How do you think this plays out in female small business owners, how they operate their business? What do you see?

Oh, wow.

So Harrah Hub, Carlsbad, the location that I own is, I purchased it in honor of my mother, Matilda Basquiat.

And it was because when my parents split up many years ago, when I was a little girl, my father raised us and my mother made that decision to have my father raise us really because of a lack of opportunity at the time.

And this was in the 60s, right? So this is a long time ago.

Maybe the opportunities were slimmer at the time, but there wasn't this belief that making her own way or creating some kind of an entrepreneurial opportunity was available to her at the time.

And in a lot of ways, it wasn't, right? It was like Avon or Tupperware or something like that.

It might be rhetorical, but why, why?

There's emotional intelligence and embodied intelligence and spiritual intelligence and a whole plethora of intelligences to connect with.

Welcome to the Shaping Freedom podcast, where we dive into conversations that inspire personal growth, transformation, and clarity in challenging times.

I'm your host, Lisane Basquiat.

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Baratunde Thurston is an Emmy-nominated host, New York Times bestselling author, Webby Award winning podcaster, and cultural thought leader whose voice resonates at the intersection of justice, joy, and possibility.

Through his work as a writer, activist, humorist, and storyteller, Baratunde invites us to reimagine what's possible when we engage with our lives and our communities as active participants in shaping something better.

He's the Emmy nominated host and executive producer of America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston on PBS, where he explores how diverse communities across the country connect to nature as a source of resilience, healing, and belonging.

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