Episode 93: Taylor_ Pretty Is As Pretty Does

Profiles in Positivity!

This Week-

Profiles in Positivity: Taylor Swift

Power Word for the Week: Empathy

Train Your Brain Thought for the Week: Taylor- Pretty Is As Pretty Does

Few have never heard of the monster talent - Taylor Swift. But what make Ms Swift

extraordinary to me is her regular demonstrations of kindness, empathy and

 extreme generosity.  

#WomenEmpowerment, #WomenSupportingWomen, #EmpowerWomen, #FemaleEntrepreneur, #MeToo

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Transcript

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Greetings, welcome to the broadcast. It's good to see you. So we've been talking about suffragettes and people who, men and women, who've opened the doors of opportunity and broke glass ceilings and actually broke a lot of things, to make opportunities for women and minorities to level the playing field in business and in life in general. We've covered a lot of people in the last few episodes, and this week we're going to talk about someone who has shown a great deal of our power word for the week, empathy, and it's helped others in the form of kindness. Some have been very political motivated, and this person has been very philanthropistic, much like Mackenzie Scott, who we covered last week. And she at a very tender age has done a lot to help, especially women. And you would know her if I said bad blood or shake it off or tears on my guitar. Yep. Taylor Swift, that's right. Taylor Swift, as of this recording, is only 36 years old, and yet what she's done in that fairly short amount of time has been phenomenal. I am using some information from Wikipedia. Thank you, Wikipedia. And I also ref refer often to YouTube because there's a lot of great free information on YouTube. Today we will continue talking about Miss Taylor Swift. And our train your brain thought was Taylor. Pretty is as pretty does. I grew up listening to my mom say things like pretty girls are a dime a dozen and uh looks aren't everything. And I understood what she meant, of course, as time went by. There are a lot of pretty girls, and thanks to cosmetic surgery and makeup and hair coloring and things that you can do now, uh, even someone who's kind of ordinary can be uh very pretty. But what is that person like as a human being? Well, apparently Taylor Swift is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside. So, some basic things about Taylor Swift. She was born in 1989, as you are probably familiar with one of her albums. She has sold more than 52 million albums, and she is one of the world's best-selling music artists. She was the highest-earning female female musician of the 2010s and 2020s. She's won 14 Grammys, one Emmy, 113 Guinness World Records. She's only 36. She has won uh the American Music Awards 29 wins, Billboard Music Awards 23 wins. She said 13 number one songs, 69 top 10 hits on Billboard Hot 100, and in 2023, Forbes pronounced her a billionaire. And the thing that's noteworthy about that is that she is the first musician to reach billionaire status solely from composing and performing her songs. That is pretty darn good. And there's more, but I'm not going to go into that. The thing, uh, a couple more background things is that she was raised in Pennsylvania by her mom and dad, and she has a younger brother. Um, they ended up moving to Tennessee just outside of Nashville because Taylor started playing and singing and composing, and they saw the writing on the wall, and they helped promote her and helped her get established as a star, and it worked by the time she was the ripe old age of 14. So at 14 she became a star, and there's a sidebar here that at the age of 10 she won a poetry writing competition, which is not a surprise at all. So Taylor Swift is blessed with a lot of talent and a lot of fortitude and willing to work hard. But there's a piece of a part of her personality that is especially important, and that is her ability to feel empathy and how much better our world would be if people would feel more empathy. And she demonstrates this because she has the ability to give money in donating her money. It says that she's donated over a hundred million dollars to various charities and disaster relief in 2025. She contributed millions to food banks and hurricane relief. For example, five million to hurricanes Helene and Milton, and a million dollars for the Tennessee Tornado Relief in 2023. Under hunger relief, it says she consistently, so it's not a one-off, she consistently donates to Feeding America and other organizations million-dollar donations. It's a regular thing. Pretty good. When it comes to education and individual support, she has donated $50,000 to a family in need, $70,000 in books to a library, $113,000 to an LGBTQ organization in Tennessee. She contributed $100,000 to Dolly Parton's Fire Aid Fund and made multiple, often quiet donations to local food banks and animal shelters. There's a note at the bottom of this. It says that in 2024, it was reported that she gave roughly 197 million bonuses to her Ares Tour crew. So we can make a change. We can do a lot of things. Many of the, particularly women that I've highlighted under the suffrage, they used platforms, political platforms, and they did protests and they wrote letters and they wrote books. Well, Taylor Swift doesn't speak out as much as she helps people by donating. And we did talk about Mackenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, who is a multi, multi-billionaire, and how she's giving billions away to help others. You and I can make a difference. All of us can make a difference. And it's certainly encouraging to see someone like Taylor Swift, who seems to have anything and everything a person could possibly want, and she doesn't forget that regular people need help, and certainly people in need. And she gives very generously. And the fact that it says there's many quiet donations, so there's donations she's giving that no one will never know. So thank you, Taylor. Thank you for being a great example. This week our power word is empathy, our train your brain thought is pretty is as pretty does. And that certainly applies to Taylor Swift. In our Hey, that's funny file is Rita Radner. If you're not familiar with Rita Radner, look her up because she is hysterical. She says, I love being married. It is so great to find that special person that you can annoy for the rest of your life. Crazy Rita. Thanks so much for joining me this week. Keep building your dreams and a life that you love because you deserve it. And keep remembering others. Show empathy and generosity because every time we do that, we're making the world a better place. Right? So have a great week, and I'll see you again soon. Take care.