Welcome back fam! Today I have a powerful interview for you. We are addressing inequality and injustice with Eboni Ward. Eboni is a mom, life, and fitness coach, she is an entrepreneur, and today we getting uncomfy about inequality.

If you immediately have the urge to shut this episode off or you are already feeling defensive by reading the title of this episode. I encourage you to stick it through with us. This is a profound episode and I know there are people out there who were just like me completely unaware of the injustice happening around us. It is time to sit in our feelings and self reflect because this is a human problem. It is not irrelevant to you no matter what your skin color is.

Racism is real it is an ongoing issue in all of our communities and the only way to change this is to step up and learn the lessons we need to learn to move forward together. We need to take responsibility for our naive upbringing, we need to take responsibility for our actions because if we don’t we will not grow passed the racist roots that our country is grown on top of.

I hope this episode teaches you as much as it taught me. I honestly have had my eyes opened up so much through everything that has happened over this summer and I want to be a part of the changes coming for our future generations. It's like Maya Angelo once said “Do the best until you know better when you know better do better”

We gotta do better fam. I am going to do better and hopefully, this helps you realize that we all can do better together.

Time Stamps:

[9:50] The difference between appropriation and assimilation.

[10:00] The historical culture behind braids and protective hairstyles.

[11:30] My experience being reprimanded in middle school for cultural appropriation.

[14:30] Motherhood as a Black woman and the historical lessons Eboni wants others to understand are behind people’s views.

[23:05] How we can get through the layers of racism and find a way forward together.

[27:50] What steps you can take to change systemic racism in your daily life.

[34:00] Gentrification and Eboni’s experiences with gentrification in her life.

[47:30] Resources Eboni recommends for those who want to learn about the Black community, and how to support big changes that need to happen.

[1:08:00] Eboni’s hard no & Hell Yes

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Read about the Jim Crow Laws 

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