EXPERTS ON EXPERT: Reshma Saujani

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Reshma Saujani is an Indian American lawyer, author, politician and founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code. She sits down in the attic to discuss how she spent her childhood trying to assimilate, what it felt like when she reached a lifelong status goal and she talks about her mission to promote bravery. Dax asks Reshma about what she learned from two failed elections and Reshma discusses her relationship with religion. Dax and Reshma debate the roles of biology and culture on gender differences and Dax wants to go back in time and visit Monica's grandma. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to experts on expert.
0:05.0	We have a very fun guest today.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:09.0	Reschma so Johnny.
0:11.0	She was wonderful.
0:12.0	She was really wonderful and was very, very intriguing to see two
0:15.2	gals in a very similar situation take drastically different routes.
0:19.5	Yes, we talk about a little bit on here. I, you mean because she's Indian and I'm Indian. Yeah, that's right.
0:26.0	And I was really excited to have someone else that had similar childhood dynamics as you in here.
0:33.0	Right.
0:34.0	We get a lot of white guys in here that I bond with, you know?
0:37.0	And she's a fascinating woman. She has a great book that's out right now called Fear Less Fail More and Live Boulder, Brave Not Perfect.
0:48.2	And you may recognize her as the founder of Girls Who Code, which was a New York Times bestseller, and just a generally fascinating
0:56.4	person.
0:57.4	So please enjoy Reshma Sujani.
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1:15.0	He's an I'm Chairn's Man.
1:21.0	He's an auction friend.
1:26.0	We're so afraid to we're so afraid to pronounce your last name.
1:31.0	Sojani.
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