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2.10: Using Vulnerability to Combat Social Injustice with Anna Nti-Asare

Release Date: 12/05/2017

001: Building a Foundation for Your Best Life

Welcome to the first official episode of my new podcast, Mind Climate!

2.37: A Bittersweet Farewell – Series Finale

This was a bittersweet episode to record because we’ll miss this podcast, the inspiring interviewees, and our amazing listeners, however, we’re incredibly excited about the directions we’re heading with our careers and personal lives.

2.36: Taking Ownership of Our Lives – Season 2 Finale

In this special finale episode, we talk about how we’ve grown this past season; with an eye towards how we can help other people through their own growth process, of course.

2.35: Using Restorative Justice to Heal Rather Than Punish

In this week’s inspired conversation, we reflect on our powerful interview with Jackie Rotman. Jackie is currently helping survivors of sexual harm and advocating for sexual empowerment for women.

2.34: Surviving Sexual Harm and Fostering Female Sexual Empowerment with Jackie Rotman

This episode involves a frank conversation about sexuality and sexual harm. While we feel it’s an amazing, and incredibly important conversation, listener discretion is advised.

2.33: A Marathon Versus a Sprint

In last week’s episode, we spoke with Lily Fontas; a wellness coach and educator who is on a mission to help women get strong, healthy, and happy on their own terms.

2.32: Finding Health and Happiness on Your Own Terms with Lily Fontas

Lily Fontas is a wellness coach and educator who is on a mission to help women get strong, healthy, and happy on their own terms. After burning out as a classroom teacher, she turned to bodybuilding and found a way to live a healthy life without dieting.

2.31: Success is a Journey, Not a Destination

In last’s week’s episode with Chelann Gienger, we talked about her incredibly entrepreneurial journey that saw her open a brick and mortar business when she was only 18 years old, why we need to take “extreme ownership” of our lives, and more.

2.30: The Success of a Serial Entrepreneur with Chelann Gienger

Chelann Gienger was named one of the top 40 millennials to follow in 2018 by the Huffington Post. Chelann is a serial entrepreneur who owns the NUYU Juice Bar in Washington state, is the Host of the Entrepreneur Before 25 podcast, and the author of Dear Millennial,.

2.29: Loving Your True Self

In this week’s episode, we’re reflecting on our conversation last week with Gregg Clunis from Tiny Leaps, Big Changes.

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Anna Nti-Asare is a writer, teacher, counselor, a graduate of both Stanford and Cambridge, and soon to be a PhD student at Cambridge. Anna focuses her efforts on gender and race issues in the United States with an emphasis on how those issues relate to the country’s youth and pop culture.

In this episode, Anna opens up about her own struggles in her educational journey and personal life and how she feels it’s important to look past a resume and see all the times a person wasn’t able to achieve their goals because, only when doing that, can others learn their failures aren’t actually failures at all.

What you'll here in this episode:

The type of guidance Anna provides a counselor to recent high school graduates
The elements of Anna’s personal journey that resonate the most with her students
How Anna’s resilience helped her receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship
The importance of talking about the times we don’t get what we want out of life
How Anna keeps a narrative going with her students about self-worth as it relates to gender and race
How Anna convinced a highly traditional university to let her continue her research and work around black feminism
The profound reasons behind what having a PhD means to Anna
How Anna’s international travels in her younger years helped shaped her views on social justice
The importance of shifting our numbness to social injustice displayed on social media to letting be a motivation for change

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