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Mar 2020
42m 55s

Dawn O’Porter

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About this episode

Samara chats with the British author and Instagram goddess about how to live on social media honestly, where confidence comes from, and how to channel your voice for good.

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin

For Dawn on social: @hotpatooties

For her latest book: harpercollins.com/9780008126087/so-lucky/

For Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize speech: vulture.com/2019/08/toni-morrisons-nobel-prize-speech.html

For the Alicia Keys link: grammy.com/grammys/videos/alicia-keys-piano-medley-2020-grammys-performance

For Dawn’s refugee charity Choose Love: helprefugees.org/choose-love/

For more info on honoring native lands: usdac.us/nativeland

 

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