In this podcast Genesis Amaris Kemp shares her new book with us "Chocolate Drop in Corporate America" from the Pit to the Palace.  This was birthed out of her frustration from discrimination on one of her jobs. One of her thoughts are: "I feel like everyone has the ability to have a seat at the table; everyone has the ability to soar. And we are all created differently, but if we start to complement one another versus comparing ourselves to each other, then we will get so much further along in society.  whether it's in the workplace, outside of the workplace or society as a whole, and I've never experienced so much social unrest, social injustice, and political turmoil."

Some of her tips are to surround yourself with others who do not look like you, educate yourself by listening to podcasts, and travel as well have pray and journal. I started networking outside of the company with our allies, and I befriended someone on LinkedIn who has been pivotal. He is an older Caucasian male and we talk and have open conversations. He's transparent. He's also the vice president of a particular company and he gave me a lot of insight. We've walked through what compensation looks like for my particular role, and how I should navigate those conversations. I spent a long time with my family. I joined a group at at church, it was called the league so it was different women from all over the city of Houston, and you really just get together if you do live together and you talk about what's working, what's not working, and you help each other bridge the gap for the area that you may be struggling in or the area where you need to advance it or whatever and you build your, your tribe and I think it's very important to determine who your tribe is and what your tribe stands for. Another thing that really helped me was, you know, taking the negative energy that I had, and making it positive because spending time thinking about the negative energy is not helping me like, if anything, it's causing my health to deteriorate. It's causing me not to be mindful so I'm getting massages and just like you know that like going somewhere where I could just relax, and then I came up with my three R's, which are refuel refocus and realign, and I think it's so important that you recognize whenever you're getting to a point of feeling burnt out, and you have to take that power from someone else and apply it to yourself because once you know who you are, then no one can tell you or discount or discredit, who you are, who you are.

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