This Is Where It All Shifted

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Episode Title: This Is Where It All Shifted

Episode Description

Christi brings her partner and co-founder to the mic for a proper introduction to the Sassy Politics crew. Kelsey Jean is the First Link at Linked We Stand, and if you've been in the Discord or caught the livestreams, you're about to understand why she's become such a vital part of this community.

This episode is unscripted, chaotic, deeply sincere, and absolutely worth your time.

In This Episode

Christi and Kelsey sit down to talk about how they found each other, why they decided to build Linked We Stand together, and what's actually happening in those Friday and Saturday night livestreams on TikTok, YouTube, and Discord.

Fair warning: there's laughing, there's water spilled on electronics, and there's a moment that will genuinely move you.

Key Topics

•  How Christi and Kelsey met and bonded over early morning carpool rides and recognizing what nobody else could see 
•  The phone call that changed everything 
•  Why Linked We Stand exists and what it's building 
•  A real story about community recognition that happened at an Indivisible event 
•  What purple branding actually means 

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Call to Action

Follow Kelsey and Christi across Linked We Stand and me on Sassy Politics, tap into the livestreams, and get connected to the community that’s building something real.

See you next Tuesday for a new episode of Sassy Politics.

Transcript

Chaotic Welcome And Guest Intro

SPEAKER_04 0:00

I don't even know where I start. I finished the live. We went live on YouTube, and I realized I needed to give Kelsey Jean a proper introduction. So I put my headphones back on and I'm here to tell you a little bit about Kelsey Jean because she's not going to, right? Um, there's a lot of laughter in this episode, and I just I don't even know because I haven't edited it yet, but uh it's chaotic. It's chaotic just like our friendship. I just I'm lucky to have a Kelsey in my life. She is a funnel of energy, a chaotic mess, and so vivacious and amazing. Um yeah. Kelsey Jean. Cool ass motherfucker. And I know she will love that intro. So without further ado, Kelsey Jean. I'm Christy Chanel, and this is Sassy Politics. I'm in Linked We Stand right now. Let me go to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Me and I'm being I love that song.

SPEAKER_04 1:25

There is a lip sync that I was trying to do before you popped on, and I'm like, I just I'm out of the moment now, so I'm really I can't imagine.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

I'm not doing it for the baby.

SPEAKER_01 1:38

That is your thing. You're comfortable in that space. One of these days, this is gonna come so natural to me, and we're gonna look back, like have video proof of to go back and be like, oh that was embarrassing for you.

SPEAKER_04 1:56

The archive that I have on Link to We Stand is great, is really, really big, actually. Large.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

We'll have a blooper reel.

Why Linked We Stand Started

The Hardest Question: Who Am I

SPEAKER_04 2:07

So I felt it was time that I brought Kelsey on the sassy politics show. Uh, we have been working together, uh I'm gonna say almost every day, it's pretty close, um, on launching Linked We Stand, which is the community and bridge that we're building from sassy politics to Linked We Stand. And uh it's it's really fun. I think the journey is really where the best part is, and I want to share that journey with you. I'm Christy Chanel, and this is Sassy Politics. This is the part, Kelsey. Okay, first of all, I have to say before we got get into this fully, I am thoroughly impressed with your speaking ability. Not that I ever thought that you couldn't speak. I'm saying this is it's not an easy thing to do, you know? Um, and when I have you on lives, you when you get rolling, you're a vibe. You're definitely a vibe. And you're you're really good. Uh you're soft, you're you're warm, and that's inviting for people to listen to, you know. So I just wanted to say that I am very impressed with what I've seen so far. Um I think you're welcome. I think this is gonna be nothing. Honestly, it's a little bit different because this is a show, and so there has to be content. But I have to tell you, we just went live on TikTok, and that was a show. We did a whole show and it flowed. There was an ending, it was it was really good. I'm gonna have content from that live the entire week. It's it's got a lot of good little highlights in it. I'm super happy, and I'm hoping that we can do some shorts here, and I'll put them on sassy politics. But back to you. Um I hate the most. So I call Kelsey the first link. Um, I'm the founder link, and she's the first link. Um, she is in Phoenix. So uh luckily I'm able to see her when I've come into town for work, and she also can see me when she comes into Dallas for work. So, Kelsey, tell me a little bit about yourself. My first link of LinkedWe Stand.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

I feel like this should have come with a warning or like a hate. I know. It I don't even know where to begin because everybody gets a different version um of myself. I would say I this is my passion fully. And when you and I connected, that was really kind of what bonded us. Um, I am about the power of the people and taking care of each other and building community, um, spreading love, spreading kindness, and not just in a woo-hoo uh kind of way, but being very intentional in every single interaction that I have with people um throughout life. I'm also not perfect. I'm human, I stumble, I snap on people, but I I really think that the only way to get us out of where we're at currently and this political mess is to lean on each other. And I'm a big believer, again, we're all human, and that's the one thing we all have in common. So we gotta show up for each other. We gotta remember that we have to have each other's back, we have to be looking out for your neighbor, and it bothers me when people don't. I don't like rude people, I don't like people who are not genuine or who are dishonest. And I I don't know how to put that into words of like that is my passion of just just loving on people and just trying to make the world a better place and just spread world peace and kind of I just I want to be a hippie. Like I think that was probably me in my past life of I kind of grew up in this this other era. Um but I've I I'm always drawn back to people in all of the jobs that I've had. It's always kind of the center of what I do and helping people, sitting with people. I love sitting in the darkness with people. I love working with you on our logo and how we've talked about kind of the light and the dark and duality and philosophy um of life. I love stoicism and stoic philosophy. Um, and I try to apply all of those principles into my life and just be the best person that I can and show up the best for everybody around me because it just drops seeds.

SPEAKER_04 6:46

Okay, so I'm gonna ask the question again. Who are you, Kelsey?

SPEAKER_01 6:49

Who am I?

SPEAKER_00 6:51

No, I don't know. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Why do we have to work through this publicly? I don't fucking know.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Um that was so good.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

That is true that I am though. Like, I don't fucking know. I I am I'm trying to figure it out. Um I'm trying to figure it out every single day. And I don't know if I'll ever fully have an answer to it. I mean, I'm a different person. I mean What's your favorite color? That depends on my mood. I don't know. I don't have a favorite color, I don't have a favorite song, I don't have a favorite fucking movie. Like, I don't, I don't know. It's just wherever the wind takes me that day is what I like and what I'm into. I don't know what I'm gonna say. Like, we're all hearing this for the first time together. I have no script, I don't plan shit. I just show up and I say whatever comes out, and it either works or it doesn't, and sometimes it doesn't. Like, I it doesn't work. Um, I don't know. Welcome to the the shit show, I guess. Sorry, this is why I wasn't allowed on the podcast. This is why you've been worried to introduce me. This was gonna go sideways. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 8:20

Okay, I have to tell you, I laugh with her all the time. But I okay, I just I didn't think I could stump her that fast. I should I wanted to I wanted to work my way up to it.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

Like, who are you? That was it. No, that's like the hardest question of my life. You can give me anything else. Like, how do we solve this complex like puzzles, riddles, problems, figure out a pattern? Like, I I can do all of that. That is fine. You put me in the hardest room, you put me in darkness with people of the lowest times, and I thrive. I love that. But you make me talk about myself and figure out who I am. I don't want to do that.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

I wasn't I wasn't trying to go deep. I promise. Oh my god. I promise. I was just asking the basics, like, where do you live?

SPEAKER_03 9:04

Um I live in Phoenix.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

I um I have a job.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

I do I'm off of work. I work for people getting there. I don't know if I mentioned like my love of people. Um I um I'm a mom. But that's literally, so I don't love to lead with that. Um I love my kids, but that is not that that's not who I am. That is a role that I I take on. Um and I'm very lucky to do that, and it's fun, but I have a dog. I have two dogs. My favorite color is green. I love trees. I I feel like I'm the start of that love on the spectrum show of like she likes trees and nature, and she just likes spiders. Chocolate on fruit.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

I I fruit on chocolate. I'm sorry, not chocolate on fruit. She's deep, uh, clearly, because I just wanted to know who she was. And it's like an album went off.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

That's what we're just talking about on this live. Of like, I just I just show up and create chaos. I am a disruptor, is probably the best. Oh, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:40

So definitely a disruptor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Cut. When you go back, you find when I do this, that means cut. So you're gonna say, who am I? I'm a disruptor.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

I am I like to cut. Oh, oh no, that was gold. That is staying. That is so stang. Nice try though.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

There's no cut yet. I see myself on this other screen, and all I see is just how the queen is.

Finding Each Other In A Messy Moment

SPEAKER_04 11:13

All you see is me laughing like this. Okay. My voice is gonna be scratchy now because I've been laughing my ass off for the last five years. We are professionals. We are professionals. All right. Well, if Kelsey has trouble telling us who she is, let me tell you what I've learned about her. How's that? Oh. Um Kelsey is a whirlwind.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Right? Scrappy. Sorry. Kelsey interrupts too. Kelsey's gonna sit on her hands and shut the fuck up and let somebody else talk. Try, I'm trying to keep it together here. Getting punchy, it's the end of the night.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

I'm just Kelsey is a whirlwind. Um, we work together in our daytime adult jobs, and we had to do a leadership program. I got to sit with Kelsey almost, I'm gonna say 90% of the time in those three weeks. She's a whirlwind. I drove with her in the first week a lot. The driving. So we would meet downstairs and we would wait on one specific person. That was our bond. So we rode together a lot, and in that I learned who she is in the morning. She's she is a whirlwind and she likes to drive fast. Um, have one, baby! And I just totally fell in love with her. Like, as soon as I was driving, I was like, she's she is the same as me. We are we are the same. Um, I'm a whirlwind too. I'm a quieter hurricane. And so she comes in, she's just like, Starbucks. You know, and she's delightful and amazing. You know, she she brings a good energy with her. So of course I want to sit next to that energy. Um, I got to know her. We would be, I'm sure you guys, you know, have had this in your life where you're in a room full of a lot of people, and something is said, and you two are the only ones in the room that really thought of anything besides what they're talking about. We were we we lock eyes and we're like, I see that, you see that? Good, okay, keep going. You know what I mean? It's like nobody else saw it. Uh, I don't think we knew really politically where we stood. You I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

We talked about it when we were running from the tequila shots in the lobby briefly. Oh, that's right. And I just remember being like, fuck yes. Like, I am so fucking grateful that I have this person in this group for the next however long we're here, two weeks. Um that was the real moment, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_04 14:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

I think it was.

SPEAKER_04 14:06

Because they were playing pool. It was like after hours, everybody was back at the hotel, drinks were flowing, and her and I really weren't like indulging. We were on a couch, kind of you might have said something like, You led me in, and then I and then I walked through it. You know what I mean? I think it was one of those, and I think that was the start of it, and that's good because I think that was the gentle introduction, and this is before I mean, yes, the world was burning, but it wasn't like on fire yet. It was just smoldering, and we were just like, Okay, this is bad. This is definitely bad.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

Um kind of saw the writing on the wall of what was to come and we're like, e like, what if it goes here? And we started having conversations around that. Yeah. And then we went into the holidays, and then they just started shooting people in the street, and we're like, what the fuck? And reconnected. And then by the time we got to week three, I was like, thank God you're gonna be there because the Epstein files just came out, and I need to process this. And how am I supposed to show up and be a functioning human being? And I was like, I know she's got me. Like, I know I have somebody that I can lean on and rely on to get through this week.

SPEAKER_04 15:22

Yeah, and ironically, I had had other talks because I was, you know, normally you have these conversations, you just kind of drop a something here and drop something there just to see if they'll pick it up or they'll say something, and you're like, I I'm constantly looking to see who's the Trumper in the room. I just am. Basically, what we learned, and I think a lot of other people are learning, is that you can't, it's really difficult when you work in a job, no matter what job it is, to bring politics and the world and the environment into it. It just doesn't go together. And you're not allowed, quite frankly. Um, it's not something that you can discuss. We're in leadership positions, so we can't do that. And that makes it really hard because that's filling up our minds at that point. And now, obviously, because we're doing this now. So, when the Epstein files were released, uh, we were there at this leadership thing, which was really good for us, I think, at that time because a lot of people went spiraling. There were people screaming in the airport saying, They're they're eating the babies. I mean, they were freaking out. Okay, and and so were we, but we had to control it because we were in a controlled environment. But we were able to to relieve or at least open the valve a little bit and go have a drink or food and close down a few restaurants and purge all of that information and feelings and vibes. But we didn't want to purge with everybody because they would think we're insane. Uh, you know, there are there are awakened people and then there are people that are still sleeping. And I'm wondering when they're gonna wake up, to be honest. I don't know when that's gonna happen, but I guess they're watching mainstream media, so that plays into it. Uh, but anyway, the bigger picture is that we found each other in that environment, and we were able to let off some steam about what was happening. Uh, then we had to come back to reality and face it again here. A few weeks later, I feel like it was because we came back in February, and then in March, uh, I did this thing for work and we talked around that time, and then I invited her because see, secretly I was kind of just watching her to see. I was like, is this should I ask? You know, I have a rejection thing, I just don't like it. Um, it's one of the worst things in the whole work for some reason. Who does? I I don't know. Some people get off on it, I guess. I'm just they also you know that.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Yeah, that's another podcast.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

It is, but one that sounds really interesting, actually. And I guess now is where we lead into um Linked We Stand.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:06

There's been a lot of in and out of Linked We Stand, and I was like, but I'm a collaborator. Like, that's how I function best if I'm able to like ping pong ideas. I feel like the best things come from from those environments for me, and I don't know everything, and and I don't want to know everything. I I think there are people that can balance you in those areas, and uh so I had people come here and there, and I still and I wasn't able to find that person, and I I told Kelsey this that I think I have a video or a podcast episode where I'm saying the right person is gonna step into my life and I'm gonna know it, and then we're gonna work together, and it's just all gonna be good. And I say that about my man too. I'm like, so the right man's gonna come into my life, and I'm not gonna have to work too hard for it, and it's just gonna happen, and there it is. And it will be somewhere in the environment that I'm in because I'm not out there partying, I'm not meeting people at events because I'm shy. And and so this happened through work at the right time. Um, so anyway, I invited her in a phone call. I said, you know, would you like to be a part of Linked We Stand?

SPEAKER_01 19:15

It's funny when you talk about like you were kind of watching me because I was on the sidelines being like, what she's doing is so incredible, and I want to be a part of that, but I don't want to, and I have to be very mindful too of my position at work that I can't get involved in everybody's stuff, and I have to kind of I have to know that boundary and that line. So I didn't want to overstep in a lot of different for a lot of different reasons. Um but it's something I just I couldn't ignore. And I was like, I want to do what she's doing. And so when you called me, I was walking Charles and I was out in the park. Charles is the dog, not a man on a lady. How can I keep? I just poured it down my shirt. Oh shit. At least it's not on the floor, but how can I keep sinking?

SPEAKER_02 20:01

Like, oh, it's because at least it's water, at least it's water. I'm gonna electrocute myself tonight. That's the plan.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

Like, I literally I can't handle losing you. Do you know how pissed I would be if you fucking died? Like, I'm not even kidding. I know. No, I do not have the bandwidth or the capacity to process and to deal with that. Like, fuck you, no. Love you. I need you here. I I know.

SPEAKER_04 20:28

I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. Keep your beverage away from your electronic.

SPEAKER_01 20:33

So you called me and I was walking Charles, and you were telling me about LinkedIn Stand, and I I got just full body chills, and it was everything.

SPEAKER_04 20:43

Link we stand.

SPEAKER_03 20:44

Yeah, so we were talking, and I'm sweating.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Look at my look at my glasses, they're they're fogging up. Somebody else is watching this.

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Oh, which one? The best part of this whole thing. Not a joke. Yeah. Okay, good. Is how much fun we have doing this. Like this is not a one-off for us to just sit and to laugh. And it's cathartic in because we're talking about really heavy shit. And so it's really, it's really nice to be able to dive in this and be like all in our feels and fighting through it and then cry it out, but like laughing and crying and um just having fun and not taking it too seriously or not taking ourselves too seriously, kind of keeping ourselves grounded and humble in that space. But going back to, you know, when you first presented Linked We Stand, this is why I knew it would work and why I felt like it was such a good idea because you and I have the dynamic that we do. And you and I have the dynamic that we do. And so when we're talking about love it. Go ahead. When we're talking about building community and helping people, it's like the only person I want to work with is somebody who who gets me and who lets me be this whirlwind of a mess and come in and kind of kind of all over the place, kind of chaotic. Like, and you you hear you speak Kelsey and you can take my my big thoughts and put them into actual items and into words. I'm like, oh thank you. Like I I don't always have um an easy time doing that. But go ahead, you know, talking about like the the pro yes, you do. Well, not for myself. Like I I can look at other people.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

What was the word? What was the word that you said in our leadership when they went around and said give us a word? Sovereign.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

Sovereign. Oh, you're gonna bring that into this? Yeah. No, maybe. Yeah, maybe. No, no, sovereign is very, very um just me. Like that is that is everything that I try to embody. Um, and the intent that I try to put out into the world of not letting the outside world get to me, not letting um being strong in my own beliefs, my own convictions, um not being swayed by anybody else. But you have that too. And I recognize that in you, and I see that in you. And when you're talking about LinkedWe Stand, it was something I have been trying to fight this fight for decades. Um, now and I used to live in downtown Phoenix and trying to get organizing groups and protesting groups and building community groups and just anything I can do to bring the people together is all I want. Um, and I I do know that a strength of mine is being able to talk to people and being able to connect with people. I worked in the hospitality industry for over 10 years, and I learned that you have just a couple minutes to make a first or not even a first impression, but just trying to get somebody in. Yeah, like you they are having sometimes the most stressful part of their day of travel and rental cars and all these things, and they get to a hotel and it's all about scores and it's all about making the customer happy. And so I learned every single person is different that came in. And I learned how to connect um in these moments of stress and of upset or on their happiest days, or they're like, fuck this, I don't want to be here for whatever reason. And I've tried to use that in everything that I do moving forward. Um, and it was a great skill that I had, but I want to apply that to community. So I want to be the conduit between people and say, hey, I see you over here and I see you over here. Let me help connect you, let me help link you together, and then let me get the fuck out of it. Like I don't want to be involved. I like to be very behind the scenes. That's why this is so uncomfortable for me because I don't, I don't want to be the face of this. But I also know I can't stay silent anymore. And we live in a world where it is not in person as much as it used to be. It's kind of going back to it. Um, but everybody lives online, everybody's scrolling, everybody's doom scrolling, everyone's just in their phones. And so, in order to build community, I recognize that I have to go to where the people are and I have to put myself out there and I have to be vulnerable. And if I want to do something different in my life and change the trajectory of where we're going, um, I have to do something that I am I'm not doing currently. And that is getting out here. It is doing these lives with you, it is talking about this stuff and being vulnerable in that space. And so I just I really resonated with the work that you were doing. And I was like, oh, we can we can take this really far if we collaborate and kind of put our heads together.

From Online Trust To Real Rooms

SPEAKER_04 26:56

You know, you don't necessarily know the direction that it's gonna take. And maybe that's the the fun in it. You know, if we have to find that silver lining, it's first of all getting to work together, but also bringing other people into our world. Because I think our world is pretty cool. Um, I think it's the outside world that's really fucked up. And if we can bring more joy, um, more mutual aid, more community to the people that don't seem to have any right now. And I'm not saying you don't have friends, I'm saying you don't have the community that's lighting you up to do something. You know, it's it's it may be maybe you're just sitting there doom scrolling, or maybe you're sitting there binge watching shows eating chocolate because you're you're depressed and that's how you handle it. You know, there's so many different ways that these depression type things come out or anxiety type things come out. We're not therapists, we're just people that know that uh sometimes you just need a friend. And and I think if we had a bunch of them, we'd I'm sure we could probably find a friend that you want to hang out with. And maybe luckily it could be in your area. Um, and maybe it's not. Kelsey's not in my area, and I think the bigger picture for us, we're not a hundred percent sure where Linked We Stand is gonna end up, but we have ideas, and part of that is of course is community, but it's also doing town halls, it's also having events where we talk to people that can do certain things or help certain people and finding them, networking them. Um, I got to do that also um the other day, and I came out of my comfort zone, and it's something that that maybe my story can help somebody else come out of their comfort zone. And I met people, and I'll probably talk about that again on a different podcast, and we'll go deep and into that because I've already shared that story twice to Kelsey, and I'm just not gonna share it.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

I love the story though, and that because I'm so proud of you. Like I love, and every time you talk about it, you you uncover new things, and I think you learn something in yourself too, of kind of getting out of your comfort zone and how ridiculous your limiting beliefs are of why you couldn't do it or why you were scared to go, and and the power of connection and community. And I love that somebody recognized you out in the wild and was like, like, that's what it's about. I mean, you are making an impact that people are like, oh shit, you're that girl. And that's cool. I need to celebrate that.

SPEAKER_04 29:44

I can say this. Uh I think, you know, anybody, I've had my podcast for I'm gonna say two years now. And I think I've always come out and said, uh, I don't, I don't like small talk. I don't like to be at a party with a bunch of people, like it's a lot of energy for me. Um, and then I have to go home and replenish that energy. It's just not my favorite thing to be. I'm a one-on-one girl. That's just who I am. I like to go deeper and that's just who I am. Um, I feel more comfortable that way. So for me to go to this event for Indivisible, who sponsors the No Kings rallies and and so much more. So, so much more. I went to a house I didn't know, I saw people I didn't know, and uh that was a lot for me who doesn't even want to go see people I know. Uh so I went there and I wasn't the weird thing was I wasn't nervous. I was, I expected myself to really have some anxiety about it, but I wasn't, and I think the reason I wasn't is because we're I'm putting myself in a room of people that are wanting the same thing as me. And and at the grocery store, you don't know who's walking down the aisle with you. I knew who was in that room, and that brought me comfort. And that's what this is about building that same, you know, community that brings you comfort when you walk into a room full of strangers.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

But then I got to walk into a room and somebody recognized me because they follow sassy politics, but they also are in our Discord, uh, which was Linked We Stand. And I was like, oh my god, that was so freaking cool. Andy, uh, I know she's probably not listening to this podcast, but I'm hoping that I get to see her at other events in real life. Yeah, it was a great experience, and and now I'm almost excited to challenge myself again.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

Which way do we go? Right? I I that's that's odd for me. That just means that you're living in your purpose and you're in alignment with where you're supposed to be, that it doesn't feel scary. You're like, this is this is me, this is whole, this is true and honest, and you're not trying to fake it, you're not trying to fit in somewhere where you don't belong. Um, and when it makes sense, it makes sense. And I'm just so happy. Like, I I love the confidence that it gave you too by doing that. Um, and being in those rooms and not knowing and kind of having to trust too. We talk about trust a lot of we don't really trust anything anymore, and we don't know what's real and what's not and what's safe, and you know, like, am I gonna this okay? Like, I don't have an address, I don't know where I'm going, I don't know any of these people. Um, but you listen to your gut and you listen to your intuition, and it told you to go, and it just validated all of anytime your gut tells you something now, you're gonna be like, hmm.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

Yeah, I I actually forgot to tell the live this, but I can say this. Afterwards, I looked around and I said, I can't leave this house without talking to somebody that's in charge about being on my podcast. So I picked the person that I felt was the one that could do a good podcast. I walked over to her, ended up being the field director here where I live. And I said, Do you want to be on my podcast? I waited though. So here's the here's the thing. She was talking to two people, like there were a couple that she clearly knew. And I walked up and I stood there and just smiled while she was having this conversation. And I wanted her all in my shoe because the conversation kept going, which is awkward because then it's like, do I exit this conversation and let them continue? Do I stay here and just smile? Because I'm not part of this conversation. So that was awkward. Uh, but I stayed. I stayed in the conversation, and then when she was done, I dropped this. I said, This is who I am, I would love it. And then she starts talking to me. Now, this couple needs her to get something out of their car. So she's like, All right, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go help them. I'm like, okay, cool, cool, cool. We exchange phone numbers, I start, I talk to somebody else, I start to walk out to my car, I pass her getting the stuff out of that car, and she's like, Hey! So she calls me back, and then pretty and she's taking the stuff from them. Um, and then we have a longer conversation, and then we find out that somebody that somebody else that follows me on TikTok is her friend that's involved with the Democratic Party in town. Yeah, and I'm like, we're friends. I was like, maybe she can give you validity as to the things that I do. And then she texts me after that and gave me some information on the person that's running, and then I'm gonna reach out because I have her cell phone number for a podcast, but not only a podcast. Um, it's gonna be something that we put on LinkedWe Stand and you know, use the proof of concept. Sassy Politics and Linked We Stand work congruently, they work together. But one day, Linked We Stand will work with another podcast and worked with another creator that will help them. So right now it's just Sassy and Linked We Stand, but that's okay because that means I get everyone.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

I think one part too, like that we need to give grace to and recognize this is my one precious life. I get to create it and design it how I want. And it's kind of fun working through where like don't need that personality, or this doesn't work for us. It's part of the journey, and I I think it's been fun to look back of even in the short, what has it been, like a month, two months of doing this.

The Website Launch And Purple Meaning

SPEAKER_04 35:30

It's gonna be a hell of a journey. Uh, and and we have the footage to go along with that journey, you know, from from the dream of making the chain uh all the way. Everything's been recorded. Um, some footage I can show because they signed waivers, and some I can't because they didn't, but it's okay because it's really of it's part of the story and part of the journey, but not the most important part. So I think we're going in a good direction. I cannot wait to see what we do next. But I do want to make sure that you guys check out this website that I worked really hard on today. She did so good. LinkedWeStand.com. So cool. But it's really cute and it's purple, and you gotta go check it out. Why is it purple? Also, wow. Um, it is purple because it is bridging red and blue together, which are both sides of the political party. Um, and it's not about that anymore. It's just about making it a world that is that cares about each other and there's humanity. And we can survive and we can live, and we're not broke, and we're not trying to get gas and living paycheck to paycheck. At this point, like I understand that that grind in my 20s, but uh there's no excuse for it now. Now it's just it's wrong and it's clear. Um, and so those are some of the things that I want to talk about in the community. Um, but yes, we've had a long day. I definitely wanted to get her on YouTube with me and this podcast, although I'm I think our message got out pretty well, and I'll try to cut this together so it makes some sense. Um, and uh, but a lot of laughing, and I will be keeping those parts in. So. Yay.

SPEAKER_01 37:15

I was talking about you're gonna see the clips. I was talking at lunch the other day, and I said something about I don't know if I've told you this story. It was, I think, week one of we were in the airport, and I was with my Phoenix team, and one person was not with us, and she was also in the airport, but not sitting with us. And all of a sudden she just shows up out of nowhere and she's like, Oh, I found you guys. She's like, I was looking for you, and then I heard Kelsey's laugh, and I was like, You heard my laugh through the fucking airport.