The Opt-In

Melissa DePino + Michelle Saahene tweeted the Starbucks arrest of two Black men for not buying a coffee.  The tweet was heard around the world to the extent that Starbucks shut down for a day of retraining. What has unfurled is their joint venture From Privilege to Progress (P2P), a national movement to desegregate the public conversation about racism. Listen to their vastly different experiences and how their worlds collided and converged to now call on all Americans to join on the path to antiracism by learning, showing up in their everyday lives and amplifying the voices of people of color on social media.

Find information about From Privilege to Progress at fromprivilegetoprogress.org.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

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Seth Berger is Managing Director of the Sixers Innovation Lab and Head Boys Basketball Coach at the Westtown School. Seth gets vulnerable and deep with Aurora + Kelly discussing being a white man at a rare intersection: fathering Black sons, supporting early career entrepreneurs in a field dominated by white men, and coaching aspiring athletes in a sport that notoriously exploits young Black men. Listen in to hear how Seth opts-in to living life on his terms while making a difference and having a damn good time doing it.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
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Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Aurora and Kelly sit down with their co-creators of 10,000 White Women: Doing the Work, Lisa Lord and Erica Taxin Bleznak, to talk about the harm caused by white women's unconscious racism, their role in upholding the patriarchy, and the power of accountability. 10,000 White Women is an introductory workshop series co-created by Erica Bleznak, Lisa Lord, Aurora + Kelly. The intention is to bring awareness to the unconsciousness that white women have to their racism and the pervasiveness of white supremacy in our society, and encourage the beginning of self-inquiry work.  From there, the hope is white women continue their introspection and find their own path into antiracism education and therapies. 

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Ever notice how at diversity trainings it always seems to be the white people crying - what’s up with that? Well, there’s a name for it: white fragility. 

This week we talk to New York Times best-selling author Robin DiAngelo author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. We cover white supremacy, patriarchy, and the ways white women can opt-in to do better. 

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

Meet Aurora and Kelly, two socially, generationally and ethnically divergent besties, who GET REAL in this new podcast. Join in on messy, honest conversations about race, white supremacy, health, spirituality and so much more.

In this episode, get to know your hosts, learn about their backgrounds, and hear the story behind what drove them to start the Opt-In. Stay tuned this season for guests spanning from artists, healers, radical thinkers and change makers.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in. 

The Opt-In invites white people, especially white women, to an intimate, ongoing conversation between a Woman of Color and a white woman who are unpeeling their collective conditioning, exploring  ongoing re-education, and stumbling on their traumas and blind spots, all while making more space for love, forgiveness, freedom, and truth. The Opt-In aims to show the messiness of human transformation through the lens of uncomfortable conversations happening in real-time.

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Produced by Rachel Ishikawa
Music by Jordan McCree
Hosted by Aurora Archer and Kelly Croce Sorg

If you enjoyed this conversation and would like to support Aurora + Kelly curating more conversation to propel your introspection, growth and being better a human, we invite you to consider donating a minimum of $8 to our Patreon account or the sky-is-the-limit for our Venmo and Paypal accounts at theopt-in.com! If we connect with you, please subscribe, rate + review The Opt-In podcast, It takes all of us together to make transformational change. Visit us at www.theopt-in.com to stay tuned in.