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From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyAnti-Asian Violence w/ Dr. Jennifer Ho, Marla Teyolia & Kim TrinhA black square on Instagram doesn’t make you an anti-racist, but there is a path to follow. Welcome to From Woke to Work, the Anti-Racist Journey, a podcast created and hosted by Kamala Ávila-Salmon, with the mission to make an impactful dent in people’s understand of how to actually combat racism. Whether you’re an ally ready to take action or a black person with a bunch of ally-related questions, this podcast will draw a clear path for you to follow towards true anti-racism.Kamala is back at the mic, sooner than anticipated, to do her par...
2021-04-281h 00From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyFAQs (Frequent Ally Questions) w/ Jovian Zayne, Chia-Lin Simmons & Terri J VaughnA black square on Instagram doesn’t make you an anti-racist, but there is a path to follow. Welcome to From Woke to Work, the Anti-Racist Journey, a podcast created and hosted by Kamala Avila-Salmon, with the mission to make an impactful dent in people’s understand of how to actually combat racism. Whether you’re an ally ready to take action or a black person with a bunch of ally-related questions, this podcast will draw a clear path for you to follow towards true anti-racism.Our journey together, at least this portion of it, is coming to an...
2021-03-101h 12From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyNow What w/ Host Kamala Avila-SalmonA black square on Instagram doesn’t make you an anti-racist, but there is a path to follow. Welcome to From Woke to Work, the Anti-Racist Journey, a podcast created and hosted by Kamala Avila-Salmon, with the mission to make an impactful dent in people’s understand of how to actually combat racism. Whether you’re an ally ready to take action or a black person with a bunch of ally-related questions, this podcast will draw a clear path for you to follow towards true anti-racism. We made it all the way through our journey from awareness to symp...
2021-03-0312 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyThat Anti-Racist Lifestyle w/ Glenn Singleton & JLove CalderonA black square on Instagram doesn’t make you an anti-racist, but there is a path to follow. Welcome to From Woke to Work, the Anti-Racist Journey, a podcast created and hosted by Kamala Avila-Salmon, with the mission to make an impactful dent in people’s understand of how to actually combat racism. Whether you’re an ally ready to take action or a black person with a bunch of ally-related questions, this podcast will draw a clear path for you to follow towards true anti-racism.We have now reached the last step of our journey together: anti-r...
2021-02-2451 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy Allyship is Not Enough w/ Kelechi OkaforA black square on Instagram doesn’t make you an anti-racist, but there is a path to follow. Welcome to From Woke to Work, the Anti-Racist Journey, a podcast created and hosted by Kamala Avila-Salmon, with the mission to make an impactful dent in people’s understand of how to actually combat racism. Whether you’re an ally ready to take action or a black person with a bunch of ally-related questions, this podcast will draw a clear path for you to follow towards true anti-racism.This is the penultimate step of our anti-racist journey, and in this e...
2021-02-1750 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy We Need Allyship w/ Terri J. Vaughn, Michael Hoffman & Dougie CashWelcome back to FROM WOKE TO WORK: The Anti-Racist Journey. On this episode host, Kamala Avila-Salmon, discusses the next level on the journey, ALLYSHIP. Let's be clear, you are not an ally just because you think you are. You are also not an ally just because you would like to be. You are not an ally because you have Black friends. You are not an ally because you think the cops that killed Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and Jacob Blake and so many others should be locked up and stripped of their badges immediately. That is because ally...
2021-02-1000 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy Reflection is Not Enough w/ Jon Alston & VinceWelcome back to FROM WOKE TO WORK: The Anti-Racist Journey. On the last episode, we talked about the fourth stage of this journey- REFLECTION. If this is your first time joining us, STOP and go back to Episode 1.Now that we have made the case for reflection, Kamala does what she always does- lights a fire under your collective butts so you don’t just chill here, thinking and thinking and thinking again, but actually start to move FORWARD and take some action. The key thing you need to remember when it comes to the limits of re...
2021-02-0343 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy We Need Reflection w/ Ashley Abercrombie & Caroline BrownAs we drive into this episode of From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist Journey, let's first level-set where we are in our journey. We took a detour the last 2 weeks to take a WTF break to process the White Trumpian insurrection at the Capitol and then to talk about the importance of relationships in the quest for anti-racism. We're now moving into the back half and it will be important to take the discussion on relationships with you. The next 3 steps are rarefied air. By definition, a funnel gets less populated as you go deeper into it....
2021-01-2751 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyA Word on Relationships w/ Jessica Massa & Dr. Monica HuertaThe idea for the Anti-Racist Journey came to host, Kamala Avila Salmon, this past summer when everyone you know was getting “woke” and almost all the Black people you know were feeling exhausted by all the “woke” talk without action. The journey is arranged as a funnel, based on her past as a marketer - it is meant to mimic the marketing conversion funnel of taking consumers from unaware of your product to deciding to become customers. After sketching it out, her career coach asked her a very simple question: “What about relationships? People need to truly be in COMMUNITY...
2021-01-201h 15From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy White Supremacy Always Begets White Insurrection w/ Ebele Okobi & Dr. Nii-Quartelai QuarteyWelcome to a special edition of From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist Journey. On this episode, host Kamala Avila-Salmon, interrupts the journey through the funnel to RAGE on what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 or as it felt, December 37th in the unending trash year known as 2020. What the HELL happened at the Capitol on Wednesday if not a flagrant representation and affirmation of the potency of White supremacy in our country. And as a Black person in this country, who has been consistently critical of our country for good reason, Kamala was forced into the awkward position o...
2021-01-1351 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy Empathy is Not Enough w/ Dr. Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinEmpathy is what inspired host, Kamala Avila-Salmon to put The Anti-Racist together; more specifically, it was the LIMITS of empathy that inspired her. While empathy is very important, and for many it feels good, it will not by itself free us from established patterns of shock, outrage, protest, and then complacency. On this episode, Kamala connects with her dear and brilliant friend, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to address why empathy is not enough.Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women’s and gender studies at the University of New Ha...
2021-01-0644 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy We Need Empathy w/ Chia-Lin Simmons & Fay JohnsonIn this week’s episode Kamala zeros in on empathy because it is a critical stop on the journey to ensuring any plans we make to address racism going forward are grounded on an understanding of our shared humanity. Anti-Black racism is not a Black people problem, it is a White supremacy problem. Until non-Black, and especially White people, see the problem as theirs to solve, we can’t make progress. Where sympathy is to share in the sorrow of another, empathy is to feel the sorrow of another as if it were your own while being conscious of the...
2020-12-3050 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy Sympathy is Not Enough w/ Jason White & Amani DuncanOn this week's episode, Kamala invited two mentors of hers, Jason White and Amani Duncan, to join her today to talk about the limits of sympathy and why aspiring allies and anti-racists need to go much further than that to actually drive change.As marketing execs, both Jason and Amani know the power of stories to spark awareness and elicit emotion. The tragic and unjust murders of Black people from Trayvon Martin to Tamir Rice to Breonna Taylor to Sandra Bland and of course, George Floyd, have done a lot to build awareness of racial injustice and...
2020-12-231h 04From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy We Need Sympathy w/ Crystal MarieIn this episode of From Woke to Work, Kamala talks about sympathy and why it matters that on your way to actually taking action to reject a racist world order, you actually spend some time feeling bad. If the state-sanctioned death of your fellow citizens does not deeply disturb you, there is likely something else going on.Listen as she unpacks sympathy with Crystal Marie, a Marketer and writer who has worked with major brands and who loves writing about everyone’s favorite uncomfortable topics: faith, politics, race, relationships, and current events.Jump straight into:
2020-12-1649 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy Awareness is Not Enough w/ Barbara Furlow-Smiles & Sherice TorresIt only took the video recording of the murder of a(nother) Black man to go viral for the entire world to realize the United States of America has a systemic racial issue. We wish we were joking. There is a… silver lining here though, America is now proudly “woke”, right? The thing is, to the affected communities, this awakening is a bit of a slap in the face, but hey, no hard feelings, if you’re willing to do the work to earn the title “ally” or “anti-racist”.In today’s episode of From Woke to Work, Kamala is jo...
2020-12-0941 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyWhy We Need Awareness w/ Jovian ZayneThis year will be hard to forget, not only have we witnessed a pandemic unfold in front of our eyes, but also social movements that arise in the middle of chaos. The Black Lives Matter movement is especially highlighted, as unfortunate events triggered the rage of the already exhausted black community, who got the support of recently “woke” non-black allies. Awareness is just the first step of the anti-racism journey. On today’s episode, Kamala is joined by an inspiring leader, speaker and black woman, Jovian Zayne, to chat about the role of awareness around racism in the American societ...
2020-12-0253 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyThe Anti-Racist JourneyA black square on Instagram doesn’t make you an anti-racist, but there is a path to follow. Welcome to From Woke to Work, the Anti-Racist Journey, a podcast created and hosted by Kamala Avila-Salmon, with the mission to make an impactful dent in people’s understand of how to actually combat racism. Whether you’re an ally ready to take action or a black person with a bunch of ally-related questions, this podcast will draw a clear path for you to follow towards true anti-racism.We can all share a post and use a popular hashtag, but wh...
2020-12-0211 minFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist JourneyFrom Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist Journey - TrailerThis is From Woke to Work: The Anti-Racist Journey. Hosted by Kamala Avila-Salmon, she talks about what it means to go from a self-proclaimed ally to an effective anti-racist. Whether you’re an ally that’s ready to take action or a Black person looking for a place to direct all those ally questions, this is the podcast you’ll want to keep close at hand.There's something missing about the way that we're talking about allyship. Kamala felt it more acutely than ever in the wake of the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. In this m...
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