In the meantime…

Jen shares unfiltered, unedited commentary on the Summer Edition, letters 190 to 195! 📝💛

Timestamps

• (00:00:00) - Episode 190 Commentary - Trailer

• (00:05:00) - Episode 191 Commentary - Robin’s Letter

• (00:28:00) - Episode 192 Commentary - Claire’s Letter

• (00:47:30) - Episode 193 Commentary - Nance’s Letter

• (01:11:00) - Episode 194 Commentary - Letter by Sofie’s Ate

• (01:33:30) - Episode 195 Commentary - Wanda’s Letter

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In this letter, Wanda (aka “Woke Woe”) replies to Nance (Episode 193). She acknowledges their fast friendship, activism, and the busyness that ultimately took Nance away, leaving Wanda with many unanswered questions.

If someone saying ‘I love you’ still left you feeling unloved, this letter is for you.

Letter 195 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is the Summer Edition.

In this letter, an older sister writes to Sofie, her younger sister. Despite the older sister being raised to raise Sofie, they were often mistaken for twins growing up because of how much they enjoyed being sisters. Even as their paths diverged — different colleges, different cities, and a decade apart — they still felt fondly about each other. At least, that’s what the older sister thought.

When Sofie returns home, the older sister begins to see who her younger sister has become: a social justice warrior returning to save her oppressed mother. Soon enough, the older sister realizes who Sofie is saving their mother from.

If you ever grappled with a family member coming home completely changed from childhood, this letter is for you.

Letter 194 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our Summer Edition.

In this letter, Nance writes to Wanda, the loud-and-proud president of a Filipino student organization who felt like the big sister she never had. Even though she was too nice to say no, Nance found purpose and belonging with Wanda and the organization's members. But when the activism began to feel more than she could keep up with or express, she did what she’s always done when things get overwhelming.

If you ever got too busy to say what you really wanted to say, this letter is for you.

Letter 193 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our Summer Edition.

Claire’s new friend invites her to a dinner party, a refreshing change from the Filipino parties she’s used to. That is, until she meets Marco.

The moment he finds out she’s Filipino too, the evening takes a sharp turn toward assumptions, unsolicited opinions, and questions she didn’t anticipate having to answer. Claire thinks very carefully about her response the next time her friend invites her to another party.

If you’ve ever felt stereotyped by another Filipino, this one’s for you.

Letter 192 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our Summer Edition.

In this letter, Robin writes to Lolo G, their late grandfather, who loved them deeply. But his love was expressed with gender expectations about how a girl should move, dress, speak, and carry herself.

It was in Robin’s young adult years that they discovered the language and pronouns to voice who they really are, who they’ve always been. Then, before their 30th birthday, they’re ready to come out to their grandpa and family.

If you’re finally ready to show and tell everyone who you really are, this letter was written for you.

Letter 191 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our PRIDE Month special and Summer edition.

I’m your host, Jen Amos, here to read aloud letters inspired by real conversations with you!

It all begins with one line:

If I could say one thing...

Because sometimes one thing is all we need to take up a little more space. 💛

First letter releases next Friday! Stay tuned! 🎧

We got the writer’s commentary for:

• Episode 186 - Hana’s Letter

• Episode 187 - Ren’s Letter

• Episode 188 - Mari’s Letter

• Episode 189 - Mia’s Letter

Happy reading! 🤓📖

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Jen shares unfiltered, unedited commentary on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month edition from May!

Timestamps

• (00:07:30) - Episode 185 Commentary - Trailer

• (00:26:00) - Episode 186 Commentary - Hana’s Letter

• (00:51:00) - Episode 187 Commentary - Ren’s Letter

• (01:20:30) - Episode 188 Commentary - Mari’s Letter

• (01:35:30) - Episode 189 Commentary - Mia’s Letter

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This letter is for the working mom who was a proud career woman — until she became a mother.

In this letter, Mia writes to her twin sons as an empty nester. She’s now honest about who she was when they were young, and the real struggle she faced as a career-driven woman to surrender to motherhood. She doesn’t shy away from acknowledging how much she had to compromise and the guilt and resentment that came with it. Yet, along the way through the growing pains of being a working mother, something unexpected happened.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you can be a devoted mother and still be the ambitious woman you were before, this letter was written for you.

Letter 189 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations.

This concludes our AAPI Heritage Month edition. Thanks for listening, and we’ll resume in the summer!

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In this letter, Mari grows up in the Philippines as “the white girl,” the only fair-skinned mestiza in her Filipino family. When her dad moves them to America, she’s excited to finally belong. But she finds herself sitting in an ESL class, staring into a mirror she doesn’t recognize herself in, and taking part in a years-long project of blending in.

Then, in college, a Filipino woman shows up in her social media feed — proud, loud, and unapologetically Pinay. And Mari cannot stand her. But every time this woman appears in her feed, something in her ignites. So she does what any reasonable person does: she goes deeper into her feed.

If you have ever followed someone online and felt a rage you couldn’t explain, this letter was written for you.

Letter 188 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our AAPI Heritage Month edition.

Question: I have a paid membership. Where’s my bonus content?

Right now, bonus content will be provided in the off-season, starting June 5th.

In the meantime, if you have any burning questions about any of our published letters, you can always ping Jen in our Family Potluck Group Chat or reply to any of our newsletters.

Messages are typically checked on Fridays. 💌

This letter is for the Filipino American woman who has spent her whole life showing up for everyone around her, and only recently started to wonder what that has cost her.

In this letter, Ren grows up as her mother’s emotional confidant, her younger brother’s stand-in parent, and the steadiest friend and partner anyone around her has ever had. She has always been the one holding everyone else together. And for a long time, she believed that was love.

But after one relationship too many ends the same way, what begins to surface in Ren is something painful and wordless that she has been carrying for a very long time.

If you have spent your whole life showing up for others and somehow (maybe shamefully) still feel unloved, this letter was written for you.

Letter 187 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our AAPI Heritage Month edition.

May is also Mental Health Awareness Month 💛

It’s okay to say that you’re not okay. If you think you may need help, check out the Asian Mental Health Collective:

AMHC was founded in 2020 by community members who have lived with mental illness, therapists, and advocates. It began with a viral Facebook group and in-person meetups for Asians to talk openly about their feelings. We broke barriers by creating the first and largest Asian therapist directory. We also hosted the first online Asian Mental Health Conference. Over the years, we’ve inspired tens of thousands of people to join the conversation.

While the organization has evolved, AMHC is still all about community. We build online spaces for folks looking to connect, share, and learn about the intersections of mental health and Asian identity.

We also know that, for most of us, Asian identity is complex. Though we’re all Asian in the diaspora, we have varied cultures, languages, backgrounds, and traditions. Our differences interweave to create a strong and diverse community.

We want mental health care that acknowledges and understands these identities, rather than erases them. We offer free therapy, support groups, and learning communities that do just that.

Whether you’re just beginning your mental health journey, or are well on your way, this space (and community) is for you.

— Source, About AMHC

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This letter is for the Filipino American woman who has spent years being asked that second question: “But where are you really from?” She learned to answer it smoothly and playfully, without letting anyone notice that being asked the question felt like a wound that kept reopening.

In this letter, Hana grows up caught between two worlds. Her American friends see her as foreign. Her Filipino family wishes she could speak their dialect and understand the cultural nuances. But on a college stage, performing mid-song, she discovers how the space created by the pause within a song can change everything.

If you’ve ever felt like you were too much of one thing and not enough of another — this letter was written for you.

Letter 186 is part of The Filipino American Woman Project’s letters series, inspired by real conversations. This is our AAPI Heritage Month edition.

I’m your host, Jen Amos, here to read aloud letters inspired by real conversations with you!

It all begins with one line:

If I could say one thing...

Because sometimes one thing is all we need to take up a little more space. 💛

First letter releases next Friday! Stay tuned! 🎧

Reminder: Our Quarterly Vision Board Check In takes place today (MAR 27) at 1 PM (PT) / 4 PM (ET)!

See you soon! If you want to just drop in and say hi, we’re happy to have you, too! 🤗

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If you could reflect on one thing, it’s this:

What’s holding you back from sharing your story?

We’re closing out our final week of celebrating Women’s History Month!

If you’re tuning in for the first time, check out The Library of Congress and the National Women’s History Museum to learn more.

Throughout the years of hosting our podcast, I’ve been told, “My story isn’t worth telling.” Or maybe you’ve felt the pressure or the risk to share something you’re not ready to share.

If this is where you’re at right now, that’s okay. 💛

Our show exists to share our stories through fictionalized letters for a reason. As I’ve said in my recent feature:

“...at the end of the day, it’s you. You are the one in these letters. You are the one embodying them. These are your letters—the words you never knew you needed to say, the feelings you’ve never been able to name, and the solutions you’ve been searching for.”

However, if you’re finally feeling the urge to share your story, consider this thought…

You don’t have to share your story; you get to share your story.

Isn’t it great knowing you have a platform like TFAWLETTERS.COM to unapologetically take up space?

And if there’s even a small chance that your story could help someone feel seen, understood, or less alone... wouldn’t it be worth sharing?

As we wrap up Women’s History Month, I encourage you to reflect on these questions.

And, of course, if you’re ready, share your story. 💛

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This concludes the PenPal (Off-Season) Edition of The Filipino American Woman Project. Thanks for reading!

The podcast returns for May’s AAPI Heritage Month! 🎙

If you had no fears or consequences, how would you picture your future?

Happy Women’s History Month!

This is our second-to-final week of sharing reflections on what Women’s History Month represents and how it can serve as a loving reminder to share our own stories.

Women’s history shows us what’s possible.

One of the most powerful things about learning our history is that it expands our understanding of what’s possible. The lives of women who came before us show us paths we may never have considered. Their stories remind us that there are always more possibilities than the ones we first see or were taught to see.

Women’s history shows us what else we can do.

On our show, we’ve heard many stories of Filipino American women feeling pressure to select careers based on how well they could support their families (…often at the expense of their personal aspirations).

At the same time, we’ve heard many stories of women who pursued what they wanted anyway or somehow found the right balance.

For the women I admire, especially those who paved their own paths, it was because they believed in themselves, even when it seemed impossible, even when they had no examples around them to follow.

But how do you become something you have yet to see?

Yes, history is important. But our stories are still being written. We can dictate what history can look like for the next generation.

It begins with a vision board.

How do you become something you have yet to see? How can we help one another expand our possibilities?

We start by visualizing it.

Our history may be spotty. But our future doesn’t have to be.

The women before us showed us what’s possible. Now it’s our turn.

You’re invited to our Quarterly Vision Board Workshop

Sometimes, it’s easier to show what we want than say what we want. If you’ve been on the fence about attending our free vision board workshop, now’s the time to RSVP for next Friday, March 27th.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, I invite you to visualize what’s possible for you, based on what you truly want. Let’s do this together!

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💛 Jen

P.S. First-timers will receive a special gift! 🎁

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What is the most common assumption people make about you?

Happy Women’s History Month!

This is week two of sharing reflections on what Women’s History Month represents and how it can serve as a loving reminder to share our own stories. 💛

One reason our history matters is that it helps us move beyond stereotypes and assumptions. When we learn about the lives of women from all walks of life, we begin to see how complex and nuanced those stories really are.

Our stories reveal that there is never just one way to be a woman.

For most of us navigating multiple identities (i.e., personal, cultural, or professional), assumptions can undoubtedly feel limiting (and annoying!). When these assumptions are chronic, it can even feel traumatizing. We ask ourselves, “Do I even belong here?”

• Have others assumed you’re quiet when you actually have strong opinions?

• Have others assumed you’re traditional when your life has taken an unconventional path?

• Have others assume they already knew you the moment they found out that you were Filipino?

I have personally found that, when given the time and opportunity, sharing my story helps my relationships move past assumptions.

Depending on how they respond, I can see the fuller picture of that person, too. And often, I find that we have much more in common than we first thought.

This is one reason our show exists.

Our letters give us the space to provide the context that first impressions often miss.

Sometimes all it takes is one honest reflection to shift how someone understands us.

So this week, in celebration of Women’s History Month, I’m inviting you to reflect on this question:

What am I often mistaken for, and how can I provide people with more context?

If you’d like, you can start your reflection with a simple line:

“If I could say one thing about what people assume about me, it’s this...”

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💛 Jen

P.S. For FAQs about Submitting a Letter, click HERE.

We’re two weeks away from our Quarterly Vision Board Check In (March 27th), join us!

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Who has shaped you into who you are today? Was it one woman or many?

Happy Women’s History Month!

Over the next four weeks, I’ll be sharing reflections on what this month represents and, more importantly, how it can serve as a loving reminder to share our own stories.

After all, history is simply a collection of stories.

So why not ours? 💛

Women’s History Month has been a national celebration since 1981 to recognize the contributions women have made throughout American history, across families, communities, and in every field. It’s our time to honor those who came before us and the impact they’ve had on shaping the world we live in today.

But history isn’t only written in textbooks.

For us, it often lives in the stories we cherish about the women who raised us, guided us, challenged us, and believed in us. Our stories are of courage, sacrifice, and often, thankless impact.

Based on the conversations we’ve had on our show, many of us have been greatly shaped by our mothers, grandmothers, aunties, sisters, girlfriends, and generally, a collection of women.

Yet many of those stories were never written down. For many of us, storytelling happens through conversations shared at dinner tables, family gatherings, and in learning how to connect the dots between generations.

We embody each other's stories, but rarely document them.

Until now…

TFAW Letters is a space to record personal stories that have shaped us, not the famous stories found in history books, but the intimate ones that influence our lives both visibly and invisibly.

Sometimes the most powerful stories are the ones that are finally shared out loud.

So this week, in celebration of Women’s History Month, I’m inviting you to reflect on this question:

Who helped shape the path you’re on today?

If you’d like, you can start your reflection with a simple line:

“If I could say one thing to (the woman, or women, I want to thank), it’s this...”

Submit A Letter Today

Already Subscribed? Check out the footer of our previous emails to learn how to submit a letter today. You may include your name or remain completely anonymous.

Women’s history isn’t only something we study. It’s something we continue to write together, one letter at a time. 📝

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FAQs: Submitting A Letter to TFAWLETTERS.COM

Note: Audio version is available for First Readers. Enjoy the edited transcript!

Jen Amos: Hello there, First Readers. I am really excited to candidly answer some frequently asked questions that I have received regarding submitting a letter, in hopes that this will make people feel safer and more comfortable, and free to submit a letter how they please.

So, the first question is…

Who can submit a letter?

And the answer is: anyone.

When you visit our mailbox, there’s a link to submit a letter that’s only available to our subscribers. So if you’re not subscribed (although anyone listening to this will already be subscribed), all you have to do is just subscribe for free, and in the footer of every newsletter for your subscription level, there’s a button where you can visit our mailbox and submit a letter.

Now, when you submit a letter, you’re gonna be taken to a Google form, and you can fill it out anonymously. If you want me to contact you, then you can add your email. But otherwise, I have no idea who submits letters.

My hope is that anyone who wants to submit a letter does so in a way that frees them. Maybe something they’ve been holding in for a long time, something that they were afraid to say out loud, or something that they don’t know how to say in a way that they won’t regret later.

The benefit of submitting these letters is that you can submit them as is, because the next common question I often get is…

What happens when I submit a letter?

I work with an amazing team that takes inspiration from your submission, similar submissions, and conversations to create the first draft. Now, of course, depending on the letter, depending on how descriptive it is... just depending, most of the letters so far have rarely been that someone submits something and we’re like, “That’s perfect, let’s read that on the show.”

At the end of the day, this is my creative interpretation of these letter submissions and similar conversations. So we take inspiration from your letter, but we don’t read it verbatim on the show. We put a lot of love and care into trying to capture the spirit of what you’re trying to say in the way that we understand it. ‘Cause we’ll never entirely know, especially if you’re submitting anonymously, we’ll never entirely know exactly what you’re trying to say. All we can do is take inspiration from your submission, interpret it in a way we can relate to, and put it in a letter.

Even then, it gets put into a first draft. So the first draft can pull inspiration from your submission, other people’s submissions, and conversations our team has had that we can relate to, and pour it into this draft.

So already, I want you to hear that this is not me just taking your letter and reading it verbatim on the show. In celebration of being Filipino and the spirit of kapwa, which is, “I am because we are,” having that collective spirit... it takes a village to write these letters.

So hopefully you find some comfort in knowing that. It really just means that you can say what you really wanna say. We wanna listen, and we wanna capture the heart of what we feel like you’re saying and channel it into a first draft.

Now I say first draft because ultimately I have to read it on the show. What is written down is not always exactly what can be read on the show. It’s one thing to read something, and it’s another thing to speak it. Reading and speaking are different, and it’s highly dependent on my own style of speaking.

So the first draft goes through a couple of iterations as I practice reading it out loud. Now, if you wanna hear the first draft, I do a cold read for First Readers. First readers (like you, who are listening to this), when I am reading it out loud fresh, I am pulling inspiration from that. Or I am switching certain words around that I feel comfortable with saying because I have to make sure that I’m speaking as authentically as I can. This is not just about reading your letter; it’s about sharing a part of myself in your letter, too.

Overall, it takes a village to write these letters, let alone speak them out loud. There are certain things I may not be comfortable saying, and there may be other ways I would prefer to say them.

So just as a recap, anyone can submit a letter. You don’t have to really answer all the questions. The questions are there in the Google form to get your creative juices flowing. But ultimately, you can share as much as you wanna share. Our team takes inspiration from that letter; we may categorize it with similar submissions and have a dialogue about it, along with similar submissions. And together, we work on writing a first draft, and then I work on the final draft that gets read on the podcast.

When I say that I work on the final draft (and this is part of the cold read for first readers), I literally read it out loud and allow my natural voice to rephrase some things, change others, or keep things as they are in real time. It just highly depends on how it flows.

Now, the next question is:

When does the letter get released?

I’ll tell you, there are some letters that took months to put together. Not because it’s overly complicated, but because, like cooking, you just gotta let some things stew for a while.

So that’s why, in the off-season, in the pen pal edition, I have nearly a handful of first drafts that have been written. But it’s important to give the drafts some time to stew, to sit, and let us process before we revisit them and say, “okay it’s time to practice reading these out loud.”

So also dependent on whether the letter is relevant for a given season. Like upcoming, we have Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which we’ll probably curate the letters that talk a lot about heritage.

In the summer series, like last year, it’ll probably just be a variety of letters. And then in October, we have Filipino American History Month, so that’ll likely be history-centric. And then we have the holiday series, which will ideally revolve more around family, friends, or chosen family. But again, it depends heavily on whether the letter is ready.

The key takeaway I want you to get is that I hope that you treat submitting a letter like a wishing well. Like leaving a lock on a special fence and leaving that lock like a wish, or you throw a coin in the water, treat it like a wishing well. Treat it like, “Here’s a secret of mine that I just wanna release and just put it out in the world.” The act of just putting it out there, I have personally found to be a therapeutic experience.

And this is what my letter submission people who talk to me say, “Wow, it’s so freeing. Even though the person I want to hear this may never hear this, I’m glad that I was able to get it out there. I’m content because I found the words to articulate what I really wanted to say.”

Because sometimes the one thing you’re really trying to say to someone is the one thing you are trying to identify for yourself. It could just be the one thing of what do I really need? From that person? For myself?

And sometimes just getting it out there helps you uncover what it is you really want out of all of this.

So, what is the one thing you’re really trying to say?

Okay, last question:

What if I don’t like the final letter?

What I would say is: if you don’t like the final letter, I’d like you to recall the last time someone said something about you that you didn’t like to hear. Someone told you an honest truth about yourself that you just completely deny, or you don’t believe is true. And I’d like you to take that same feeling and see the final letter that way.

Again, keep in mind that most of these letters embody the spirit of our shared experiences on a given topic or issue. And if you don’t like it, consider understanding why. Take it as an opportunity to reflect, and maybe what you put out there... maybe what you submitted wasn’t clear enough. Maybe what you said wasn’t really what you were trying to say.

Sometimes we can say things to certain people, and it just goes over their head, right? I’m sure you’ve given people plenty of advice, and they just don’t listen to you. The same thing could be said about, “Hey, let me try to express to you how I really feel.”

Sometimes, for example, people will express anger when really they’re scared. And so hopefully the letter gives you that friction to be like, “That’s not what I meant to say.”

If you feel that way, if you have that kind of reaction, take that as a moment of reflection and ask yourself, “Okay, what did I really mean to say?” And really observe, “Okay, what I really meant to say is this... But apparently, the letter came out this way. I said one thing, but you interpreted it another way. Now, next time, how can I articulate this in a way that you will understand what I’m trying to say? ‘Cause apparently what I said didn’t come across the way I needed to be understood.” So people won’t always understand what we mean to say.

In any romantic relationship, I’m sure we can all relate to the fact that our significant others won’t always understand what we’re trying to say. And I want you to understand that, if the final letter didn’t represent you, maybe it’s not what you wanted to hear, but what you needed to hear.

Anyway, I hope that helps, and last but not least:

Can I send an audio message?

And the answer is: absolutely! I personally like to use Otter, otter.ai. I do have a referral link where you can sign up for a one-month trial — just click HERE.

Really, all you need is a month, if not less, to just submit one or a few audio messages to me. Otter.ai automatically transcribes what you’re saying. So it makes it easier for me to accept that transcript as your letter submission. Once you record, email me so I can give you the next steps for submitting it!

And there you have it! Those are the frequently asked questions I get when submitting a letter.

I hope that this eases your fears and reassures you that this is really a wishing well. This is an opportunity to release something, like having a balloon, or a floating lantern (Disney’s Tangled, anyone???), and release it to the sky, kind of thing. And I hope this reassures you that we’ll go to great lengths to represent you while respecting your privacy.

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Submit a letter (check the footer of previous emails), and I can’t wait to read yours in the upcoming season!

Bye for now.

💛 Jen

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Facebook’s Video Storage Policy Is Changing: Download Your Old Live Videos In The Next 90 Days

Initially, this was a shocking email to me, as I’ve documented our original interviews exclusively on Facebook Live from 2017-18. 😳

I appreciated the heads up, and quickly hustled to save every. single. video.

If you visit our Facebook page today, you’ll find that our full live interviews are no longer there.

I sigh with relief, reminding myself that I saved as much as I could. 😮‍💨

The replays currently sit in my Dropbox. I’ve been meaning to re-upload them on YouTube or here on TFAWLETTERS.COM. But I’m just not ready to do that yet. I have so much to look forward to with our upcoming letters releasing in May for AAPI Heritage Month. It’s just not a priority for me to go back right now.

But I’ve said before that I always want to ensure our public interviews are available and accessible, which is why I started on Facebook Live in the first place.

So thanks to Dropbox’s new AI-generated transcript feature, I figured I could just share my personal archive. 👐🏽

Access Archive

When you access my archive link (desktop preferred), here are a couple of handy features to try out:

1. Select “Transcript” (on the top left of the screen) to view each interview’s AI-generated transcript.

2. You can set the interview speed (on the bottom left of the screen) as slow as 0.5x or as fast as 3x.

3. Create a free Dropbox account to leave a comment (on the top right of the screen).

Why am I resharing these videos?

Well, as embarrassing as some of them might be (c’mon, when was the last time you shared old videos of yourself from a decade ago???), sharing these is beyond me. I’ve heard over and over again that representation is important to our listeners. So I want to do my part by preserving what’s already been documented.

I’ve come to understand that representation doesn’t have to be perfect; it can be raw and unfiltered, like these livestreams.

Of course, our show has evolved since then, but I always like to remember where we came from, where we started.

And I hope you do, too. 🤗

I hope you see a part of your story in these original interviews, as I have. I hope they inspire you to take up a little more space. 💛

And if you appreciate my efforts, consider supporting the show. Again, not for me, but for future listeners and future letter submissions.

And most of all, for you.

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