The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse

The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse Podcast with Patrice M. Palmer

Episode #2: Staples of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Steps for Non-Hierarchical Leadership 🌈

The Intersection: hear a conversation all about institutional change, DEI, and BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ advocacy. This episode of The Intersection features guest, Patrice M. Palmer and focuses on Non-Hierarchical Leadership!

In this episode we talk about the following and then some:

🌈 Visibility, authenticity, collectivity of BIPOC/API LGBTQIA+ voices,

🌈 Reframing DEI, and give practical tools on how to confront difficult DEI situations such as verbal assault against you as a diverse person,

🌈 How to pause and reflect in a conflict to bring about change, love, and healing

🌈 Accountability and responsibility for people to listen to one another and to recognize their actions/words,

🌈 More TOOLS to facilitate difficult conversations around race and queerness!

🌈 And we discuss mentoring of younger diverse people as non-hierarchical such as co-mentoring with your students.

🌈 Edifying, growing, cultivating, and mirroring diverse people to create a chosen family of change-makers and DEI activists.

Join us at The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse podcast when I have a talk with the Director of Social & Cultural Inclusion of Colorado State University, College of Business and D&I Specialist with New Belgium Brewing Company, Special Guest, Patrice M. Palmer (they/them/theirs).

Join Organic Food Guru and CPG Manager and Executive, Fred Alejo and Host, Shannon Wong Lerner, Ph.D.

For The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse.

Episode 1: The Busiest Room in the House is the Kitchen

Learn about the secrets of our success and diverse mentoring. From two APIs in their mid-late careers!

As APIs we tell family stories and learn about our roots sitting at the kitchen table. We realize here that we work to live and not the other way around.

As biracial APIs we eat our cultural food, we talk from WHO we are and WHERE we come from. And HOW we honor the CULTURAL HERITAGE of our diverse staff and clients.

In this podcast, we discuss:

-the art of storytelling

-interviewing

-public speaking

-API communication for the workplace

-How to stand up in the face of sexism, racism, and homophobia in the workplace

-servant leadership

-remembering your roots/culture

-discovering your life path/passion

-organic foods and well-being

AND MANY MORE... YouTube link for the video: https://youtu.be/-OkE4u-5puo

In this first episode of The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse, The Hub for Diversity-Produced Leadership & Communication, Dr. Shannon Wong Lerner, communication specialist, asks you important questions about your experiences as diverse professionals in the working world. She then explains the format of the podcast for future episodes. The Intersection will air 2x per month to share short classes and activities so you can succeed as communicators in the workplace. And we will interview and have conversations with up-and-coming and mature diverse professionals. She ends with a meditation breathing exercise to help calm your nerves before a speech or presentation. Please tune in to our Facebook page for the video: www.facebook.com/groups/theintersectiondiversefolxconverse/

"There are bursting through members that would self identify everywhere from redneck to woke and everything in between. And that is, you know, that is awesome. And that's amazing to me and I am nothing but honored about that." –Steve Petersen, Founder of Bursting Through

The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse prides itself on its programming made by and for QPoC and GNC individuals. And we have a particular set of topics we cover that are a part of our everyday lives. So when I met Steve Petersen, I knew his work with Bursting Through filled a gap in our narrative that has to do with allyship. And the kinds of people with whom we have access and those whom we don't.

Recently, I had a terrible exchange with someone who seemed to be so compatible with my identification and political views. And quickly realized (because they admitted it too) that this person being in a "closely knitted bubble" had distanced me from them more than helped us relate. The Intersection is all about supporting and validating QPoC's and GNC people's experiences, perspectives, struggles, and trauma. But also it's about uplifting us by exploring all areas of our lived social worlds and truths. Steve's episode helps us because he as the title says "Won't Give Up on Anyone." As a white gay man in his 50's who has commanded areas of the corporate world, he has access to a different set of potential allies than we do. And his commitment to ALL of them intrigues me.

What can we learn about how unlikely allyship works or the ways in which as queer people, we can benefit from queer–straight coalitions? I explore all of this and more in this conversation. Including the ways in which we can engage our straight family members during difficult times, such as holidays.

Here are the topics we cover in Part 1 and Part 2:

*PART 1: December 3rd, 4PM PST

--Looking Like the Enemy: Becoming an Ally

--It's Past Time for Straight People to Come Out (as Allies)

*PART 2: December 17, 4PM PST, FRIDAY

--Interrogating Discourses of LOVE

--Queer Christmas and Queer Holidays

*This month we will continue with the schedule of 1st and 3rd Fridays at 4PM PST for Diverse Folx Converse, and 2nd and 4th Fridays at 12PM PST. January we will switch to 2nd and 3rd weeks for our conversations, and 1st and 4th weeks for tutorials.

In this Communication Tutorial for Diverse People, Dr. Shannon Wong Lerner discusses gaslighting, which is when someone is psychologically manipulated to question one's own sanity. It's an insidious occurrence that is often a part of patterns of abuse, making the victims feel a lack of confidence and conviction in their own experiences. Dr. Shannon offers tools to help victims of gaslighting regain control of their own realities.

In this Communication Tutorial for Diverse People, Dr. Shannon Wong Lerner draws from her recent conversation with Eboné Bell, where they discuss Black queer self-censorship and the story of Keisha Young, a victim of racism and violence. Dr. Shannon addresses self-censorship as something that anyone can struggle with when trying to communicate, share, or be vulnerable with others, but that is a common struggle for diverse or marginalized people, including queer folk and people of color. In this tutorial Dr. Shannon identifies how to recognize when it happens, and what tools to use to address self-censorship.

In this 30-minute tutorial, Dr. Shannon describes a recent DEI mistake she made and takes you through the process on how to recover and respond.

Have you ever been called out for a DEI mistake? And what did you do in response to this accusation?

No one really teaches this stuff! So in this tutorial, I go through some tools and processes on how to prepare. And then how to take space, listen to the marginalized person speaking to you, and then how to take a bit of time and space to recover. And then come back to be accountable for what you said or did that had such a negative effect on your coworkers, team member, or your boss or employee.

Enjoy!

The first part describes the situation and sets this up. And the second part gives some practical tools using my 5-step process for speaking success: Breathe, Prepare, Practice, Rehearse, and Perform.

I was inspired by Scott Turner Schofield's post to create this tutorial. See you soon!

Have you ever had to speak at work or for an event and you said to yourself, “I wish I didn’t have to do this! But this is what work is. Doing things you don’t like to do.”

In this communication Tutorial for Diverse People, Dr. Shannon Wong Lerner explores the mindset of practice as part of punishment as compared to showing up as your authentic self.

Celebrate PRIDE this year in the way that you want to! And start speaking for work and other situations as the real you. No matter how you’re feeling. And being transparent about that so you can show up authentically.

In this 30-minute communication tutorial, Dr. Shannon covers Part 2 of Breathe from her 5-Step Process for Speaking Success:

🌬Breathe

🥰Prepare

🧘🏻‍♀️Practice

🎭Rehearse

🤩Perform

The first half shares why breath is so important for us as diverse people as speakers and communicators.

And the second half then moves you INTO ACTION to begin to change your speaking habits by learning how to breathe with her approach.

Enjoy! Dr. Shannon

This 20-minute video is an introduction to my method for Public Speaking designed for diverse people. I explain the 5 steps that I will go through to help you reach speaking success:

1. Breathe

2. Prepare

3. Practice

4. Rehearse

5. Perform

These videos are FREE content for my followers and subscribers and will be posted 2X a month. To provide tools for diverse people to communicate more effectively at work, at college, or for business.

This video introduces my 5-step method that is somatic, embodied, and relies upon breath. I set up and start with BREATH and will continue with the first step for the next two videos. Explaining the importance of breathwork to prepare for public speaking.

*Recorded April 28, 2021