Show Notes
What if rage isn’t something to suppress—but something to use?
Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill sit down with Tarana Burke, legendary activist and founder of the ‘me too.’ movement, for a conversation about grace, getting fired, and the cathartic power of rage.
Tarana talks about losing her job (which, fatefully, super-charged the ‘me too.’ movement), the financial anxiety that followed, and the sisterhood that helped pull her through. She argues that hope is a strategy, shame is self-sabotage, and shares where, after a decade, her revolutionary movement is heading.
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