Welcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business.

This week we welcomed Naaima Khan to Intentional Conversations!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM NAAIMA:

• Abundance, authenticity, asset-based core values behind her business… we live in a world where people are really feeling the scarcity, enough time, enough money, whatever, we’re always trapped in this scarcity mindset. But what if we were to break that pattern, inner thinking?
• It reminds us that we are enough, we have enough, just because we are feeling lack in one way or another doesn’t mean that becomes the defining factor in our lives.
• Mindset abundance isn’t always operating in the “I need more” mindset.
• It is critical to establish the needs that communities are facing to help funders understand what the need is.
• Organizations will use diversity, but they don’t know how to really use that when it comes to bringing people to the table.
• Identity is such a hyper-indivualized take, focusing on me, which is important to a degree to have that. This is how I connect and resonate to people as I pursue my journey through the world.
• Have we gone through times of instability before? And how did folx historically participate? Putting into perspective, yes this is our current context, yes it’s uncomfortable, and do we find a way to navigate through it that makes our ancestors proud.
• What we see today is not from an overnight shift.
• How do you center equity? Really embed a decolonized lens, to really see every community’s lives as valuable.
• If you’re not willing to slow down to some degree, you’re probably not setting yourself up for success in equity work.
• I ask my clients, what is the long term effect?
• There are other ways to practice smaller wins to help people to understand the longer term. It does take an intentional and planned investment to stay connected to equity work.
• People don’t pay enough attention to the cost of equity work. It costs in employee retention, in terms of being effective, in terms of having more quality ideas.
• Narratives shape mindset.
• Stories really impact us at a deeper level than we understand. They socialize us, they are all things that impact our world view and directly impact our actions. So critical to build that level of consciousness.
• Take the time to say what calls our spirit to the higher things in life.



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