On today's episode. If I didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I got a question, do you ever feel overwhelmed at work? Like your email inbox got five hundred unread messages and you just want somebody to stop the earth so you can get off. Well, let me tell you about Major Charity. Adams and the six Triple eight. These women looked at a pile of seventeen million pieces of mail and said, light work. I didn't know. I didn't know. No, I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.
But but but before we get into that, let's talk about major charity. Atoms born in nineteen eighteen in Cottrell, North Carolina. That's right. She's a Carolinian and she was raised in Columbia, South Carolina. Her dad was a minister, her mom was a teacher, and together they basically raised
a human LinkedIn profile. I mean, she a valedictorian math degree from Wilberforce University, teaching career, and then, because clearly she didn't have enough on her plate, she joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps during World War Two, and then she just casually became the first black woman commissioned as an officer. Now fast forward to nineteen forty four, the army gives her a mission lead the sixth Triple Eight,
the only all black, all female battalion deployed overseas. Their job soort seventeen million pieces of backlog mail for soldiers stationed all across Europe. Now, these women were dealing with warehouses full of letters stacked Florida ceiling. I'm talking about rotten packages, a smell you could probably never forget, probably smell worse than circus dirt. And then I mentioned racism and sexism, because of course it was the nineteen forties.
They weren't just fighting the male they were fighting people who didn't think they deserved to be there in the first place. But Charity Adams wasn't having it. She was like, look, we're gonna sort this mail, and we're gonna do it better than anyone expects. They set up three shifts working around the clock, sorting sixty five thousand pieces of mail a day. Meanwhile, I'm over here struggling the archive one
thousand posts on my Instagram. And here's the kicker. They were given six months to sort through seventeen million pieces of meal. They did it. In three three months. They basically invented efficiency. Their motto was no mail, low morale cause they knew the stakes. These letters were more than just paper. They were lifelines. Soldiers got letters from their moms, girlfriends, maybe a side chick or two. Hell, I ain't judging, warn't stressful, but in all seriousness, what they did was
absolutely incredible. And here's why it matters today. Major Adams and the six Triple Eight proved that black women could take on impossible task and knock them out the park, even when the world doubted them. That story is a our resilience, excellence and not letting anybody tell you what you're capable of. So the next time you're drowning in emails or a coworker sends you one of those per my last email passive aggressive messages, just channel you're in
a six Triple eight. Think hell, if they could sort seventeen million letters, I can damn sure Handlekaren from Accountant And as a matter of fact, Tyler Perry did a movie about the six Triple eight. Carrie Washington was the lead. You can find it on Netflix. Shouts to the six Triple eight, a group that I didn't know maybe you didn't either. Listen up, man, if you love this series, you can now listen to us every single week starting in March for all types of things that I didn't know.
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