She's Not Sweet. She's Skilled.

Podcast: The Radiant Badass with Elizabeth Holmes · Radiant Badass

Opublikowano: 2026-07-31

A Martin Short documentary introduced me to a new word — tummler — and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. It’s a Yiddish word commonly used during the Catskills-era for the person whose actual job was turning a hotel of strangers into a temporary community. Not the performer on stage. The one actually out working the room — at breakfast, the pool, the lobby — making sure nobody’s left standing alone. This week I’m making the case that a huge number of the women in our lives are doing this work constantly, for free, and ca...