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Bestselling author, activist, and mom of three Samantha Ettus joins us to talk about parenting teenagers, losing her home in the Palisades fire, and the moment on October 8th that turned a women's-empowerment influencer into one of the most outspoken Jewish voices online.

We get into raising kids who are proud Zionists, why she says "vote the candidate, not the party," her take on where DEI left Jews out of the conversation, and what she wishes every parent understood about the phone-addicted teenage years. Unfiltered, unafraid, unexpert — as always.

0:00 – Welcome Samantha Ettus
1:30 – Parenting teens: "little kids, little problems, big kids, big problems"
9:35 – The two kinds of working parents
14:11 – October 7th: the day everything changed
23:00 – DEI, Islamophobia, and the Jewish blind spot
34:12 – The Jewish population myth
40:56 – "I'm not a party girl": vote the candidate, not the party
52:35 – Losing her home in the Palisades fire — and showing up anyway
57:19 – The Roger Waters confrontation
1:01:54 – Setting the record straight on Mamdani and Jewish voters
1:06:14 – Book recommendations & closing thoughts

SHOWNOTES:
https://www.samanthaettus.com/
https://www.instagram.com/samanthaettus
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001ITVGBO?ccs_id=f7ee9985-6d96-462d-aad9-1735e6231ec4
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samanthaettus/

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

• God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah Is True — Mark Gerson
• As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us — Sarah Hurwitz
• People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present — Dara Horn
• Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth — Noa Tishby
• Bibi: My Story — Benjamin Netanyahu
• The Netanyahus — Joshua Cohen
• The Goddess of Warsaw — Lisa Barr

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