My Freedom Journey

· My Freedom Journey: Be Free. Be Brave. Be Radical.

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In this Episode

· How storytelling can be used as a method of self-reflection, addressing past trauma, finding closure on different events that have happened in one’s life, and discovering who one truly is

· How listeners can begin their journey into self-discovery, transparency, and using those to deconstruct biases they have of the people around them

Resources

· Dr. Melanie Dillett-Dukes

· BeyondFree, LLC

· My Freedom Journey: Be Free. Be Brave. Be Radical.

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How People With Disabilities Are Impacting the Workplace

Dr. Linda Mona, a Clinical Psychologist and disability, diversity and inclusion strategist joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver to share her experience as a person with a disability and her perspectives on people with disabilities in the workplace. Their conversation explores why people with disabilities represent such a small percentage of the workforce, why some are hesitant to disclose their disability are work, how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their work experience and what companies can do to be more inclusive.

In this Episode

· Personal descriptions as an act of inclusion

· Why people with disabilities only represent 15% of the global workforce

· The need to change how we view people with disabilities

· Why people with disabilities may be reluctant to disclose their disability at work

· How inclusion can increase engagement among workers with disabilities

· Covid-19 as an employee equalizer

· How implicit biases influence society’s views of relationships, intimacy and family experiences within the disability community

· Three tips for how companies can be more inclusive of people with disabilities

Resources

· Dr. Linda Mona

· Mercer’s The State of Disability Employment Engagement Report

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COVID-19 and Workers’ Mental Health

Dr. Kanika Bell, a licensed psychiatrist and co-owner of ATL and Psychotherapy and Consulting Services, LLC, joins Dr. Vanessa Weaver to speak about the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of workers across the United States, the need for companies to address the state of emotional and mental health within the workplace and how to help their workers.

In this Episode

· The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of millions of people across the nation, including workers, and how the conversation around mental health has changed from one that was rarely had to one that has come to the forefront of the American conscience

· How the death of George Floyd and the resulting racial trauma added onto the already-present trauma faced by Black communities and workers and other groups of color because of the ongoing pandemic

· The effect that the pandemic has had on working mothers, including issues of stress, isolation, increased online browsing, and mental health challenges, especially when children are involved

· The outreach that Dr. Bell has received from different companies on how to reanalyze the way that their workplaces are run and how to be more emphatic towards their workers during a time of uncertainty and anxiety for many people in the American workforce

· Addressing the ongoing problem of a mass exodus of women from the workforce with many not planning to return to the office, a need for workplaces to improve their culture to be more considerate of the demands of their workers, and a cultural shift on views of mental health in the workplace with Generation Z entering the workforce

Resources

· Dr. Kanika Bell

· SilverCloud

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