Inclusive Activism

Michelle and I were interviewed by Revealing our Stories America a local nonprofit we are working with to help educators teach REAL history from the lens of the racalized groups who experienced that history. ROSAmerica strives to deliver training and resources to help educators bring these vital stories to the classroom with sensitivity and respect.

Most men I think are just at a loss of what to do or how to help - them men good enough to want to at least. So this episode is a man talking to men about what to do and how to be better. So for all the non-men in the audience if you need help calling your male-identifying friends in this episode is for you!

The major reason for this interview was to get some insights into the June 2nd Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and to learn more about Native Peoples and Indigenous ways. But of COURSE we went WAY deeper into that with talking about the idea of Indigeneity (one of my favorite topics) Please enjoy this insight into how companies might use core concepts of Inclusive Activism in both their daily lives as humans and as institutions which seek to spread belonging and a culture of inclusion for both their companies as well as other companies benefits!

In today's podcast, we start to unpack the idea of Speciesism and how social hierarchies hurt not just all living beings but also tacitly endorses the suffering of human beings lower on the social caste. What is Speciesism - is a term used in philosophy regarding the treatment of individuals of different species.

We will talk about what Attraction is and how it works. What it is and what it isn't. The three major components are: Like Attracts Like, Nature Abhors a Vacuum, and Present is Preferred. We elaborate a bit more on what it is and what it isn't.

Martin has spent the last ten years advocating for Black lives, addressing the systemic issues that affect Black and marginalized groups through both conventional and unconventional avenues. Using his background as a mental health counselor, Martin is able to add nuance and clarity to the way we support the livelihood of Black people. Through seminars, community events, rallies, and curriculum development, Martin has worked with thousands of people around prison abolition, the fight against white supremacy, and lifting up Black communities. Martin has worked extensively with the Black Lives Matter Boston chapter, and is also a restorative justice coach working with various institutions in and around Boston.

In the podcast, we learn we must be value and principle-centered in universal valued and honest all serving value-centered. Everything else is to build your sense of identity in an idea or slice of who you are - rather than in you!

We will look at many different ways we can start to define Gratitude - 10 different definitions in fact. Then we start to better understand what Gratitude and invoke within us - Catharsis and Reciprocity. We see how Gratitude can begin to rewire our brains and help us with 9 wonderful amazing outcomes. We then unlock 4 Gratitude Practices what will help us strengthen our Gratitude - Journaling, Expressing, Celebrating Small Wins, And Meditation. Once we really can get our arms around - Gratitude we being to attract Abundance! We then look at 10 ways we can better see and develop our Abundance Mindset!

This podcast is on the concept of Being in Proper Relations with all things. It relates to inclusive activism by understanding proper relations of mutual reciprocity is where the chance to stop othering one another lies. We will look at and examine what are the costs of being in proper relations look like? What things are needed to engage in proper ongoing relational maintenance? Is this even possible!?

Todays Podcast will look at how our family and how our background shapes how we look for and seek out intimacy in others. We need to be mindful of how our trauma from the past informs and repeats possible patterns of traumatization in the future. We will talk about the patter of High and Low […]

Well HELLO! It has been a moment – I took a bit of a summer sabbatical but I am back now. New News – going forward the podcast will update and publish monthly now to give a bit more life balance for me as your one and only in this effort. Today we talk about […]

In this podcast we learn about the work happening in Fall 21 with a series of virtual workshops on how to implement more indigenous practices in the spaces and places we work!

We look at the need for an accurate self concept - we have to own really who we are right now and stop pretending to be what we are not putting effort into being or becoming. We look at the need for self awareness - the more self aware we are the more accurate we can be with our self as we stand today, This give us the knowledge of where we are and what gaps are keeping us for who we want to be! Then and only then can we have a positive self esteem. We cannot have a positive self esteem from pretending to be something - because WE know we are not that thing - which makes us have to acknowledge at some dark moment we are NOT that thing. Then we need to keep practicing self awareness to understand - we are in the process of "becoming" our best self - and the process is NEVER finished - we just get better and better with time!

Today we unpack the concept of perspective. For it is only through the lens of our own perspective that we have the ability or capacity to experience the world. We will look at the FACT that for YOU or someone else - your perspective IS your experience of reality. That is it - its all of it you cannot experience something outside your perspective. So in effect your perspective IS your TRUTH.

In today's podcast we welcome Anti-Racism expert Daryl Davis. Mr Davis has made as a part of his life goal to prove you cannot hate someone you do know know. To this end Mr Davis has befriended many current and former self avowed white supremacists (KKK members or Neo-Nazis). And to that end he has also been gifted 20+ former Klan members robes as due those friendships they have turned from their former thinking.

In today's podcast we will look at how to set and enforce personal and relational boundaries with others. We all know about the concept of "house rules" the guides and expectations that help us get a sense what we should and should not do in a space. Boundaries work the same way with people! For this podcast is was guided and inspired by an article by Psych Central on 10 ways to set and enforce boundaries https://psychcentral.com/lib/10-way-to-build-and-preserve-better-boundaries#1 1. Name your limits.2. Tune into your feelings.3. Be direct. 4. Give yourself permission.5. Practice self-awareness.6. Consider your past and present.7. Make self-care a priority.8. Seek support.9. Be assertive.10. Start small. and I added 11. At First your boundaries are not going to be popular with anyone, don't focus on the RIGHT NOW - focus on the why this matters later!

In this episode we will examine the idea that we literally “pay” to things with our focus, with our listening, and with our attention. This attention and our sense of focus is vied for with millions to billions of dollars as our time and attention is SO precious and valuable. We look at the hard […]

In this podcast we will look at the idea that we need to own the responsibility to be our best self. In our Heart first, then in changing what we think and believe, then speaking that belief (or Be-life) into being.

This week we have yet another interview with our good friends at the Inclusive AF podcast Jackye Claton and Katee Van Horn. Both are Diveristy Inclusion and Equity Experts! This roundtable discussion will touch on the highlights and low lights of what is is like to “do the work” day in and day out. We […]

We will talk about Indigenization, What is it? (systems of nonviolence, no harm, non-marginalization, and non-exploitation). How each of us has been helped by Indigenization and Indigenous Thinking. This podcast attempts to help us unpack what I feel the antithesis of so many issues of racism, sexism, classism, patriarchy, white supremacy, oligarchy come from and why and how they eliminate these problems.