Change The Narrative with JD Fuller

Glenn Block is a seasoned product leader with 25 years+ of experience in software engineering and product management. He is currently the founder of two companies, one as CEO of ProdSense, where he advises early-stage companies as a Fractional CPO, and the second as CPO of a stealth home coffee roaster startup. Throughout his career, he worked at a number of hi-tech companies including Microsoft, Docusign, Auth owe, and Splunk. Glenn has been a big advocate for the open source and developer community and was a maintainer for several successful open source projects. Glenn is also a big champion and advocate for changing the tech industry and making it more inclusive. He devotes a large amount of this time to dismantling white supremacy and working to mentor and sponsor folks from underrepresented groups. He is also a volunteer coding instructor at CodeNation, helping high schoolers from marginalized backgrounds to enter the tech industry. Glenn is a lifelong learner and recently received his Executive MBA from Seattle University. He lives with his wife in San Francisco, and is just a stone's throw from his daughter, who attends USF. Please join me in welcoming Glenn Block to Change the narrative with JD Fuller.

What You Will Hear:

• Ramadan and what it symbolizes for Glenn
• Deciding to leave corporate America
• Non-Negotiables
• Partners and communication
• New Company Prodsense
• Race and Equity in corporate America
• White supremacy, trigger words and privilege
• Racist vs Anti-Racist
• The reality of making an impact

Quotes:

“Ramadan is a time of learning and discipline.”

“A lot of times all we need is people to plant a seed in our minds. “

“We know that silence is violence and yet it continues.  Privilege continues to silence itself in far too many ways.”

“There is no middle way. You're either a racist or you're an anti-racist.” - Ibram X. Kendi

“I started to realize that it's not just about the dealings I have with people, it's the system.

The system is the thing that has to go, and you still have to do those other things, but the change is not gonna happen. You can have these great thoughts of like, oh we'll just learn to be nice with one another, but there's a system in place that's telling you not to do those things, and as long as that system exists, things are not gonna change.”

“Whenever there's an opportunity to point out inequities or just get people to think,.

I'm trying to bring that, and that to me is powerful to be able to do that. “ 

“White supremacy is not a thing that is just over on the side here and sometimes pops up. It's everywhere. So we need to look at it that way.”

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Ibram X. Kendi “How To Be an Anti-Racist”

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Autumn Walker is a Mental Health therapist licensed in Maryland. Her passion is centered around healing anxiety and racial trauma among Black & Brown communities through a God-fident lens. After obtaining her Masters from Johns Hopkins in 2020, she combined her devotions to social justice, faith and mental health awareness to launch The Soul Reasons on social media platforms. The Soul Reasons encourages the Black community to foster a secure sense of self to both heal from and resist a racist sociopolitical system. She continues to expand her message through digital and community platforms to help others find their soul reason admist this destructive social climate.

What You Will Hear:

• Autumn’s personal story and the life changing moment that influence her journey
• Autumn’s awareness of racism, its power and its impact
• Angel Reese
• Rebranding
• Anxiety and racial trauma
• Countertransference.  Can therapist from other cultures treating black and brown people?
• Legacy

Quotes:

“I am now finding myself more connected to a call or mission to help black women to feel more secure and free in their own skin and so that they know who they are so no one can tell them otherwise .”

“Trauma, broadly is essentially, is describing any moment of time where we feel an intense level of fear or threat that can pretty much reshape our worldview our perspective.” 

“ I think everything is related to capitalism.”

“I really to be change agent and let folks know that there's another way, we don't have to settle for the the status quo. I'm a strong believer in once you know who you are know who you're not.”

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Jessica Wilson,  is a co-creator of the Amplify Melanated Voices challenge that went viral in 2020. She is a clinical dietitian, consultant and author, whose experiences navigating the dietetic fields as a Black, queer dietitian have been featured on public radio shows and in print media, including the New York Times, Bustle, and Cronkite News. Jessica has worked as a clinical dietitian since 2007 and is acutely aware of how both the public health and medical framing of “healthy eating” and “obesity” has contributed to disordered eating and self-blame. Jessica co-hosted My Black Body Podcast, which changed the conversation about who has eating disorders and how treatment fails so many people.  Her book, It’s Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies was published on February 7, 2023, and we can’t wait to talk all about it today on CTN with JD Fuller. 

What You Will Hear:

• Who decides what size you are and what is healthy for you?
• Questioning her education
• Integrating therapy and nutrition.  Identity development
• White Supremacy, redlining and access
• What we can do to help. Norming
• Veganism and what is truly considered best for individuals
• Individuality in collective cultures

Quotes:

“I really want people to have different perspectives on what it means to be be healthy.”

“It's challenging to have people embrace their culture when it has turned on them.”

“Only eating when you're hungry for physiological needs is the same concept as having sex only for procreation.

“Food is the source of happiness.“

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Jessica Wilson,  is a co-creator of the Amplify Melanated Voices challenge that went viral in 2020. She is a clinical dietitian, consultant and author, whose experiences navigating the dietetic fields as a Black, queer dietitian have been featured on public radio shows and in print media, including the New York Times, Bustle, and Cronkite News. Jessica has worked as a clinical dietitian since 2007 and is acutely aware of how both the public health and medical framing of “healthy eating” and “obesity” has contributed to disordered eating and self-blame. Jessica co-hosted My Black Body Podcast, which changed the conversation about who has eating disorders and how treatment fails so many people.  Her book, It’s Always Been Ours; Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies was published on February 7, 2023, and we can’t wait to talk all about it today on CTN with JD Fuller. 

What You Will Hear:

• Jessica’s background and what helped develop her self image
• Dietetics and therapy
• Neurodivergence
• Regionality and intersectionality
• Passion and purpose behind her book
• Plastic surgery and black women’s bodies
• The term obese
• Racism

Quotes:

.”My blackness was by far my most salient identity in a lot of the work that I was doing,”

“Black women's body stories have been written by whiteness.”

“You're telling us from a very young age that we need to be worried about our eminent demise. But that's not because of me, it's because of medical racism. It's about white supremacy, it's about trauma and toxic stress.”

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JD sits down with Cassandra Geter to talk about organic health and wellness.  With the knowledge that health and wellness are reflective of our lifestyles Cassandra founded Have Faith and Live Well with Chasadah LLC to provide health and wellness coaching services to women with chronic illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes.  Cassandra uses a non-judgmental approach with a healing presence to guide others to reach their goals. 

What You Will Hear:

• Cassandra’s attraction to chemistry
• Chemistry and wellness
• Pharmaceutical industry
• The effects of stress on health
• Chronic illnesses and diet
• Faith and nutrition
• Smart goals
• Budgeting for healthy eating
• Portion control
• Teaching kids about healthy eating

Quotes:

“The pharmaceutical industry is a billion-dollar industry. It doesn't make people well, it's only good for keeping people sick.”

“Let your life be your testimony.”

“Your goals have to be time manageable and attainable and sensible.”

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Marvin Toliver is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, born and raised in East Oakland California. Marvin currently resides in Philadelphia Pennsylvania  working as a therapist with the Radical Therapy Center. He’s also a co-founder of the mental health collective Melanated Social Work. Marvin is a queer Bi-sexual Black creator, writer, consultant, public speaker, mentor, wedding officiant, and radical educator. He encourages others to see the power within themselves and use their voices to fight for justice. Marvin’s work will be complete when white supremacy is dismantled and ALL Black people are liberated. 

What You Will Hear:

• Social media
• Reflecting
• Imposter syndrome vs internalized racism
• Political aspects of being a therapist
• Choosing the correct therapist for you
• Reparations
• Music Therapy Mondays and Black Social Work Week
• TEDx Talk

Quotes:

“Therapy is not neutral”

“Each of our moral compasses are, are gonna be shaped by our environment, by our family, by our education, by our location, and by our politics.”

“I always encourage folks who are seeking therapists to ask all of the questions. Ask who you voted for in that 2020 election? Ask what you think about the Black Lives Matter movement? What you think about Palestine? All of those things are gonna inform me as a client if we're aligned and if we're not aligned, then I don't wanna work with you.”

“My ancestors already paid for this school debt.”

“To demand money from black folks, from indigenous folks for anything really, for literally anything I personally think it's criminal. The wealth, the power, influence that so many white folks have was because of enslaved Africans.” 

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Marvin Toliver is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), born and raised in East Oakland, CA. Marvin currently resides in Philadelphia, PA, and works as a therapist with the Radical Therapy Center. He’s also a co-founder of the mental health collective Melanated Social Work. Marvin is a queer (Bi-sexual) Black creator, writer, consultant, public speaker, mentor, wedding officiant, and radical educator. He encourages others to see the power within themselves and use their voices to fight for justice. Marvin’s work will be complete when white supremacy is dismantled and ALL Black people are liberated.

Samantha  Hawkins is a public speaker and storyteller. She writes freelance in her spare time and her essays have appeared in many print and online publications, including Madame Noire, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and two Chicken Soup for the Soul collections. Her debut children's picture book, "My Momma Marches," is forthcoming through Lantana Publishing in March 2023.

What You Will Hear:

• Samantha’s childhood
• Homeschooling and misconceptions
• When and why Samantha starter writing
• My Momma Marches
• Priorities to keep changing the narrative

Quotes:

“You can't stop the power of the pen. The pen is still mighty, and that I will continue to write my heart out and lay it bare in verse.”

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LaNysha T. Adams (@edlinguist) is an award-winning education consultant and speaker focused on teaching students to put their knowledge of self at the center of all learning. With 20 years of experience in education at school, district, and state levels, Dr. Adams holds a Ph.D. and is a certified coach on a mission to revolutionize how people learn. She is the author of the award-winning, #1 best-selling book on Amazon, Me Power.

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LaNysha T. Adams (@edlinguist) is an award-winning education consultant and speaker focused on teaching students to put their knowledge of self at the center of all learning. With 20 years of experience in education at school, district, and state levels, Dr. Adams holds a Ph.D. and is a certified coach on a mission to revolutionize how people learn. She is the author of the award-winning, #1  best-selling book on Amazon, Me Power.  

What You Will Hear:

• Where and when LaNysha knew she was headed in the direction of education as a career
• LaNysha’s mom and early influences
• Allocation of resources for education and making a change in community
• The notion of power and challenging the systems 
• Edlinguist.com 
• Leaning into listening and  problem solving
• Federal contracts
• Interactive blog and Me Power
• Empowering people to find their own power

Quotes:

“So much of what’s wrong with education has to do with the allocation of resources and how the money that is allocated for said resources to improve education goes to small businesses and big businesses.”

“I may not actually have the answer because I don’t know the genesis of the problem.”

“Everything you need for making change in your life, you have within you.”

“Even when the world is telling you, you can’t, and there is a no, if that is so important to you and you want to go after it, do it.”

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It’s All About (Our) Me Power

Sarah DeArmond is 36 and is the CEO of the nonprofit, Voiceless Behind Bars™️ that raises money through tax-deductible donations to help pay for the legal fees for those who have been wrongfully convicted. She also uses her nonprofit as a safe space for inmates to contact her about the cruel treatment they’re facing daily in the prison system. Sarah hopes that her nonprofit can help bring more awareness to the inhumane treatment that prisoners are subjected to. Prior to running her nonprofit, Sarah spent her early twenties acting in a few indie films. She spent the rest of her twenties reviewing movies and doing interviews for a Christian film site before moving on to her own blog which she ran until her early thirties. Sarah lives in Alabama with her husband, Sean, who is a librarian and is also on the board of her nonprofit. They’ve been married for 14 years and have a dachshund, Baxter.

What You Will Hear:

• What people should know about Sara DeArmond
• Learning about wrongful convictions
• Being diagnosed with Neurodivergence
• How Sarah became so passionate about prison advocacy
• Wrongful conviction statistics
• Timothy McGruder wrongful conviction
• Sheron Edwards wrongful conviction
• Alabama’s prison system
• Voiceless Behind Bars
• White women’s obsession with black women.  Bethany Frankel
• Death penalty and wrongful executions.  Nathaniel Woods

Quotes:

“This whole prison system, the justice system, it needs to be abolished completely and then we need to rebuild it.”

“People do not understand the difference between rehabilitation and punishment.”

“Wrongful convictions, they’re more common than people realize.”

“It’s more expensive for someone to be executed than being in prison for life.”

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