By Sage B. Hobbs | Naked Conversations
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8 seasons, 51 raw, awkward & brave conversations later, we've arrived at our finale. This is definitely not the end of us using our voices to speak up against injustice & work for radical change, just the end of our podcast. We are so grateful for all of you being with us in this work; listening, learning and acting. Be brave & keep it up ya’ll.
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Resources mentioned
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
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“Neither you nor your family are broken, you just have habits that need to be.”
Today we are joined by Dr. Lynyetta Willis; psychologist, family empowerment coach, speaker, and award-winning author, who helps frustrated families break free from Stable Misery® and unhelpful parenting and partnership patterns.
We’re asking; what are the unhelpful stories we tell ourselves, and are these stories different for marginalized communities? Dr. Willis brings so much hope and optimism to her work, we hope you feel as empowered from this conversation as we do.
Listen to hear us talk about:
THESE 5 main habits to work on to transform your life
Questioning the stories we tell ourselves
Chronic stress and survival mode
Marginalized community experiences
Analysing the experience of disempowerment
Advice for principals/teachers wanting to help families through difficult patterns
Resources mentioned:
https://drlwillis.com/
www.Healingstablemisery.com
www.Mytriggerscore.com
The Body Keeps the Score
Alissa Campbell - SEED Certification
Dr Ross Green “children do well if they can”
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
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Book bans are increasing at a rapid pace in school districts around the United States. What’s really going on here?
Today we are unpacking the motivations for book banning, which books are being banned, and what this means for our communities moving forward. We dive into the challenges of navigating content ‘appropriateness’ as a parent, and the role that fear can play in our decision making.
Our homework for you is to research which books are banned in your own state. You might be surprized what you find!
Listen to hear us talking about:
What content would scare me as a parent, for my kids to have access to?
Factoring in age appropriateness
Why we need to hear marginalized voices in literature
The power of a concerned parent
Why do we read? What do we get from books?
Resources mentioned:
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardsonn and Peter Parnell true story, my sister, books reflecting the realities of the world
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (read at 13)
The Bluest Eye. Pecola Breedlove by Toni Morrison (read in early 20’s)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison*
"Native Son" by Richard Wright*
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
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“Fear and trust are the core challenges of our time” - Sage
It’s time we talked about trust. Today we explore why Erica & I first decided to trust each other, and how these same principles can be applied to building trust in organisations. This is such an important topic, when we don’t feel safe it’s extremely hard to move forward and create meaningful change.
Listen to hear us talk about:
When was the first moment that you trusted someone?
Different types of trust
Steps to building trust
Restoring broken trust
The role of vulnerability & risk in building trust
Strategies for building trust in organisations
How does trust (or lack of) impact DEI work?
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
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Good old “spread the word,” and talk about it with your people
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“You cannot heal what you have not diagnosed. You cannot repair what you do not see.” - Isabel Wilkerson
Today we’re bringing it back to basics. What do we mean when we refer to “systematic racism”, and how is this different than racism on the individual level? Join us today as we unpack the realities of ‘racism by design’, and what are we really going to do about it in this lifetime.
Listen to hear us talk about:
Defining systematic, structural and institutionalised racism
Examples of structural racism in the public system
Broadway shows that are challenging cultural norms
Resistance to ‘believing in’ systematic racism
Important questions about racism we need to keep asking ourselves
Resources mentioned:
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
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Today we are joined by the outstanding María-Victoria Albina; Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner and Breathwork Meditation Guide.
In this lively conversation, we dive into the nature of the oppressive systems we live in, how they require us to disconnect us from our bodies and why it is such a radical act to reconnect to a feeling of safety within ourselves.
Listen to hear us talk about:
Our current systems demand/require us to be disconnected from our bodies
Somatic practice as an inherently radical act
Increasing awareness of choices and agency
Embodied safety & nervous system flexibility
Marginalized bodies and nervous system regulation
THIS simple somatic practice (secret weapon for regulating)
Resources Mentioned:
[email protected]
You can find Maria-Victoria on Instagram here, and you can reference a past interview here.
Victoria Albina - a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, a nervous system expert, and the host of Feminist Wellness.
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness https://www.rhondavmagee.com/print/
FREE gift of meditation resources: HERE
Books Mentioned
Life on The Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way
Louise Hays
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
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Are you finding it hard to stay optimistic lately? Our positivity has been having a beatdown too. In this episode, Sage reaches out to Erica for support and guidance through a difficult time, and we discuss strategies for restoring a sense of hope and agency amidst times that can feel quite disempowering.
Listen to hear us talk about
What does it take to keep having hope?
Strategies for regaining a sense of agency
Allowing and accepting emotions
Acknowledging the difficulty of living in this moment in history
Complex PTSD, survival mode & trauma
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organisational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
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Welcome back to Race, Culture & Beyond. Get ready for a whole new season of awkward, fun and courageous conversations. Today we’re sharing what we’ve been noticing and thinking about in our break from the show, and setting the scene for some of the incredible guests we’ll have on the show this season.
Listen to hear us talk about
Hair and race
Being aware of spaces and places where racism operates
Radical rest: rest as resistance, activism
Performative allyship
Black representation in spaces of consumption (Black Santa)
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
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And this brings Season 7 to a close!
For our final episode, we are joined by Humanize Podcast hosts Courthney Russell Jr. and Emily Braucher. These two use their podcast as a platform for social justice, engaging in honest conversations about race, and not shying away from uncomfortable, vulnerable, messy terrain. What an absolute pleasure to have this pair on our show, make sure you check out their podcast!
Listen to hear us talk about
- How Courthney & Emily began working together
- How nerve wracking it is to get to know each other publicly on the podcast.
- Conversational podcasts can teach listeners that it is normal to have challenging conversations, and how to navigate them. Raising consciousness through modeling.
- Is it delusional to have hope in these times?
- How healing it can be to be honest with ourselves: acknowledging our conditioning and shame.
- What is the role of white people in racial justice work?
About our guests:
Courthney Russell Jr. grew up on KY and lived in the Virgin Islands. By the time he graduated from high school, Courthney's tendency toward stereotypical behavior had him on a collision course with incarceration or death. In a last-ditch effort, he applied to medical school and was surprised to be accepted. After experiencing homelessness and graduated in 2011 with a medical degree and a new mission: leverage his knowledge in a non-traditional way to become an authentic, determined, humble leader. Today, this looks like (a) co-founding a non-profit focused on serving the homeless and vulnerable (b) co-founding WeUp CBO, a company dedicated to addressing poverty through education, healthcare, and employment © He also is the co-host of The Humanize Podcast and is board president of a Co-Op organization in Denver, Colorado.
Emily Braucher is a keynote speaker and trainer who is singularly focused on helping people create trusting relationships across differences. She does this by teaching clients the tools to overcome the three challenges that inevitably get in the way of trust: ego, culture and power. For the last decade, Emily has worked with corporate, non-profit, academic, and government clients on strengthening the inclusive brain, fostering the “trust mindset,” creating psychological safety and practicing stress management techniques, always pointing people towards the best version of themselves. In addition to running ReFresh Communication, Emily is also co-host of the podcast, Humanize: Stories from the Heart about Social Justice.
What Courthney & Emily are hooked on right now:
- Reading: Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington, The 1619 Project, & The Camino
- Watching: Breaking Bad, Seinfeld, The Sopranos
Links and Resources Mentioned:
https://www.thehumanizepodcast.com/
Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagebhobbs/
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC:
https://www.flyingcolorsllc.com/flying-colors-about-us-
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See you next season! Until then - stay engaged, keep diving in, and support your community. <3
We are vacillating between resignation and rage in the wake of the Roe v. Wade decision. We recorded this episode on June 28. This is a heavy and raw conversation. You will hear us dive into uncomfortable terrain and uncover the nuances in our own belief systems.
This is a harrowing time. Don’t forget to reach out and lean on your support networks, find healthy outlets for your emotions, and be an advocate and ally for those most experiencing the gravity of these decisions. Resources and more reading linked below.
Listen to hear us talk about
- Support networks: finding outlets for rage, reclaiming agency, and what to do when the people you love don’t share your values.
- Embracing nuance in a culture of extremism
- Who actually experiences the lived burden of this decision? (Not men)
- The immense undertaking of being a parent.
- Further consequences of this decision: people who are already under-resourced will be disproportionately affected.
What we’re watching:
- Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - On Netflix
Resources
Abortion Laws by State: https://reproductiverights.org/maps/what-if-roe-fell/
Connect with us and learn more about our work:
Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagebhobbs/
Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC:
https://www.flyingcolorsllc.com/flying-colors-about-us-
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
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The podcast currently has 104 episodes available.