Change The Narrative with JD Fuller

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Dr. Eric FitzMedrud is a culturally aware clinician, trainer, speaker, podcast guest, author and a licensed psychologist. He specializes in evidence-based practices that include sex-positive wisdom and celebrating the joys of pleasure.  Eric’s new book is The Better Man, A Guide to Consent, Stronger relationships and Better Sex.

What You Will Hear:

• Consent conversations and pleasure
• Intersection of varied bodies and culture
• Vulnerability
• Meta communication
• Becoming a better asshole
• Sexual shame and core wounds
• Developing empathy

Quotes:

“The reality of vulnerability is also when we are vulnerable with each other, sometimes we hurt each other unintentionally. “

“Empathy is a two-way street, but sometimes it needs to only flow in one direction at a time.”

“if there's not something that you love, then you're dangerous because if you don't love something, then you don't have any basis for empathy. Your pain comes because you are alive. Your pain comes because you love something. And if you can't pay attention to and integrate that pain, you can't mobilize your love.”

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Dr. Eric FitzMedrud is a culturally aware clinician, trainer, speaker, podcast guest, author and a licensed psychologist. He specializes in evidence-based practices that include sex-positive wisdom and celebrating the joys of pleasure.  Eric’s new book is The Better Man, A Guide to Consent, Stronger relationships and Better Sex.

What You Will Hear:

• Who is Eric FritzMedrud?
• Relationships and sex
• Misconceptions about open relationships and polyamory
• Improvements as a clinician
• Book: The Better Man, A Guide to Consent, stronger Relationships and Hotter Sex.
• Out of control sexual behavior and porn addiction
• Communication
• Identifying as a man, performance demand, romantic myths and toxic masculinity
• Eric’s personal experience and consent conversations

Quotes:

“If there isn't heart connection, if there isn't an ability to regulate conflict, if there isn't a lot of other capacity for relationship and self-soothing, then showing up vibrantly and energetically sexually becomes impossible.”

“If you are with a male partner and he's having a hard time showing up for you, receiving your desire, telling you what he really desires, one of the most important things that you can do is bring a non-judgmental openness.”

“it's so important to understand that it's a loss for for men and when they subscribe to a patriarchal culture as well.”

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The Better Man

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@drericfitz 

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Qasim Rashid is a human rights lawyer who built his career fighting for survivors of domestic violence, asylum seekers, and low income communities. He and his family immigrated from Pakistan to the United States with his family when he was five. As a child, Qasim grew up in Section 8 housing in DuPage county. Qasim’s parents, who were both teachers, instilled in him a deep commitment of service to humanity and upholding justice. Throughout his legal career, Qasim has seen how the country’s laws and systems unfairly worked for those who already had money and power and left everyone else behind. He’s running for Congress to demand justice and ensure that the government works for everyone.  Outside of public service, Qasim is an author, lawyer, and dad joke aficionado. The loves of his and Ayesha’s lives are their three children, aged 14, 10, and 7. They are trying to convince Qasim to adopt a special breed of dog that gets sad when you feed it cantaloupe…known as a melon collie.

What You Will Hear:

• Qasim’s upbringing and being an immigrant
• Anti-blackness and immigration
• The depth of Islamophobia in the USA
• Post 9/11 unity myth
• How Qasim got in to law and his specific practice
• Service to humanity
• The power of collaborative education
• Gun control and the right wing media's indoctrination tactics
• Police brutality and the injustice system in the US
• Qualified immunity and psychological testing
• Climate crisis and poverty stats
• What true government powered by the people could look like
• Engaging the global majority

Quotes:

“In Pakistan I'm not really Pakistani because I was raised in the United States and the United States I'm not really American because I wasn't born here and so there's a constant struggle that's in the back of your mind and it's the duality that society wants you to force you into a box.”

“ I've been extraordinarily fortunate to have brilliant scholars guide me and teach me and the good fortune to have the sense to shut up and listen.”

“If you wanna talk to me about your values, show me your actions and service to humanity, “

“For me greatest form of worship is to serve all humanity.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your time here on Earth.” - Muhammed Ali

“I think foundationally it's important that people find their comfort zone and learn to step out of it. That's really where life begins to have, in my view, more value, more meaning and more sustainability.”

“I believe healthcare is a fundamental human right and just because someone is a bigot or a racist or an islamophobe or a homophobe doesn't change the fact that healthcare is a fundamental human right and we need to provide that support no matter what.”

“The reality is that if we continue to send law enforcement for issues that don't reflect their training, then we are perpetuating a system of violence…..because we're asking them to do things that they're just not trained to do.”

“Law enforcement responds to crime, but a living wage, healthcare, access, education, clean food, air and water, prevent crime. So if we want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.”

“It is not diversity for the sake of diversity, it's representation for the sake of reality.”

“For us to dismantle these systems of white supremacy and the economic injustice that they uphold, we have to create a sense of reality.”

“Ensuring children have leaders and mentors that have their lived experiences allows our children to have better lived experiences as well.”

 “Those systems of white supremacy are dismantled when we uphold justice, when we have representation that reflects reality and we have a multiracial, multi-cultural, multi-gender coalition of people working together for that common cause of justice.”

“ I know that which I'm asking you is...

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Fletcher Cleaves is a native of Memphis, TN who decided to turn his tragedy into a testimony. As an advocate and motivational presenter, he speaks out against the dangers of texting and driving as well as overcoming adversity. He aspires to share his journey in hopes it will save lives and inspire others to reach their goals, regardless of the challenges they may face.

What You Will Hear:

• Growing up and family dynamics
• Recognizing his athleticism
• Benefits from growing up and learning in different environments inner city vs suburbs
• Life altering car accident, recovery and sacrifice
• Becoming the Wheelchair Nomad
• Sky Is Not The Limit

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“Team sports and the way I was rendered definitely gave me the mindset of facing all the obstacles I face today.”

“If you ain't been through nothing in life, that means you ain't live long enough.  So understand adversity is going to happen, It's part of life. “

“It's not what happens to you that defines you. It's how you respond to it.”

“Don't let your current circumstances dictate your future. You can always make a better tomorrow.”

“Within the path of the journey of being me I became an inspiration and I'm just so happy that something so simple as being myself can help so many people change lives.” 

“How big would you dream if you knew you couldn't fail if you knew failure was impossible? “

“Stop being afraid to fail. Everything you want in life is on the other side of fear. Everything you want in life is on the other side of, I don't feel like it. So once you get past, I don't feel like it and once you get past being afraid your greatest success is right around the corner.”

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Urban educator and inner-city school advocate Jasmyn Williams is an Upper Elementary School Dean in East Cleveland, Ohio. Over the years she has developed the awareness, compassion, and knowledge to effectively lead and educate students with severe behavioral needs and learning disabilities in the inner city realm. In 2019, she received a Master of Education from Ursuline College. Prior to graduate school she attended Bowling Green State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies. As a speaker with a focus on Urban Ed, Jasmyn leads professional development sessions and coaches teachers on various strategies to use when building relationships and working with Students of Color. As an advocate for Students of Color, she works to bring awareness through dialogue and community service in hopes of liberation.

What You Will Hear:

• Impact of being raised by a young mother and  grandparents
• Providing resources rooted in wellness, equity, intellectualism and love
• Leadership and being an instructional coach, an assistant principal, and an urban educator. 
• Urban education in non urban communities
• Reading proficiency. Systemic issues in assessments and testing
• Social emotional learning 
• Environmental effects on learning
• Book suggestions  (See Mentioned below)

Quotes:

“Wellness is accessible to you even if you are from an environment that is not ideal.”

“Equity is asking how can I get every student there? There can be so many different things and so my job is to figure out what is there for my children, for our students, and then what can we do to get them there.”

“I think that it's our job as educators to show what healthy love is.”

“There's just so many layers that go into a child's ability to be successful “

“The earlier we can allow children to know that they're individual, the better, because they're not forcing themselves to fit in these spaces that they just don't fit in.”

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Black Appetite, White Food

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

The Color of Law

We Want To Do More Than Survive

The Equity and Social Justice Education

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Ernest Crim III is an Anti-Racist Educator and hate crime survivor who uses (Black) historical narratives to empower and educate families and train educators through an equitable lens. Mr. Crim, a south side of Chicago native and University of Illinois graduate, is a former high school history educator of 12 years, who now advocates for social justice issues and teaches Black History to the world through social media with a platform that reaches over 2 million people monthly. Additionally, he is the CEO of Crim’s Cultural Consulting LLC, an international speaker, an author of two bestsellers (‘Black History Saved My Life’ and ‘The ABCS of Affirming Black Children’) and a passionate progressive education activist, who has been featured on CNN, ABC, WGN, PBS, CBS, NBC & Newsweek, amongst various other outlets. 

What You Will Hear:

• Attending HBCUs
• The importance of community
• Teaching and history
• Black culture and cultural genocide
• Black on black crime phenomenon
• Nutritional options in black communities

Quotes:

“As black folks we have to have community to exist and to thrive and oftentimes in a majority white or mixed environment we might not be able to fully find that .”

“That was the process of enslavement, to disconnect us with who we naturally are and who we really are.”

“The engine of our group oppression is always cultural genocide,” - Asa Hilliard

“We are community first, family first, spirituality first, and all things flow from that.”

“Whoever controls your kitchen, controls your revolution.” - Elijah Muhammad

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Greg Carr

Daniel Black

Brian Midler

Asa Grant Hilliard III

Carter G. Woodson 

Elijah Muhammad 

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Ernest Crim III is an Anti-Racist Educator and hate crime survivor who uses Black historical narratives to empower and educate families and train educators through an equitable lens. Mr. Crim, a south side of Chicago native and University of Illinois graduate, is a former high school history educator of 12 years, who now advocates for social justice issues and teaches Black History to the world through social media with a platform that reaches over 2 million people monthly. Additionally, he is the CEO of Crim’s Cultural Consulting LLC, an international speaker, an author of two bestsellers, ‘Black History Saved My Life’ and ‘The ABCS of Affirming Black Children’ and a passionate progressive education activist, who has been featured on CNN, ABC, WGN, PBS, CBS, NBC & Newsweek, amongst various other outlets. 

What You Will Hear:

• Ernest’s books, Black History Saved My Life: How My Viral Hate Crime Led to An Awakening and The ABCs of Affirming Black Children.
• Raising children within the systems of the US
• Creatively strategizing how we can use our past to create a better future entrenched in equitable practices. 
• Crim’s Cultural Consulting LLC
• Standardized testing and language

Quotes:

“A hate crime is usually the one of the least racist things we deal with in the present day.”

“We need our kids to see themselves in all shades, like all of it.“

“We feel as though just playing by the rules of this society that we'll be okay and it comes to a point as black folks in this country and in the world where you're reminded that you have to do more. There's whiteness everywhere you look. That becomes the mirror, and if we look in the other mirror and don't see that then we start changing things”

“We are so accepting of so little.”

“Your household should really look like a school. I 'm not saying chalkboard. I'm saying the images your kids see, I'm saying the time you devote to talking with them and conversing with them, because we talk about equitable practices, that starts at home,”

“I'm pro-black, so it's like, equity for me means we gotta make sure that we are building things moving forward that can help us all, gotta make sure we're all good.”

“One of the things I really dislike about our public education system is it is the antithesis of science-based. It defines logic.”

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Black History Saved My Life: How My Viral Hate Crime Led to An Awakening 

The ABCs of Affirming Black Children.

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Daniel Collins has had a challenged but also blessed journey. He had it all, then lost it, more than once and now he’s coming back. Daniel is transparent about his journey and the good news is he didn't give up! Daniel continues to be an activist for anti Black racism and prison reform. He's back to give us updates and to talk about his new adventure with a wonderful company that has a unique housing solution designed to make housing more affordable. Welcome back to Change the Narrative with JD Fuller.

What You Will Hear:

• Losing his professional baseball career to drugs and addiction
• Daniel’s childhood and upbringing
• Life altering change in prison
• Blowing up on social media after his release
• Mental health court, therapy and opportunity
• Prison reform
• Lessons learned
• Project Lift
• Containing Luxury building container homes

Quotes:

“I still had emptiness inside of me, and that's what addiction was for me. It was just filling that void.”

“This whole idea of incarceration in and of itself is, to me, barbaric and archaic. Like everything about it.”

“It's modern day slavery, the 13th amendment is the abolishment of slavery except when punishable by a crime.”

“The black codes literally started targeting black people for nothing other than essentially being black.”

“Slave labor was such an integral part of the southern economy that without it the economy will collapse.”

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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

13th Ava DuVernay

Project Lift

Containing Luxury

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JD and Martin Drux discuss the need for diversity and inclusion in corporate spaces. Martin is a multinational executive who manages cross-cultural teams for a Global US-headquartered consulting firm. When the world shut down Martin’s opened up and that’s when he found Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEI&B). It became his new passion and Martin is now committed to owning & driving the agenda from within the business he is in charge of. In 2023, Martin became a finalist for the AXCO Global Insurance Award in the Diversity & Inclusion category. 

What You Will Hear:

• Martin’s journey and background
• What a multi-national executive who manages cross-cultural teams for a global US headquarters consulting firm does.
• The key element of networking
• Post-pandemic sustainability, recruitment policy, and practice
• Lack of equity, opportunity, and access
• Prevalence of anti-black racism

Quotes:

“What I think I really like is the opportunity to participate in somebody else’s lived experience.”

“I think what we need to change the narrative here is that it’s really more about looking at the entire talent out there and give an equal opportunity and really try to get the best to the top.”

“If we look at our top management it’s still very much dominated by white men.”

“I find the world more interesting where there is fair competition.”

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JD and Dr. Ally continue their conversation around mind, body, community, healing and everything next level. Dr. Allycin Powell Hicks, aka Dr. Ally has her PhD in clinical psychology. She is the host of Discovery Plus and OWN's tv show that she hosts with her mother, Dr. Cynthia, aptly named Like Mother Like Daughter. From self worth, to anxiety, to self doubt, Dr. Ally has the coolest card decks called Doux. As a consultant, a coach, a mental health expert and brand strategist she helps other and shifts their perspective aligning with their true purpose and building confidence