In this week's episode, Myisha talks to Lazaro Ruiz about the importance of Trusting Black Men.  A social entrepreneur and creative genius Lazaro is one of three black-owned screen-printing companies in San Francisco.   Established By Creators is a Black Owned and Operated Artisan Screen Printing shop located in the San Francisco Bay Area (Burlingame)​ that provides high-quality hand-printed garments.  

Learn more about the following projects talked about on this episode:

ESTBC Screen-printing:  www.estbcprints.com  @estbcprints

Black Psoriasis:  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/blackpsoriasis

Hoodinarie: https://www.instagram.com/hoodinaireclothing/ 

Founder of the Check Your Privilege organization and contributor and Editor of the ​Check Your Privilege anthology, Myisha T is a human-design generator and MBTI ENFJ with action-oriented justice in her blood. A single mom of 3 differently-abled children, Myisha is also a mental health advocate and social entrepreneur. An advocate for healing and social transformation, Myisha continues to center the work of Check Your Privilege from a mental health perspective, using self-compassion practices and reflection to help white folx step back, reflect, and compassionately dismantle their relationship with power, privilege, and oppression. When she's not guiding the practice of those engaged with Check Your Privilege, Myisha lives her role as a mental health advocate to facilitate wellness workshops and peer support groups with black, brown, and indigenous womxn through a restorative justice project she founded and sponsors called, ​Brown Sisters Speak.

Learn more about Myisha at ​www.myishat.com​ and ​www.checkyourprivilege.co​.

In this episode, Myisha guides us with reminders of how to live into the practice of becoming actively anti-racist.

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*New Music for the podcast is Rise Above by Makaih Beats

Constanza Eliana Chinea (She/Her) is a Latinx certified Yoga Instructor who has over 10 years of experience in the industry and over 300 hours of training in Yoga, trauma, and anti-racism. She began teaching and consulting after noticing a need for diversity and representation in the industry. She now teaches Yogis and entrepreneurs how to decolonize their practice, create equity for teachers of color, and build inclusive spaces in the community

Lettie Shumate is a historian, a racial and social justice activist and advocate, an educator, and a public speaker in Southeastern North Carolina. She is the host of her podcast, titled “Sincerely, Lettie”, where she educates about history and bridges the past to the present, she discusses racial and social issues, and she doesn’t hold back the truth with hard topics and tough conversations.

Heather Anderson is the Founder of “The Mamahood,” the largest and most diverse support group for mothers in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as “The Club,” a community for womxn entrepreneurs. With an intention to moderate her online forums through a lens of social justice, she leans heavily into the work of checking her own white privilege while guiding her members on the same journey. Her talk, “Social Justice Within Online Communities: How to Moderate for Diversity and Inclusion” was featured at Facebook’s Community Summit 2019 to community leaders from around the world. In addition to being a serial entrepreneur, Heather is a speaker, songwriter, bandleader, partner, and mother of five with a love for graphic novels and a penchant for reading cookbooks without actually doing the cooking.

Britney Stafford is a music lover of many genres, writes as an emotional outlet, and loves painting with her son. She is happily married and she and her husband are the obnoxiously proud parents of a funny, energetic, and caring six-year-old. Originally from Wisconsin, she now lives with her family in Georgia. She is a huge animal lover with nine (yes, nine!) cats and one dog.

Britney is a homeschool mom and social media marketer who also enjoys volunteering in her community. She is a proponent of human connection and mental health. She says that her core beliefs, the experiences of friends and strangers, and the undeniable truths about racism and white supremacy, along with the support and guidance of others have led her on a journey towards anti-racism.

Nicole Lusiani Elliott is the founder and owner of Dirt Path Publishing, a small publishing house that focuses on publishing works that help people think differently about their lives and their work. She also serves as an Assistant Director of CSET, the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, at Stanford University, focusing primarily on the areas of history education and instructional equity. Prior to working at CSET Nicole served as a high school teacher for twenty years and worked as an instructional coach and professional development associate for the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning.

Brandy Varnado is a mother, educator, and entrepreneur living in the Bay Area. She is one of the contributing authors of the Book Check Your Privilege, Live Into The Work. In this episode, she shares her story of how she came into this project. Brandy began a career in education over 13 years ago in an effort to give back to her community and is most passionate about equipping individuals with the tools and skills necessary to create economic opportunities for themselves through education and developing an entrepreneurial mindset.