Hi everyone, it's Sophia and welcome to another bonus episode of work and progress.

In all of my regular episodes, we get to delve deeply into what my guests are up to, but I don't get

to talk as much to all of you directly or talk to you about what's going on in my head. So that's

really been the idea behind doing these episodes every so often. And for this exclusive, I thought I

would tell you guys about some of my favorite organizations and activism opportunities. And the

reason we decided to focus a whole episode on this is that I get so many amazing questions from all

of you about where to start, where to find an organization you're passionate about or cause

your passionate about how to begin donating time or available funds or your energy, your attention,

your platform to things that matter to you and that matter to the world. And I thought it would

be really nice to answer some of those questions, especially the ones that pertain to specifically

getting involved in causes. And I've been keeping a running list of these in my notebook. So all

of the questions I'm going to get to first are essentially an aggregate of the things you guys

ask me the most. So before I talk about my inspiration, I just want to say how inspired I am by all

of you, the fact that so many of you DM me, tweet me, ask me questions on Instagram about

dedicating yourselves to your community and making the world around you a better place.

Basically just reinforces the feeling I have that my audience is the best audience. So you guys

rock and let's get to it. Okay, so this is a question that comes up a lot. What was it that

really inspired me to get involved in politics and was there a specific moment? So I got to go back

way back to get to this specific public political moment. Back when I was a kid growing up in

Southern California and spending so much time outside, I mean, you guys, this place is magical.

I'm for anyone who lives here. I know you know what I'm talking about. But for anyone who doesn't,

Southern California is this incredibly vast diverse ecosystem. You can be in the desert,

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