InflexionPoint Podcast: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out Creating a Brave Space for Conversations about Personal Transformation, Racism, and Accountability

InflexionPoint Podcast: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out Creating a Brave Space for Conversations about Personal Transformation, Racism, and Accountability

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InflexionPoint Podcast: Cultivating Change from the Inside Out Creating a Brave Space for Conversations about Personal Transformation, Racism, and Accountability episodes

  • Racism Is a Disruptor of Health & Wellness
    Question of the Hour: What are social determinants of health?
    Discussion: Introduction to Social Determinants of Health Conceptual model
     
    2017 Publication: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
    "Health equity is the state in which everyone has the opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or any other socially defined circumstance. Health equity and opportunity are inextricably linked. Currently in the United States, the burdens of disease and poor health and the benefits of well-being and good health are inequitably distributed."
     
    A trauma-informed approach to care acknowledges that health care organizations and care teams need to have a complete picture of a patient’s life situation — past and present — in order to provide effective health care services with a healing orientation. Trauma-informed care shifts the focus from “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”
    Trauma-informed care must be antiracist.
     
    Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity defines 9 social determinants of health
    1. Physical Health
    2. Public Safety
    3. Social environment
    4. Transportation
    5. Education
    6. Employment
    7. Health Systems & Services
    8. Housing
    9. Income & Wealth
      10. "The social determinants of health, while interdependent and complex, are made up of mutable factors that shape the conditions in which one lives, learns, works, plays, worships, and ages."
      34 min
    10. Exercising the Birthright to be Black and Female Anywhere
      Question of the Hour:
      What if we truly exercised the birthright to be Black and female anywhere?
      Benefits of Travel: Access is Everything.
      Meet Irijah Stennett, the owner of Irie Travels. She is a certified YogaSkills Kemetic Yoga teacher, Pranic Energy Practitioner, Fashion Designer and creator of "Retreat to Freedom". Ms. Stennett is excited to teach everyone from kindergartners to seniors, and continue building on her global yoga & wellness journey! She believes “Travel is the Best Education,” an infamous quote by Moroccan Scholar Ibn Battuta and is currently pursuing her personal endeavors in international travel, fashion design, philanthropy, spending time with her Grams, extended family and growing international wellness community.
      Irijah is the author of 38 Ways to Discover Freedom, available on Amazon.
      Learn more about her commitments at https://www.humanityinaction.org/person/irijah-stennett
      56 min
    11. If I Can't Be Black in Africa Where Can I Be Black?
      CROWN Act: Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair
      Pretoria High School, a prestigious South African Private School, bans natural hair styles. What's the deal with my hair?
      My hair naturally grows out of my head thick and curly like a rainforest, yet people expect me to mow it into a lawn with fine, straight blades of grass. 
      Take a Stand for for the CROWN Act. 
      House Passes CROWN Act, Banning Discrimination Against Black Hairstyles, March 18 2022
      https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-passes-crown-act-banning-discrimination-against-black-hairstyles_n_6234c290e4b046c938db9041
      58 min
    12. Creating Identity Constructs
      Question of the Hour:
      How does an African-American Adoptee create an identity construct that transcends the pain of historical and experiential relinquishment?
       
      In this episode we continue the previous discussion of identity. This time Gail, Mavis, and I welcome our first guest, Mr. Michael Williams, hailing from North Carolina. We are super charged with excitement to have Michael on the show!
       
      Michael Williams is a celebrated storyteller, genetic genealogy trainer, exhibitionist, historic preservation advocate, and memory keeper of the 18th-19th Century African-American experience.  As an international speaker, Michael gives presentations at universities, historical societies, high schools, churches, and libraries.  Michael is known for his B.U.I.LD. Principle workshop series teaching African-American communities how to leverage their personal and community genealogical research to trace back to the Pre-Civil War Era.
       
      Join the conversation as Michale chronicles his journey from foster care and adoption to birth family reunification and his roots in Africa.
      58 min
    13. Identity and Personal Connections Across Multiple Decades
      We continue the saga of personal identity across multiple decades. In previous episodes we covered the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and the murder of Emmett Till, a flame that burned itself right into the Civil Rights Movement. In this episode we highlight specific moments, personal experiences and impactful words uttered in eras marked by iconic protest songs, assassinations, and the birth of global movement.
      • Civil Rights Movement (MLK/1954-1968)
      • Black Nationalists Movement (Malcom X/1953-1964)
      • Black Panther Party (1966-1969)
      • Global Black Lives Matter (2013-)
        • 58 min
      • Activism through Coaching Is a Grassroots Movement with Special Guests Anita Russell, Gail Hunter & Mavis Bauman
        The journey towards antiracism is not your typical journey. It requires critical self-reflection on two levels: (1) awareness of your own, thoughts, ideas, and beliefs about racism/antiracism and (2) accountability for what emerges in your words, actions, and behaviors. The Activism through Coaching model is a grassroots process that facilitates personal transformation through critical self-reflection as a tool to eradicate racism. We use the Coin Analogy, InflexionPoint Podcast, and a mastermind approach to demonstrate application of the model.
        Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/
        56 min
      • Identity and Personal Connections Across 3 Decades
        The struggle for self-identification, cultural self-determination, autonomy, equality, and equity. It's all the same struggle across the spectrum of the Great Migration through 5 Historic Movements. The generational sentiment among Black people boils down to this: Leave us alone so we can freely and peacefully exist in the skin in which we are born.
        In this episode we immerse ourselves in a discussion of identity and personal connection to the movements in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
         
        "Our answer is, do nothing with them; mind your business, and let them mind theirs. Your doing with them is their greatest misfortune. They have been undone by your doings, and all they now ask, and really have need of at your hands, is just to let them alone. They suffer by every interference, and succeed best by being let alone."—Frederick Douglas, What Shall Be Done with the Negroes if Emancipated, 1862
        59 min
      • Movement in the Struggle for Identity
        "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."—Maya Angelou
         The struggle for self-identification, cultural self-determination, autonomy, equality, and equity—it's all the same struggle across the spectrum of the Great Migration through 5 Historic Movements. The generational sentiment among Black people boils down to this: Leave us alone so we can freely and peacefully exist in the skin in which we are born.
        Great Migration (1916-1970) - movement from rural Southern states to urban Northern states occurring before and after the Great Depression.
        Harlem Renaissance - a cultural explosion drawing great minds and talent, artists and scholars. Beyond Harlem the renaissance include cities like Detroit, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, and others, all being shaped by the Great Migration.
        Civil Rights Movement (1940s and 1960s) - multi-decade struggle for social justice, equal rights, and an end to discrimination and violence against Black people.
        Black Nationalist Movement (1960s and 1970s) - political, social, and economic movement in the seeking to create a sense of community, identity apart from assimilation, and a sense of pride.
        Black Power Movement (1960s and 1970s) - revolutionary movement emphasizing cultural pride, economic empowerment, the creation of political and cultural institutions, and the development of Kwanzaa principles.
        Global Black Lives Matter Movement (2013 to current) - abolitionist movement founded in response to the acquittal of  the murderer of Trayvon Martin, on a mission to eradicate racism, white supremacy, and acts of violence against Black people.
         
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      • When Paths Converge and Women Rise with special guest hosts Anita Russell, Mavis Bauman, and Gail Hunter
        Three Distinct Paths:
        Imagine a creative nonfiction story emerging from three distinct paths—a trip to the KwaZulu Natal Region of South Africa; a trip to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda; and a trip to a library in Pittsburgh PA with an Uber driver. Each path is like a seperate river teeming with vision, purpose and action. Each converges with the others to form a fourth that culminates in courage, conversation, relationship, and accountability.
         
        Three Wise Women:
        Meet Anita Russell, Mavis Bauman, and Gail Hunter. Discover the backstory of three wise women who concocted InflexionPoint Podcast, a brave space for conversation about racism, personal transformation, and accountability. Join Anita, Mavis and Gail as they sit in as guest hosts for this episode of The Dr. Pat Show.
         
        Anita is the visionary behind The Place to SOAR, a social enterprise dedicated to cultivating change through critical self-reflection, personal transformation, and personal accountability.
        Mavis is the heart behind SEED a Better Life, a nonprofit organization built on the proposition that in a world full of need, one small act of giving, of loving can change a life.
        Gail Hunter is the healing source behind OMA Center for Mind, Body Spirit, a nonprofit organization that provides holistic education for self, family and community.
         
        Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/
         
        55 min
      • Identity Theft: Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming
        Question of the Hour:
        What role does identity play in the history of enslavement and reconstruction?
         
        Identity Theft - Enslavement and the Power of (re)Naming
        Freedman and the Battle of Reconstruction
        Identity Hackers - Black Codes/Jim Crow
         
        Civil War Amendments:
        13th Amentment (1865) - abolish slavery (exception clause)
        14th Amentment (1868) - citizenship, equal rights, legal rights
        15th Amentment (1870) - guaranteed African American men the right to vote
         
         
        57 min

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