Episode 55--Anti-Racist Conversations with White People with Jesse Ross

04/20/22 • 58 min

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Billy talks to Jesse Ross, a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, executive coach, and international speaker who has delivered over 400 speaking engagements at colleges, conferences, corporate and nonprofit companies, with a large number of those being Fortune 500 companies including LinkedIn, General Mills, and the NBA.

Jesse offers trainings, workshops, evaluations, assessments, and strategy development for schools, businesses, and organizations. Jesse has been engaging his audience with his Morning Minute calls-to-action on his Instagram and LinkedIn page since before our world went into civil unrest.
He is here today to talk about his diversity and inclusion work as well as the anti-racist conversations he has with white men and white women each week, which you can sign up for here.
Billy asks Jesse:

His weekly anti-racist conversations with white people
How he gets in front of people who would benefit from engaging in anti-racist dialogue in a way that doesn’t activate a fight/flight/fright response from them
How he helps people see the nuances when it comes to conversations around race
Examples he's seen lately of good-intentioned white people being tone-deaf when it comes to issues within the Black community
His experiences navigating white spaces as a person of color

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Text your questions, comments, & topic suggestions here! You can also email [email protected].

His weekly anti-racist conversations with white people
How he gets in front of people who would benefit from engaging in anti-racist dialogue in a way that doesn’t activate a fight/flight/fright response from them
How he helps people see the nuances when it comes to conversations around race
Examples he's seen lately of good-intentioned white people being tone-deaf when it comes to issues within the Black community
His experiences navigating white spaces as a person of color

Support the show

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Episode 54--Declutter and Get Organized! with Janet M. Taylor

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Billy and Brian talk to Janet M. Taylor, an Organizing Expert with over 28 years experience. She is the host and producer of the Got Clutter? Get Organized! podcast. Janet was crowned Clutter Free Queen by Rachael Ray in 2018, and she is here today just in time for spring cleaning to help us do some decluttering and organizing.
We ask Janet:

What is it about an organized home that brings about joy and relaxation for you?
What’s the toughest part about keeping a home organized and clutter-free for most people?
What reasons do your clients give you about why they’re living in such squalor?
Why is it important to have at least ONE room/space in your home be organized, and why is yours the bedroom?
How do people often fall short when it comes to spring cleaning? Why do we put that much pressure or importance on spring cleaning when we have three other seasons to declutter and organize our lives?
How do you help parents keep a clutter-free space despite the havoc children in general can wreak on a house?
How much do time management and spatial organization relate to each other?

Like what you heard from Janet M. Taylor? Contact her at:
Instagram: @janettheorganizerTwitter: @organizerjanetFacebook: Janet M. Taylor, Professional OrganizerLinkedIn: Janet M. TaylorEnroll in Janet's Klatch course on time management!
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Episode 56--Balancing High Performance, Happiness, and Relationships with Christine Chang

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Billy and Brian talk to Christine Chang, a bestselling relationship author and speaker. She helps high-performers create ideal relationships by teaching self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills.

Christine's podcast Show Up and book Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women have helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams. She is here today to talk to us about balancing high performance, happiness, and relationships.
We ask Christine:
--How do we first find clarity within ourselves so that we actually know what it is that we want instead of what has been projected onto us through other people’s opinions, standards, checklists?
--Once we’ve been honest and clear with ourselves, how do we have those conversations with partners/future partners?
--With regards to “if it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell,” I wanted to challenge that idea a bit by throwing in the word “maybe”: Do you think that people who say “if it’s not a hell yes, then it’s a hell no” are actually using that as an excuse to not do the work that is required to make a relationship last or even using it as an excuse to procrastinate for the PERFECT conditions to start dating? Is that where we could squeeze in the “maybe” so they stretch their comfort zone a little bit?
--Your focus is on helping high-performing women create the relationship of their dreams. What traits do you attribute to high-performing women?
--What were your dating faux paus back in the day? What was it about your husband Pete that set him apart from everyone else? Or was that more about you getting clear with yourself first? If you asked him, what was it about you that set you apart?
--For the men out there who are seeking an independent, high-performing woman to date, what advice do you have? What lessons could they learn from your husband Pete?
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Website: www.christinechang.comYouTube: Christine ChangInstagram: @cchangandcoLinkedIn: Christine ChangThank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!
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The Mindful Midlife Crisis - Episode 55--Anti-Racist Conversations with White People with Jesse Ross

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Jesse: I don’t think hope is a strategy, and I think we’ve heard that before, but I have hope in people, and my hope is that there are more people listening to this conversation, there are more people like you and there are more people that I can meet that want to do good and their return doesn’t always have to be monetary, their return doesn’t have to be something that helps them continue to elevate their wealt