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Jessica Holmes

Jessica Holmes

Former Chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners

Sep 10, 2026

8:00
And now we're in it and we're doing it and it's literally destroying us.
8:06
Yeah, that resonates with me because I remember...
8:10
So first of all, as a performer, I didn't get any kind of mat leave.
8:14
I think I got six weeks or something.
8:16
And I remember my baby in the bed with me, I think four weeks old, and I had the laptop and the day planner and my phone out and scheduling all these things.
8:28
And I had a doula at the time, and she followed Chinese medicine.
8:33
And she said, you know...
13:02
So I do think we did all feel that time pressure of, well, you got to get something done before you walk into the abyss because it would appear that there's nothing.
12:46
And like, they had to laugh about it because it was literally unearthly, but people think helps to somebody who's going through grief.
12:53
Yeah.
12:54
And I would say my biggest belief around well-being is that we just are not meant to go through hard things alone.
13:04
And people are our biggest resources.
13:07
But when we are struggling, right, our tendency is just like pull away, don't show weakness or don't burden people.
13:13
That's what they're there for.
13:14
That's it.

8 MINS LATER

21:19
There's, there's plenty to go around.

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