104 episodes
Naked Conversations: Race, Culture, & Beyond Sage B. Hobbs | Naked Conversations
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5.0 • 30 Ratings
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This show is a collection of real, honest, and sometimes messy conversations between two friends. We’ll explore racism, antiracism, interracial friendship, activism, books, films, and more through our different lived experiences. We’ll offer questions and actions to help you go deeper into your exploration of race & culture, find your own inner disruptor, and be a part of the solution. Occasionally, we’ll bring you interviews with others who are experts in this work so we can learn together and do better.
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S8E8: This is Goodbye (ish) & Thank You!
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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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
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
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
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S8E7: Healing Generational Trauma & Breaking from "Stable Misery" with Dr. Lynyetta Willis
“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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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
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
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
Click the “share” button on whichever platform you listen and send it to folks who would find it helpful
Good old “spread the word,” and talk about it with your people
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S8E6: Book Bans in Schools: The What and The Why
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:
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardsonn and Peter Parnell true story, my sister, books reflecting the realities of the world
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Color Purple by Alice Walker (read at 13)
The Bluest Eye. Pecola Breedlove by Toni Morrison (read in early 20’s)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison*
"Native Son" by Richard Wright*
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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
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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S8E5: Building Trust in Organizations
“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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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
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
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
Click the “share” button on whichever platform you listen and send it to folks who would find it helpful
Good old “spread the word,” and talk about it with your people
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S8E4: Systematic Racism
“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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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
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
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
Click the “share” button on whichever platform you listen and send it to folks who would find it helpful
Good old “spread the word,” and talk about it with your people
Love the show? Please rate it and review it on Apple Podcasts. Just a few short words really helps folks to find the show. Thank you :) -
S8E3: Using Somatics to Reclaim Our Agency. With Maria-Victoria Albina.
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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Connect with us and learn more about our work:
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
Help support antiracism work and community dialogue by SHARING to the show with your friends and family!
Click the “share” button on whichever platform you listen and send it to folks who would find it helpful
Good old “spread the word,” and talk about it with your people
Love the show? Please rate it and review it on Apple Podcasts. Just a few short words really helps folks to find the show. Thank you :)
Customer Reviews
Thought provoking!
This podcast is so real and authentic! Makes you question unexamined assumptions and beliefs and pushes you to take actions, however small. Extraordinary!
I See You
To be seen in our truth is powerful for all people but especially for people of color. And one way of achieving sight and insight is by asking and answering the right questions. Erica Howard answers some hard questions about race and what it means to be alive in such times as these and those answers reveal the commonalities and the shared experience of being Black in America regardless of the era. “That moment when you decide who you are and who you are not,” recalls Erica when answering when she first became aware of racism. This defining incident along with others is captured with clarity and contextualization in what is referred to as the “Steak N Shake” moments, a period in her teenage life when she got her first job waitressing in a predominantly white area of Southern Illinois. Naked Conversations allows us to reflect on our own experiences while listening to a honest conversation between friends of differing racial background but shared empathy for what it means to be alive and connecting with others.
Thought provoking
Compelling and insightful conversations on topics that are newer to me. Appreciate their honesty and willingness to share their experiences.