what the Harlem Renaissance teaches us about power
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Today’s Tell it Proud podcast episode is focused on the ethical principles of influence, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. This essay is titled ‘what the Harlem Renaissance teaches us about power’ which was a literary and intellectual movement composed of a generation of Black writers born around the turn of the 19th century. This essay reviews a book that captures this...
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we are living in someone else's imagination
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Today’s Tell it Proud podcast episode is focused on the ethical principles of cultural intelligence, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for The New Quo Learning Community where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. This essay is titled “we are living in someone else's imagination” and it’s about the ideologies and beliefs driving the biggest leaders who are creating and funding artificial intelligence also known as TESCREAL....
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hoarding versus sharing power
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Today’s episode is a little different from our norm. A few months ago I asked individuals to submit personal stories of ethical and cultural wisdom on the topic of power, and today’s podcast is highlighting the story of building Sudha Nandagopal who built Seattle's Equity & Environment Initiative and how it taught her how to see that there are two different kinds of power, the type where status-quo keepers see power as gatekeeping the relationships they have and consolidating the power around themselves or building shared power as a trojan horse within government. She put in...
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Refusing Erasure
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Today’s episode is a little different from our norm. A few months ago I asked individuals to submit personal stories of ethical and cultural wisdom on the topic of power, and today’s podcast is highlighting the story of Daisy Onubogu who at 17, became the first Black woman to lead Europe’s oldest debating society (UCD L&H). Walking into rooms where no one expected her to belong taught her early that power isn’t only positional, it’s also about voice, presence, and refusing erasure, shaping how she later built and led communities, by centering people who are usually unseen and...
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I Asked AI If Inequality Was Good, Here's What It Told Me
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Today’s Tell it Proud podcast episode is focused on the ethical principles of power, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. This essay is titled “I asked AI if inequality was good here’s what it told me” and is a recounting of my first experiences with generative AI, the history of this technology, its pros and serious cons and why we should be weary of automation bias taking...
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You're More Powerful Than You Think
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Today’s Tell it Proud podcast episode is focused on the ethical principles of power, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. This essay is a book review of You’re More Powerful Than You Think by Eric Liu. This book serves as both an inspiration and a practical guide for citizens seeking to create change. This book’s message is ultimately one of hope combined with agency - the...
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the power of being time travelers
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Today’s Tell it Proud podcast episode is focused on the cultural principles of power, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. This essay is titled “The power of being time travelers” and is a personal reflection on the power of mindfulness to stop ruminating about the past and worrying about the future and a number of practices you can try today to ground yourself during times of...
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The Beautiful and Hard Grief of Endings
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Today’s episode is focused on the cultural principle of adaptability, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. The essay read on today’s episode is titled “the beautiful and hard grief of endings” which talks about how I accepted various hard endings at a low point in my life 10 years ago, and ends with a poem on the beauty we can find when we are grieving a loss. If you'd...
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Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Intuition
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Today’s episode is focused on the cultural principle of influence, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. The essay read in this episode is titled “why you shouldn’t ignore your intuition” and starts with a personal story of how ignoring my intuition got me into some troubling situations at work and in romantic relationships, the research behind why intuition is real and the...
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How I Thrived When Everything Collapsed
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Today’s episode is focused on the cultural principle of adaptability, and is a reading from an essay I originally wrote for where I curate overlooked ethical and cultural wisdom straight to the inboxes of members who are passionate about finding new insight and inspiration to practice their social justice values. This essay is titled “how I thrived when everything collapsed” and talks about how I almost lost everything I had built in my business and career during Covid, and how I rebuilt better, in addition to exploring eight key components of adaptability to remain...
info_outlineIn this episode my guests Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard are founders of an amazing podcast titled Dear White Women. Misasha is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, a practicing litigator for over 15 years, who is passionate about diversity, equity and inclusion. She is a facilitator, writer, and speaker regarding issues of racial justice, especially with regards to children, the co-author of Dear White Women: Let’s Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism, and the co-host of Dear White Women, a social justice podcast.
Sara Blanchard helps build community and connection through conscious conversations, which she does as a facilitator, TEDx speaker, writer, and consultant. After graduating from Harvard and working at Goldman Sachs, Sara pursued the science and techniques of well-being and is a certified life coach, author of two books (Flex Mom and Dear White Women: Let’s Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism), and co-host of Dear White Women, an award-winning weekly social justice podcast.
In this conversation we explore:
+ why so many people are resistant and uncomfortable with naming whiteness as an identity
+ why DEI work is really about power
+ why understanding history will make you a more conscious, and inclusive person
+ how social change is not about appealing to the most hateful person in the room