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Bringing Awareness To Racism In The Workplace With Jacquie Abram
Before Jacquie Abram began her journey as an Author and Anti-racism Consultant, she had a lucrative career in higher education that she was very good at & that she enjoyed. A career that spanned nearly two decades & by any measure should’ve been a successful career. But it wasn’t. Because throughout her career, she experienced racism in the workplace, not the kind you see in a lot of movies, books, and TV shows about racism that occurred decades ago during a time when it was more overt & easily spotted, but the kind of racism that is more covert, hidden, & harder to prove. And so, her career was derailed multiple times by multiple employers & she suffered racial trauma that, to this day, she has not fully recovered from. And when the same thing happened to others including both of her girls after they began careers of their own, she pulled herself out of corporate America, wrote HUSH MONEY: HOW ONE WOMAN PROVED SYSTEMIC RACISM IN HER WORKPLACE AND KEPT HER JOB, a book inspired by true events & co-authored by her girls, & began selling it from the trunk of her car in March 2021. Hush Money is now an Award-Winning Book and gold medal recipient, Amazon Best Seller and 5-Star rated, and is ranked #1 in Best Eye-Opening African-American Women’s Fiction on Goodreads Listopia. Facebook Instagram Twitter
Episode Highlights:
Key Takeaway:
"Sometimes a greater sense of purpose comes from being off track of your expected path in life or career. Reflecting on my life experiences and sharing them through the writing of my own book, it has come to my senses that I have been through so much misery and discrimination because of my race. Now that I have gathered my pain and poured it into a book, I have acquired a deeper source of strength and awareness to recognize as well as bring awareness to what is happening around us and why these things are happening."
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Before Jacquie Abram began her journey as an Author and Anti-racism Consultant, she had a lucrative career in higher education that she was very good at & that she enjoyed. A career that spanned nearly two decades & by any measure should’ve been a successful career. But it wasn’t. Because throughout her career, she experienced racism in the workplace, not the kind you see in a lot of movies, books, and TV shows about racism that occurred decades ago during a time when it was more overt & easily spotted, but the kind of racism that is more covert, hidden, & harder to prove. And so, her career was derailed multiple times by multiple employers & she suffered racial trauma that, to this day, she has not fully recovered from. And when the same thing happened to others including both of her girls after they began careers of their own, she pulled herself out of corporate America, wrote HUSH MONEY: HOW ONE WOMAN PROVED SYSTEMIC RACISM IN HER WORKPLACE AND KEPT HER JOB, a book inspired by true events & co-authored by her girls, & began selling it from the trunk of her car in March 2021. Hush Money is now an Award-Winning Book and gold medal recipient, Amazon Best Seller and 5-Star rated, and is ranked #1 in Best Eye-Opening African-American Women’s Fiction on Goodreads Listopia. Facebook Instagram Twitter
Episode Highlights:
Key Takeaway:
"Sometimes a greater sense of purpose comes from being off track of your expected path in life or career. Reflecting on my life experiences and sharing them through the writing of my own book, it has come to my senses that I have been through so much misery and discrimination because of my race. Now that I have gathered my pain and poured it into a book, I have acquired a deeper source of strength and awareness to recognize as well as bring awareness to what is happening around us and why these things are happening."
Resources:
Website