This podcast is an engaging conversation with Dr Peter Choate on the critical role of social work in society. We cover the following topics in this episode: child welfare, the definition of culture, critical race theory and much more. Despite our focus on the Indigenous communities in our podcast we strive to create intercultural connections as we have done in this episode. We discuss historical and contemporary aspects of these neverending cycles and biased systems. Most notably, it is important to connect Indigenous communities to their culture.