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How do you know when it’s time to make your next big career move? With International Women’s Day around the corner, we are excited to feature Avni Patel Thompson, Founder and CEO of Milo. Avni is building technology that directly supports the often overlooked emotional and logistical labor that falls on parents—especially women. Milo is an AI assistant designed to help families manage that invisible load more efficiently. In this episode, Avni shares her journey from studying chemistry to holding leadership roles at global brands like Adidas and Starbucks, to launching her own ventures. She discusses how she approaches career transitions, the importance of unpleasant experiences, and why she’s focused on making everyday life easier for parents. [01:26] Avni's University Days and Early Career [04:36] Non-Linear Career Paths [05:16] Pursuing Steep Learning Curves [11:51] Entrepreneurship and Safety Nets [15:22] Lived Experiences and Milo [19:55] Avni’s In Her Ellement Moment [20:03] Reflections Links: Avni Patel Thompson on LinkedIn Suchi Srinivasan on LinkedIn Kamila Rakhimova on LinkedIn Ipsos report on the future of parenting About In Her Ellement: In Her Ellement highlights the women and allies leading the charge in digital, business, and technology innovation. Through engaging conversations, the podcast explores their journeys—celebrating successes and acknowledging the balance between work and family. Most importantly, it asks: when was the moment you realized you hadn’t just arrived—you were truly in your element? About The Hosts: Suchi Srinivasan is an expert in AI and digital transformation. Originally from India, her career includes roles at trailblazing organizations like Bell Labs and Microsoft. In 2011, she co-founded the Cleanweb Hackathon, a global initiative driving IT-powered climate solutions with over 10,000 members across 25+ countries. She also advises Women in Cloud, aiming to create $1B in economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs by 2030. Kamila Rakhimova is a fintech leader whose journey took her from Tajikistan to the U.S., where she built a career on her own terms. Leveraging her English proficiency and international relations expertise, she discovered the power of microfinance and moved to the U.S., eventually leading Amazon's Alexa Fund to support underrepresented founders. Subscribe to In Her Ellement on your podcast app of choice to hear meaningful conversations with women in digital, business, and technology.…

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Conversations with progressive activists and organizers on the ground in conservative red states across the United States. We're sharing strategies, tips, and ways to hold hope and motivation in hostile environments.

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Community - Building Connection for Sustainability 20:55

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Community: Building Connection for Sustainability In this episode Mimi discusses the importance of community-building and organizing. Reflecting on the intersections between community, power, and organizing, Mimi explores how modern conveniences can become barriers to connection. Drawing on personal experiences, including the loss of her parents during the pandemic, she emphasizes the value of vulnerability, asking for help, and creating connections. Mimi shares practical steps she has taken and urges listeners to consider how they can connect with others beyond political outrage to build lasting, supportive relationships. About Mimi Garcia Mimi is the host of the Tenacious podcast. She’s an organizer, storyteller, and strategist. She’s worked for over 20 years in issue and movement organizing including labor, healthcare access, reproductive health and voting rights. After more than two decades in the nonprofit advocacy world, Mimi founded Just Collaborative, a consulting firm that works with advocacy groups to build impactful strategies. She lives in Austin, TX with her family, two cats, and a very neglected garden. Contact Mimi Garcia: https://www.thejustcollaborative.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justcollaborative Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimi-garcia/…

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When we fight, we win. 35:45

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When we fight, we win. The growing labor movement with Seth Hutchinson of CWA Episode Notes In the second episode host, Mimi Garcia, discusses recent attacks on workers' rights by the Trump administration and the importance of organizing labor movements with guest Seth Hutchinson, Senior Campaign Lead Organizer with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The conversation covers the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) upheavals, strategic organizing in the tech and video game sectors, historical and personal motivations for labor organizing, and the challenges faced in right-to-work states like Texas. Hutchinson also shares insights on starting a union, overcoming setbacks in labor campaigns, and the significance of long-term community and institutional organizing. The episode concludes with discussions on the social and political dynamics of organizing in conservative areas and the vital need for ongoing worker advocacy. About Seth Hutchinson Seth Hutchinson is a regional lead organizer with the Communications Workers of America, District 6, which covers the states of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. Seth got his start organizing in college working in his college cafeteria and later began organizing with the CWA local union, the Texas State Employees Union. Seth has been an organizer for more that 15 years. About Mimi Garcia Mimi is the host of the Tenacious podcast. She’s an organizer, storyteller, and strategist. She’s worked for over 20 years in issue and movement organizing including labor, healthcare access, reproductive health and voting rights. After more than two decades in the nonprofit advocacy world, Mimi founded Just Collaborative, a consulting firm that works with advocacy groups to build impactful strategies. She lives in Austin, TX with her family, two cats, and a very neglected garden. Resources discussed in this episode: Contact a union organizer via the AFL-CIO: https://aflcio.org/formaunion/contact Book recommendation: No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age, by Jane F. McAlevey: https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/ Contact Mimi Garcia: https://www.thejustcollaborative.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justcollaborative Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimi-garcia/ — Transcript Season 1, Episode 2: When we fight, we win. S102_SethHutchinson Hi, and welcome to Tenacious Conversations with Red State Progressives. I am your host, Mimi Garcia, and it's so great to have you here with our second episode. So, these last couple of weeks have been really rough, and when this episode airs, I am sure that we'll be talking about a whole new slate of, diabolical schemes from the White House In this episode, we're talking about labor and organizing workers. And there have been some recent developments that as of the recording of this introduction, February 5th, 2025, um, Trump has been working on gutting the leadership of the National Labor Relations Board, we call it the NLRB . And the NLRB is an independent federal agency that's in charge of protecting workers rights to organize and form unions, and they really do a lot of important work to investigate labor violations, settle disputes, certify union elections, Trump fired one of the NLRB board members, Gwen A. Wilcox. As well as the general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo. And then within about a day later, fired deputy general counsel, Jessica Rudder. A little bit of background on the board itself, , it has five members and they are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for five year terms. Gwen Wilcox was still in her appointed five year term and it's pretty unheard of for anyone to be, fired because the president has the opportunity to name a new NLRB board member pretty much every year as their, terms are, are staggered., uh, every year a new one is sort of coming up. So, there are now only two board members remaining. That is in part because When Biden was trying to appoint members to the board, the Senate kept, , blocking confirmation for those board members. So these three have been sort of the holdouts for the NLRB. It's no big surprise that the Trump administration would want to limit workers abilities to organize. Now, it's pretty clear to at least constitutional experts that this is probably unconstitutional. It's not clear what's going to happen next, but we're definitely watching what's happening in that space. But I am really pleased to be joined by a good friend of mine an organizer named Seth Hutchinson. Seth is the Senior Campaign Lead Organizer with the Communications Workers of America or CWA, and he leads organizing campaigns in what is CWA's District 6 that covers Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. CWA has historically been a telephone company union. It started in the 1930s, and it really grew to include workers from a wide variety of sectors, including public employees, so people who work for state government or, um, um, State agencies, airlines, healthcare workers, people in banking, and more recently, folks in tech. A big part of our conversation actually focused on some recent organizing wins from this summer that CWA had with folks in the video game industry. We talk about developments in the field of labor organizing and also Uh, you can do if you want to form a union at your workplace. He also goes into some of his background on how he got involved in the labor movement and what keeps him motivated in this work after two decades of organizing. Just a quick note that you might hear some minor audio issues with a vacuum cleaner out in the hallway, , I just appreciate your patience with that. As always, I'm going to have links to any of the websites and resources that we talk about in this episode in the show notes linked there and also on the podcast webpage. You can find that at thejustcollaborative. com slash tenacious. Thanks so much. And here's my conversation with Seth Hutchinson. . Seth: After many decades of decline and stagnation in the labor movement we're seeing just a huge upsurge. Strategically, CWA, decided to invest in organizing in the tech sector and video game sectors. And there, there's a few reasons for that. Video games in particular, like video games make more money than movies and TV in this country. There are hugely profitable industry. That is very much not union and unlike TV and movies, which are heavily unionized. And so when you look at like wages in the industry, they're far below what they should be compared to what profits the companies are making. And there's a whole range of issues of people working there, not just pay. And so what it's meant now is there'...…

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Hi Y'all! 11:09

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Hi Y’all! How we got here and where we’re going. Episode Notes Welcome to this first episode of the Tenacious podcast, conversations with Red State progressives. In this episode Mimi talks about how and why she started the podcast and what’s ahead. She also talks about hope as a practice or discipline and that it’s hard work to stay engaged in progressive movement work when it feels like everything is against. you About Mimi Garcia Mimi is the host of the Tenacious podcast. She’s an organizer, storyteller, and strategist. She’s worked for over 20 years in issue and movement organizing including labor, healthcare access, reproductive health and voting rights. After more than two decades in the nonprofit advocacy world, Mimi founded Just Collaborative, a consulting firm that works with advocacy groups to build impactful strategies. She lives in Austin, TX with her family, two cats, and a very neglected garden. Resources discussed in this episode: We do this ‘til we free us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, by Mariame Kaba (Author), Tamara K. Nopper (Editor), Naomi Murakawa (Foreword). Find it on Bookshop Hope Is a Discipline: Mariame Kaba on Dismantling the Carceral State , podcast episode from Intercepted, March 17, 2021. — Contact Mimi Garcia: https://www.thejustcollaborative.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justcollaborative Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimi-garcia/ — Transcript Season 1, Episode 1: Hi y'all Hi, this is Mimi Garcia, and you're listening to Tenacious, a podcast about progressive issues in Red states. I'm so excited to have y'all here. This is the very first episode, so “Hi, y'all!” I want to just give a little bit of background about what this podcast is about and what we're doing here and what you can expect. I am a native, born and raised, of Austin, Texas, and I have worked in progressive organizing and issues for pretty much all of my career. About 20 years now. And I came up with the idea of this podcast this summer, when, you know, the election was what it was. The presidential election was really hitting its stride and a whole lot of people I was talking to were feeling both, uh, pretty pessimistic and pretty disheartened about things. And, to be frank, I kept having conversations with folks in more progressive states who felt like Texas was pretty backwards and that the things that were happening in red states were sorta “all your fault for voting for the people who you voted for” and “why do people keep voting against their interests?” And, you know, “you sort of made your bed and now you gotta lie in it.” And what I realized was one, that's really not a fair characterization of anywhere in the south, but also that some of the most creative and impactful organizing that I've ever seen is happening in red states around this country. And it's easy to feel a little bit self-righteous and a little bit smug about really big wins when you are in places where the people in power are predisposed to those wins. And when you're in a place like Texas or Louisiana or Oklahoma, or Florida, stopping some of the worst stuff that comes out of the imagination of the right wing is often the biggest win you're going to get. And those are things that are really hard to communicate to people and, uh, people forget about pretty quickly. So, my thought with this podcast was that we would have on people who are doing movement work, who are advocating, who are working for, uh, the lives and livelihoods and wellbeing of the people in this state and other red states… to have them come and share their stories and share tactics. And, because I really find that building connections is the way that we maintain energy for organizing and for progressive movement work in the long haul. So... This is a labor of love. I have never done a podcast before. I've never been on a podcast before I am, uh, figuring out audio engineering and everything all on the fly. And, uh, hopefully one of these days I'll be able to hire someone to help me produce it. But right now it's me and my computer and my microphone. So coming up, I have, we're going to have a couple of episodes, uh, with interviewing some grassroots leaders, uh, here in the state, in labor, in organizing, uh, Texas is actually a place in the country where labor involvement is growing. Uh, you probably didn't hear that very much, uh, from wherever you're listening. And also have some folks talking about public health, uh one of the places that's been really effective in public health organizing has been in the fight around HIV and AIDS. And so we'll be talking with some long-time HIV and public health activists and other folks coming up. And so if you have someone who you think would be great to have on the podcast, let me know. , and if you have questions, like say you're an organizer, you're working on an issue or you’re in some part of the country that feels really tough to do this kind of work, then, you know, drop us a line. I'll put the email in the show notes here. The other thing I wanted to talk a little bit about was it is January 22nd right now when I am recording this. Donald Trump's second inauguration was a couple of days ago, and everybody is talking about Elon Musk's Nazi salute at the inauguration and over a hundred executive orders have been signed that are really pretty devastating. And a lot of it is pretty devastating to work that I've been involved with for, you know, decades. And I think it's important that we remember the stories of resistance. The stories of organizing. And the ways in which our elders have pushed through these tough times before. And, getting demoralized, losing hope, is a strategy the right…it is a strategy of those in power to get you to step back from opposing their, , their efforts. And so that it is easier for them to push forward with all kinds of diabolical policies and practices. Especially in our current, uh, situation, our current media landscape, where we've got information coming at us 24/7, if you're on social media, which a lot of us are, and I am totally guilty of the infinite doom scroll. That it gets really overwhelming and it's really easy to lose connection, to lose kind of a perspective of what is happening around you, but also to just get tired. Sometimes, I just feel tired. It's too much happening and too much going on. And when I'm feeling really overwhelmed and really losing perspective and losing hope and losing energy. I like to think about the incredible prison abolitionist, Mariame Kaba. Who has recently, in the last couple of years, came out with a book that is a collection of her essays...…

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