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Ep 115: The Reality of Media Ethics and Empowerment for Young Women

• Amir Estimo • Season 6 • Episode 115

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What happens when allegations of sexual harassment surface in the media industry, implicating high-profile figures like Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor? Tune in as I return to the Thin Generation of Wealth Podcast after a year-long break to address these critical issues. Our latest episode takes a hard look at the lawsuit filed by former FS1 stylist Nushin Faraji, which reveals unsettling claims about the dynamics at Fox Sports. This conversation isn't just for those in the industry; it's a wake-up call for everyone, especially parents, to understand the complex realities young girls face in professional settings today. We uncover the importance of having open dialogues about workplace ethics and the role of media in shaping perceptions.

Beyond the headlines, we shift focus to the vital task of raising young girls with integrity and strength. How do we teach them to prioritize values over superficial gains in a world saturated with social media illusions and societal pressures? Sharing personal stories and real-life examples, I offer insights into building a foundation of self-reliance and ambition within our daughters. This episode also includes a cautionary tale from my own career, illustrating the dangers of compromising values. Join us as we explore how to equip the next generation with the tools to navigate their lives with confidence and dignity, ensuring they remain the authors of their own stories.

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Welcome to the Thin Generation of Wealth Podcast, and this is episode number 115. My name is Amir Estimo. I am your host. I appreciate you taking the time to listen to this podcast episode because you could be doing anything in this world. The fact that you're listening to this podcast episode is much appreciated. Episode is much appreciated. And I'd like to say first that it's been over a year since I recorded a podcast episode and let's just say in this year it was just a lot going on in 2024 that I had to just take a break from the podcast episode. And the reason is, like I said, I had to take a break. I had some family obligations I had to focus on and on top of that, I was working on different projects, including focusing 2024 on my land business, my land flipping business and something just had to give because it was just becoming a little too much. But 2025, I decided to return back and come back to the podcast and record more content. So if you're listening to this, if you're still subscribed to the Amir to the Think Generation of Wealth podcast, I do appreciate it and apologies for the long hiatus. Okay, so let's tune in in today's content. So, today's content I wanted to talk about something recent that I've seen, and this podcast is more on a parenting, especially if you're a couple who has young girls that you're raising in this crazy world today. I don't know if you guys have heard the Fox Sports.

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Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor has been accused. There was a lawsuit against them accusing them First of all, skip Bayless, as it looks like that he was making passes at a at a woman by the name Nushin Faraji. She was a hairstylist of Fox One. In the lawsuit she is suing network executive Charlie Dixon, fox FS1, skip Bayless, because Skip Bayless made some passes on her in the past. And also the lawsuit named Joy Taylor. But obviously, with this lawsuit, what we're seeing is, even though the lawsuit is naming all these people, the lawsuit is naming all these people from Skip Bayless former he used to work for us FS1, and he got let go or whatever. He got fired or show ended and. But if we really look at it, this episode, this lawsuit, really is focusing on Joy Taylor and the reason.

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Let's read a little bit about this. So I'm reading this from the DailyMailcouk mailcouk and the headline says force fox sports. Joy taylor slept with ex-nfl star emmanuel ocho and network executives to advance career suit claims, and it starts off by saying f1 host joy taylor used sexual relations with ex-NFL star co-host Emmanuel Acho and network executive Charlie Dixon to further her career, according to the bombshell lawsuit facing a number of sports media's biggest names. What's more, the glamorous 37-year-old broadcaster allegedly schemed to protect her job at the network by fabricating a sexual misconduct allegation against Dixon. I think he's a network executive of content for FS1 and Fox Sports executive vice president in charge of talent. Fox Sports Executive Vice President in charge of talent. Once Mr Dixon was no longer useful to Taylor, she would follow through on her plan to tell the company that he forced himself on.

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Her reads a portion of the lawsuit filed on Friday Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of ex-FS1 stylist Nushin Faraji. And it goes on to say Taylor Dix and former FS1 host Gabe Bayless and the Fox Corporation are named in Faraji's lawsuit, much of which focuses on allegations of sexual harassment, sexual battery, negligent supervision, retali retaliation and other hostile workplace issues between 2012 to august of 24, which is very recent. Bayless is accused of offering 1.5 million damn for heart for jari for sex, while dixon is accused of groping the stylist's buttocks. And it goes on to say Taylor herself is accused of dismissing for her for Jari's complaints about sexual harassment against Bayless and Dixon. Then it further goes on to say that but in addition to those allegations and she told Joy about this, taylor and she was just told just to get over it but in addition to those allegations are for Fajari's claims that Taylor leveraged sex to advance her career, first with Dixon, then with Acho, the retired NFL linebacker of Taylor's co-host on FS1 Speak Now with Dixon, Fajari began to suspect that he and Taylor was having an affair in 2016, despite both being married at the time.

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In approximately May 2016, ms Taylor asked Fajari to meet for a drink and a Santa Monica read the lawsuit obtained by the DailyMailcom. When Ms Fajari arrived, she found Ms Taylor with an older man. Fox Sports Executive Vice President of Content, mr Dixon. As the executive predicts, vice President, mr Dixon is responsible for overseeing all content and production on FS1. Content and production on FS1. Ms Fajari, however, did not know Dixon. From their body language, ms Fajari suspected the pair were sleeping with each other and although this concerned Ms Fajari, as she knew Ms Taylor was recently married, ms Fajari kept her opinions to herself. Hopefully I'm saying the name correct, but it is what it is. Let's keep going.

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Taylor was just a fill-in host at the time but later added to the network in full-time role and, according to Fajari, the decision was made at Dixon's insistence over the objections of Baylor Bayless Skip. Mr Bayless later disclosed to Miss Fajari that he did not want Miss Taylor on the show, but Mr Dixon was adamant about Taylor joining the show. Ok, and there is more to it. It goes on to talk about how. Then later on, she mentioned that her joy in Ocho, where she again was invited, I guess, to another lunch, and then Ocho was there and then she's go.

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The filing reads at first, mr Dixon arranged a dinner between Mr Bayliss and Ms Taylor, where she arrived in a provocative clothing and acted in a provocative manner. When that did not change Mr Bayliss' opinion of Ms Taylor, mr Dixon asked him to approve of her as a favor to him. Reluctantly, mr Bayliss agreed to do so as a favor to his friend. As we go down and we go down and see Taylor, taylor would soon split with her husband, richard Giannotti, who is not named in the suit, and according to Fajari, it was because Taylor's now-ex discovered proof of her infidelity and around 2016,. Ms Fajari attended dinner with Ms Taylor and her husband and Mr Dixon and his wife defiling reads. During the dinner, ms Taylor's husband became suspicious that Ms Taylor and Mr Dixon were having a sexual relationship. Soon after dinner, miss taylor's husband found evidence of the inappropriate relationship relationship and divorced miss taylor.

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Taylor is again accused of using her sexuality to get on the show in 2020 when she sought a spot on ocho's program. Taylor is again accused of using her sexuality to get on the show in 2020, when she sought a spot on Ocho's program. Ms Fajari did not know Mr Ocho, but could tell the two were romantically involved. According to Fajari, taylor all but admitted to having sex with Acho and dismissed talk of any jealousy by Dixon. A few months after the meeting Mr Acho at lunch, ms Fajari noticed him in the hallway while at work. The filing continues. Ms Fajari later asked Ms Taylor if Mr Acho also worked at Fox news. Ms Fajari later asked Ms Taylor if Mr Acho also worked at Fox. Ms Taylor confirmed and explained that she wanted Mr Acho to eventually recommend her on the show.

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Speak for Yourself. Okay, so there is more to it. Uh, as you can see, miss majar became alarmed and warmed miss taylor that she should not probably sleep with mr dixon. Mr achu, at the same time mr dixon's very powerful that may become very angry. Miss taylor told her not to worry about it. She explained that she was also now powerful and once mr dixon was no longer useful to her, she would follow through on her plan to tell the company that he forced himself on her. She would not allow herself to be forced out by mr dixon like other women and talent. Hmm, Okay. So, as we can see, the lawsuit is against Skip and various others, but the tone of this whole lawsuit is really geared towards Joy Taylor. Now Joy Taylor is sister of former NFL and I think he's in the Hall of Fame Jason Taylor. She was once also engaged to NBA turn coach Earl Watson and they had a split.

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There's actually a story behind that too. But the whole point of this today, as I talk about this, is we are now in a society where we are okay with the constant sexualization of women, and I can share even my own story. I was once, when I was working, when I was a manager back in retail, I had a friend of mine who I was working when I was a manager back in retail. I had a friend of mine who I was friend with at the time and she shared with me. Actually, before I got promoted to management, there was a party that the managers all the managers would go to with their supervisor and it was at their home and she slept with the area supervisor to become, to get promoted. Now, I'm not saying she was not qualified to do the job. What disappointed me, and I told her at the moment and she said well, you know, they had a lot to drink that day. And I told her at the moment and she said well, you know, they had a lot to drink that day and it was just some sexual tensions and they happened to have sex.

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And I remember there was a guy who was a friend of mine too. He went for promotion for that same position. He didn't get it, but she got it. He, when he pulled me aside, he told me the story. And then I happened one night, me and her was talking and then she told me she actually confirmed what he said. He confirmed what was true and she even admitted to me she was a very honest person.

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So but when? When she said that that was my first exposure to how women like how people, especially women not men, but mostly women get ahead to get certain positions. I mean, I'm young, I didn't know, I didn't hear anything about it, but I was. I was shocked because I was like, wow, you know, she, she didn't have to go that route, but she chose to go that route.

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And what we're now doing in society, and the reason I wanted to talk about this part, this episode, is because if you're raising a young girl, and how do you teach these girls that you don't not, you don't need to go this route? You need to show your skills versus, hey, you giving up your goods to get promoted in life. Okay, and it's the toughest thing to do, especially in today's world where social media has become this thing where it's not real. For the most part, it's not real because when you look at people, they can be on social media and you see they have this and that and that and then when you really go behind the scenes, they're broke. As a joke, they don't even have $100 to their name.

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And as me, as a father raising two young girls, I had to ask myself when I heard about this lawsuit. I didn't think much of it until Monday. It was like I don't, I don't, I don't follow, I don't really deal with Twitter. So I was seeing a lot of this on YouTube and I said wow, and I had to think about it for a second. I'm like, wow, you know, like even me raising my daughter, who's 18, who just turned 18 a month ago and we there was a point there was this boy that was interested, well, kind of showed interest in her, and my daughter doesn't know, hey, like she's not put on game yet. So they say so.

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Of course, when you're a young female, uh, the opposite sex shows some attention to you. You might be like, oh my gosh, I'm actually pretty, I'm actually beautiful. I could tell her blue to my face and it won't even matter. But if the opposite sex shows interest in her, it's like it means more. And one thing now we have to do me and my wife is we have to now take an approach with her where we're not so much demanding things and we're trying to be more of an advisor to her. Now, hey, I need you to do this versus hey.

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The reason this needs to be done is because X, y and Z. The reason this needs to be done is because X, y and Z, and when you see these stories and you hear these stories and I don't know what's true and what's not, and honestly I don't care, because I don't follow Joy Taylor number one. And at the same time it doesn't shock me because even watching the show because I used to watch Undisputed when it was Shannon and Skip, religiously and when she was on there at the beginning obviously you can see the clothes she would wear, low cut, breast showing and obviously, of course, fs1 is competing with ESPN with first take. So they're trying to get views and what they're going to do put someone who's attractive and and who's to say, I mean, before even all this, she was a bartender, so for her to even get this job, people, I mean, if you want to talk sports, you really don't need to be qualified to talk sports. Do you need to study the game? Do you need to understand what's going on? Yes, but I don't think you have to play it Now inside the locker room and in all the intricacies, numbers and all that you may not know because that's not your expertise. But you can. You can talk about, hey, the playoffs that's coming up, or college football playoffs, by just watching the game.

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And even me. I've played basketball in high school. I played football. I went out for one snap. I got hit and I never wanted to play football again. I was like no, I'm not doing this. But when you're raising girls, what is it that you need to say? Okay, you know what? How do I raise this girl so she doesn't get polluted or she doesn't get tainted with the understanding that for you to get ahead of life, you need to sell yourself?

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There was even this girl recently I'm looking this up real quick. Folks OnlyFansStar stated she made $43 million on OnlyFans. Okay, so in OnlyFans. So here's peoplecom and it says OnlyFans model made 20. She was 20 years old and made $43 million last year. And doesn't conflict with her Christian values? I don't. I mean, I don't even know who she is Sophie Rain, apparently. She claimed that she made $43 million and I think this girl even mentioned that. She said there was one guy. Her highest benefactor is a man named Charles. The influencer tells people between November 23 and 24, charles sent Rain nearly $5 million. Wow, that's a sad world we're living in. Only fins, I think, gross. They paid content creators, uh, six million dollars. I mean, I'm sorry, six billion dollars, and apparently this girl's christian. I'm not sure how that works out, but you can check that story out itself. I mean, is that true or not? I'm not sure, but at the end of the day, as you can see again, someone, let's say this is true $43 million off OnlyFans.

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So where is the line gets drawn in teaching, raising these young girls, to make them understand that you do not have to sell yourself or your body to get somewhere in life? I mean, at some point, we as men, when are we going to stop sexualizing women? And obviously, yes, if you work with somebody, there's going to be sexual tension. If you're around them 20, I mean, I'm not going to be a hypocrite me and my wife met at our job, but when we, when me and my wife, then we and my wife um, got together, we let, I let my manager know, like hey, my supervisor at the time said, hey, me and me her together, but and she soon later ended up leaving the job, which, which is fine, which works.

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But the thing is, is that at some point, if you're an executive, like even me when I was in retail management, I got seduced by and I don't think I'm the, I don't think I'm the. I don't think I'm the apple in the tree, but even I got seduced by women. Hey, let's get together. It was common for that to happen. Common for it to happen. And for me that was. It was a matter of like wow, I'm not going to give up. I like my money, I like to travel, I like these things. I was not willing to jeopardize that because I was single, I was bachelor, but I used to love to travel and the only way to do that is really have a job at that moment. And I'm not going to sacrifice my standing in the company, my again morals, my standards, for maybe a few minutes of pleasure.

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And once that happened, jason Whitlock said his father told him when he was young that the minute you start messing with them, they no longer work for you. They work for now you work for them. And even though I was working in a company, but as a manager, I didn't want anybody to be I working for them in the store. I wanted them to work for me. So raising girls, it's not easy, it's difficult. This is difficult in the world we're facing in.

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And when you look at these headlines 43 million off, onlyfans you know again, I'm not, I'm not here to judge people, but what I'm here to say is if you are raising a young lady today, understand that you have to raise your girls to understand that they don't have to go down this route. Now, if you put in the work and teaching them that and they still decide to do whatever one thing they're going to have to live with, this will always live with Joy Taylor, the young girl, the OnlyFans star. That will always live with her. People will always judge you based off what you've done in the past. You may have a very small percentage of people that may say you know what I understand and I'm not going to judge you off that. But if you did anything with porn or you did with anything with you know that type of you know sleeping your way to the top, so they say it's very difficult for you to ever come back from that, because now people are always going to judge you based off what you did to get to where you wanted to go. So I thought this was an interesting topic to open.

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Back on the podcast, I actually shot a different podcast, but I'm getting used to my MacBook and in my MacBook apparently the file was corrupted or whatever. So anyways, and I was like you know what, I was going to save this topic for another podcast, but I was like you know what, let me just bring this podcast to life, because I know there's parents out there that sees these headlines and says, you know what? What do we do? Like, how do you raise your kid to understand that? Or your daughter to understand that hey, instill morals and standard, to understand that, hey, instill morals and standard? I always tell my daughter, my 18 year old, I said have standards for yourself. If you meet a man you don't want to meet a man, let's say you're over here, you got a great career going, and you meeting a man. He has no ambition in life, all he does is smoke, weed, drinks, pants, sagging. He's only going to bring you down and you want to show like. Even now I'm still trying.

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Me and my wife are having these teaching moments with her. I mean, she's a young girl, she, you know, of course, when they're young, young, they want to wear makeup and all that stuff. I'm not saying we don't allow it, but the thing is we try to teach her is that beauty is within, not without. If I'm going to date a woman now I'm going to date them based off of what they can bring to the table. We, we got all these songs, independent Women and all this stuff. But what's really being independent? Independent is when you can handle yourself, when everything, everything, when all your bills come in your name. That's when you are now officially an adult, so you can't.

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In the society we're raising kids, especially young lady. How many of them believe that this is the route you go? How many? Oh, you just need to sell you, you need to sleep your way to the top, or, and I'm telling you right now, it's only going to get harder, because these kids are getting exposed to these type of content at a very young, early age, and sometimes it could be a family where there's not a strong male presence in the home or the mom is probably. You know she had this kid at 15, 16. So now you got two kids. You got one, and not every 16 year old that has a child is going to mature.

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My wife had my daughter. She had my daughter is from a previous relationship, but I've raised her since she was four years old and my wife had her at 16. And she can tell you it was not easy, but she understood priorities. Not every female thinks that at that age. So how do? How do we now in society says you know what? How do we instill and we condition them to think that your standards are more important than where you want to go? Because if you don't have standards for yourself, you're going to be willing to do anything. Go on OnlyFans, sweep your way to the top, who knows? But what you have to understand is not only if you decide to go that route, you're going to have to deal with the consequences too. That's behind it. So I just wanted to share this with you.

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This was more to me. I think when you get these content, it's more a teachable moment, a lesson, a reminder that as a parent, you have to constantly instill in your kids that hey, this is not the way to do things. If you do things this way, it may take longer. And if someone comes to you and says, hey, this is what you got to do, you need to teach them Say hey, even as a man, if a man comes to you. That's why it's important to have a strong male presence in the home. And if you don't have that strong male presence, these type of things will continually go on.

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And who's to say Joy Taylor's father? I don't know the whole backlash not backlash but I don't know the whole story of her parents and who's to say they did. But she got influenced and she chose the money over her morals and standards. And again, we don't know the whole story and I don't want to pass judgment on her. But let's be real. Some of this stuff makes sense. I mean, it does, and I'm not here again to make that. And I'm not here again to make that. But I thought this was interesting because, for me, who's raising young girls in today's society? You've got to be able to really teach them, have these conversations with them. Don't come from a position of hostile. Come from a position of hey, I'm not only trying to be your friend, but I'm your parent first, your friend third, I'm your parent, I'm your mentor, but I'm not, I'm your friend last. Because what happens when these things come across? You don't never want to give people ammunition to use against you. Always remember that and that's what I tell my daughter and that's why I live by that. I didn't want to give anybody any ammunition to have over my head so I couldn't move on to where I wanted to go, and this was the last week and I'll get off of this.

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In that same company, I remember, there was a guy. He was a supervisor and he was working for the company for a very long time and apparently, just put it this way, you're a supervisor and, let's say, you have someone who's maybe two or three notches below you. He was having an affair with this young lady, but apparently the young lady went for a promotion and or, yes, she went for a promotion and she didn't get the job. But she was under the assumption by him that he can get her promoted. When that didn't happen, guess what happened? She blew the whistle on him. So you know what happened to him. Not only he lost his job, he lost his family because his wife in the find out he had an affair job. He lost his family because his wife ended up finding out he had an affair. Again, ask yourself is it worth it? All right, tune in to next week's podcast episode, because next week's podcast episode we're going to talk about Jackie Chan. Surprising what Jackie Chan did, I ended up again reading. So again, thank you for tuning in for today's podcast episode.

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I'm getting a little bit better with this social media. I hate social media but of course, these days, if you don't get yourself out there, people don't think you're real, people don't whatever. But I'm making it a priority of mine to grow a social media presence. Now, it's not, honestly, it's really not about the followers. I don't even. That's not even. That's not the importance. The importance is to make sure that whenever I drop this content, people are actually listening and engaging with the content. All right, let me know your thoughts. What do you think about today's episode? Do you think what's going on here at Fox? The young lady with the only fans what's? What's your thoughts on that? If you're a parent, what are your thoughts? If you have a young lady, even men, even a young boy, what are your thoughts on this? Ok, all right, I appreciate you tuning in today's podcast episode and, like always, much love, much appreciated. See you next week, peace.