the International Day of the Girl!
Digital Generation, Our Generation
We are BACK with Season 3 of the She Sounds Like Me Podcast, after a few months off enjoying the summer and de-stressing our covid conscious lives. Normalizing rest and reconnection, while reflecting on all this past year has taught us.
Today we are also celebrating the one year anniversary of the show, and most importantly, The International Day of the Girl Child, according to UNICEF. This year's theme: "Digital Generation, Our Generation" so join us for a discussion on this and more on the show!
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Transcription:
We are BACK with Season 3 of the She Sounds Like Me Podcast, after a few months off enjoying the summer and de-stressing our covid conscious lives. Normalizing rest and reconnection, while reflecting on all this past year has taught us.
Today we are also celebrating the one year anniversary of the show, and most importantly, The International Day of the Girl Child, according to UNICEF. This year's theme: "Digital Generation, Our Generation" so join us for a discussion on this and more on the show!
Hey friends, Welcome to the she sounds like me podcast,
we're your hosts, Rachael Laya Hoffman and I'm Cyla Grace Hoffman! We’re a mama daughter duo that works together, plays together and tries to figure out this crazy world together.
Yeah, mom and we're super grateful you could join us,
Today! This is the She Sounds Like Me Podcast!
Welcome to the she sounds like me podcast,
Whoa hold up mom, before we get this party started we got to let them know the goods first. Friends if you like what you hear, subscribe to this podcast on your chosen platform, give us a five star review or join our conversation online, she sounds like me on the socials and she sounds like me dot com.
Okay mom, now let's get to it, let's get to it.
Alright Cyla, here we go,
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Hello friends. Hello friends, Happy international days of the girl, that's right, we are celebrating season three, the kickoff episode one, exactly one year from when we launched.
The show back on october 11th 2020 also the international day of the girl, how cool is that?
Yeah, that's really cool, happy anniversary, Cyla. Happy Anniversarymama happy anniversary, neon pink sign says she sounds like me in the studio Yes and we have grown, haven't we?
We've grown both independently and we've grown together,
and our fan base has grown there are people listening from,
all over the world shoutouts to our friends in Russia and Germany and India it is incredible to get the kind of feedback that we've received, just from a little show,
of a mom and daughter talking to themselves in a tiny box, not very tiny.
Tiny anymore. Yeah, we've upgraded the studio. We've had some pretty significant milestones considering the last year or so that we've all been living through,
crazy life, people crazy like crazy life.
So on this day this is UNICEF, which is an organization we can talk about here in a second, but UNICEF claims that this is the international day of the girl Child in you, my child.
[2:43] Our girl. Or at least I'm a woman.
[2:46] No you are a girl and you need to stay a girl as long as possible or at least a young person, honestly whatever gender you associate with, I am okay with and we'll love you unconditionally.
But today is the international day of the girl and we've got a whole lot of girl power cursing through our veins on a regular basis, don't we?
Hey mom, What's you know, That is a great question.
We have to look it up to get the proper terminology down because I don't want to butcher the qualification of the explanation of such an important organization.
But from what I have read, the United Nations Children's Fund is kind of what UNICEF is about.
They work in some of the world's toughest areas in underprivileged and underserved communities where,
clean water and healthy food and supplies and health care and education are not readily available and they worked to protect the rights of Children everywhere.
Really cool. Yeah, it's really important work,
because there are millions and millions of kids out there,
that live a very different life than you do and if it wasn't for UNICEF, you know, there would be a lot more Children suffering and there still are quite a bit so.
[4:10] It's important to recognize organizations like this and how they contribute To the world.
So they have claimed October 11 as the international day of the girl child and every,
year has a theme that's just to bring awareness to some of the issues that the Children face, especially young girls on this day,
like last year was my voice, my equal future.
And this year I believe it's technology kind of Yeah, it's a really uh that's a generalization but their actual phrases its digital generation, our generation.
[4:50] Which is really important, especially given that this last year, the pandemic really accelerated how we use digital platforms, right?
Think about how much learning took place online and any learning and things like that, and how he connected with.
[5:12] People are in our family and our schools and around the world through digital platforms.
So it's uh.
[5:20] Really an interesting topic. Did you know that 2.2 billion People under the age of 25 still don't have access to the Internet?
That's crazy. Because I have an iPad and I'm yeah, what's interesting even among those 2.2 billion people.
[5:43] Girls are actually more likely to be cut off or have less access than boys to the internet and to technology and two devices.
And so that gives girls less of an opportunity to gain knowledge and to learn and to share their big ideas and to connect with people.
Okay, this is crazy. Why do girls have less opportunities and get less understood and less cared for than boys?
Like it's not fair. You are absolutely right. And I have no idea because we both know firsthand how powerful girls can be,
and how intelligent and creative and passionate,
and all the brilliance that is girls and that we do have the power to shift the narrative in our world by being solution minded and heartfelt and empathetic and there really should be,
no bias or judgment between that.
But for some reason the gender divide is also apparent among digital outlets.
And so I think that's why UNICEF chose this theme this year. Digital generation.
Our generation, because the more we can give young people access and tools.
[7:10] To learn and communicate and connect the more they can continue to develop themselves and in turn the world and hopefully all for the better. Right?
[7:20] I know that like I see what you're saying, but I want to tell you something like.
[7:29] Girls don't get there, get pushed to the side and they're like second hand, while boys get first hand, you may hear the occasion will girls rule boys drool.
But that doesn't doesn't do anything.
Why do you think that is? It's like, it's like an old saying girls, rural boys drawl, but really it doesn't play out like that in real life.
I don't even know where that saying came from, but there's another one going around like girls go to college, she had more knowledge. Boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.
Yeah, well I like that one,
better just because it's kind of tongue in cheek, it's kind of funny but and it has a little bit of a rhyme to it, but you're right, why do we second guess ourselves as girls or why are girls placed in society at a different level than boys?
I think that stems back generations and hopefully your generation or hopefully my generation will start the,
unbiased the unraveling of that, that generality,
because I think through conversations like this and through our show we can continue to educate and inform equality, not just among.
[8:48] Boys and girls or any gender,
but among people right we need we have a lot of work to do and it starts with conversations like this,
so digital generation, our generation the international day of the girl child is today on the one year anniversary of launching our first episode of she sounds like me.
[9:11] And we have learned a lot. In fact it just passed the International day of podcasting and the international podcast day and that is actually when we're recording this.
Yeah we are, we're recording this on the International podcast podcasting day and we're launching it on the international day of the girl.
A lot of international days around here we're just really trying to tackle all the hashtags hashtag international day of podcasting, hashtag international day of the girl.
Yeah, I don't know who comes up with all of these international and national days but I do like the fact that it brings,
more of an awareness to these niche subjects or big ideas that we should all um you know spend a little bit of time discussing and thinking about so podcasting.
[9:58] For a year, almost 30 episodes into this show.
We have learned a lot, we really have, what are some of the things you've learned either about yourself or about podcasting about working together in the last year Cyla?
I have learned that it is okay to have different opinions than you or somebody else that's listening.
Absolutely, I've learned that my voice matters and I can stand up to be heard.
I've learned that it's okay to be different.
I've learned that I can talk about tough topics with you and be okay and not be like channeled out and not be able to hear this stuff.
[10:44] Even though it's tough and can be a little scary.
I've learned how you could be a good friend by the friend episode.
I've learned that even though we're going through this crazy covid time, I can still talk to people without seeing them here.
Like, like you can feel connected to others. Yes. Even though I don't know if they're listening, but I can still feel that they're listening. That's really powerful.
I have learned that podcasting is a lot of hard work.
[11:19] That this is not just easy because we talk for a living or we have microphones and we have studio equipment, but that the commitment takes effort and takes continuity. Yeah.
Sometimes I don't I'm like, I'm like, don't make me get out of bed.
I want to stay in bed. I don't want to have to do this too much effort and then I'm like, I get to do this, this is so crazy, I get to do this.
And I have time to do this and the stuff to do this and an opportunity to do this, which not a lot of people have. So to take advantage of. That is a really powerful thing.
I've learned, I've learned new ways to communicate with you.
I've learned a lot of your different opinions and how so many of your great analogies,
have really painted a picture, given me a deeper understanding of some of these topics and definitely seeing these from a child's eyes is really eye opening to me as a grown up.
I feel like we should have an analogy episode that's reflecting on all the analogies I've put into this.
Just have an entire episode dedicated to my analogies over the past and have each clip of my analogies. Let's just play. Your father would love that.
He's taught you well. Young grasshopper.
[12:45] Mhm Yeah, I agree. And then also that um I've learned that our voices are a powerful thing and that when people lean in and listen and listen to each other, you can open your mind and your heart.
[13:01] To experience someone else's perspective or gain some appreciation for what someone else has been through.
I didn't imagine in a million years that people from all over the world would want to hear what we have to say.
And man, am I grateful for that.
Um that was never the intention with the show. It was just to have like a time capsule and now it's everybody from India India, even if they don't speak english as their first language, they're still listening.
Yeah, that is a really cool and powerful thing and you know, take a lot of, I don't take that for granted, Let's just say, I'm just a mom trying to talk.
[13:45] About big stuff with her, a very bright and loving, compassionate child and I've really enjoyed it.
So, this season, we have many more things to talk about.
We're going to uh some upcoming episodes to talk about exactly what's going on in schools and elementary school as we go, as we went back to public school this year, still in a pandemic.
Um a lot of the challenges that you're facing as a third grader now, third grade.
Some fun stuff too. But of course, some of the stuff that we don't always get to talk about with our kids? Hopefully we'll get to share with all of you.
And so with all that in mind, we love to hear your feedback. What do you want to hear about?
What topics are being talked about in your house and we'll be happy to drop some shoutouts to you.
Just send us a message or drop us a D. M in instagram on twitter and facebook or join our conversation on social or on our website at she sounds like me dot com.
Yeah, I'm so excited to be able to talk about more exciting conversations and even some sad ones.
Yeah, it's going to be a great season. It really is. So thanks for listening everybody have an awesome day.
Yeah. And have an awesome day. We'll see you next week. Bye guys. Bye.
[15:08] Alright. Before we head out a quick shout out to the awesome friends at length their voices to our vision at the top of each episode.
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[15:39] Yeah. And have an awesome day.