{"id":2139,"date":"2016-11-02T03:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2024-03-24T07:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T14:56:49","slug":"81-respond-pageant-judge-asks-political-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/81-respond-pageant-judge-asks-political-question\/","title":{"rendered":"81: How to Respond When Your Pageant Judge Asks a Political Question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4772748\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/4ac1c0\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2140\" src=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Episode-81-Featured-Image-300x187.png\" alt=\"episode-81-featured-image\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Episode-81-Featured-Image-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Episode-81-Featured-Image.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Politics are a scary topic in pageantry, mostly because we don\u2019t know exactly how we should be responding to these questions.<\/p>\n<p>Scan the room and tell them what you think they believe?<br \/>Bluntly give your honest opinion and risk offending others and creating a great divide?<br \/>Gracefully evade the question all together and attempt to change the topic?<\/p>\n<p>The two most recent and memorable political questions came from the Miss USA pageant in the final question phase of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Carrie Prejean in 2009 gave her blunt opinion about same-sex marriage in her Top 5 Question and ended up as first runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Hardin in 2016 gracefully danced around the question of who she\u2019d vote for in the upcoming election. She, too, was first runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could tell you there were a sure-fire way to answer ANY question and win. There\u2019s not. It\u2019s all a delicate dance. What I can tell you is that no matter what, you have to deliver your answer with certainty in what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to Respond When Your Pageant Judge Asks a Political Question (Episode 81)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ygD4Qp52sac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Your pageant interview is not a quiz. They aren\u2019t so much judging what you say as how you say it.<\/p>\n<p>I tell all my clients, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to answer, you just have to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isn\u2019t that freeing?!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, you realize, you aren\u2019t a presidential candidate, governor, or lobbying activist. You\u2019re a student, a teacher, a nurse, a pageant woman \u2013 you don\u2019t have the answers, so don\u2019t try to be \u2018right.\u2019 Just be \u2018lovely.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>First, it begins with knowing yourself deeply and in the context of the greater community.<\/p>\n<p>Then, recognize you are a spokesperson for a larger cause. Your voice carries weight because of your association.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, know the hill you\u2019re prepared to die on. Meaning, what are you willing to stand for even if it means you\u2019ll lose the title. These values are the ones that make you a powerful woman.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, life goes on after the pageant. You\u2019ll give up the title in a year, start a new career and the words you spoke back then, when you had the platform to stand for something will still echo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #4ac1c0; text-align: center;\">Start with knowing yourself deeply so you know where you stand.<\/h3>\n<p>Then, answer with confidence. Don\u2019t shrivel up in the corner. Come with your full understanding of yourself, your community, and your values.<\/p>\n<p>You may get an \u201cunlucky question\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s what the owner of the pageant said about Carrie Prejean\u2019s final question in 2009 \u2013 but 7 years after the pageant, whether you win or lose, you\u2019ll be able to sleep at night that you answered with confidence and ease.<\/p>\n<p><em>That, my dear, is how you win in life.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Contact Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alyciadarby\">@AlyciaDarby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/winapageant\">WinAPageant Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more great pageant training, enroll in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/freepageantcourse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/FreePageantCourse.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1583616946812000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHe1YQzqw9ar1f-oA3dl-t_B29QZA\">Free Pageant Course<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/FreePageantCourse.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Free-Pageant-Course-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Free-Pageant-Course-1.png 700w, https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Free-Pageant-Course-1-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Episode-81-Featured-Image-300x187.png\" alt=\"episode-81-featured-image\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Episode-81-Featured-Image-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Episode-81-Featured-Image.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> Politics are a scary topic in pageantry, mostly because we don\u2019t know exactly how we should be responding to these questions. Scan the room and tell them what you think they believe? Bluntly give your honest opinion and risk offending others and creating a great divide? Gracefully evade the question all together and attempt to change the topic? The two most recent and memorable political questions came from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,60,43,44,47,50,52],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8044,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions\/8044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winapageant.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}