Y-Vonne Hutchinson: A conversation on race, inequality, tourism, and securing our future.

Y-Vonne Hutchinson is an Author, former international human rights lawyer, and Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Founder of ReadySet, a diversity and inclusion training firm that helps tech giants, political leaders, media outlets, and Fortune 500 companies speak more productively about racism and turn talk into action. Y-Vonne also hosts a podcast called Time To Act about Diversity and Inclusion.

On the show, we talk about her latest book HOW TO TALK TO YOUR BOSS ABOUT RACE: Speaking Up Without Getting Shut Down. This episode is a conversation on race, inequality, and how race is fluid. A candid discussion from a global perspective that leaves the viewer with concrete advice that they can use in their work life.

Part memoir, part actionable guidebook, this book equips employees with a framework to think about race at work, prepares them to have frank and effective conversations with more powerful leaders, helps them center marginalized perspectives, and explains how to leverage power dynamics to get results while navigating backlash and gaslighting.

Transcript

Yulia Laricheva  00:04

Hey friends, welcome to another episode of Dream Nation Love. I'm your host Julia. And today on the show, I've got Yvonne Hutchinson. She's the CEO and founder of Ready Set. And that is an Equity Diversity and Inclusion firm based out of Berkeley, California, previous to running ReadySet. She was an International Human Rights and Labor Lawyer. She did that for over a decade. And she consulted for foreign national governments, the US Department of State, the UN, she's brilliant, and she has a new book out, and it's called How To Talk To Your Boss About Race: Speaking Up Without Getting Shut Down. It's also available on audiobook and it's a really quick read, it tackles really taboo topics like race. And what I really love about it is that she really brings in her law background into it. And she mentions a lot of cases that go towards dealing with race and race at work. I really enjoyed her writing. It's amazing. So you should check it out. It's a quick read. It's a it's a dense book, but it's a quick read, and it's quite enjoyable. So I hope you enjoyed the discussion as well. We talked about a lot of really, really interesting topics, and share this podcast with a friend if you enjoyed it. Also subscribe for the newsletter, which is on Dream Nation Love website, which is dreamnation.io. And also if you go to the dream nation love Instagram page, which is Dream Nation Love, subscribe to the newsletter, I'm going to be giving away a few copies of the book, enjoy the show and talk to you soon. Hi Y-Vonne, and thank you for being on the podcast. Thank you for writing your book.

Y-Vonne Hutchinson  01:33

Oh, thank you so much for having me. And I'm really, really happy that you enjoy that.

Yulia Laricheva  01:38

I have your book right here. It's a really great book. And it's very pertinent. Yeah, because it talks about the pandemic, and it talks about everything that collided in the pandemic. So that's what I really enjoyed about it. Because I'm like, wow, this is like probably the most current book that I've read about race and race relations and, and how to navigate work.

Y-Vonne Hutchinson  01:58

Yeah, I mean, I feel like we're in such a period of transition and change. In the book, I say that it's of its time, but it's also timeless, like these issues have been here since the founding of this country, and they're not going to go away overnight. And so, in a lot of ways, a lot of the things we talk about in the book are timeless at the same time, like you said, it's very much of its time, we're seeing just a fundamental shift in the way t