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NICOLE TORRES: Some mic checks. Check, check.
AMY BERNSTEIN: Here, here’s your M&M’s.
NICOLE TORRES: Where’d these come from?
AMANDA KERSEY: They were just there.
NICOLE TORRES: Oh, gosh. Someone’s lunch. Love it.
AMY GALLO: [LAUGHTER]
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NICOLE TORRES: So, should we talk about what we’re doing this season?
AMY GALLO: Yes! We are covering a lot of really great topics this season.
NICOLE TORRES: Mhm.
AMY GALLO: Sponsorship. Conflict, which is my favorite topic, of course. Money and salaries.
WOMAN1: That conversation, the literal, like, I’m going to share my pay, is not a bad conversation or a good conversation. In context it can be both.
NICOLE TORRES: I’m excited to talk about why money is so hard to talk about, especially with coworkers.
AMY BERNSTEIN: Oh, it’s so fraught.
NICOLE TORRES: It’s so fraught.
AMY GALLO: Yeah.
AMY BERNSTEIN: Well, I’ve got a few I’m really excited about. I’m excited about female friendship; always an interesting topic. Totally excited about self-care.
NICOLE TORRES: I’m really excited about the self-care episode. We’re going to talk about how we can take better care of ourselves and also, like, who can take better care of themselves.
AMY GALLO: Yeah.
NICOLE TORRES: We also talked to a lot of listeners and women who’ve reached out to us to hear their stories about some of the issues that we’ll be talking about on the show.
AMY BERNSTEIN: We’re talking to a couple of women for our sponsorship episode about their relationship, their sponsor–protege relationship.
WOMAN2: So I knew that if I didn’t help her out, it would be much harder for her, but she came forward to ask the right questions.
AMY GALLO: Yeah, and I just talked to a woman last week who’s working part time as a consultant.
WOMAN3: One thing that’s tricky is, like, finding role models where you see yourself in 10 years or in 20 years, in 30 years. And I’ve had a hard time finding those people.
AMY BERNSTEIN: All of this gets started on Oct. 14, which is a Monday. That’s when we drop our first episode. We have 10 episodes in all.
AMY GALLO: Yay, we’re coming back!
AMY BERNSTEIN: Yay!
NICOLE TORRES: Yay! [LAUGHTER]