Tune into another timely interview that shines a light on emerging voices in #CorporateCulture spaces who are sharing practices that support society's transition to a more collaborative, just, sustainable, and liberating coexistence. 

In this episode, Sundiata Soon-Jahta chats with DEI specialist, mother, and storyteller, Noelle Johnson, to share her vision of how dropping masks, embracing #nuerodiversity, & showing up as imperfect in the workplace can help change corporate spaces.  

Listen, reflect, and share this episode with your people!

(Read Noelle’s bio + find ways to connect with her below).

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Continue the conversation by joining our community. 

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Episode Credits: 

• Featured Guest: Noelle Johnson 
• Writer, Producer, Co-host:  Maryella Marie 
• Co-host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta  
• Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 
• Featured Music: 
  • "Slidin" Instrumental by Gualay The Goat @gualaythegoat
  • "Love Lost" instrumental by Gualay The Goat @gualaythegoat
  • “I’m Coming” by Ill Neal @illnealmusic 
  • "Nomad" instrumental by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy

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Show notes: 

• Purchase "Love Yall" Tees 
• Guadalupe Arriegue’s Instagram and website
  • For inquiries on commissioned artwork, contact [email protected] 
• Join our community to continue the conversation 
• Create your own #FANZINE liberation project with us
• Subscribe to Grow Dialogue’s Youtube Channel
• Support the Grow Dialogue Podcast on Patreon 

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Join our Grow Dialogue community to continue the dialogue around some of the chewy topics we’re covering in the podcast, plus receive exclusive content, discounts, and special offers.
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More about Noelle Johnson:

Noelle Johnson is the Co-Founder and Learning and Development Partner with Johnson Squared. They take an inclusion-first approach to their work and customize all of their services to avoid a "check the box" feeling that employees can spot a mile away. 

Along with being a leader in the DEI space, Noelle Johnson also runs a career service company, My Interview Buddy that helps people prepare for interviews, and helps businesses create dynamic LinkedIn profiles for their sales teams. 

Have you ever been asked to check a box in order to identify your complex cultural heritage? 

What tools of oppression are being used when we are asked to deny pieces of our family tree or to simplify our identity to a politicized, racial construct?

In this fascinating interview, Maryella Marie chats with Sundiata Soon-Jahta about his recent ancestry DNA test results and deep dives into his decision to reject race as a social construct while also embracing his complex heritage.      

This intimate conversation is one for the history books!

“I believe the future will reveal itself to have more and more people rejecting race— the divisiveness, the standardization, the erasure, and the "power-over & control" embedded in it."  —Sundiata Soon-Jahta

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Are you curious about your complex ancestry?

Have you recently received your ancestry DNA test results? 

Join our community forum to chat with curious folx like you who want to explore how to use tools of #indivisibiilty (instead of tools of #oppression) while on this identity revelation journey! 

Episode Credits: 

• Writer, Producer, Co-host:  Maryella Marie 
• Co-host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta  
• Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 
• Featured Music: 
  • “Sydewalk” by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy
  • “I’m Coming” by Ill Neal @illnealmusic 

Show notes: 

• African Ancestry DNA Testing Kit
• 23 and Me Ancestry DNA Testing Kit
• Race Haven Podcast 
• “Why I Walked Away From White People”
• Sundiata Keita - An Epic of The Mali Empire
• Mississippi Burning 
• Theory of Indivisibility Infographic & Podcast
• Love ya’ll Tees 
• Guadalupe Arriegue’s Instagram and website
  • For inquiries on commissioned artwork, contact [email protected] 
• Join our community to continue the conversation 
• Create your own #FANZINE liberation project with us
• Subscribe to Grow Dialogue’s Youtube Channel
• Support the Grow Dialogue Podcast on Patreon 

We’re excited to release another episode that explores more #CorporateCulture narratives on the #GrowDialoguePodcast.    

In the struggle to end all forms of #oppression, what role should #CorporateAmerica play? On a more personal level, how can #CorporateLeaders embrace their authentic selves, lead with compassion, and support the social paradigm shift from within their companies? 

In this powerful and transparent interview, Dr. Sundiata chats with Ashley Page to explore her career journey and reveal how she ignited a path to pursue excellence while dropping #CodeSwitching #SocialNorms in order to become a more #AuthenticLeader. ✊🏾💪🏾💚

Ashley Page is defying limits daily as an executive, mother, world traveler, innovator, risk taker and change agent!

Continue the conversation by joining our community. 

We invite you to explore #CorporateCulture with us behind the scenes in our community forum as we keep unpacking the current climate of the industry, and to envision a better future as it relates to corporate culture’s footprint on our collective wellbeing.

Episode Credits: 

• Writer, Producer, Co-host:  Maryella Marie 
• Co-host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta  
• Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 
• Featured Music: 
  • “Slidin” by Gualay The Goat @gualaythegoat
  • “Nomad instrumental” by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy
  • “Love Lost” Instrumental by Gualay The Goat @gualaythegoat
  • “Sydewalk” by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy
  • “I’m Coming” by Ill Neal @illnealmusic 

Show notes: 

• Ashley Page 
  • Instagram: @justapage2u 
  • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleyhibbettpage
• Love ya’ll Tees 
• Guadalupe Arriegue’s Instagram and website
  • For inquiries on commissioned artwork, contact [email protected] 
• Join our community to continue the conversation 
• Create your own #FANZINE liberation project with us
• Subscribe to Grow Dialogue’s Youtube Channel
• Support the Grow Dialogue Podcast on Patreon 

Should #CorporateAmerica play a role in our demand for #SocialChange?

In the first two episodes of the Grow Dialogue Podcast, we talked about the importance of exploring #CorporateCulture as a system in order to begin a healthy dialogue around where we stand as a society, and how we can ignite change individually and collectively.

We’re excited to share a new episode that explores corporate culture narratives.    

In this transparent and insightful episode, Dr. Sundiata Soon-Jahta chats with Mercer Carlin to reveal the challenges behind navigating identity and otherness in corporate spaces, and why she transitioned into grassroots work in order to support her #liberation and the liberation of others. 

Enjoy, comment, and share this episode with your people!

Keywords/Topics:

• Shifting into safer and more liberating leadership spaces 
• The power of community to ignite change  
• The importance of valuing people over profit

Credits: 

• Writer, Producer, Co-host:  Maryella Marie 
• Co-host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta  
• Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 
• Featured Music: 
  • "Slidin" by Gualay The Goat @gualaythegoat
  • "Nomad" instrumental by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy
  • "Love Lost" instrumental by Gualay The Goat @gualaythegoat
  • "Sydewalk" by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy
  • "I’m Coming" by Ill Neal @illnealmusic 

Show Notes: 

• Mercer Carlin on Twitter @merlinworks
• Adrienne Maree Brown’s “Emerging Strategy” 
• Akilah S. Richards’ Raising Free People Network
• Love ya’ll Tees 
• Guadalupe Arriegue’s Instagram and website
  • For inquiries on commissioned artwork, contact [email protected] 
• Join our community to continue the conversation 
• Create your own #FANZINE liberation project with us
• Subscribe to Grow Dialogue’s Youtube Channel
• Support the Grow Dialogue Podcast on Patreon 

Ready to create your own liberation project? Check out this abbreviated recording of our recent Q&A & #fanzine demo on the Grow Dialogue Podcast. 

In this condensed conversation and fanzine presentation you’ll discover: 

• What a fanzine is and why we’re creating fanzines on the podcast 
• Why this season’s featured artist uses them for her liberation
•  A list of “zines” for inspo  
• Images to get you started
• Community support as you create your own Fanzine
• Virtual liberation interventions 
• More resources for support

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The Grow Dialogue Podcast’s #fanzine project is an experiment in liberation.
It’s a poetic call-to-action for our listeners to create and share! 

We’re curating this intentional DIY (do it yourself) activity for our community members that combines poetic expression and activation in order to support our individual and collective liberation…in a creative way! Our intention is to invite our listeners to move from passively listening to conversations around liberation, to actively creating their own liberation project! 

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Here's what you can do to participate: 

We want you to create your own liberation project, using the Theory of Indivisibility as your inspiration. Check out the tools of indivisibility here, or rewatch our live demo to hear Sundiata break it down for us. We’re looking forward to seeing what you create with us this season! Keep in mind that this process will continue all season, and you’ll have time to ask more questions and even present your fanzine process to our community! 

Join us for the first of many fanzine showcases and Q&As next week, July 21 @ 4pm ET to ask questions, share your process, feel encouraged, or to showcase your own fanzine. If you can’t make it live, no worries. 

Join our community.

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Show notes: 

• Theory of Indivisibility Infographic
• Theory of Indivisibility Articles
• Theory of Indivisibility Podcast 
• Love ya’ll Tees 
• Guadalupe Arriegue’s Instagram and website
  • For inquiries on commissioned artwork, contact [email protected] 

Credits:

• Writer, Producer, Co-host:  Maryella Marie 
• Co-host & Partner @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta  
• Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 
• Featured Music: “Sydewalk” by Woolman Grundy @woolmangrundy

Support the Grow Dialogue Podcast on Patreon  

On today’s episode of the Grow Dialogue Podcast, we’ll be focusing on some of the social unrest that’s snowballing across several medias. We’ve selected headlines as well as social commentary from various media platforms to chew on. Join our reflection on these current events as we bring both highly charged and opposing viewpoints to the center of our dialogue...and search for liberation individually and collectively.

We hope that you find this conversation helpful. 
Please share this episode with your people!

Listen in, or watch, this episode as our co-hosts reflect on the following topics: 

• #ToolsofOppression 
• #ToolsofIndivisibility 
• #Pride #LGBTQIA+ 
• #Juneteenth
• #WomenRights + #AbortionRights
• The Illusion of #Freedom 
• And more!

After you listen, here’s some food-for-thought to chew on: 

1. Which tools of oppression do you see in your news/social media feeds? 
2. Which tools of indivisibility do you see in your news/social media feeds?

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Credits:

Writer & Producer:  Maryella Marie 

Co-host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta  

Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 

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Featured Music: 

Blessed by Akilus The Cosmonaut | @onlyblackcosmonaut
Slidin by Gualay The Goat | @gualaythegoat
Love Lost Instrumental by Gualay The Goat | @gualaythegoat
Nomad instrumental by Woolman Grundy | @woolmangrundy
I’m Comin  by Ill Neal | @illnealmusic  

Keep your responses to yourself, or share your reflections on our podcast community forum. 

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Subscribe to Grow Dialogue’s Youtube Channel.

More show notes: 

• Theory of Indivisibility Articles
• Theory of Indivisibility Infographic
• Theory of Indivisibility Podcast 
• Source: BBC News - Roe v Wade: The world reacts to US abortion ruling
• Source: MSN.com - All The Messed-Up Things Republicans Said About The Supreme Court Overturning Roe V. Wade   

Keywords/Topics: 

• #WomensRights
• #HumanRights
• #Democracy
• #Consent 
• #Agency
• #AuthenticDialogue
• #Indivisbility 
• #TheoryofIndivisibility 

Writer, Producer: Maryella Marie 

Co-Host & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Sundiata Soon-Jahta

Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue 

Featured Music: 

Blessed | by Akilus The Cosmonaut | @onlyblackcosmonaut
Slidin | by Gualay The Goat | @gualaythegoat
Love Lost Instrumental | by Gualay The Goat | @gualaythegoat
Nomad instrumental | by Woolman Grundy | @woolmangrundy
I’m Comin  | by Ill Neal | @illnealmusic 

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Episode Description:

On the 1st episode of the Grow Dialogue Podcast, we cracked open several topics around #decolonizing the #workplace and beyond, and only scratched the surface of identity and purpose. We made a bonus episode for you all to learn more about our co-hosts, who we are and why we do what we do. Enjoy and share this episode with your people!

Listen in, or watch, this bonus episode as our co-hosts reflect on the following topics: 

• Shifting into safer, more thriving relationships 
• Communication frameworks that will help us shift with grace and confidence —authentic dialogue and non-violent communication 
• The power of intuition 
• The power of independent and collective work
• And more!

After you listen, here’s some food-for-thought to chew on: 

1. What helps you thrive with grace and curiosity? 
2. What are you willing to give up in order to thrive?
3. In your day to day, do you regularly participate in debate, discussion, or open dialogue? 
4. What does identity mean to you? 
5. What do you need to do to get in touch with your intuition? 
6. What practices will help you get in touch with your intuition? 

Keep your responses to yourself, or share your reflections on our podcast community forum. 

More show notes: 

• Race Haven Podcast 
• Theory of Indivisibility Articles
• Theory of Indivisibility Infographic
• Theory of Indivisibility Podcast 
• Sundiata

We’re thrilled to announce the Grow Dialogue Podcast’s kickoff to season 1, starting with decolonizing corporate culture!

Listen wherever you podcast to meet our hosts and discover what this season has in store.
 
Learn more about Grow Dialogue.
Join our Grow Dialogue Community.

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Credits & Show Notes:

Writer & Producer:  Maryella Marie.
Co-host  & Founder @ Grow Dialogue: Dr. Sundiata Soon-Jahta
Featured Cover Art: Guadalupe Arriegue

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Featured Music:

"Blessed"
by Akilus The Cosmonaut
@onlyblackcosmonaut
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"Slidin"
by Gualay The Goat
@gualaythegoat
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"Love Lost" instrumental
by Gualay The Goat
@gualaythegoat
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"Nomad" instrumental
by Woolman Grundy
@woolmangrundy
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I’m Comin
by Ill Neal
@illnealmusic
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More show notes:

• Purchase Loveyall Tees
• Listen to the Race Haven Podcast
• Access Sundiata's Theory of Indivisibility Articles: 
• Theory of Indivisibility Infographic
• Listen to the Theory of Indivisibility Podcast