December 10, 2020

EP. 36 — Josie Naughton

This week, Jameela is joined by Josie Naughton, the CEO and one of the founding members of Choose Love – a charity dedicated to ending the refugee crisis. Together they discuss the harrowing journey a refugee makes and the challenges they face in the camps, Josie’s past and how anyone can make a difference, meeting Oprah and the pope, the Choose Love shops where you can buy needed supplies for a refugee, and how to make a change on a personal and a political level. 

This holiday season, consider supporting refugees by shopping at choose.love

For more information, go to https://www.instagram.com/chooselove  

Transcript

  JAMEELA JAMIL [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of I Weigh with Jameela Jamil. I hope you’re well. I always do. I do in particular now. And I know I keep bringing this up online and probably on this podcast. I speak so much, but I never remember where I said what. I’m just a very Chatty Cathy. But as Christmas comes closer, I am thinking of you all the time–all day, every day–because I know that this is such a weird time and it’s a time of supreme loneliness. We’ve been so conditioned by capitalism. And I know it’s annoying to talk about capitalism at Christmas and holidays and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I’m going to be that bitch. We have been programmed to believe that this has to be a time of great love, joy, parties, mince pie, tinsel, and fabulous, wonderful memories that we will carry forever. It’s supposed to just be like a fucking montage–a sappy montage of a great Christmas movie that Diane

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