8 seasons, 51 raw, awkward & brave conversations later, we've arrived at our finale. This is definitely not the end of us using our voices to speak up against injustice & work for radical change, just the end of our podcast. We are so grateful for all of you being with us in this work; listening, learning and acting. Be brave & keep it up ya’ll.

Listen to hear us talk about

• Sharing emotional labour between friends
• How has building this podcast together impacted us each personally?
• How are we carrying the vision for a more equitable and just world forward from here?

Resources mentioned 

• The Humanize Podcast

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Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn

Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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“Neither you nor your family are broken, you just have habits that need to be.”

Today we are joined by Dr. Lynyetta Willis; psychologist, family empowerment coach, speaker, and award-winning author, who helps frustrated families break free from Stable Misery® and unhelpful parenting and partnership patterns. 

We’re asking; what are the unhelpful stories we tell ourselves, and are these stories different for marginalized communities? Dr. Willis brings so much hope and optimism to her work, we hope you feel as empowered from this conversation as we do.  

Listen to hear us talk about:

• THESE 5 main habits to work on to transform your life

• Questioning the stories we tell ourselves

• Chronic stress and survival mode 

• Marginalized community experiences 

• Analysing the experience of disempowerment 

• Advice for principals/teachers wanting to help families through difficult patterns

Resources mentioned:

• https://drlwillis.com/

• www.Healingstablemisery.com   

• www.Mytriggerscore.com 

• The Body Keeps the Score

• Alissa Campbell - SEED Certification

• Dr Ross Green “children do well if they can”

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Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn

Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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Book bans are increasing at a rapid pace in school districts around the United States. What’s really going on here? 

Today we are unpacking the motivations for book banning, which books are being banned, and what this means for our communities moving forward. We dive into the challenges of navigating content ‘appropriateness’ as a parent, and the role that fear can play in our decision making. 

Our homework for you is to research which books are banned in your own state. You might be surprized what you find! 

Listen to hear us talking about:

• What content would scare me as a parent, for my kids to have access to?

• Factoring in age appropriateness 

• Why we need to hear marginalized voices in literature

• The power of a concerned parent 

• Why do we read? What do we get from books? 
  

Resources mentioned:

1. And Tango Makes Three  by Justin Richardsonn and Peter Parnell true story, my sister, books reflecting the realities of the world

2. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (read at 13)

4. The Bluest Eye. Pecola Breedlove by Toni Morrison (read in early 20’s)

5. "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison*

6. "Native Son" by Richard Wright*

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Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn

Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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“Fear and trust are the core challenges of our time” - Sage 

It’s time we talked about trust. Today we explore why Erica & I first decided to trust each other, and how these same principles can be applied to building trust in organisations. This is such an important topic, when we don’t feel safe it’s extremely hard to move forward and create meaningful change. 

Listen to hear us talk about:

• When was the first moment that you trusted someone? 

• Different types of trust

• Steps to building trust 

• Restoring broken trust 

• The role of vulnerability & risk in building trust 

• Strategies for building trust in organisations 

• How does trust (or lack of) impact DEI work? 

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Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn

Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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“You cannot heal what you have not diagnosed. You cannot repair what you do not see.” - Isabel Wilkerson

Today we’re bringing it back to basics. What do we mean when we refer to “systematic racism”, and how is this different than racism on the individual level? Join us today as we unpack the realities of ‘racism by design’, and what are we really going to do about it in this lifetime. 

Listen to hear us talk about:

• Defining systematic, structural and institutionalised racism

• Examples of structural racism in the public system

• Broadway shows that are challenging cultural norms 

• Resistance to ‘believing in’ systematic racism

• Important questions about racism we need to keep asking ourselves 

Resources mentioned:

• "Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway
• "Six" on Broadway
• Caste: Origins of our Discontents -  Isabel Wilkerson
• On the Rooftop - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

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Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn

Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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Today we are joined by the outstanding María-Victoria Albina; Master Certified Somatic Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner and Breathwork Meditation Guide. 

In this lively conversation, we dive into the nature of the oppressive systems we live in, how they require us to disconnect us from our bodies and why it is such a radical act to reconnect to a feeling of safety within ourselves. 

Listen to hear us talk about: 

• Our current systems demand/require us to be disconnected from our bodies 

• Somatic practice as an inherently radical act

• Increasing awareness of choices and agency

• Embodied safety & nervous system flexibility 

• Marginalized bodies and nervous system regulation 

• THIS simple somatic practice (secret weapon for regulating) 

Resources Mentioned:

victoria@victoriaalbina.com

You can find Maria-Victoria on Instagram here, and you can reference a past interview here. 

Victoria Albina - a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, a nervous system expert, and the host of Feminist Wellness.

The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness  https://www.rhondavmagee.com/print/

FREE gift of meditation resources:  HERE 

Books Mentioned

• Life on The Hyphen: The Cuban-American Way

• Louise Hays

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Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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Are you finding it hard to stay optimistic lately? Our positivity has been having a beatdown too. In this episode, Sage reaches out to Erica for support and guidance through a difficult time, and we discuss strategies for restoring a sense of hope and agency amidst times that can feel quite disempowering. 

Listen to hear us talk about

• What does it take to keep having hope?

• Strategies for regaining a sense of agency

• Allowing and accepting emotions 

• Acknowledging the difficulty of living in this moment in history

• Complex PTSD, survival mode & trauma

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Erica: Executive coaching and organisational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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Welcome back to Race, Culture & Beyond. Get ready for a whole new season of awkward, fun and courageous conversations. Today we’re sharing what we’ve been noticing and thinking about in our break from the show, and setting the scene for some of the incredible guests we’ll have on the show this season.

Listen to hear us talk about

• Hair and race

• Being aware of spaces and places where racism operates

• Radical rest: rest as resistance, activism

• Performative allyship 

• Black representation in spaces of consumption (Black Santa) 

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Sage: Speaking, leadership development & coaching, team building, and group facilitation www.sagebhobbs.com On LinkedIn

Erica: Executive coaching and organizational strategy at Flying Colors LLC

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