This week, all the great followups, a hard look at our ongoing conversations as a company about BLM, LGBTQ, Racism, and Exploring the Opposite.  Followed up by why employee Career Planning is the most important thing a company can focus on for long term success, questions, sing-out, and bubble hockey.

00:00:00 - Pre Show

Margaritas and Coffee

Mushrooms and Micro-dosing

00:03:02 - Show Start

3 nerds and a business guy

00:03:15 - The Follow Ups

The only way to Glossary - The post where we’ll keep track of all these words and acronyms

LTM - Level Ten Meeting

Shifting

FA Chart (AKA Accountability Chart)

D&E - Delegate and Elevate (part of it the process from EOS Worldwide)

The Gestalt Mindset - We’re here to share our journey - not give you advice.

00:19:26 - The Headlines

Darin - Rocks off track, future for onboarding, and a break for myself

Garret - Vacation from James’s vacation and kicking off a CTO improvement plan

Tyler - Magic from the engineering LTM

James - Magic from another LTM, keeping committed to physical health, and he loves being back in the LTM’s (even if we don’t love having him back)

00:31:22 - Exploring the Opposite

Commitment 10: Opposite of my Story

An ongoing discussion in all-team slack about racism, LGBT, cultures, languages, driven by our employees, not our leadership team

We are all individuals of privilege - can we at least create a space for these conversations to take place, for us to learn?

Pride in our pride shirts and committing to reading to learn more

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Between the World and Me

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

'Bear Our Pain': The Plea For More Black Mental Health Workers

Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America

Can a genderless language change the way we think?

Exposing myself as coming from a background where diversity wasn’t embraced.

00:47:11 - The Most Important Thing For Success

Our recipe for keeping employees healthy & happy is Career Plans

Skills and responsibilities

Career plans are required; “outside offers” are toxic; we create true win-for-alls

01:09:19 - Questions and Long Answers

Does a podcast have core values?

01:16:51 - End of the Show (The Sing Out)

No more like buttons - but leave us a rating‽

Darin gets his weekly adrenaline rush by singing us out

01:19:33 - The After Show

Tyler explores the world of Bubble Hockey (or is that the Hockey Bubble?)