What If We Taught Girls to Trust Themselves Before the World Told Them Not To — with DemocraShe Founder Sarah Jakle

What If We Taught Girls to Trust Themselves Before the World Told Them Not To — with DemocraShe Founder Sarah Jakle

Sarah Jakle founded DemocraShe to solve a problem she kept seeing — brilliant women who couldn't see themselves as leaders, while men never questioned it for a second. Her answer was a national program for high school girls that combines practical civics with brain science, because confidence alone isn't enough when your nervous system is being flooded. Girls in 42 states learn how their amygdala works, how to stay grounded when someone is gaslighting them, and how to build legislation with girls from completely different states and backgrounds. They get paid $15 an hour to do it. Seventy percent are first generation Americans. With 1,600 graduates and seven times more applications than spots, DemocraShe is growing fast — and building exactly the generation of women leaders this moment demands.

You're Watching Different Realities and Only One of Them Is the Truth

Mindy and Andy break down how the Iran war and the Epstein files are being covered completely differently depending on where you get your news — and why that gap should terrify you. From Fox News calling it "Operation Epic Fury" and barely mentioning Epstein, to Al Jazeera naming the school bombing for what it is and connecting the war's timing directly to Trump's domestic scandals. They cover Tulsi Gabbard altering her Senate testimony, a Trump appointee resigning saying Iran posed no imminent threat, 175 schoolgirls killed by outdated US intelligence, and why other countries are arresting powerful men while the US investigates no one. Plus — why believing women isn't optional, and how to actually find news you can trust.

We Went to War for Israel and Called It America First

Mindy and Shahida get into the Iran war — what it's costing us, who it's really for, and why going in was never about protecting Americans. Mindy brings her perspective as a veteran and ICU nurse who deployed to Afghanistan, talking honestly about the tension between believing in service and being completely against war. They break down the real human costs that never make the news — the civilians, the environment, the generations of trauma — and why we've never once bombed our way to peace. Plus the cult of MAGA, what the Peace Corps taught them about actually helping people, and why China is winning the influence war while we're blowing things up.

Collateral Damage: War, Religion, and the Cost of Not Caring

This week Mindy, Shahida, and Andy are processing a lot — the Iran war, Pete Hegseth's Christian Zionist crusade, the measles outbreak, and what it means to live in a country where leaders don't care if you live or die. Shahida opens up about finding grounding in Ramadan while feeling completely untethered by the state of the world. We talk about why people believe in supplements over science, why the anti-vax movement found an opening, and why loving your neighbor means more than thoughts and prayers. Raw, real, and zero filter.

Hold Them Accountable-From the Oval Office to Our Own Backyards

Mindy, Shahida, and Andy are all three together for the first time and they are not holding back. This episode is a wide open conversation about accountability — what it means, who has it, and who is clearly getting away without it. They dig into the Epstein files and the credible evidence being buried by the people sworn to protect us, why Pam Bondi and Cash Patel should be nowhere near a position of power, and what common sense tells you when your own government is covering things up. They talk about the triggered men flooding their comments, women who defend the very system hurting them, and the red pill pipeline pulling in a generation of young men with nowhere healthy to put their anger. But this episode isn't just outrage. There's real conversation about raising kids who know how to own their mistakes, why men holding other men accountable is the only thing that actually changes anything, and what real leadership and real patriotism actually look like — hint, it looks a lot more like Finland than Wall Street. Funny, fired up, and completely unfiltered. This is She the People.