EIC NOW 001: Black Lives Matter. How to Take Action
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
Release Date: 06/05/2020
EIC 054: Knowing Your Bandwidth And Expanding A Company
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
Today's episode is short, but we're expanding! While this episode is basically an update episode, I've learned so many things about myself and changed as both a person and entrepreneur that I hope you can learn and take note from in your own business or your own team!
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EIC 053: A Radically Honest Conversation About Spirituality in The Diaspora with The Bratty Brujita, Yvette Montoya
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
Happy Latinx Heritage Month! Today we're covering an extremely personal topic on the podcast: spirituality.
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EIC 052: Women of Color in Venture Capital and the Immigrant Experience with Surbhi Rathore of Symbl AI
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
We are BACK and coming back strong! Today we have our first-ever venture capital-funded entrepreneur! Surbhi is a co-founder of Symbl AI and is an immigrant. Today she shares her story getting into tech, becoming a startup founder, and even a little bit about being an entrepreneur on a visa and what that process is like.
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EIC 051: Dealing With A Career Crossroads & What To Do
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
I've spent the last few months at a career crossroads, torn between what my head says to logically do and what my heart wants me to do to be fulfilled.
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EIC 050: Intersectionality and Pride
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
We want to close out Pride Month talking about something that impacts how we approach everything we do at Empowered in Color: Intersectionality.
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EIC 049: Ask HR about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion with Patricia Figueroa of Your Human Resource
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
Today's episode was taken from our first-ever workshop/webinar back in April where we had HR professional Patricia Figueroa talk about how people can navigate discussions and concerns over DEI in the workplace, as well as offer some insight from a human resources perspective.
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EIC 048: The "PI" in AAPI with Lilian Dirrebes
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
While the month of May is meant to celebrate both the Asian American & Pacific Islander (PI) communities, PI (aka Pasifika) folks are often tokenized or completely left out of the celebration.
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EIC 047: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
After a monthlong break, we are back to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM) as well as Mental Health Awareness Month!
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EIC 046: Anti-Asian Violence and How Podcasting Has Shaped My Voice
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
This episode was originally going to be a reflection of the last 3 years of Empowered in Color, but with the recent Anti-Asian events, I decided to focus on that with a little bit of reflection on how podcasting with EIC has helped me be able to speak the way I am speaking about these events today.
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EIC 045: How to Become an Unapologetic Woman and/or Support Them in Your Life
The Empowered in Color Podcast: Helping People of Color Thrive in Business and in Life
March is Women's History Month, and earlier this week we celebrated International Women's Day! In honor of that, I'm sharing with you my story on how I have become more confident in myself and who I am as a woman and woman of color. I'll even share some practical, actionable tips for you whether you are a woman working on yourself or a man listening but want to support the women in your life.
info_outlineThis episode is not part of our regularly scheduled programming, but we cannot be a podcast that addresses race & not talk about this.
Today's episode is for all nonblack people to have ways to take ACTION.
Ways you can take action:
- PROTEST! Get out there & stand in solidarity & protect Black people from the police!
- Pass out water and snacks to protestors
- Be a volunteer medic to care for protestors when they are wounded
- Sit with yourself and reflect on everything happening. If you have Black friends, imagine if these tragedies happened to them. Personalize these issues to yourself.
- Correct people when they say problematic and harmful things. Have these conversations. Not having these conversations lead to Black people dying.
- Register to vote! Elect people to go into office to make these changes. Better yet, run for office! (see episode 029 if you're more interested in running for office)
- Do a personal audit of your friendships, the media you consume, the people you follow. How many of those people are of a different race than you? How many people are Black?
- Confront your antiblack biases within yourself, then have these conversations with the people around you. Reflect on antiblack things you've witnessed or experienced or said yourself, and it will take time to unlearn these mindsets.
Mentioned on this week's episode:
- Video analysis of outsiders trying to instigate looting
- Protesting tips
- Can I Get a Sat Nam?! Podcast by Sacha Simmons
- Our True Colors Podcast by Shawna Gann
- If you have any questions about race/DEI or want someone to talk to/vent to: [email protected]
- Bailout funds for protestors throughout the U.S.
Black people to follow/work with/hire:
- Alicia Tenise - Lifestyle Blogger/Influencer (featured on episode 027!)
- Maya Elious - Personal Branding Strategist and Speaker
- Brittany Bright - Influencer Marketing Strategist, also founder of The Influencer League
- Abu Fofanah - Growth Strategist, Ad Strategist
- Diverse City LLC - (Black-owned) Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Consulting Firm by Dr. Cheryl Ingram
- Danielle Desir - Travel Finance Strategist and Writer
- Eugenie George - Financial Wellness Researcher
- Wonder Women Tech - (Black-owned) non-profit and conference that promotes DEI in tech for women and women of color by Lisa Mae Brunson
Podcasts to listen to:
- Real Talk with Dumas Podcast
- The Culture Talk Collective
- The Inkfully Podcast
- Yo, Is This Racist?
- Code Switch
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