Unapologetically Ourselves

Meet Emely!  She is a fashion and skincare influencer extraordinaire that helps bring visibility to the plus size and queer communities.   Through her blogs and social media posts, she motivates others by sharing her struggles with diversity, promotes plus size and queer inclusivity, and empowers women.  

When she is not creating content for her business, she spends time with her wife of five years and her adorable husky Bruno.  

"It is extremely important to me to help others realize that we can love ourselves as we are right now.”  Emely Turnish
 
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Being Black While Living In America: Past, Present & Future Part 2, highlights a critical conversation between Carletta’s husband, Phil Miller and accomplished soloist, songwriter and public policy expert G.P. Jackson.  The two of them discuss the importance of equity and social justice and why it matters.  We find out how the  intersection of G.P.’s public policy background, his awareness to eradicate disparity be a change agent birthed this message that resided within him to bring you his song, Letter To A Nation.  

Letter to A Nation is a powerful, thought-provoking  and hopeful message addressing  how COVID-19, violence, and social injustice have impacted the Black communities in America and is a starting point to begin healing.




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This week's Unapologetically Ourselves Black History Month Episode is focusing on conversations with Black Men. 

Being Black While Living In America: Past, Present & Future highlights a critical conversation between Carletta’s husband, Phil Miller and Grocery Industry Icon, Jonathan Mayes. Jonathan is the Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for the Albertson-Safeway Companies and is a nationally-known speaker on diversity, equity and inclusion. He earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Willamette University College of Law and is a Certified Diversity Executive. Mr. Mayes has held a number of senior leadership positions in Government Relations, Public Affairs, Sustainability & Philanthropy. Jonathan most recently has been recognized as one of America's Top 100 Diversity Offices (2021 Awardee) by the National Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Council. 

Now while all of these professional accolades are wonderful, Jonathan really is more of a cultural curator of sorts; He plays the piano, guitar, bass, violin, drums and is a marvelous vocalist. He is an accomplished endurance athlete who has competed in Ironman triathlons, ultramarathons and over 80 marathons. Both Jonathan (2012) and Phil (2020) served as Board Chairman for the California Grocers Association and are going to take you on a journey through their personal and professional experiences of Being Black While Living In America. These two men are  influential story tellers and we promise you will enjoy and learn from this conversation. 

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Join Carletta along with Natalie, Terri, and Tracey as they discuss being a minority in the workplace and how white people can become allies in the workplace!


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Join Carletta and a few of her girlfriends, Natalie, Terri and Tracey discuss the intentionality of parenting children of color as it pertains to education, community and society. 
They let you in on their conversation about topics that are often discussed privately amongst Black parents. While we are not the voice of EVERY Black parent, these are concerns that many of us have. 

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Join us as personal trainer Brittany Dawn provides her prospective on nutrition trends, the stronghold that scales can have on us and what to look for in a trainer. Brittany also shares with us why she loves what she does, helping women grow stronger!

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Join us as Dr. Dode Washington, OBGYN discuss topics such as birth control, embarrassing our teens, menopause and everything in between.  Dr. Washington shares her “why” she chose to become an ONGYN and why she enjoys this field of medicine. 

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Listen in as Lori Ramos tells the empowering story of how she flipped the adversity of California's Covid lockdown & created her own business, Lori's Picnics.  She now brings a sense of normalcy, beauty, and joy to her customers by providing them a beautiful set up to celebrate special moments in the safety of their own backyard, park, or beach.    

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Carletta, Julie, and Crystal reflect on the first season of Unapologetically Ourselves!   They highlight ah-ha moments as well as thought-provoking topics from their guests.  It's a wrap!

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Julie's book recommendations:
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 

Gina is back!!  In this episode, we sit down virtually with counselor Gina Beyer again to discuss mental health, racial injustice, equality and so much more!  During these times, we are finding ways to connect with each other again.  Gina helps give tips on understanding people with different views than ours and confirms we don't have to "have it all together" we just need to continue being that light in a dark place.  

Link to the article Gina referenced:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/americas-two-souls/617062/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share