Zerlina Maxwell

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

As a second grader, Zerlina Maxwell was obsessed with politics, so it was no surprise that she would go on to work for two presidential campaigns. Today, she is a highly regarded political analyst, a best-selling author, and host of 'Mornings with Zerlina' on SiriusXM.

A little over a month into this presidency, we are already in the 'find out' stage. With a wealth of experience, Zerlina joins Sophia to help break down the current state of things, what Democrats missed with their messaging, how they can improve communication to connect with everyday people, and the valuable lessons she learned from working on the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. It's Sophia.
0:02.5	Welcome to Work in Progress.
0:14.7	Hi, Whips, Marties.
0:16.3	Today, we are joined by one of my smartest friends and someone that I look up to in every single way,
0:23.0	both from the way she lives her life and runs her career to who she is as a person.
0:28.2	Today I'm sitting down with Zerlina Maxwell, who you likely know,
0:32.0	as an incredible American cable television host, political analyst, commentator, speaker, and author. She writes and speaks
0:40.6	about everything, politics, culture, gender inequity, sexual consent, racism, and so many other
0:47.8	topics that affect all of us. She is a survivor and an activist. She holds a degree from Rutgers Law School,
0:57.7	started out as a field organizer in 2008 on the Obama campaign, and then was the director of
1:03.1	progressive media for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. She is a director of programming
1:08.9	at Sirius XM now, hosts her weekly show on Sirius, called Signal Boost,
1:13.7	and her daily show, Mornings with Zerlina, on SiriusXM Channel 127.
1:19.9	And as if that wasn't enough, she wrote an incredible book called The End of Weight Politics,
1:25.2	which we're kind of having to reanalyze now because a lot of
1:29.6	fearmongering decided the last election. I'm going to talk to her today about the way that she
1:36.0	sees the current state of things, how she's figuring out how to communicate that the
1:41.8	political is actually everywhere around us and is so deeply personal
1:46.5	with her audience, with people who agree with her and people who don't. And she's going to give us
1:52.1	a little preview in her next project. She is launching a new substack called The Inner Work Dispatch
1:58.3	on Monday mornings because she realized, like many of us, that she needs
2:03.6	to do a little more work on her mental health care and on her own wellness she tries to
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