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The age-old question: Is spin class an essential service? Wild Bros Country
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- Politik
In this episode of Wild Bros Country I talk to Danika, a small business owner in rural Northern Alberta, who, at the age of 29, left her full time gig as a Labour and Delivery RN and opened her own Spin Studio in the Lakeland which is now known and loved as Wheel Fit Co.
I became aware of Danika only through Instagram, where she released an emotional video vowing to deny the most recent set of restrictions and to keep her spin studio open.
Which, I couldn’t possibly be any more opposed to. The first time I watched the video, I was livid. A comment I had typed out read like this; “Wow, I can’t imagine a more oppressed group of people than white women in a spin class.”, amongst other spicy comments that I had typed out and deleted. Having lived in the Lakeland myself, I realized that I knew many of the people in the comment section of her post who were applauding her and supporting her decision. These are people I went to high school with, worked with, and cared about at one point in my life. So, I slept on it. And the next day I sent a message to Danika asking if she would be interested in having a conversation on the podcast to talk through this. Thankfully, she agreed.
I came out of the conversation wondering, how many Albertans are actually *for* a #CovidZERO approach? In favour of a full lockdown? How can we all get on the same page? How do we convince our government that this is what many Albertans wants? Would they even listen?
Here is that conversation.
*Please note, since this conversation Danika has made the decision to close her spin studio until further notice. Please do not harass her. She is my friend now.
For more information on #CovidZero, please visit www.wildbroscountry.com or email me at emmadeady@wildbroscountry.com
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In this episode of Wild Bros Country I talk to Danika, a small business owner in rural Northern Alberta, who, at the age of 29, left her full time gig as a Labour and Delivery RN and opened her own Spin Studio in the Lakeland which is now known and loved as Wheel Fit Co.
I became aware of Danika only through Instagram, where she released an emotional video vowing to deny the most recent set of restrictions and to keep her spin studio open.
Which, I couldn’t possibly be any more opposed to. The first time I watched the video, I was livid. A comment I had typed out read like this; “Wow, I can’t imagine a more oppressed group of people than white women in a spin class.”, amongst other spicy comments that I had typed out and deleted. Having lived in the Lakeland myself, I realized that I knew many of the people in the comment section of her post who were applauding her and supporting her decision. These are people I went to high school with, worked with, and cared about at one point in my life. So, I slept on it. And the next day I sent a message to Danika asking if she would be interested in having a conversation on the podcast to talk through this. Thankfully, she agreed.
I came out of the conversation wondering, how many Albertans are actually *for* a #CovidZERO approach? In favour of a full lockdown? How can we all get on the same page? How do we convince our government that this is what many Albertans wants? Would they even listen?
Here is that conversation.
*Please note, since this conversation Danika has made the decision to close her spin studio until further notice. Please do not harass her. She is my friend now.
For more information on #CovidZero, please visit www.wildbroscountry.com or email me at emmadeady@wildbroscountry.com
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wild-bros-country/support
1 tim. 19 min