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Kamala Harris credited everything she knows about Agency to her mother during her October 6 interview with the popular podcast Call her dadwhich Spotify listed as “the most listened to podcast by women.”

The vice president and Democratic presidential candidate sat down with podcast host Alex Cooper in Washington DC for an unfiltered interview in which she discussed her upbringing as well as sexual assault, abortion rights and criticism of her.

Harris spoke about her childhood growing up with two divorced parents and being raised primarily by her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris. When Cooper asked what “values” her mother “instilled” in her, she said she learned the importance of expressing her feelings.

“My mom definitely showed us the importance of being able to express our feelings,” Harris told Cooper.

“And I think a big part of that was because she taught us that we have agency and that things like this don’t just happen to you,” she said. “So think about how you’re feeling, not only to distract yourself, but also to figure out where you are and to center yourself.”

The former prosecutor explained that when she was in her late teens and early twenties, her mother refused to accept that her problems were not in some way self-inflicted.

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She noted, “I’ll tell you, every time I came home with a problem, the first thing my mother did was she looked at me…My mother, the first thing.” (She would say, ‘What have you done?'”

Harris believed that other parents coddled their children. This was not the case in her household.

“But one thing I realized: She actually taught me, ‘Think about where you had agency in that moment, and think about what choice you had to do or not do,'” she explained .

She said she learned to “take ownership of a moment.”

Harris said she quickly learned that you can’t control every situation.

“But don’t just let things happen without thinking, ‘What can I do in this moment?'” she said.

The other lesson Harris’ mother taught her is not to do anything “half-hearted.”

Reflecting on how she has applied her mother’s lessons into her political career, Harris said she has focused on her desire to protect “the most vulnerable” and those who have been stripped of their “power.”

Cooper also brought up comments from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said during a rally for Donald Trump that “there’s nothing that keeps her humble” because she doesn’t have biological children of her own.

Harris is the stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s two children, Ella and Cole.

“I feel sorry for her,” Harris said of the Republican governor.

“I’ll tell you why: because I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, first of all, don’t strive to be modest (and) second of all… who a lot of them have love in theirs.” Life, family in their lives and children in their lives, and I think it’s very important for women to encourage each other,” she said.

Call her dad is streaming on Spotify.