Sarah Eagle Heart is an Emmy-winning social justice storyteller, activist, media strategist, and producer focused on advocacy on behalf of Indigenous Peoples. She is an internationally accomplished executive with a diverse background in tribal, corporate, and non-profit organizations. Her creative projects are rooted in her worldview as an Oglala Lakota raised on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation supporting narrative change for healing and impact.

In This Episode:

• The power of following your intuition and tapping into your spiritual beliefs to achieve your goals
• Why narrative change is a key step in social justice work
• The important role Black activists and leaders have played in supporting the advancement of indigenous movements
• Why extracting stories can be highly problematic

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Tangia Renee is doing something a little different and coming out from behind the mic to be a guest on her own show, sort of. After working hard on a new project Tangia Renee and Maribel Quezada Smith are here to talk about the launch of BIPOC Podcast Creators. An online community and consulting firm that aims to help BIPOC creators in podcasting reach beyond the 101 and grow in the industry. 

In This Episode:

• What is BIPOC Podcast Creators and why it needs to exists

• The personal experiences that led Tangia & Maribel to creating the community

• Our main goals for changing the podcasting space and challenging it to become more inclusive 

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Dash Harris Machado is a Peabody-award-winning multimedia journalist and entrepreneur currently based in Panama. She is the producer of NEGRO: A docu-series about Latino Identity, a decade-long, ongoing web-based docu-series that explores AfroDiasporic identity, colonization, the historical and present-day class, and color complex, and hierarchy among Latinxs throughout the Americas. She is also the co-founder of AfroLatino Travel, a travel and community-building resource for the African Diaspora in Latin America, led by Black Latin American locals. Dash has been featured in “50 Shades of Black,” USA Today, Latina Magazine, Remezcla, Vibe, CNN, People Chica, Hip Latina, For Harriet, & The Root.

In This Episode:

• The unexpected journey a “girls trip” to Brazil that led to founding AfroLatinx Travel
• AfroLatinx Travel - why it was founded
• Why using the word “Latino” when describing one’s identity can be tricky

Episode Details:

01:30 - Where did the idea of AfroLatinx Travel come from?

11:00 - It’s often the whitest person representing the country

23:00 - What did Dash experience when she founded AfroLatinx Travel?

28:00 - What legacy does Dash hope to leave using Afro Latino Travel?

33:00 - Is AfroLatinx Travel a movement?

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A self-love advocate, businesswoman, and community champion, Kim Guerra, the founder of Brown Badass Bonita founded one of my favorite online small businesses. Brown Badass Bonita is a brand and movement that she considers to be a work of self-love and an expression of her love for her community. Guerra is the author of “Mariposa” and “Mija”: both collections of bilingual poems, affirmations, and revolutionary love letters.

Today, she shares with us her journey through self-discovery and her own personal revolution, and everything she has learned so far in creating a beautiful self-love movement. 

In This Episode:

• Overcoming toxic relationships
• Giving yourself space to learn what you really need to make yourself happy
• How a simple T-shirt ignited a personal revolution and started a movement
• Why finding and using your voice is so important 

Episode Details:

01:30 - Who is Kim Guerra and what is she doing now

04:00 - Why did Kim start Brown Badass Bonita

14:00 - What’s in a t-shirt? Can it make an impact?

20:00 - What is the “Use Your Voice” campaign

28:00 - Where did the culture of silence come from

31:00 - What impact does Kim want to achieve with Badass Bonita

33:00 - What has helped Kim be successful in business

37:00 - Kim’s advice to people who are also starting out with their business or campaign

40:00 - What inspires Kim

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Bree Davies is a multimedia journalist and arts community advocate born and raised in Denver. Rooted in the world of Do-It-Yourself arts and music, Davies co-founded and produced several music and arts festivals and has toured the country with various bands. Parallel to a decade-long practice in arts and organizing, Davies has also cultivated a career as a reporter, writer, producer, and host- she's currently the first-ever host of daily news podcast City Cast Denver, which launched in March 2021. Today we talk about the role journalists play in telling important community stories and what happens when a lot of money gets injected into only specific places in a city.

In This Episode:

• Why there is a disconnect between journalists and communities
• Why communities of color and other marginalized identities often distrust the media and media outlets should do about it
• Representation matters, and why we need to rethink our approach to storytelling and who tells certain stories in the mainstream media
• A chat about gentrification and how it's coming to a community near you

Episode Details:

08:50 - Who is Bree Davis and what is she working on right now?

15:30 - The biggest lessons Bree has learned from being a  journalist

21:00 - Latina reporters being let go in media companies

27:00 - Is it necessary for newsrooms to get reporters from the communities they report on?

43:00 - How the lack of affordable housing is impacting both vulnerable people and then the    less vulnerable ones too

51:00 - How do you make sure that community and culturally relevant stories are found and told by the media?

53:00 - What can we expect from “City Cast”?

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https://denver.citycast.fm/

Twitter & IG: @cocodavies 

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Erika Righter is a social worker-turned small business owner. Since coming to Colorado, she has worked with youth experiencing homelessness and in the foster care system, rural families, and with low-income older adults. In 2012, Erika founded Hope Tank, a gift store that gives back in the heart of the Baker neighborhood. She uses retail to connect the over 40,000 customers who come into Hope Tank every year, to organizations doing important work in our community. She served on the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Partnerships Commission, does consulting, and started an inclusive business directory called The Hope Slinger’s Guide.

In This Episode:

• Calling BS on fake social entrepreneurship
• The big role classism and racism play in social enterprise businesses
• What to look for when you want to do business with a business that says they are helping a community
• What it looks like to build a hyper-local community movement
• Why you need to ask what someone wants before you try to help them 
• Why simply talking to each other is often the missing link in changing someone’s life

Episode Details:

06:00 - What is Hope Tank?

09:00 - How did Erika land on the idea of Hope Tank and then to the Hope Slingers?

14:00 - What was it like when Erika and her husband were unemployed and she was pregnant?

21:30 - What advice does Erika have about thriving in business while serving the community and why some community work is not always what the people need?

37:30 - What are the Hope Slingers?

42:00 - Erika RIghter’s end game

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Today we have Dusti Gurule to talk about how reproductive rights are not just a women’s issue and how she is building collective community power through her work at Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR). Dusti is an organizing and community-building expert and is here to share about how movements are created at a local level and grow from that point. As the founding Executive Director of the Latina Initiative in 2004, Dusti built the organization to a nationally recognized civic engagement and leadership entity, launching partnerships that resulted in programs like Colorado Latina/o Advocacy Day and Latinas Increasing Political Strength (LIPS) - programs focused on increasing political strength across the board. 

In this podcast episode:

-Why all politics are local

-Understanding how to access your local representatives

-How reproductive rights are not just a women’s issue

-How To Build Collective Power

-How to reach “hard-to-reach” communities and mobilize them to action

Episode Details: 

05:00 - How does Dusti Gurule define what she is doing now?

13:00 - Abortion on the ballot

16:00 - All politics is local and why it’s so important to vote

22:00 - Hope for racial equity, and living in a fair and equitable city, state, and country

26:00 - Reproductive health, reproductive rights, and reproductive justice for the Latino community

35:00 - What do communities say about Dusti’s advocacies

42:00 - Is Dusti seeing conversations happening now about reproductive rights?

48:00 - What's the end game for 2024?

51:00 - The need to politicize a community, why does it matter and how does it impact their lives?

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Visit COLOR here: https://www.colorlatina.org/

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Detroit Native, Nicole Lindsey is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director for Detroit Hives, a 501c3 nonprofit working to create sustainable communities for people and pollinators by transforming vacant lots into pollinator-friendly spaces. 

In just under four years, Nicole educated thousands of Detroit-area youth on the importance of bee conservation through their, Bee The Change, program. They work with local Girl Scout troops to provide conservation projects for scouts to earn bee badges and founded National Urban Beekeeping Day. With the help of the Detroit City council, Detroit is recognized as a Bee City and started by transforming six blighted vacant lots into green outdoor learning spaces for people and pollinators. 

Nicole is active within her community as she is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., sits on the board with Keep Michigan Beautiful, a member of the Southeastern Michigan Beekeepers Association, the Michigan Beekeepers Association, and the American Beekeeping Federation. She’s on a mission not only to inspire but educate the next generation of leaders in sustainability.  

In This Episode: 

• How a little bit of creativity and a cold led to a community revitalization project 
• How to rebuild a city one beehive at a time
• What beehives have to do with transforming a city
• The of determination and vision in recreating your reality 
• Creative and unexpected ways to positivity impact a community

Episode Details:

06:00 - How did Nicole Lindsey start with beekeeping?

17:00 - Why is there 90,000 acres of vacant land in Detroit?

20:00 - Why did Nicole stay in Detroit and why is she determined to do something to change it? Where is Detroit now?

24:00 - Bees and economic mobility

27:00 - What did beekeeping teach Nicole about changing communities?

31:00 - What’s the end game for Nicole and what should you know about bees?

35:00 - How do you get started with beekeeping?

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Marcia Chong Rosado is one of less than 30 Latinas in the U.S. in the venture capital (VC) field. Focusin on BIPOC founders, she is passionate about using her expertise to help scale BIPOC led tech startups. Learn about her journey into the VC world and her focus on helping train and fund underrepresented entrepreneurs. She is currently dedicating herself to help elevate an entirely new tech industry, JusticeTech. Tech startups, often led by BIPOC, identified leaders whose companies are positively impacting the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated. This work has the potential to transform the criminal justice system in America. 

In This Episode: 

• How living the immigrant experience in America helped Marcia encouraged her to join the venture capital field.
• What is JusticeTech and why it matters
• How JusticeTech companies have the potential to disrupt the criminal justice system

Episode Details:

05:00 - How did Marcia start working with justice tech start-ups?

10:30 - What is justice tech?

18:00 - What is making it possible for people to invest in justice tech start-ups?

20:00 - Justice tech investments in the next 5 years

23:00 - What is the end game for justice tech investments? 

31:30 - The politics in justice tech investments

35:30 - Common myths on investing in justice tech

38:00 - JusticeTech Companies Marcia has her eye on

41:00 - Where should you go if you want to learn more about justice tech

43:00 - How can you get in touch with Marcia?

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Twitter - @mxcrosado

Marcia at Village Capital

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Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based award-winning writer, activist, and psychotherapist working to ban female genital cutting in her Dawoodi Bohra community. In her latest book, Seven, Farzana blends beautiful storytelling with social justice, using the pages of Seven to tell the story of female genital mutilation and its impact on the communities where it is practiced. Internationally recognized as a violation of human rights, Farzana is a tireless volunteer and activist using her creative abilities to help build a movement that protects vulnerable women and girls across the globe.  

In This Episode: 

• The heartbreaking facts about female genital cutting 
• How storytelling can be a catalyst for changing communities
• The hard truth is that sometimes women are the instruments for oppression other women

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