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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
281 episodes
What Patriotism Means To A Veteran (with Katie Chorbak)
Memorial Day is almost here, so we thought it was a perfect moment to check in with a veteran. Katie Chorbak isn't just any veteran -- she's passionate about helping other vets in her community adjust to civilian life and heal their...
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Women Go The Distance (with Jaclyn Friedman and Jenny Steadman)
Attacks on voting rights got you down? Tired of feeling like you can’t make a difference on a federal level? Have you considered focusing on… sex ed???Wait, hear us out! We talked to Jaclyn Friedman and Jenny Steadman from Educa...
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Safety in Numbers (with Tory Gavito)
This week, we were joined by Tory Gavito, the president and co-founder of Way To Win — they’re an organization that focuses on multi-racial collaboration to win elections. In fact, this episode itself was a mi...
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The Supreme Court Just Rolled Back Voting Rights (with Janai Nelson)
UPDATE: The Supreme Court just released their ruling on this case today, Wednesday April 29th. It's deeply upsetting, but unfortunately, not that surprising. Red Wine & Blue will be getting together for a virtual event soon to be togethe...
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Music Is Our Common Ground (with Inda Eaton)
There’s no denying that music can help us not lose our sh!t — we’ve discussed it on the pod before with authors, psychologists, political experts, and friends. Chances are, you’ve turned to a song to get yourself through a difficult moment in y...
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The Truth About Conversion Therapy (with survivor Drew Amstutz)
On March 31st — just two weeks ago — the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Colorado couldn’t ban conversion therapy for minors. They called it a matter of “free speech.”But to the nearly
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Stop the Surveillance (with Erin Stockdale and Dave Thomas)
This week on the pod, we were joined by two of Katie's neighbors: Erin and Dave. Along with a few other members of their community in Shaker Heights, Ohio, they've been working together to stop the AI surveillance company Flock from sharing the...
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Make America Healthy Again... Actually (with Emily Oster)
“Optimization” is everywhere. We’re supposed to optimize our health, optimize our parenting, optimize our career and body and every other aspect of our lives. Wellness bros are out there writing articles and producing podcasts about how data ca...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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