How To Not Lose Your Sh!t
Want to know how you can make a difference without losing your sh!t?
Join Katie Paris and LaFonda Cousin, two moms with very different backgrounds who together run Red Wine & Blue – an organization of over half a million diverse suburban women working together to defeat extremism. Katie, the org’s founder, has worked in political organizing for most of her career. LaFonda, the Chief People Officer, is a wellness expert on a mission to reimagine self-care.
Each week, LaFonda and Katie talk to experts and everyday women who are getting involved, building community, and feeling better in the process.
Episodes
273 episodes
Get Offline and Find Your People (with Shannon Watts and Emily Tluchak)
When Shannon Watts created Moms Demand Action in 2012, her intention was to give moms a way to take action on gun violence. Since then, she hasn’t just seen concrete results like stronger gun laws and closed loopholes. She’s seen the transforma...
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Season 7
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Episode 27
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35:45
How To Beat Burnout (with Amelia Nagoski)
Are you feeling burned out on politics? If the answer is no... please let us know your secret!But if you are feeling burned out like us (and basically every woman we know), then this episode is for you.We were j...
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Season 7
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Episode 26
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42:13
Neighbors vs. Data Centers (with Cathy Becker and Annette Singh)
This week on the pod, we talked to two women in Ohio who have been fighting back against an Amazon data center in their neighborhood. Cathy has been doing environmental advocacy for many years, and young mom Annette has only recently gotten inv...
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Season 7
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Episode 25
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35:10
Join The Mr. Rogers Resistance (with Amanda Litman)
Last year, Amanda Litman and her husband hosted a dinner party every Saturday. She was skeptical going into it, as an introvert and the mom of two young kids, but after a just a few weeks she realized it was one of the best decisions she’s ever...
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Season 7
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Episode 24
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37:32
Get Off The Doomsday Express (with Holli Holliday)
In 2024, Win With Black Women held a Zoom call with 44,000 women that raised 1.5 million dollars for Kamala Harris in just 3 hours. You might remember a number of similar Zoom calls around that time, from White Women Answer The Call to White Du...
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Season 7
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Episode 23
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37:25
Courage and Love (with Minnesota moms)
This week, we were joined on the podcast by two moms in suburban Minneapolis. Their upbringings were very different: Stef is a white woman from a small town in southern Minnesota and Nina grew up in Somalia, where her father was a political pri...
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Season 7
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Episode 22
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27:18
Carry Your Torch (with Kate Barr and Jill Barkley Roy)
We all know elections are important, from president to city council and school board. But have you ever heard anyone talk about running for office as self-care?We hadn’t either — until today! This week on the pod, we were joined b...
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Season 7
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Episode 21
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43:51
Unite For Springfield: ICE Out of Our Communities
Last night, Red Wine & Blue held an emergency community meeting to support Springfield, Ohio against an impending ICE surge. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for Haitians in Springield...
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Season 7
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Episode 20
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58:45
At The Breaking Point (with Malynda Hale)
Americans are at a breaking point. But that breaking point looks wildly different depending on who you ask.For many of us who have been protesting and organizing against the Trump Administration since 2016, we’re at an emotional breaking...
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Season 7
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Episode 19
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40:47
Stand Together (with Heather Cox Richardson)
On the one-year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, we are exhausted and anxious. That’s why we’re turning to our favorite historian Heather Cox Richardson to help us reflect on the year and how we can and must continue to stand strong togethe...
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Season 7
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Episode 18
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52:17
Scream In Your Car, Resist & Repeat (with Nikki Kidd and Sarah Slackert)
This week on the pod, we interviewed two moms in Chicago who were arrested last year for protesting outside of an ICE facility. Nikki and Sarah said that they wanted to draw attention to what’s happening in this country by using their privilege...
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Season 7
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Episode 17
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30:11
Moms For Good: Joining Together to Stop ICE
Last night, Red Wine & Blue held a virtual event we called Moms for Good where our community got together to process and grieve for Renee Good, who was killed in Minneapolis last week by a member of ICE. We talked about how it’s...
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Season 7
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Episode 16
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1:32:15
We're Uniting To Stop Project 2026 (with Rebecca Bramlett and Janice Robinson)
Red Wine & Blue is back from the holidays and ready to tackle 2026! So it feels right that we were joined for our first pod of the new year by two of our favorite RWB colleagues, Rebecca and Janice.All last year, Rebecca did the hard...
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Season 7
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Episode 15
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32:46
Pre-Gaming 2026 (with Jess McIntosh)
Last week, Red Wine & Blue held our last live virtual event of the year. First, Katie Paris shared some of the wins we saw in 2025 elections and how we're approaching 2026.Then we're joined by our favorite political strategist and ev...
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Season 7
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Episode 14
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41:37
Christmas Can Be A Revolution (with Rev. William H. Lamar IV)
Back in 2020, members of the violent group The Proud Boys jumped a fence and defaced the Black Lives Matter sign at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. They filmed themselves destroying the sign while chanting racial epithets.<...
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Season 7
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Episode 13
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40:17
Are You Available For Connection? (with Prentis Hemphill)
We were so lucky this week to be joined by Prentis Hemphill: a therapist, teacher, political organizer, and bestselling author of What It Takes to Heal. So often we hear women say ...
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Season 7
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Episode 12
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34:57
Media Still Matters (with Jessica Yellin)
In 2018, Jessica Yellin founded News Not Noise. She’d spent 17 years working in TV news (including as CNN’s Chief White House correspondent) and through those years, she learned that traditional news media is really good at generating anxiety a...
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Season 7
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Episode 11
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33:55
We Can Be Grateful AND Pissed
This week is Thanksgiving, so we're celebrating gratitude with the RWB fam. We heard from our colleagues about what they're grateful for this year -- from brave kids walking out over ICE to the work we get to do every day to the joys of a good ...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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21:44
Beyond "Ladies Who Lunch" (with Lily Pond)
As an introvert and first-generation immigrant who moved to her city right before Covid, Lily didn’t know many of her neighbors. But this year, she was inspired to help deliver meals for a local food bank. Once she started hearing the stories o...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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30:56
Puppies and Politics (with Sherry Luce & Stacy Kunkel)
Extremism lost big in Pennsylvania last week, from ICE-loving sheriffs to the State Supreme Court to school boards across the commonwealth. And it didn’t happen because of pundits on cable news or DC-based strategists. It happened because regul...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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30:35
Hope Won! (with Jess McIntosh)
By now, you’ve probably heard that Democrats won big across the country last night. From Governor and Lt. Governor in Virginia to Proposition 50 in California to school boards and city councils across the country, the people made their voices h...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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36:19
Our Love America Rally (with Heather Cox Richardson)
Last Wednesday, Red Wine & Blue was joined by Heather Cox Richardson for a virtual rally that celebrated America. After all, MAGA doesn’t own patriotism or the flag — and the No Kings protests last month were anything but “hate America rall...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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58:16
Let's Go To Lunch and Vote (with Andrea Pollack)
This week on the pod, we were joined by a Virginia mom named Andrea. For years, she thought she hated politics — she says it just seemed like a reason for “people to be mean to each other.” But as last year’s election drew closer, she noticed t...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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32:44
Kindness is a Power Move (with Karen Walrond)
This week on the pod, we were so excited to talk to Karen Walrond. She’s the author of books like The Lightmaker’s Manifesto, Radiant Rebellion, and In Defense of Dabbling....
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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44:14
High-Fiving for Humanity (with Jennifer Clawson)
Katie Paris met Jennifer at the gym. It’s a gym of mostly women, where encouragement and high-fives are the norm and pull-ups are celebrated alongside wins for reproductive rights. But neither woman could have predicted that their g...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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35:34