Bonus: Making Your Anti-Racism Posts on Social Media Influential
Release Date: 06/04/2020
153: Key Differences Between Healthy and Unhealthy Influence
Voice of Influence
Today we're extracting the key takeaways from the series we've done this summer about power dynamics and the abuse of power. We started this series because we recognized how important it was to directly address the unhealthy imbalance of power and unhealthy use of power. The first step is to be able to clearly recognize the abuse of power and then to stand up in the face of the abuse of power. In this episode, we're covering why all of this matters, how to know when we should step in, how to step in without causing additional pain, and so much more.
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152: Be a Voice for Wholeness and Human Flourishing with Jason Kanz, Ph.D
Voice of Influence
Jason Kanz, Ph.D is a Neuropsychologist at the Marshfield Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and three children. Jason is the author of Soil of the Divine and Notes from the Upper Room: Lessons in Loving Like Jesus, as well as the editor of Living in the Larger Story: The Christian Psychology of Larry Crabb. Jason talks and writes about the concepts of wholeness, integration, and reconciliation through the lens of neuroscience, spirituality, and creativity. For many of us, there's always some sort of tension in our lives, whether in a relationship, in our own...
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151: Institutional Health and Leadership In Difficult Times with Dr. Neal Schnoor
Voice of Influence
Dr. Neal Schnoor is Chief of Staff to the President at California State University, Long Beach where he operates in various functions in support of meeting the mission of the University. Dr. Schnoor was also my Professor when I attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney and he taught me as a Music Education Major and in a leadership class. I still remember being in that class and being struck by his conviction about leadership and really calling us to be great leaders so when I started the Voice of Influence podcast, I really wanted to bring him on to share his voice. That was about three...
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150: When Narcissism Comes to Your Organization with Dr. Chuck DeGroat
Voice of Influence
Dr. Chuck DeGroat is Professor of Counseling and Christian Spirituality at Western Theological Seminary Holland MI, and Co-Founder and a Senior Fellow at Newbigin House of Studies, San Francisco. He is a licensed therapist, author, retreat leader, and spiritual director. Chuck has been married to Sara for 25 years and has two daughters. Chuck is also the author of the new book, When Narcissism Comes to Church: Healing Your Community From Emotional and Spiritual Abuse. Today we're tackling the subject of narcissism, the systems that allow it, and how to deal with it. This conversation is...
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149: How to Support Someone in an Abusive Relationship with Rosanne Moore
Voice of Influence
Roseanne Moore, my Voice of Influence colleague, is back on this episode to offer guidance on how you can be of help if you suspect that someone in your life is in an abusive relationship. In this episode, Rosanne shares why the place to begin is with yourself, how to create a safe space for the person you want to help to open up, what you need to keep in mind to empower a woman in this situation, how to support victims of abuse at different stages in their journey, and more.
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148: How to Spot a Child Abuser Hiding in Plain Sight with Jimmy Hinton
Voice of Influence
Jimmy Hinton is a full-time minister and safeguarding specialist with Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE) who researches deception techniques of child molesters and specializes in abuse in plain sight. In 2011, Jimmy's sister confided in him that she had been sexually abused when she was a young child by their father, a former Minister of 27 years. Jimmy and his mother reported his father to authorities, which resulted in his confession of 23 victims, and a conviction of 30-60 years for sex crimes against children. In this episode, Jimmy shares the story of how his...
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147: Why We Need to Understand Trauma and Coercive Control with Dr. Debra Wingfield
Voice of Influence
Debra Wingfield is an Author, Speaker, and Trainer for family abuse prevention and intervention treatment. She practiced counseling for 25 years with domestic abuse victims, offenders, adults, and children from all types of dysfunctional family systems. She’s also provided family court advocacy since 1993 and would love to be able to train those within the court system about trauma. In this episode, Debra shares what the courts miss in cases of domestic abuse due to not being sufficiently trauma-informed, the societal impact that misconceptions about abuse can have, what it means for...
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146: Finding Her True Voice After Domestic Violence with Naghmeh Panahi
Voice of Influence
Naghmeh Panahi is a speaker, a Bible teacher, and an executive director for the TAF Foundation; an organization that helps abused women escape and recover religiously motivated violence, both in the form of domestic violence and in the form of religious persecution. Naghmeh made national news when she publicly advocated for the release of her then-husband and pastor at the time, Saeed Abedini, who was imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith. Unfortunately, her story is not an easy one to hear because it turns out that she was in an abusive marriage, and eventually they got divorced. In this...
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145: Deceptive Myths About the Abuse of Power (Part 2)
Voice of Influence
My Voice of Influence colleague, Rosanne Moore, is back on the show for part two of our series on breaking down destructive myths surrounding coercive control and abuse of power. In part one, we went over the first seven myths and, in this episode, we’ll be going over the next seven.
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144: How to Talk About Racism Online and with Kids with Lucretia Berry
Voice of Influence
Last week, we brought you part one of a two-part series about the myths around abuse and coercive control. We had originally planned to release the second part of that series this week, however, we decided that given the events of the past few weeks, in particular, how things really escalated this week around the issues of racial injustice, we decided instead to release this interview with Lucretia Berry. Lucretia is the creator of Brownicity, an anti-race/ism curriculum specialist, a writer for in(Courage).me, the author of What LIES Between Us Journal & Guide: Fostering First Steps...
info_outlineIt can be hard to know what to say in a conversation about race, but if you're vulnerable and share how you are learning about the world, other people's perspectives, and your own latent bias, it will help others to be more open to that kind of change, themselves.