Seleana and Timbre celebrate and discuss women's history month

 Seleana and Timbre celebrate and discuss women's history month and key historical figures that  have inspired us such as Mackenzie Scott, Malala Yousafzai and Harriet Tubman. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Welcome to Disco Podcast. Today Selena and I are celebrating Women's History Month. We both have picked key historical women figures that have not only influenced us, but also the world around us. So please join. It's gonna be a wonderful discussion. Hello, everybody. This is Timber, and with me, as always, is my host Selena.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Hello, everyone. Welcome.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Hi, everybody. Thank you for joining us and helping us celebrate Women's History Month.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Yes. March is a great month to do this. I'm glad that we're doing an episode on this and just to bring some recognition to some things. So today we're just gonna talk about some. We both um chose women to speak about today. And um, so today we're gonna talk about those women that we have chosen. And um actually, uh Timber, I think we're gonna start with one of yours.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yes. Um I chose Mackenzie Scott, um who had helped uh most of you probably know Jeff Bezos start Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 1:07

And I didn't though.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

I did not.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Remember, yeah, I did not know, but I, you know, I didn't know who she was. So I'm glad that you you I was glad that you picked her as a topic. Please go on.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Yes, a wonderful philanthropist. And also I've chose, I think I'm saying her name right, a pac uh a Pakistani female education activist is her Wikipedia title. Malala Yousafsi. That's it, Y-O-U-S-A-F-Z-A-I. I hope I'm saying her name correctly. A wonderful woman activist who um survived an assassination attempt for her speaking out on women's rights. Who did you pick today?

SPEAKER_01 1:54

So I actually um did a little bit, I realized that today was March 10th, and believe it or not, everybody, along with it being um, you know, National Women's History Month, um, today is actually um National Day of Rest for Black women, and it's chosen for March 10th, which is the day that we're recording this specifically as because of the day that Harriet Tubman passed away, and it's an honor of her to remind ourselves to also rest that it's okay, you know, even the other leaders um, you know, struggle with it. But I so I picked Harriet Tubman to actually speak about a little bit, which I know most people know. So I don't, you know, I'm not gonna drag out too much, but I just want to just speak about her and bring recognition. So we'll do that.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Could you remind me who Harriet Tubman is? Not only for our listeners, I'm sure most of our listeners know now. I know she's um I want to from a memory, she's a slavery activist.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

100%. She's so yeah, she helped, she is part of um, she helped run away slaves, like okay the whole movement, though. Like she was the beginning of it. That's what she she did. Yes, yes, that is what she did, is she um freed slaves, she brought them from the south to the north and the whole pathway and everything. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

I should know who she is by heart. I mean, and so I'm embarrassed.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

You should, you will from now. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

I will. So um I'll start and then you can talk about Harry Tubman and and then um I'll finish with Malala. Sounds good. Mackenzie Scott helped found Amazon 20 years ago. Um, granted, Amazon became a billion-dollar one of the second, what, second largest companies in the world. Um and so she she was able to get even just a few percentage of points uh off of that. I mean, I thought she was a co-founder, but she kind of helped found it, but that's beside the point. But just a few percent that she got off of the um ownership stock of it for through the divorce, she got somewhere 35 to 70 billion dollars. Um making her, I think, the richest woman in the world. And over the course of the last few years, if not right away, she gave away half of that to charities. I think to to the tag of 1,500 different charities. And she's also put in in her will to give away more, and she's continued to do so. And she's the largest single contributor to, I believe, Girl Scouts of America. The single largest contributor in the history of Girl Scouts of America. Uh which is wonderful. And the reason why I pick I picked her is like, and I know a lot of people agree with me on this, because this has been a huge discussion point, is that how much she is not only is a great person and humanitarian, but also how much she's just given away all her wealth. I mean, we don't need all that money to r really exist in that. Granted, yeah, it's great that there's billion dollar and trillion dollar companies. I mean, we're there's one that's headed towards a trillion dollars, but and they all give their money to charities, but sometimes those charities aren't as reputable as we would like. I I I like to donate a lot to charities. So I go into their financial statements, which is all I think we discussed this in another podcast. Uh, most of these financial statements are available online. So you can see how much of their financially reputable and they're not just money grabs and just giving money to their board to their board, which is what happens with a lot of charities, or even why more wealthy people form charities is kind of just redistribute the wealth and then and then take the tax the then they take the tax benefit. Mackenzie is not like that at all. She's just giving it away as much as she can. And she's doing it intelligently, she's keeping what she can to be sure it grows, and then she can give away more, which is incredibly smart as well, because it's so she knows what she has, it's so valuable. She can just keep giving this away. I mean, just the lives that she can change or an individual or any other billionaire can do to change the world is possible without really sacrificing their wealth.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

It really is, and I think that's what why so much of us get so frustrated with those billionaires, because it's like you you got enough, like come on, you know, there's there is a point. You don't have to give it all away.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

You can stay rich, but you can you you got it so much that you can stay rich and share, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Right.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

You know, so it is beautiful. I love that. That does show you know that's a beautiful soul to be able to do those things and to think in that route to to share and to donate.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

Um especially after the fact that you they they grew Amazon so large that they were able to, you know, it didn't corrupt her.

SPEAKER_02 7:35

Yeah. Yeah, which is good, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

And I hope that she influences all of us, all the billionaires, all the millionaires, and the thousandaires, everybody to give what they can and and make and make that sacrifice. Even your time is you know to donate to charity because it all it all helps. It all helps grow us as humans.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

It does, it does. And I think that like this kind of runs in. I think all three of the women that we're gonna speak about tonight, um, they all have one of those kind giving souls for people. Like that's what makes them so magnificent. Is not only do they have it, they did something with it. You know, they're contributing and doing something with it, they're not just holding on to it, um, but showing other people that it's possible and how they can do it. Because I know for sure Harriet Tubman definitely did let a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

Um, how many lives did she save?

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Uh yeah, yeah, a lot. I think that they said, uh I don't know, I think there might have been like there's thousands that she help escape, like three, you know, thousands of slaves, which is sad that there's thousands, but there's thousands, there were thousands of slaves, you know. Um yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

So tell me about Bulgaria then.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

She was she was actually amazing, like yeah. So I'll go right on into her. So she did was the person who started the Underground Railroad, which um to help free slaves. She started as a slave and then she did escape and she escaped to the north. And when she got free, when she became free, she made it her mission to help others escape as well. And um, so she started the Underground Railroad system, a lot of people, allies along the way, um, to help people the slaves in the south escape to the north where they were somewhat free. Um, they were no longer slaves, at least, you know. And uh yeah, and just her continuance to serve and to stay that way and you know, risk her life times, literally, risking her life time and time and time again.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Um, like they were saying she was killed if she was ever caught. And she was wanted, wasn't she? Right.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Um, oh yeah. Oh yeah, definitely. Because what she was doing, you know, um by freeing all the slaves. I mean, anybody for that, you know, that stops with their policing and stuff. But, you know, along the ways, like she was she was, excuse me, not only the leader, but like she was the nurse to help care for them. She also helped show them away. She was scouting, you know, she did so many things um to help ensure safeties and to ground it and to keep working and to save a lot of slaves along the way with her. Um I I her strength is unbelievable in what she did and how how many people she helped save truly did change history as we still to this day are talking about it and still, you know, um, hopefully they're still teaching about it. I'm not sure about the Underground Railroad. There's been a lot of things currently in our histories that have been taken and eliminated, supposed, yeah, yeah, suppressed, you know, but we keep telling the stories, it'll be fine. And um, but I chose her in honor of today, March 10th, um, for the National Day of Rest for Black women. I just for all women and for all people, but especially women for us, like it's important to remember to rest. I know that for a lot of for a lot of women work twice as hard to get halfway as far. Um and don't take our mental rest that we need to because we're viewed, it's viewed weak, you know, with that. But we all need to remember to take rest. Um, pour from a full cup that's overflowing. We can't pour from an empty one. So uh and and you know, stay strong and keep keep fighting and staying together and supporting each other. And that's another thing, like how ironic with her, honestly, with things that have been happening here in Minneapolis with ice and you know, so forth, kind of along the same routes of trying to protect our immigrants here, um, and the things that we have fought for, learning and seeing that it is possible to go ahead and do it because of people like Harriet Tubman.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:22

You know, so um just keep taking care of each other.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

I that's what I and remember to take care of yourself in honor of even even the women of history, even uh even lately, if a if a powerful woman speaks out, um their suppressor looked negative negatively on yes, definitely.

SPEAKER_01 12:45

Well, it's getting worse and worse because you know, well, we have you know it's becoming the people who are uh leading right now do you know do not believe. I mean, they like to put women up as a front just for it, but they don't believe that women really belong to many places, right? You know, so I mean we've seen what has happened with the layoffs.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

The women that were shot by ice. I mean, I couldn't believe the horrible things that they said about her.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Well, yeah, well, that but you know, they were saying the horrible things about both of them, whoever, every every victim. They said horrible lies about everybody, which is just insane, which is why, but we're getting off track, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

But but we wanted to talk about women's rights and uh yes and history and and recognize the power of women and and how much of an influence they've had on our lives and on the world today and through history.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

Yes, 100%. Yes, we that's exactly why we wanted to bring this up. I know I thought about I should have got someone also more current as well, but it's okay. We I'm happy with this.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

It's women's history with all month, so we could it is it is we could do a part two on next week.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Yes, we could do we could do another one next week. Yep, we could do another one next week about some other women, possibly.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

So uh women of history.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

Yes, I agree. I think we will. And then yours for is it Malala?

SPEAKER_00 14:24

I believe her name is pronounced, excuse me, I've got to look at my phone here. Uh Malala Yousafsi, if I'm pronouncing that right. And she's a um, she's a very young woman, she's not even 30 years old. Uh she's a female education activist and producer of film and television. This is all wiki by wiki. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in the in history, receiving the prize in 2014 at the age of 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only postuant to receive a Nobel Prize. Um she is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district Swat, if that's right correct pronunciation, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy this is the first paragraph. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to the former Prime Minister Shahid Kakin Abbasin, she has become Pakistani's most prominent citizen. The Taliban has also made an assassination attempt on her, and she was shot in the head too, while riding a bus. She's highly educated from Oxford. Um her organization is the Malala Fund. And um along with the Nobel Prize, Peace Prize, she's won a number of other Peace Prizes as well. And I mean there's been a number of w other women in history uh from the Middle East who've spoken up against um and for women's excuse me, for women's rights, not against women's rights, for women's rights. Right. Uh w w w spoken against the resistance and the suppression of women. Um there. And uh now Pakistan i they are um it is um women do have equal rights there. I think to a more to most of a degree. I think there's some resistance, there's some things they're still fighting for, but uh overall they're they they have equal rights. Okay, yeah. But there's a lot of Muslim uh groups that are highly, highly and violently resistant to that. So not only is she speaking out against that and for women uh in uh Pakistan, uh, but also the the rest of the Middle East and the rest of the world as well, because there this is going on. The stuff that she's fighting against is going on worldwide, even even here.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah. She still is fighting. Yeah, so young, that's so great. Right at her age. Yeah. I already have a Nobel Peace Prize to and keep fighting.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

That's I believe it is shared, but yes.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Um well she earned it with you know, fine.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

I'm just making sure that I have the information correct.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Which yes, I have to also sorry, correct my information too. Harriet Tubman, it was it was like about it was upward 300 slaves, not thousands, but 300. It was a total of 300 slaves that she helped. Excuse me, I'm so sorry, that she helped um free from slavery. Uh so sorry, I exaggerated. But let me correct myself before we end. But no, um Malala, that she's that sounds amazing. It's crazy to me because yeah, how young she is and all the things that she's already done.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

You're right. I mean, in and her recovery is long, she's actually really lucky to have survived. Um her uh scrolling her you know it's just ins inspirational that you know uh and and I wish more people were recognized, more people were um viewed, uh especially in in the public eye, because it's great that these women are being recognized for their historical impact, but there are others that uh um and I wish more were recognized.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I am happy that they are doing this, uh that that we have a month um that they go through to celebrate women because the they we women are just under recognized, underpaid, they actually do a lot of work, a lot of the heavy lifting, and we don't understand any, you know, but we do, um, and usually don't get paid nearly as much. And women have been doing a lot more, and they need to be recognized, and it's great the movement that has been formed and stay strong because women, yeah. Things would I I'm sorry, but women it would be a lot better if the world was run by women. Then I know that sounds we're gonna hear a whole bunch of different things on that, but I just think moms do better jobs and women do.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

What I'm trying to verify here, maybe you can help me out on this. Um because I'm talking about civil rights as well. I believe that black men were able to get the right to vote before women did.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

They did. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

They authorized black men to back. And then um There are equal rights for for people of color.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Um black women were last for everything.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

Wasn't that and that's horrible to think about. Black women were last for everything. That's really only really, really recently. I mean, that's almost within my lifetime. Yep. That's pretty close to ours. And we're not we're not old.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

I don't care what other people say.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

Um I feel old, but I just when I when I think about it in history, it's like holy smokes, like this is it wasn't that long ago that pretty much for everybody. Right. Everybody were were able to get rights. But now we're still now we're looking at the LGBTQ movement, and there are issues with that among women's rights. Where do what are those where do those apply? Um but but even though now we're we're into a whole nother, you know, time in history before.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Right, right.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

Those rights rights.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

It it's just I don't know why they ever took their rights away. Because it was never it was just, you know, the way it was before. And then somebody got ticked off because I guess everybody had the same rights, so they had to find a group to get mad at and take, yep, and take things out on.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Uh I mean, I I remember, you know, um transgender bathrooms thirty years ago and there's an o I mean it was kind of an iffy thing, but um but it was just n it was just coming around, but we didn't make a big deal about it. I mean there's just it was a right that I think people were still trying to fight for. Um but but just The history of human humans. I mean, we're still fighting at in women's rights. We're talking about women's rights today. So it's just it's just put it in context for other groups that are still fighting um today. But it's it's sad that today women still have to fight for the smallest rights, even the right to speak.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. To speak, to lead, to be. Um, yeah, we do have to fight for a lot for a lot of those rights. Yeah. Um, some of them though we've gotten pretty sturdy on, and you know, we we need to stand by them and keep using them. Um, but yeah, we definitely yeah, need to keep fighting. And it is crazy. Yeah, I was just watching a video that we were talking about that how uh black women were the last for everything to get anything, to get any rights, like because that's how they separated it. And they're you know, because I talked about how back first they were saying how we the people of the declaration of independence and constitution did not include black people, that what they weren't they're not included as people, and then they got that changed over they're included a portion of a person. Like, which is I mean it's well then they had to, you know, they had to come up with it's the good all American system where they come up with a way that it sounds good, but then they put the stipulations in it so that it's still the same, it's really not change, much of change. No, just the way it that they do. They come up with those. So but yes, uh but we're making progress. We are, we just gotta keep pushing, keep doing it, and keep developing more and more women like the women we've just been discussing, and things will you know, hopefully the world will start being better.

SPEAKER_00 23:58

Right. And speak up for other women too. I want to encourage men to speak up for for women, you know, uh defend them if you see if you see something wrong going on. Um it's okay to speak up. Say that's please do you know, and support your spouses and your partners and your girlfriends and your dogs and your nieces.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

You know, uh encourage them know they can and they can do whatever they would do.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

They're that they're capable of everything and anything.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

You know, I heard today on the TV that um in uh for law degrees, actually, women are getting more law degrees than men currently.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Wow, that's wonderful. I was just yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

We're doing they're doing a lot more stepping up and higher moving. No surprise to me to let them loose back.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

But yes, that's wonderful news because we we need them.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

So yeah, let's let's come up with another couple and talk about them again next week.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

I agree.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

I'll get some more current.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

I agree.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

Okay, hopefully, everybody, you enjoyed this little short one that we did kind of here, just talking about the few women, and it was inspiring for you. Yeah, a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

And uh research the women we we brought up. And if you think there's a woman that we should talk about next week, love it in the comments, yeah. Drop it up in the comments, draw uh email us through the website discopodcast.com. Yes, and uh get in touch with us because this is a serious issue. We have all month to talk about it. So uh there's several more podcasts we can actually bring up on Women's History Month.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Yes, yep, we'll keep going.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Yeah, well thank you, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Thanks, Selena. I appreciate it. Thank you, temperature so much and appreciate your contribution and what you do. And thank you too. I'll see you next week.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

Yep, see you next week, everybody. Yep, we'll do it again.