Hi everyone and welcome to another mini-episode of White People Make Everything About Race, a podcast for well meaning white folks trying to make sense of their own racial identity.

Today we’re bringing you a clip from the final installment of our Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders series.

This is a series I’m cohosting with Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott of the Race in the Workplace pod, which you can find on your preferred pod provider or at www.raceintheworkplacepod.com

In this episode, we talk about the current moment, at the outset of 2025, when the very idea of opportunity for everyone is under attack. When a new federal administration is attacking equity and inclusion in a cynical attempt to defund communities and dismantle the systems and structures we all rely upon to navigate a complex and challenging society.

In this clip we talk about values alignment, and how it’s critical in this moment, particularly when our shared core beliefs are under attack.

To hear more, please check out Season 3; episode 11 of the Race in the Workplace pod with Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott.

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We’ll return soon with full episodes for season 3.

Take care.

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Today we’re bringing you a clip from part five of Let’s Get REAL: Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders.

This is a series I’m cohosting with Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott of the Race in the Workplace pod, which you can find on your preferred pod provider or at www.raceintheworkplacepod.com

In part five of this series, we talk about what to expect when your organization undertakes an equity initiative. We unpack many of the common changes and challenges we’ve seen working with a variety of organizations in a variety of contexts. In this clip you’ll hear us discuss personal growth, particularly how folks who are white identified need to be open to reexamining and questioning some of their assumptions about how they work and how they show up in the workplace.

To hear more, please check out Season 3, Episode 9 of the Race in the Workplace pod with Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott: Let's Get REAL: How to Overcome the Most Common Leadership Challenges.

To learn more about the Framework we’ve co-designed to help organizations navigate equitable change, visit the6pframework.com.

Thanks for listening, and if you find this pod helpful please remember to subscribe and share it with a friend.

Take care.

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Today we’re bringing you a clip from part four of Let’s Get Real: Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders.

This is a series I’m cohosting with Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott of the Race in the Workplace pod, which you can find on your preferred pod provider or at www.raceintheworkplacepod.com

In part four of this series, we talk about the considerations leaders should examine when starting a racial equity initiative. In this clip, you’ll hear us talk about the lopsided expectations that can show up in this work, and we’ll ask you to really think about your internal motivations for engaging in racial equity work and what the commitment to see it through requires of us.

To hear more, please check out Season 3; Episode 8: How to Design Equity Programs that Work episode of the Race in the Workplace pod with Dr. Joanna Shoffner Scott.

To learn more about the Framework we’ve co-designed to help organizations navigate equitable change, visit the6pframework.com.

Thanks for listening, and if you find this pod helpful please remember to subscribe and share it with a friend.

Take care.

See show notes and more at whitepeoplemakeeverythingaboutrace.com/podcast

This mini-episode previews a conversation between Anthony and Joanna Shoffner Scott, Ph.D. of Stamey Street Consulting Group as part of their Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders (REAL) pod series.

REAL calls attention to the highlights and lowlights of doing equity work within organizations, and the “look outs” and opportunities that organizational leaders can encounter.

In part three of this series, we talk about the kinds of dynamics that impact organizations that are going through a transformation, particularly a leadership transition. In this clip, you’ll hear us talk about how this transition is often racialized and it can subconsciously impact our reactions unless we’re intentional about responding in a way that aligns with our values and ideals.

Check out this full Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders episode, available at https://www.raceintheworkplacepod.com/2268431/episodes/16433018-let-s-get-real-how-to-plan-for-leadership-transitions-s3-ep-7.

"The Framework" mentioned in this clip is The 6P+ Racial Equity Framework. Learn more at the6pframework.com

See show notes and more at whitepeoplemakeeverythingaboutrace.com/podcast

This mini-episode previews a conversation between Anthony and Joanna Shoffner Scott, Ph.D. of Stamey Street Consulting Group as part of their Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders (REAL) pod series.

REAL calls attention to the highlights and lowlights of doing equity work within organizations, and the “look outs” and opportunities that organizational leaders can encounter.

In part two of this series, we talk about the difference between transactional and transformational leadership. And in this clip, you’ll hear us talk about some of the foundational work necessary for change: the Equity Why.

Check out this full Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders episode, available at https://www.raceintheworkplacepod.com/2268431/episodes/16256310-let-s-get-real-are-you-a-transactional-or-a-transformational-leader-s3-ep-6.

"The Framework" mentioned in this clip is The 6P+ Racial Equity Framework. Learn more at the6pframework.com

See show notes and more at whitepeoplemakeeverythingaboutrace.com/podcast

This mini-episode previews snippets of a conversation between Anthony and Joanna Shoffner Scott, Ph.D. of Stamey Street Consulting Group as part of their Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders (REAL) pod series coming out this fall.

REAL calls attention to the highlights and lowlights of doing equity work within organizations, and the “look outs” and opportunities that organizational leaders can encounter.

Though the REAL series is designed for organizational leaders, anyone can be a leader in advancing equity, whether that is in your family, your friend group, or your broader community.

This starts with a personal commitment and personal practice (as a noun and a verb), and it requires folks who are white identified to understand their identity in the context of this work.

Check out the first full Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders episode, available October 15, 2024 at https://www.raceintheworkplacepod.com/.

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It’s long past time we give working class people the credit that they deserve by openly and honestly discussing what the invention and perpetuation of whiteness and patriarchy have done to us as individuals and as a society.

Bacon’s Rebellion was a coordinated uprising by a diverse group of working class settlers against the rule of the elites in the Virginia Colony in the late 17th century, and it set in motion a distinct pattern of American politics that continues to this day.

Until we collectively understand and deal with that, we'll continue to be stuck in an ongoing loop where we, the people, as Heather McGhee says, can't have nice things.

For far too long, we've ignored what black and brown leaders and community members have been telling us. We cannot promote a race neutral narrative and expect that economic conditions will improve for any but a select few. Economic inequity and racial inequity are fundamentally and purposefully linked.

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Though they are always major political events, rarely have presidential debates caused the prolonged consequences or media whirlwinds that they have this year.

You may have heard the over the top ways in which race showed up, but did you notice other, subtler ways in which race took center stage?

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