Georgia Rappleye is a fourth-grade literacy teacher in Florida and a veteran of the media industry. We met years ago when a small team of us opened the New York office of a Silicon Valley content startup -- afterwards, Georgia went on to become a VP at CBS and later launched a women's travel startup called MunSun Retreats. I was lucky enough to attend one of MunSun's first trips to Turks and Caicos, where Georgia (by then also a certified life coach) helped me find a greater sense of clarity and direction in my career. Today, she is a fourth-grade teacher in Florida, where she has been working and teaching under lockdown for the past year. In this episode, Georgia and I talk about how she's pivoted her career several times over the last ten years, what it means to trust your instincts, and the rewards and challenges of launching your own business.

MunSun Retreats: https://www.facebook.com/munsunretreats/
Georgia Rappleye on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgiarapp/

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Caitlin Moscatello is the author of See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of Women Changing American Politics and an award-winning journalist specializing in gender, reproductive rights, and politics. She is the founder of Repro, a free newsletter covering reproductive rights legislation at the state and federal levels in the United States. Caitlin and I became great friends years ago when we both worked at Glamour in New York -- she is someone I am always in awe of for her passion, her work ethic, and her thorough and tireless commitment to reporting.

In this episode, which we recorded in late May 2020, Caitlin and I talk about her pregnancy during the Covid-19 pandemic; we also briefly discuss the state of the media industry as well as the upcoming election and what she learned about women in politics while researching, reporting, and writing See Jane Win (it's a fantastic book, I strongly recommend you pick it up if you haven't already read it).

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Jennifer Anderson is currently a consultant for the World Bank Group; she was previously a senior business analyst for the City of Seattle (and was working there when Covid-19 landed on the west coast) and the Director of Education Program Development at Save the Children US. But most importantly... Jen and I were freshman year college roommates! We're still very close today, though we haven't seen each other in a few years. I wanted to catch up with Jen to find out how it's going in Seattle and also ask her about whether there are some key learnings from her extensive experience and history working in international development that could be applied to what become so plainly apparent about the state of things in the United States today. She was very diplomatic about it all (I'd expect nothing less!). 

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