up.
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It's by Julie Buxbaum.
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Okay, I'll look it up.
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I'll put it on my list.
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Thank you.
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In two words, I would tell my younger self too.
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Not stop.
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snaps snaps okay last one right now i feel right now i feel i don't know it's a time between motivated and inspired this is such a good idea for a podcast that's so oh my gosh wow
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Okay, now I'm motivated and inspired.
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Haley, thank you so much.
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First of all, thank you so much for taking the time out because I know you're moving right now.
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You got a lot going on right now.
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So thank you for being here and thank you for expressing yourself and thank you for being a game changer and doing what you do.
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I truly believe that you have a bright future ahead of you.
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So please keep up the good work for not only yourself, but the people around you, for girls that look like you, girls like me.
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So, and I just turned 26.
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So it's just super amazing to get to talk to you.
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So thank you so much for being here.
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And where can my listeners find you?
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Yeah, so on every, like I have a website and it's www.hayleytaylorschlitz.com.
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And on that, you'll find all my social media and a way to contact me and all of it.
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So that's that.
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Awesome, awesome.
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Thank you guys.
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And don't forget to be a kind person.
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You feel me?
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Bye.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much.
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That was such a good conversation.