In this Resilience Unravelled episode, host Dr Russell Thackeray interviews Dr. Joel Davis Brown about consciousness as worldview and self-positioning within society, and how marginalised communities often lack the “luxury” of drifting through life unaware of systemic inequities.

Brown defines marginalised communities as those denied full access to life, liberty, and freedom, and discusses causes of marginalisation including discomfort with difference, scarcity thinking, greed, apathy, and historical inequality.

He explores reclaiming the term “queer,” describing it as a generationally contested but increasingly inclusive political and cultural umbrella within LGBTQ+ identity. Brown outlines his work as an author, poet, professor, and organisational development consultant focused on culture, strategy, and leadership, arguing effective leadership requires self-interrogation, inclusion, and resisting groupthink.

He explains why he wrote Souls of Queer Folk (2023) to uncover LGBTQ+ values and leadership lessons, and previews his upcoming healing book, I Had to Become the Father, releasing mid-August.

00:00 Welcome and Banter

00:53 Who Is Joel Brown

02:02 Defining Consciousness

04:08 Awake in Margins

06:58 What Marginalised Means

10:19 Why Marginalisation Happens

13:37 Reclaiming Queer

19:38 What Joel Does

23:02 Souls of Queer Folk Origins

29:54 Leadership Lessons From Queer Culture

41:16 Healing Book Preview

43:43 Where to Find Joel

44:18 Closing Thanks

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