Change The Narrative with JD Fuller

JD Welcomes back Dr. Ally. 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 solution.  She is an entrepreneur, a media personality and the creator of one of the coolest card decks called  Doux.  As a consultant, a coach, a mental health expert and brand strategist she helps others and shifts their perspective aligning with their true purpose and building confidence.

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Resmaa Menakem is the author of “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies,” published in September 2017, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021 as well as "The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning," published in 2022.  Resmaa is the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute. He also wrote Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy- and he tells us what to do about it. He has done more interviews than I can count, including the Breakfast Club.  Resmaa has single-handedly changed JD and many others' professional and personal life. 

What You Will Hear:

• The Quaking of America
• Healing in and through the body
• What do bodies of culture need to do to continue thriving and moving forward
• White bodies deflecting white body supremacy and embodied gnawing
• The growth area = gnawing and discomfort
• The soil of America
• Trauma Trump and learned templates (victim and perpetrator)
• The Mirror
• What’s next for Resmaa

Quotes:

“Recent studies and discoveries increasingly point out that we heal primarily in and through the body, not just through the rational brain. We can all create more opportunities for growth in our nervous system, but we do this primarily through what our bodies experience and do not through what we think or realize cognitively.”

“We learn from what our parents or our care caregivers recoil from and lean into, not just by what the instructions that they give to us.”

“You are not defective.”

“Bodies of culture have been gnawing at us every moment we live because racial trauma persists.”

“Embodied gnawing is the way towards generative knowledge. You cannot get knowledge without gnawing.”

“The growth area is actually in the shit that you don't like to do.”

“The Dark Ages wasn't the dark ages because motherfuckers turned off the light. It was the Dark Ages because it was some brutal, foul shit happening from powerful white bodies to less powerful white bodies.”

“The plantation organized white people.”

“White folks have created a world that is on fucking fire, like literally on fire, and we keep trying to take our buckets and throw water on it, and they keep squeezing kerosene on the other side.”

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts  and Bodies

The Quaking of America

Resmaa Menakem

Mama Rose Underground Books

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Resmaa Menakem  is the author of “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies,” published in September 2017, which appeared on the New York Times bestseller list in May 2021 as well as "The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning," published in 2022.  Resmaa is the founder of the Cultural Somatics Institute. He also wrote Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy- and he tells us what to do about it. He has done more interviews than I can count, including the Breakfast Club.  Resmaa has single handedly changed my professional and personal life and numerous others. 

What You Will Hear:

• The catalyst and ripple effect of My Grandmother’s Hands 
• Iatrogenesis
• White supremacy trauma and how it can manifest in culture, family traits, personality traits, et cetera.
• Decontextualizing trauma 
• The Plantation and white body supremacy
• Clean pain vs dirty pain and white ferality
• Our virtues and our limitations
• How white bodies can hold each other accountable
• Tools vs toys
• The pervasiveness and persistence of white body supremacy
• Human growth and healing
• Privilege vs advantage
• Liberatory work and appealing to the kindness of white people

Quotes:

“Trauma works in alignment with your virtues. Trauma works in alignment with what you do best. Trauma works in alignment with what fuels you.”

“The white body deems and has deemed itself the supreme standard by which all bodies, humanity shall be measured structurally and philosophically.”

“The most enduring structure in America is the plantation.”

“White bodies have collective understanding or efficacy when it comes to race.”

“A key factor in the perpetration of white body supremacy is many people's refusal to experience clean pain around the myth of race. Instead, usually out of fear, they choose the dirty pain of silence and avoidance. And inevitably or invariably, Prolong the pain.”

“Our virtues are wrapped inside of our limitations. It is only when we are close in proximity to others that we begin to intimately explore the boundaries of virtues by slamming into our limit limitations.”

“White folks want to do good shit and wanna do good things when it comes to race but they have not developed the conditioning and done any conditioning around race communally……they have to begin to get together in a room and sit with each other and try and work with not a book club. A book club is like crack to a white woman.”

“When you're talking about liberatory work, you're talking about a toy box, an exploration, a sitting with I don’t know if this is gonna work, but I'm gonna try it anyway. That's different than tools.”

“White body supremacy is the water, not the shark.”

“You can both be brutalized by something and be benefited by the brutalization at the same time.”

“In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary, either we're broken or we're healed from that brokenness, but that's not how healing operates. It's almost never

How human growth works.”

“What has happened to our peoples and continues to happen to our people ain't happening to our people individually. It's happening communally. So only developing individual response to a communal horror is inadequate. It's not enough.”

“White folks are not privileged by white body supremacy. They're advantaged by white body supremacy.”

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts  and Bodies

I AM...

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Natasha Desjardins is a trusted, creative, result-driven Human Resources Practitioner and DEI Strategist with expertise at the intersections of HR, DENI, and Wellness.  Natasha has a proven track record of enhancing employee experience, engagement, and retention. Her impact spans industries such as Public Media/ Broadcasting and trade associations (Non- profit), Marketing and Branding Agencies (For-profit), and Federal Government Consulting Agencies. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice, a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Management with an HR focus from the University of Maryland , and a certificate to Lead in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from North Western University.We

What You Will Hear:

• What is most important about Natasha
• Natashas childhood in Haiti
• Micro aggression vs intentional aggression
• Becoming a Human Resources Practitioner 
• Burnout
• Therapy
• The biggest barrier to driving transformative change.
• Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
• Mental health advocacy within HR
• DEI and accessibility

Quotes:

No matter what your background is or what industry that you work in, you need a network. You need people who support you who are there for you and for me, it has been friends, family, but most importantly, my therapist.”

“There is a misconception that people get into HR because they love people.”

“Communication and follow up are keys to successful HR practices.”

“If we are inclusive, if we are truly inclusive to the diversity of our audiences, the accessibility should be covered “

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JD sits down with filmmaker Pallavi Somusetty to talk about identity, representation, consumerism, truth and filmmaking.  Pallavi creates doc portraits that center BIPOC voices in the hope that we feel fully seen in the complexities of our identities and journeys, and that meaningful impact can result. Since 2020, she has been a series producer for A-Doc (including Emmy-nominated series Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond) and is a supervising producer for their 2024 shorts initiative in partnership with WORLD Channel. Pallavi's feature directorial debut in progress, COACH EMILY, is a 2023 DocLands DocPitch Industry Award recipient, and Athena’s 2022 Works in Progress Pitch Forum participant. Pallavi is also producing CHIRAKU (Dir. Neelu Bhuman) about a young transman’s dreams of becoming a commercial pilot. She is a 2023 Unlock Her Potential Mentee working with Linda Goldstein Knowlton, and a 2022 Center for Asian American Media Fellow with mentorship support from Marjan Safinia. Her award-winning short doc, Escaping Agra, which chronicles a young trans Indian American teen’s experience of being illegally detained in Agra, India after their gender and sexual orientation are discovered, has screened in festivals across the world, and her work has been supported by The Puffin Foundation, Eddie Bauer, Studio IX Project, Center for Cultural Innovation, and more. Pallavi holds a documentary-focused Master in Journalism from UC Berkeley and a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. In her spare time, she climbs rocks with her kids and supports incarcerated pregnant people as a trained doula.

What You Will Hear:

• Pallavi’s background
• Getting in to film making
• Feature documentary
• Moving to India
• Films
• Coach Emily

Quotes:

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Attention white women!  White women unite!  Pam Ditto declares all of this, not because white women are smarter, but because they use that historical narrative to not stand up for justice, injustice, and racism.  Pam says that the road to success is not the one paved by the white man.  She stands up to patriarchy, white people, and white women.   She is sick and tired of “white is right” and white women in particular who cannot tolerate the discomfort of change.  She is honest, and real and uses her voice to share not only her experience from everything from her dental procedures to her adoption to her feelings on interracial adoption. 

What You Will Hear:

• Uplifting marginalized voices on tiktok by passing the mic
• Lessons learned from success
• Indentured servitude vs chattel enslavement
• What white women can learn from Pam
• Privilge, the right to comfort
• Continuing to learn
• Is it peossibe for white people to move from denial through sympathy, past allyship to something that’s more productive in the outcome of where we are?
• Mass shootings

Quotes:

“I think it's interesting that, you know, there's so much privilege around fearing,”

“If you are under threat of losing your security safety support, you never had it. So go make your own community to gather that from. That is real. That won't threaten you every time you step out of line. Because if they're watching to see if you are in line, they're not supporting you.”

“the things that we say we fear are so inconsequential.”

“Guilt becomes a guilty pleasure for white people.”

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Sonia Russell, CEO, and David L Walker Jr, CSO of BlackFullness sit down with JD to discuss Blackfullness. Sonia uses her obsession with technology and her passion for mindfulness to organize and harmonize almost every aspect of her life. She has been a black woman her whole life, a small business owner for nearly 20 years, and an active leader for more than a decade. She received her minister's license from the School of Spiritual Leadership in 2021.

David designs, builds and cultivates successful and productive sales and strategic partnerships to increase awareness, affinity, buy-in, and revenue - all with mindfulness at the core. With over 15 years of experience, David puts the FUNK in cross-functional training and leadership, and he uses his intense desire to serve to intentionally and effectively connect people, places and ideas.

What You Will Hear:

• What it means to be a licensed New Though Minister with a degree from the School of Spiritual Leadership.
• Benefit vs privilege
• Unapologetic optimism
• Blackfullness  Individual sovereignty
• Being intentional
• Being a light and reciprocity

Quotes:

 "I'm unapologetically optimistic in that I wanna be about what we can

do. I believe in us, I wanna be about that.”

“It’s not pretending that the things that we see are not happening, it is acknowledging that they are happening and knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is something more expanded for all of us to experience  collectively and for me to experience individually.”

“Practice makes permanent.”

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Tony, The Ghetto Activist is a self-taught historian that focuses on Black history through an Afrocentric lens. He created his blog roughly three years ago with the primary objective of countering thousands of years of misinformation, degradation, & systemic oppression by any means necessary.

What You Will Hear:

• Tony’s upbringing, influences and his mother’s impact on his life
• How Tony became the Ghetto Activist
• Black Amnesia, Saint Cova
• The Myth, The Bible is not black history
• Thinking black
• Dismantling internalized racism

Quotes:

“We actually don’t know how great we once were.”

“If you're black, you should be thinking black. If you're black and you're not thinking 

Black at this late date, well, I'm sorry for you.” - Malcolm X

“We sold ourselves into enslavement. You can't hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can't hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can't hate the land, your motherland, the place that you came from, and we can't hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves.” - Malcolm X

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Anthony Browder

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Ghetto Sunday School

Timeless Teachings

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Instagram @TheGhettoActivist

Twitter @GhettoActivist

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Joquina M. Reed is deeply shaped by her lived experience, ancestral wisdom, formal undergraduate and education in Communications. She is the curator behind her own podcasts, AntiBlackness Reader and Divesting from Whiteness. Joquina proudest claim to fame in her life is being a fabulous aunt to 8 nieces and nephews! In addition to being Nanny Kina, she is also a DEI consultant and facilitator, researcher, learning strategist, and community advocate. Kina says, she is constantly looking for opportunities to help others enlarge themselves and step out of the boxes they no longer fit. 

What You Will Hear:

• Urgency, white supremacy and black murders by the state
• Reaction vs response
• Anti-racist ethics
• J Reed Consulting inception, motivation and purpose
• Divesting from whiteness
• Risk taking vs bing unsafe 
• The fallacy of a safe space for black and brown bodies
• Can we end racism?

Quotes:

“A sense of urgency is the tenant of white supremacy”

“I don't think black people should be watching other black people being murdered. “

“I am the embodiment of knowing what it feels like to not have wellbeing in the workspace of not being safe in the workplace”

“Lived experience matters.“

“If I could be got no matter what, then I might as well live as freely as I possibly can for myself and stop subscribing to their rules and regulations and prescriptions and the white math and all the other white shenanigans that white people create to govern themselves and the rest of the world.”

“Our freedom, until the world systems change, can only be ascertained in ourselves, that's the only place we have it.”

“I'm not sure how we end racism when people still believe in the construct of race.”

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Joquina M. Reed is deeply shaped by her lived experience, ancestral wisdom, formal undergraduate and education in Communications. She is the curator behind her own podcasts, AntiBlackness Reader and Divesting from Whiteness. Joquina proudest claim to fame in her life is being a fabulous aunt to 8 nieces and nephews! In addition to being Nanny Kina, she is also a DEI consultant and facilitator, researcher, learning strategist, and community advocate. Kina says, she is constantly looking for opportunities to help others enlarge themselves and step out of the boxes they no longer fit. 

What You Will Hear:

• Humanity and Anna Julia Cooper
• Ancestry
• Immigration and assimilation
• Pet to Threat (Kecia M. Thomas) and Black Excellence
• Collective bargaining power

Quotes:

“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.” - Anna Julia Cooper

“If there is anyone who should be sitting up there with lobster steak in a grocery cart, it should be the descendants of enslaved people who have never received reparations for building this place for free.”

“I can no longer afford to collude with whiteness and supremacy culture. Because everyone loses in it. “

“That is a product of white supremacy that we don't trust our bargaining power, and that's what white supremacy has enforced us to believe.”

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Instagram @divestingfromwhiteness  

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Jreedconsultingllc.com

Joquinareed.com