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Living Transgender, The Crash Course in Manhood and Womanhood | Ep. 60 NQS | Valerie Hope

Strangers: Meet B’Elana Dow & Evin Wilkins

From: Texas, USA & Texas/Washington, USA

Connect with:

B’Elana Dow

·     Email: [email protected]

·     Book: The Tough Love Guide to Transition

Evin Wilkins

·     Email: [email protected]

·     Facebook: Courageous Living in Unity

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Adulting and Making Friends at Work | Ep. 59 NQS | Valerie Hope

Strangers: Meet Lucinda Kisor Summerlin & Whitney Strauss

From: Arkansas, USA & Texas, USA

Connect with:

• Lucinda Kisor Summerlin –

o LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-summerlin-43591199/

• Whitney Williams Strauss

o LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whitney-w-strauss-020b1b1/

Resources:

·  Song: Jason Isbell “If We Were Vampires”

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How to Be A Fulfilled Leader | Ep. 58 NQS | Valerie

Strangers: Meet Donald Stup & Najaf Dostaliyev

From: Maryland/South Carolina, USA & Azerbaijan/Texas, USA

Talk about: Leading the way to fulfillment

Connect with:

Donald Stup

·  Email: [email protected]

·  LinkedIn

·  Company: Aim for Value Coaching

·  Lean Six Sigma

Najaf Dostaliyev

·  LinkedIn

·  Websites:

   o  Toastmasters Public Speaking

   o  TED.com

·  Book: Moral Letters to Lucilius

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Strangers: Meet Julius Mayer & Shelly Tochluk (PART 2)

From: Alabama, USA & California, USA

Talk About: Empathy, microaggressions, and the media

Connect With:

• Julius Mayer
• Shelly Tochluk

Books/Articles:

• Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Third Edition - https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781475863123
• Living in the Tension: The Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice - https://www.cddbooks.com/Bookstore/DetailPage-LivingInTheTension.asp
• On-ramps and Lanes on the Racial Justice Freeway - https://shellytochluk.medium.com/on-ramps-and-lanes-on-the-racial-justice-freeway-9ff2ee051042
• Shelly’s monthly newsletter https://www.shellytochluk.com/newsletter/
• Website: www.shellytochluk.com

Resources:

• Homeland (TV show) 
• Dear White People (movie)

Books:

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies

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Strangers: Meet Jae Maye & Shelly Tochluk 

From: Alabama, USA & California, USA

Talk About: Coming to terms with skin color

Connect with:

Julius Maye

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn/in/juliusmayejr

Shelly Tochluk

Video:

• Racial Justice Freeway – https://youtu.be/0UvBukJ7zwU

Books/Articles:

• Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Third Edition
• Living in the Tension: The Quest for a Spiritualized Racial Justice
• On-ramps and Lanes on the Racial Justice Freeway

Shelly’s monthly newsletter - https://www.shellytochluk.com/newsletter/

Website: www.shellytochluk.com

Other Resources:

• Equal Justice Initiative - https://eji.org
• Homeland (TV show) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960
• Dear White People - https://www.netflix.com/title/80095698
• Books: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies

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Connecting With Your Community | Ep. 55 NQS | Valerie Hope

Strangers: Meet Chivan Lim & Kyra Isaac

From: Olympia, Washington & Edmonds, Washington (USA)

Connect on: Connecting with your community and yourself

Connect with:

Chivan Lim

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chivanfromswing/

• Spotify: Band: Winehouse - https://open.spotify.com/artist/07PoSY2wSNOxr0Bgby5IxJ

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winehousetheband/

Kyra Isaac

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kyra.isaac/

Resources:

• In the U.S. to find out more about whose land you’re on, go to https://biamaps.doi.gov/indianlands/

• https://land.codeforanchorage.org/

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Strangers: Meet L.D. Carter & Lee Bycel

From: Texas, USA & California, USA

Connect on: Purpose-driven “geezers” make the world better

Connect with:

• L.D. Carter
• Lee Bycel

Resources:

• Book: Eric Fromm “Art of Loving”
• TED Talk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED

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Strangers: Meet Karen White & Ken Blackwell

From: Maryland/California, USA & New Jersey, USA

Connect on: Managing life when caring for aging parents

Connect with:

Karen White:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-white-77a4bb/

• Website: https://www.turntwocoaching.com

Ken Blackwell:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kennethjblackwell/

•Website: InKlaritas.com

Resources:

• Margaret Wheatley's post: Freeing ourselves from the addiction to hope.
• Book: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

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Strangers: Meet Monica Youngblood & Kristine de Guzman

From: California, USA & California, USA

Connect on: Representing your true self from the inside out

Connect with:

Kristine de Guzman:

·  LinkedIn

·  Instagram

·  Website

Monica Youngblood:

·  LinkedIn

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Strangers: Meet Jenny Price-Watterson & Jihann Pedersen

From: Panama/Texas, USA & Panama/England

Connect on: Connecting to your own culture

Connect with:

·  Jenny Price-Watterson

·  Jihann Pedersen

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