Beth Taylor and Jennifer Davis
Recorded
July 30, 2025
01:01:26
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Id:
osh000295
Description
One Small Step Conversation partners Beth Taylor (51) and Jennifer Davis (65) talks about their life experiences living in small towns and big cities, political and religious values, and their outlook on life and the world.Subject Log / Time Code
Jennifer Davis (JD) talks about traveling and where she's lived.
Beth Taylor (BT) talks about the nonprofit she works for.
BT talks about seeing people take advantage of social programs, which has made her more conservative.
JD provides her perspective on relying on disability for a period of her life, lost her eyesight.
JD talks about not knowing about people's experience.
JD talks about wealthy class tax evasion and wider abuse of government funds.
BT says she see both sides, "Cliff effect" in benefit cutoff where there is barrier to progressing beyond using benefits.
BT recognizes her luck in where she ended up in life, not experiencing hardship.
BT and JD connect on pilates and yoga.
JD talks about her work on the sunset strip, and in urban planning for west Hollywood.
BT talks about her small town life, where they take care of each other, and her view of big cities as less neighborly.
JD talks about urban planning view of small vs big cities, connection through walkability.
JD talks about experience of riots and wildfires in California, her experience of people openly willing to help each other.
JD talks about walking home through Rodney King 1992 riots in California, humanity even in chaos, commonality in humanity.
BT shares that JD's story helped open her eyes.
JD talks about dense traffic in India, lack of road rage.
JD talks about her lack in a single role-model and her independence.
BT talks about her father, who is a business owner and started nonprofits, who taught her to give back and be a good human.
BT talks about her differing public and personal politics, keeping neutrality within nonprofit industry.
JD talks about her beliefs as "extremely liberal" and "fiscally conservative."
JD talks about violence in Cincinnati, and her belief that its cause is larger political polarization.
JD talks about keeping neutral for work.
JD talks about the view of Cincinnati as a liberal city, how there is no city where every citizen is liberal or conservative, no one thinks the same way.
JD talks about her view of economic policy, spending money with research and planning.
BT talks about her view of conservative economic political preference as more responsible with money, recognizes complexity.
BT talks about her priority in voting about where funding goes, need to have finances in order before everything else.
BT talks about her view of political sides, equal opportunity vs equal outcome, good and bad within DEI and affirmative action.
JD talks about some groups needing more help: uses a grade-school class analogy of different levels of education or learning differences. When raise one group up, you raise others. Humanistic approach, make sure other groups are okay as well as self rather than leaving out others.
BT talks about not seeing a variety of worldly struggles and necessary solution as a small-town resident, small-town feel of helping each other out. Questions why larger social programs are necessary when on local level she sees people taking care of each other.
JD talks about the role of a government to change, to establish the "right thing to do". Example: women's rights, view of women's role in workplace changing over time, experience as a women interviewing for jobs. Government takes role in changing rules around hiring/interviewing women.
BT says that's a different way to think.
BT talks about her view of Buddhism as way of life.
JD talks about her experience starting to do yoga as an 11 year old, her interest in learning, exploring new things. Its connection to Buddhism.
JD talks about the commonality in religions.
JD talks about experience getting into yoga and the intricacies of the philosophy, the very small part that is the commonly practiced physical yoga.
BT says she is agnostic because there is no one answer, she welcomes philosophy. Views U.S. as a Christian nations and likes the sense of order a main religion provides.
BT talks about her doubt that we all have common morals.
JD talks about innate right and wrong and how many doctrines hit at similar morals.
BT talks about perspective that Christianity and its traditions are part of tradition of America, not offended by any religion and would not be bothered by common government use of ten commandments.
JD talks about her strong belief about separation church and state, her view of strong power of government and that it should not impose beliefs.
BT talks about being okay with abiding by a government imposed religious standard.
BT and JD share that they enjoyed the conversation, the ability to speak their minds and listen.
Participants
- Beth Taylor
- Jennifer Davis