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Unladylike Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Imagine having to host the Pope and the Chinese President. On the same day. Plus, a whole press corps and socialite circle is watching and waiting to blame you for anything that goes wrong. That’s what Deesha Dyer walked into when she was promoted to White House Social Secretary for the Obama administration in 2015. But even more than her high-stakes responsibilities, Deesha had to reckon with her own imposterism in a system setting her up to fail. Highlights include: a Condom Queen, 90s hip-hop, unpaid interning, handbag microaggressions and one infamous Tiffany's box. Deesha's new memoir is Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Attitude. Follow Unladylike on Instagram and TikTok Join the Unladies' Room Patreon Shop bRaNd NeW mErCh Advertise with Multitude Productions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think the most unlady-like thing about me is probably in addition to my cursing I think it is that like I don't have a decorum about myself.
0:12.0	I don't know when to dissent and when not to dissent. I just feel like I should say what I need to say in the now. And that's really an Audrey Lord quote that I take with me everywhere.
0:23.7	Say it in the now like and whether that's good or bad who knows but like that's what I do. I'm Lady Life.
0:35.0	Lady Life.
0:40.0	A Lady Like A Lady Like A Lady Like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like a lady like
0:47.0	I've had a love.
0:52.0	This is unladie like. I'm Kristen and we usually hear the most unladie like
1:01.4	about our guests at the end of episodes.
1:05.0	But Disha Dyer's answer to that question,
1:07.2	what is the most unlady-like thing about you
1:10.6	sets the perfect tone for the story she's about to tell us.
1:14.8	A story that I really was not expecting to hear
1:18.4	from a former White House Social Secretary. That said, I did not even know what a Social Secretary does
1:27.7	until I read Deisha's memoir, Und Diplomatic, how my attitude created the best kind of trouble.
1:36.0	To me, White House Social Secretary
1:39.2	sounded like someone passionate about China patterns, etiquette rules, RSVPs, not so much, Audrey Lord quotes.
1:50.8	And Disha will acquaint us with what it means to be in charge of every single event that happens at the White House.
1:59.0	But for her, the looming challenge of the role wasn't necessarily the job itself.
2:05.0	It was how she got there and how she was perceived as effectively
2:10.0	the gatekeeper of Washington DC's most elite social scene.
2:16.6	Today, Disha runs her own social impact firm,
2:20.0	Hook and Fassen.
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