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TheAwayGames_PodcastKenyora Johnson & Renee Best: EROC's HBCU/Youth Focus & How Sexual Violence Shows Up In The WorkplaceOur lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. David Mitchell, Cloud AtlasThis episode dovetails off of our last conversation around the founding of EROC (End Rape on Campus), a discussion with Annie Clark. In that conversation, Annie mentioned passing the CEO torch to Kenyora Johnson, a capable innovative leader. We also shifted the focus to Kenyora to learn what innovations EROC has in store. We uncovered some of the differing reasons HBCU students fail to report...
2025-12-2345 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastAnnie Clark: A Survivors Response - The Founding of End Rape on CampusOur lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. David Mitchell, Cloud AtlasOur latest release on #TheAwayGames_Podcast is the most important discussion that we've had to date. Sexual Violence impacts all of us, because every 98 seconds, someone in the US is sexually assaulted. More than 1 in 3 women have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. 91% victims of rape and sexual assault are female; 9% are male.In this conversation, we focus on col...
2025-12-161h 12
TheAwayGames_PodcastAndre Perry: The Black Power ScorecardOn our 2nd episode of Season 4, we jump from convicted criminal to a Sr. Brookings Institute Fellow who conducts research that inform local, federal and global policy dealing specifically with Black America.Andre Perry is an accomplished researcher, author, instructor, as well as a father and husband. He's devoted his life to serving the black community, writing books on the treasures of black businesses, black neighborhoods and homes, and the tradition of discrimination of home appraisals. His most recent work focuses on the key elements of black success in differing parts of the country using scientific methodology and Machine...
2025-12-1054 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastMarcus Alston: Potential vs Kinetic in Prison ReformWe begin this season (Season 4) of #TheAwayGames_Podcast with a story from a young man who made a horrible series of mistakes as a youth, in search of an identity. After serving 8+ years in several state prisons, he now seeks to lead a life that he can describe as "fulfilled".During the conversation, we learn the conditions of our state prisons, the collection of characters that reside within them and systems of negligence created to perpetuate the prison's existence. After hearing this story, several questions arise: Why wouldn't mental health be a priority for inmates? Why would states restrict...
2025-12-0258 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E19: REVGEN - Bonus Episode, Don't Trust Them Niggas Over ThereHere are 4 short stories that didn't make it into their respective months. Please enjoy this additional context and remember, "Fucking Llamas!" Enjoy!Join the conversation and get all the gritty details of #TheAwayGames_Podcast, a #ALIVEPodcastNetwork feature. Don't forget to #Like, #Share, #Subscribe, #Comment and #Follow for all the latest content. And visit my site for all of the episodes, the Petty Patty Apparel and books by Ron Corley, II. Thanks for listening!#TheAwayGames_Podcast #BeOnBias #EmploymentLawEducation #REVGEN
2025-11-2615 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E18: REVGEN - It's Over, A Defeatless LossStepping away from a 100k annual salary is difficult to do...especially when you're black, especially when you know that the opportunities to make this much may not come back around so quickly without specific credentials. But it is our integrity we are selling in toxic work environments:Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free... An inch; it is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must...
2025-11-2427 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E17: REVGEN - Sore Losers and SaboteursWhen playing an away game, you must always be careful not to beat the home team too badly...as you still must escape unscathed.On this episode, I discuss how #REVGEN leadership and inner circle plotted to weaken the winning streak that I had been on, ensuring that I got dealt the worst hand of resumes to rebuild my dynasty. My success had hurt my internal relationships allowing work politics to leave me high and dry. The lack of accountability of #REVGEN Leaders created problems with clients that I had to fix, working alongside the leader who lead the p...
2025-11-2015 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E16: REVGEN - The Spies of the Inner Circle2 months into a promotion and I already want to quit!Sometimes company leaders want to see certain people fail, so they elevate them publicly and sabotage them privately...welcome to my life! Up to this point, my co-workers (almost exclusively my management peers) are becoming increasingly upset with the success that I've been able to have, to their expense in some cases! This leads to jealousy and collusion. At the same time, my most successful team is graduating the program, setting up a vacuum in success. I give a heartfelt speech about the haters and our continued success despite...
2025-11-1819 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E15: REVGEN - Heavy is the head that wears the crown"Respect is always earned...so we must remain undeniable." - Moonshine WallaceIt is difficult to take leaders seriously when they do not perform consistently as a deserving individual of such. Big Daddy, and his plantation of Brittle Brothers, where consistently embarrassed by their lack of success in the business that they had all worked within for several years (about 30 years between their core 5 leaders). So why was I out performing them and their teams single-handedly? What did that say about their ability to develop talent? How did their lack of development shine in other managers?Join the...
2025-11-1317 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E14 - REVGEN: Winning has its DownsidesWinning is only fun when others can enjoy it with you...or, when you're playing an away game!On this episode of #TheAwayGames_Podcast, we get into how the sustained success of the person brought into the organization to be a scapegoat or punching bag, turned their internal politics upside down at REVGEN. Big Daddy is not impressed by your success, because like DuBois said, "the only thing worse than bad negro government (leadership) is good negro government (leadership)".But all I did was win...what could be so wrong about that? Join the conversation and find out h...
2025-11-1118 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E13: REVGEN - Black History Month, QBR and Whoopin' AssAs black people, we are all faced with varying degrees of capitulation when raising a family - housing them, feeding them and clothing them. While I know that our blackness doesn't distinguish us as compromisers to these ends, it does place us in a unique position as one tries to define their identity against the backdrop of such an American history as race. This month clarified that struggle to me in a face-to-face way that it had not been clarified for me before.On this episode, I discuss some of those clarifying experiences and why I chose integrity over t...
2025-11-0924 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries S3 E12: REVGEN - A Token HireAfter 11 months of not being employed, we pick up the story on #TheAwayGames_Podcast and #TheSpookDiaries, with starting my role within REVGEN, a lead generation business in Raleigh, North Carolina. We continue with the theme of Big Daddy's plantation from D'Jango Unchained and we introduce some of the characters of the plantation - Wes Proctor, Chelsea Roach, Caty Renn and others.The first (and second) encounters with the HR Director...not productive. The first 1:1 meeting with the sales leader...less than supportive, to say the least. The management style of other direct report chains...filled with micro management and n...
2025-11-0722 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries E11 - Big Daddy's Plantation: An intro into REVGENWelcome back to TheAwayGames_Podcast, Spook Diaries, our sub-series walking through the work history of our host, Ron Corley. On this episode, we introduce REVGEN as a workplace and the characters within it that give D'Jango Unchained plantation like vibes; from Big Daddy to the Brittle Brothers to Betina. All of these characters play a role, both in the movie....and in REVGEN.This season, we'll explore REVGEN as an organization, its leadership (or lack thereof) as it compares to this current Trump Administration and how a 1 in 10,000 employee can make the whole thing sick, to the point of s...
2025-11-0209 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastCasey Duhart: Glass Ceilings, Performative DEI and Workplace Retaliation v DiscriminationWhat happens when you actualize that breaking through the glass ceilings in life isn't enough?In this conversation, we sit done with Casey Duhart, General Councel of Acadia Healthcare and former Editor of the Tennessee University Law Review. She takes us through her career challenges, starting with the puppet-like roles she was asked to perform for law firms presenting diversity but practicing Americana.She then talks to us about the need for diverse faces to "run through the tape", stating the importance of remembering that while "a" goal could be to reach a...
2025-10-181h 13
TheAwayGames_PodcastDouble J(C) Part 3: Mr. Tin Foil, MAGA Conservative manager shows his racism and Anti-SemitismThe veil of kindness, Jesus and freedom masks some of the ugliest social constructions our society has ever seen.On this, the final episode with Mr. Tin Foil, his mask comes off and we are able to see his hatred and discontent for those he thinks less of clearly. His humanity and the sexual abuse he endured as a child doesn't save him. His father's lack of emotional availability doesn't save him. His family wealth, his desire to walk the path of Jesus, his age all do not save him.Over the course of this 3 part series, Double...
2025-10-131h 01
TheAwayGames_PodcastDouble J(C) Part 2: Mr. Tin Foil Smokes CrackWhat happens to victims that aren't allowed to be victims? To families that don't talk about their histories of Sexual Abuse? To parents who never shared their trauma with their children and thus never stopped their children from hiding parts of themselves from the world?On this, Part 2 of our discussion with Double J(C), the Anti-Semite MAGA supporter who doesn't believe blacks are intelligent enough for higher roles in organizations, we learn the darker sides of victimhood. Double J(C) talks through his academic disappointments, his lack of control around illicit substances and how the n...
2025-10-0936 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastDouble J(C) Part 1: Mr. Tin Foil, MAGA and S.A.Sexual Assault is a life changing traumatic experience that is typically viewed through the lens of women and girls. Not enough emphasis is placed on the impacts of SA on males in our society.Over the next 3 episodes, you will learn about a Conservative, tin foil hat wearing, MAGA supporting manager who doesn't believe DEI to be helpful, as he doesn't believe education is attained at concurrent rates for all races in the US. He is a manager at his workplace and carries these views with him to lead...everyday.Join the conversation, as we uncover the history a...
2025-10-0642 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastChantelle Johnson of Talent 4D Culture: Data tells the storyHow can you ever be expected to align with your company's goals if they don't provide you with the most basic of starting points?On this episode of #TheAwayGames_Podcast on #AlivePodcastNetwork, we talk with premiere executive talent placement extraordinaire, Chantelle Johnson of #Talent4DCulture. She walks us through her experience in Healthcare, how entrepreneurship provided a level of freedom that allowed for greater accuracy in her work and why seeking and asking for the right data, as an ERG leader, will help you become more successful for your company's goals!Join the conversation her...
2025-09-281h 09
TheAwayGames_PodcastDr. Shindale Seale: ERGs - Friends and FoesOver 300,000 Black women left the workforce between March and September of 2025...What did your ERG do to help slow, stop and/or prevent this from happening to more Black women and/or other protected classed groups in your workplace?On this, the 5th episode of Season 5 of TheAwayGames_Podcast, we are speaking with Dr. Shindale Seale of Seade Coaching & Consulting in Los Angeles. We discuss the role ERGs should be playing during this time of corporate transition away from "DEI" and towards its next iteration. While the focus may be moving away from identity based groups in the w...
2025-09-1952 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastNeurodivergent: The Turn w/Double J (2) - P3Identity shapes our self worth and understanding daily. What we do for a living, who we are to our families, the impact that we are working to make in the world all play roles in who we believe ourselves to be.What happens when that belief is confronted with a debilitating disease? What happens when that disease slowly takes your identity away and your strengths must change? How malleable are you to deal with that type of life altering change?On this, the last of our 3 episode series dedicated...
2025-08-281h 05
TheAwayGames_PodcastHigh School Drop Out to College Scholar: Double J (2) - P2Picking up the story with Double J (2), what happens after you decide to drop out of high school and how do you find the strength to be successful, especially when drugs and alcohol surround your social scene?We'll dive into that and how the parallels between my personal life and Double J's (2) over lap. We'll also learn about my relationship with my dad and how my broken family influenced some of my bad decision at this same age. The big takeaway should be the signs that your children are...
2025-08-2552 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastStraight A student to High School Drop Out: Double J (2) - P1In this 3 part series interview, we dive deep into the role identity development plays into the success of young women and how that identity changes and has the ability to trap you.Part 1 - Today we meet and discuss the early and teenage years of Double J, a smart young lady who has challenges avoiding the meanness of young girls and their cliques. Peer pressure impacts us all at this age and the question is, what are we doing as parents to present behaviors that support or negate these activities in our children.
2025-08-211h 06
Interesting movies and seriesBullies Humiliated the New Teacher,Unaware He Was a Covert Elite OperativeMovie: The Substitute (1996) When a group of violent high school students pushes their new teacher too far, they don’t realize he’s a former mercenary posing as a substitute. What begins as a lesson quickly turns into a mission — and this time, it’s deadly. Cast: Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale / James Smith Ernie Hudson as Principal Claude Rolle Diane Venora as Jane Hetzko Glenn Plummer as Darrell Sherman Marc Anthony as Juan Lacas Cliff De Young as Matt Wolfson Shar-ron Corley as Jerome Brown Richard Brooks as Wellman Raymond Cruz as Joey "Six" Rodney A. Grant as Johnny Glades L...
2025-08-1312 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastThe Inconspicuous Ally: A wolf in sheep's clothing - Double J (1)It can be easy to be an ally from afar. But what happens when you're in the thick of it. You blend in to your surroundings and you have a choice, hide or speak out?On this episode, we interview the first of 3 white Americans who discuss how they feel post Trump's presidential election. This guest happens to be covered in tattoos, looks like a metal band lead singer and is bisexual...that last part makes his colleagues uncomfortable. Unfortunately, as he states in our discussion, it could have in impact on his ability...
2025-06-031h 17
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 20: Ingram Micro - Stephens Amongst UsIf you recall from the last episode, co-workers began to abandon our work relationships once I filed the lawsuit against Ingram Micro.What happens when that battle extends to your "friends" and "family"? On this episode of the Spook Diaries, we discuss the decline of my mental health during my battle with ingram Micro and how having "Stephens" in your corner will leave you alone to battle the ills of the world.Like, Share, Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast
2025-04-1019 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 19: Ingram Micro - Filing a Lawsuit and Alienation of Co-WorkersWhen standing up against oppressive management and company policies that discriminate, your co-workers may feel like you're putting their jobs in jeopardy. This jeopardy could cause them to flee...then all of the sudden, you're not just battling for equity within your workplace, you're battling for psychological safety.Like, Share and Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast
2025-04-0714 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 18: Deciding to SueGetting to your breaking point could negatively impact your state of mind. I took a vacation.On this episode, I discuss being placed on Administrative Leave, my daughters enjoying the Keys and a flawed Ingram Micro legal team who tried to erased data from our thread, before firing me.Like, Share and Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast
2025-04-0321 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 17: Ingram DEI All Hands and Self-SegregationHow do you tell a whole culture that their inherently flawed because of some of the practices of said culture? For a lot of Americans, this is true for anyone in or from non-American society. How do cultures become self reflective? In this episode I breakdown what DEI in practice at scale looked like at Ingram Micro, how their employees reacted to it and what the Director of HR said when answering for the vast differences in the racial make up of the organization, based on the racial make up of the city where...
2025-04-0115 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 16: Lou Brunetto and Cheryl Rang - Collusion and RetaliationOn this episode I dive deeper into the relationships that pushed me out of Ingram Micro, how Cheryl Rang posed as a friend and ally and how Lou Brunetto's lack of technical intellect within the product portfolio caused my job to be threatened.
I discuss this from the point of view of Django Unchained characters and bring to light how racial alliances out weighed Ingram Micro's business goals. It was more important for the powers and friendships to remain intact than to create a multi hundred million dollar business platform of for internal and external partners to reap the rewards...
2025-03-2730 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 15: Edge Computing and Incentives to SellOn this episode, I walk listeners through how I was going to solve the problem of losing 75 Million in annual business while gaining new partners and customers through Edge Computing.
I also discuss the desires of Ingram Micro to utilize my strategy of marrying Edge Computing and the Internet of Things Department in order to grow sales, but how internal Ingram employee relationships with internal Lenovo employees got in the way of progress and my personal success.
It was more important to individuals in both organizations to remain as the faces of change than to actually move the business forward.
2025-03-2419 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 14: Books of Business and a 75 Million Dollar LossOn this episode of The Spook Diaries on TheAwayGames_Podcast, I discuss my transition into Ingram Micro and the problems in sales that they faced due to the conditioning of mediocrity as a standard of outcomes by leadership. This is laying the foundation and ground work for listeners to understand the comparisons to the film Django Unchained and how my story, our stories, connect today to those structural foundations.
2025-03-2112 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 13: Stephen (my boy)This episode continues our dissection of the film and review of the film Django Unchained, however it focuses on the head enslaved African, Stephen. His role in society is mirrored in modern day workplaces by men and women who aim to consolidate power by being viewed as a value to the oppressive figures of the society even though they inhabit the shell of what said society is looking to oppress. His relationship to those within his class bracket is strained by these efforts to survive and he hinders the growth of others that look like him in his own...
2025-03-1719 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 12: 1 in 10,000 and ShultzThis is the 2nd in our 3 part introduction to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast. on this episode, I focus on Calvin Candie's idea that 1 in 10,000 "niggers" will be exceptional and that the number of exceptional "niggers" will grow as time goes on. I then turn the focus to Dr. King Schultz and breakdown the value that he brings to the film as the other protagonist, as well as how that value should be reflected in modern day relationships between allies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sjr2...
2025-03-1317 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 11: Ingram Micro and DjangoWelcome back to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast! On this episode, I start to breakdown the analysis by Jared Bauer of Django Unchained and its comparison to the modern day workplace. This is the first of 3 episodes dedicated to this topic and we start with Calvin Candie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sjr2zGqr0&pp=ygUSamFyZWQgYmF1ZXIgRGphbmdv
2025-03-1010 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastDr. Jeannette Wade: Health Outcomes and Maternal Mortality EquityOn this episode of TheAwayGames_Podcast, Im joined by a special guest, esteemed professor and program director of Human Health Sciences at UNC Greensboro, Dr. Jeannette Wade. We discuss the drivers of health outcomes for any group of a population (specifically black women), physicians' responses to DEI and the fight for maternal mortality equity. We recorded this episode, not realizing that Dr. Wade had a scheduling conflict, but made it happen regardless! She's a hero. You can find Dr. Wade at:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin...
2025-03-0751 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastConcourse Arts Foundation Producer Luis "Macho" Miranda Presents: One Monkey's DreamToday Im joined by a special guest, film maker, film produce and film/comedy/poetry festival producer, Luis Macho Miranda. On this episode, we discuss what it means to grow up in the Bronx, being a 2nd generation American and the importance of legacy.We also discuss what impact his father being murdered had on his career, developing a comic book with his son and how mentorship can be the greatest teacher that money can't buy.Please Like, Share and Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast for the latest episodes.
2025-02-281h 27
TheAwayGames_PodcastWhitney Middlebrooks: Change management challenges within DEIInclusivity can be challenging within a world conditioned towards comfort and away from equity.Today Im joined by a special guest, Whitney Middlebrooks of Black Luxe Co and The Black Luxe Expo. On this episode, well be discussing her journey into the world of pop culture, how Trayvon Martin changed her life and how her dismay with corporate DEI led to her creating her own impactful entrepreneurial venture.Please like, share and subscribe for better content.https://www.blackluxeco.com/expohttps://www.blackluxeexpo.com/
2025-02-141h 16
TheAwayGames_PodcastJathan Blackburn: A Cape-less HeroOn this episode, I speak with Jathan Blackburn, a blue collar employee in healthcare and learn about his compassion for his community. He, along with a few other, started an organization called The Sock Coalition, dedicated to providing homeless citizens of Winston-Salem with new, clean goods and foods to help ease their daily struggle.
Before starting this venture though, he had to endure the stigma of being thought of as the brute of behavioral health, coerced into creating larger budgets for his healthcare company by over serving and drugging patients in need of compassion.
2025-02-0641 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastMiranda Jones: Exceptional = Target in TeachingOn this episode, Im joined by a special guest, Miranda Jones, a North Carolina Exceptional Teacher supporting the Triad area, where we discuss the challenges of social conformity to white norms at the high school level, curriculum politics and student engagement tactics that work to increase student performance scores!
We also discuss how this success can lead to conflict with administration, which we are all familiar with under Trump.
Please Like, Share and Subscribe to support our growth! Enjoy!
2025-01-311h 15
TheAwayGames_PodcastMeleata & Hassan Pinto: The quiet buildings of a Black Family DynastyOn today's episode, Im joined by a special guests and black executives, Meleta and Hassan Pinto. We start by discussing entrepreneurship vs. navigating corporate America and building a family dynasty; but then dive deep into the Pinto legacy, discussing their children's academic and social success and what the Pinto's plan to leave behind.
Meleta is an Emmy winning producer turned Marketing Executive, while Hassan is a former LA Lakers executive, tech entrepreneur and a non-profit executive helping bring opportunity to historically challenged communities. From sports to tech to family, the Pinto's provide a blueprint for building a dynasty.
2025-01-161h 00
TheAwayGames_PodcastJanelle Romero: The TikTok famous Employment Attorney Phenom
In today's episode, Im joined by a special guest, Employment Attorney Janelle Romero of Consumer Attorneys, representing in part undocumented workers. We discuss Janelles 3 key employment law focuses for employees to stay ahead of employer mistreatment, as well as pitfalls immigrant employers fall into when starting new businesses here in the states.
Janelle is a well travelled, well studied employment attorney who utilizes TikTok to educate younger audience, like mine! I'm wildly excited about her approach and professionalism and hope to see more employment attorney's taking advantage of social media to capture and educate...
2025-01-091h 02
TheAwayGames_PodcastReligious Trauma and it's impact on the workplace w/Rachel Burns of Videri Counseling ExpressionsWe are starting off Season 2 with a bang, discussing how religion plays a role in our engagement with authority in the workplace. We focus on key ideas of Shame, Guilt and Coercion, which play major roles in religion's ability to condition social behavior and have been co-opted by authorities in other aspects of life, like the workplace, to suppress accountability of authority.
We also dive deep into some of my own family experiences, discussing how Catholicism impacted my mom and her approach to parenting. As well as, discussing how groups like the LGBTQIA+ community...
2025-01-021h 05
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 10 - Lenovo's Retaliation, HR is not your friend and Leaving Without the BagThis is the last episode of Season 1 and it crescendos with me missing an opportunity to take legal action against Lenovo and my Director. Like most of us, I (at the time) was not legally savvy enough to recognize the situation and had not contacted an employment lawyer to know and understand my rights...so I left money on the table.
There is a huge lesson in this story, as it shows middle managers working alongside Senior HR "professionals" to protect the business, set up employees and hurt careers.
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2024-12-2220 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 9 - Lenovo, The Boys & Girls Club and the HBCU InitiativeOn this episode of The Spook Diaries, I explore Lenovo's white employees treating black and brown kids like charity, the birth of The HBCU Initiative and learning that ambition can infect all of us, regardless of believing skin folk to be kin folk.
2024-12-1623 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 8 - Lenovo and My 1st Black ManagerWhat happens when a minority sees themselves in their leadership...they thrive!
On this episode, I discuss how important it was for my professional growth to have support that fostered great work habits, understood cultural nuance and appreciated different perspectives on solutions.
Thank you Christina Taylor for being a light for me in a dark career corridor .
2024-12-1210 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 7 - White Dude Solutions and Black LunchOn this episode of the Spook Diaries, I dive deeper into my experience with "allies" in leadership positions, not understanding that inclusion doesn't mean the same thing to everyone...and shouldn't! From volunteering at Habitat-for-Humanity to lunch time segregation, every aspect of your culture should be examined to determine how inclusive you actually are.
2024-12-0916 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 6 - Dude Solutions and RohitMy 2nd tech company, Dude Solutions, introduced me to a number of problems in the workplace with inclusion and the mentality of black professionals. This insight would guide my direction into Team CT Consulting and this podcast years later.
Conformity to white norms would never seem important again.
2024-12-0421 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 5 - My First Tech Experience: CitrixSD5 - My very first tech gig should have been a huge red flag for what these spaces were like to work in...luckily I had allies, before I even knew what allies were!
2024-11-2506 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 4 - On My Malcolm: Triangle Pest ControlMalcolm X is one of my heroes, primarily because of his capacity to change. White culture rejects anything that holds itself to account and Malcolm was only her for that. Hear what happens when my co-workers have to face themselves through a productive, dominant co-worker like me.
2024-11-2120 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 3 - Ignoring Black Lives - Triangle Pest ControlAfter escaping restaurants, I ended up with a pest control company. My transition was rough, but I quickly learned that white culture was the only culture excepted in presentation.
2024-11-1821 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 2 - Codeswitching for Dollars: RestaurantsCustomer service skills are of great benefit to multiple types of employment. However, in our society - as it is currently constructed - you learn a lot more about cultural hierarchy than you think. Restaurants proved that to me, hear how...
2024-11-1511 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastSpook Diaries 1: Intro into TheAwayGames_PodcastHow we got here? How do we move forward in a 2nd Trump presidency without addressing the pushback of DEI, the future implementation of Project 2025 and the legal strategies to help cope in our workplaces?
We don't!
On the Spook Diaries, we walk through my work history, family history, social history and all other memories that created the urgency for TheAwayGames_Podcast.
Listen. Learn. Live Smarter.
2024-11-1412 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastDr. Charles Wallington: An American TaleImagine working for a hospital that racism stopped you from being born in...
In this episode, we follow Dr. Wallington,
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Cone Health, through his career path from journalism, consumer packaged goods, and merchant transaction servicers to healthcare. He connects the dots and ties all of theses differing industries together through his continuous upskilling and faith.
As an author of, A Seat at the C-Suite Table: Insights from the Leadership Journeys of African American Executives, Dr. Wallington does the same with 30...
2024-10-3154 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastAnthony Moore: Moore than just an employee Part 2 - The Value of YouHere, we pick up the conversation with Anthony Moore, Founder of Four Squares Development, and learn more about is extraordinary engineering career that then transitioned into entrepreneurship.
His company helps upgrade neighborhoods in York, PA from aging targets of gentrification to modern marvels of history. His company not only remodels older properties, but insures that those properties are sold back to members of the very community that the homes exist within. He does this with the city of York as a partner and billionaires as investors.
His goals and...
2024-10-3158 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastAnthony Moore: Moore than just an athlete Part 1 - The Value of HBCUsIn this episode, we talk with Four Square Founder, Anthony Moore, a childhood friend of mine. In Part 1, we walk through his transition from athlete to engineer, from a PWI to an HBCU, and learn the differences in the ways these different types schools treat their students, who happen to be athletes. We also learn about the depth of HBCU connections to places like NASA and how those connections prepare their students for lives of excellence.
2024-10-3154 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastDEI w/Gwendolyn Tucker and Ron's Isms: Part 2We are joined again by Gwendolyn J. Tucker to review my results of her "Erasing Isms" course. Spoiler alert...I have them too! Learn what holds me back in the workplace and why.
Be sure to reach out to Gwendolyn using the link below and go purchase her book, "Called to Lead"!
https://www.gwendolynjtucker.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Called-Lead-Leadership-Position-Finds/dp/1636984274
2024-10-2546 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastDEI Strategist Gwendolyn Tucker on Biases: Part 1Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gwendolyn Tucker, President of RIX International LLC, who is a DEI Strategist for corporations across the country. We break down biases and how we develop them, as well as ways to combat them in the workplace. We also discuss her course, Erasing ISMs, which helps you identify your own biases in a non-threatening manor to maintain productive work and personal relationships. Please go out and get her book "Called to Lead" from all retail locations.
https://www.gwendolynjtucker.com/
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2024-09-1638 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastIntersectionality: Not the Gift, but the Curse for Black WomenWhile Black women may be having a phenomenal year, it does not extend to everyone within those circles. In today's conversation with "Double J", we learn what the real life impact intersectionality on black women of faith that don't adhere to the "norms" of a sis white male society. We discuss the obvious hurdles of those on other sides of fences, but we also learn how some on her own side of the fence limit their empathy of her plight because of her success in comparison to their own.
2024-09-1652 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastLeaving Millions on the Table w/Chiquita Hall-Jackson Esq.In this episode, we continue our discussion with Chiquita Hall-Jackson on Hall-Jackson and Associates, discussing specific portions of her book, We Gon' Be Alright: A Black Executives Guide to Navigating the Workplace.
We comb through the detailed importance of involving an employment lawyer with Offer Letters, Arbitration Clauses and Severance Packages. We discuss something that most of us are all too familiar with, leaving a role after being illegally wronged without compensation and how this impacts our communities collectively. Really good stuff in this discussion!
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2024-09-1253 min
TheAwayGames_PodcastDEI w/Org. Psychologist Dr. Shindale Seale and Attorney Chiquita Hall-Jackson EsqDEI is a tactic, not the solution.
In our 1st Episode of TheAwayGames_Podcast, we welcome Garveyesq freedom fighters in Dr. Shindale Seale and Chiquita Hall-Jackson Esq.
Dr. Seale, a veteran DEI expert, lays out what successful implementation of DEI looks like and why optimism should be lacking; while Employment Lawyer extraordinaire, Chiquita Hall-Jackson Esq, provides solutions to pre-empt the vitriol aimed DEI in corporate America, which isn't always litigation. Lots of good stuff for you to chew on, but more importantly, act on!
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https://www.hall-jacksonandassociates.com/chiquita-hall-jackson/
2024-08-2352 min
Ron Stewart on Youtube PodcastTop 15 Dynasty Rookie Wide Receiver Rankings & Tiers (Post NFL Draft)Use Promo code "Ron" for a 100% deposit match up to $100 on Underdog Fantasy: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-ron-stewart- Dynasty Rankings & Tiers: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart- Rookie Rankings: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart- Rookie Prospect Model & Tiers: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart- Dynasty Buys/Sells: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart- 1 on 1 Fantasy Advice: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart- Exclusive Discord Chat: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart- Subscriber Leagues: https://www.patreon.com/ronstewart
2024-05-0243 min
The Weekly Scrap, Firefighter PodcastWeekly Scrap #219 - Ron Smith, Training SecondsJoined on this episode by none other than the man, the myth, the legend Mr. Training Seconds himself, Ron Smith! I am excited for this one and looking forward to all of the topics we will attempt to tackle. The surprise was of course that Kyle Romagus was in town, and he co-hosted this scrap! From search tactics and fire attack, to alphabet soup and to training scars. We plan to discuss the challenges of instructing, what he has learned being a part of the UL studies and of course everything the audience threw at us!
2023-11-141h 33
HuckabeeThe 2024 Republican Debate is Going to Be AWFUL! Here’s Why + DR. PHIL!On Huckabee, is it time for a change of format on the primary debate stage? Columnist Ron Hart offers his humorous spin on the 2024 election. Dr. Phil McGraw talks the state of America and what sparked his career journey. Find out more about the patriotic artwork of Steve Penley and don’t miss a special performance by Tre Corley and The Music City Connection! Don’t miss Huckabee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-07-1857 min
The Weekly Scrap, Firefighter PodcastWeekly Scrap #166 - Ron Moore, University of ExtricationJoined by Ron Moore with the University of Extrication. We discussed everything extrication, electric vehicle response, rescue size-up, airbags, technology advancements, blankets and and of course all the stuff the audience threw our way! I did not think a rescue guy would destroy the Next five questions, but judge for yourself! (he did)
2022-11-151h 14PR Future, the USC Center for Public Relations PodcastThe Future of Corporate ActivismAs a bookend to our third season of episodes, we are presenting a replay of our Kenneth Owler Smith Symposium on Public Relations, held at USC Annenberg, on the topic of “The Future of Corporate Activism.” The panel was moderated by our Dean, Willow Bay, and featured leaders from companies that are actively engaged in communicating about and supporting social justice issues: K. Corley Kenna, head of communications and policy, Patagonia Dominic Carr, vice president, communications, Lyft Elyse Cohen, vice president, social impact and inclusion, Rare Beauty Sean Greenwood, director of PR and communications, Ben & Jerry’sThe discus...
2022-05-1348 min
AuralCandy.Net - Premium House Music PodcastMK-Ultra - Jazzy DevilGot the munchies for more Banana Jazz? Play it cool, jazz cats and jazz kittens! The charming devil MK-Ultra is back with a bonafide bonanza of jazzy and soulful Funky House goodness. Play it again, Sam!This podcast episode features content created or published by Dessous Recordings, Exploited Records, Freerange Records, Local Talk Records, Piston Recordings, Poker Flat Recordings, Tsuba Records and others.MK-Ultra & Michael Corley - Kid's Got the Devil In Him [Intro]Dennis Ferrer vs. St. Germain - Son of Rouge [youANDme 2020 Edit]T.U.R.F. - Good Times Roll [Original Mix...
2022-02-0152 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroComparing infrastructure costs with cloud migration assessmentsHaving trouble choosing which cloud to use for specific workloads?Akasia Cloud provides an infrastructure metering solution that can help.Shelby Skrhak talks with Garima Thockchom, founder of Akasia Cloud, about:- Filling the void of metering solutions for cloud environments- Strengths of each major cloud provider- The benefits of VMware on IBM CloudSign up for free cloud assessments using Akasia.Sign up for the Lenovo Booster program today.For more information, email Ron Corley or Alyssa Unterborn.To join the discussion, follow us on Twitter @IngramTechSol #B2...
2022-01-2624 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroThe intersection of IoT and healthcareWe’re kicking off a new series about the intersection of IoT and leading industries.To start the series, we’re looking at healthcare, and how IoT is helping doctors deliver world-class treatment while keeping healthcare workers and patients safe during the COVID 19 pandemic.Shelby Skrhak speaks with two guests from Pixel Health, Dr. Neil Kudler, chief medical officer, and Mike Machulsky, executive vice president of strategic partnerships, as well as Mrinalini Lakshminarayanan, global executive director for emerging technologies at Ingram Micro, about:- The global changes that have occurred in the healthcare industry- What will...
2022-01-2133 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroEnabling more effective contact center agents with headset technologyThe right headset can make or break your contact center. And with at-home and hybrid work more prevalent than in the past, contact center agents need a good headset now more than ever.Shelby Skrhak speaks with Vern Fernandez, senior manager of contact center excellence at Jabra, about:- The contact center challenges of yesterday versus today- How a great headset solves at-home or hybrid work challenges- The data that Jabra headsets collectEmail the Ingram Micro Jabra team or visit Jabra’s call center headset website for more information.Become an au...
2022-01-2020 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroWrapping up 2021 and kicking off 2022 with the SMB AllianceIn this special As the Gears Turn edition, Devaughn Bittle and Patrick Cash look back at what happened in the SMB Alliance in 2021 and look ahead at what’s to come in 2022.To do that, they speak with Kellie Fox, senior business development executive, Kelly Sander, SMB sales director, and Darren Gottesmann, SMB executive sales director, all with Ingram Micro, about:- The history of the SMB Alliance- The events of 2021- What’s coming in 2022- Important information to keep in mind about the SMB AllianceVisit the SMB Alliance portal.Sign...
2022-01-0733 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroEstablishing a growth mindset in 2022Over the last few years, companies have been in survival mode. The focus has been on making it through to the other side of all this unpredictability.But in 2022, the tide is changing. IT budgets are expected to jump 3.6%, which is the largest increase in a decade.So, if you work in IT, the question arises: How do you transition from a scarcity mindset to a growth mindset?Shelby Skrhak speaks with Melanie DelValle, director of customer finance at Ingram Micro, about:- Growing investment in the IT industry- How to establish a growth...
2022-01-0613 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroCreative financial solutions for Ingram Micro partnersIt’s much more difficult to understand the value of an asset in IT than in other industries.That’s why it’s necessary to look for more creative financing solutions to supplement traditional financing avenues.Shelby Skrhak speaks with Melanie DelValle, director of customer finance, and John Bak, executive director of credit development, both with Ingram Micro, about:- How creative financing compares to traditional financing- How credit helps drive growth- Customer concerns around the cost of financingVisit Ingram Micro’s financial solutions page or email the financial solutions team to learn...
2022-01-0621 min
B2B Tech Talk with Ingram MicroThe Exclusive Benefits of the ONE Lenovo Booster ProgramThe ONE Lenovo Booster Program offers a number of exclusive benefits to members—and it’s worthwhile for both the IDG side as well as the ISG side.Want to know more?Shelby Skrhak talks with Alyssa Unterborn, sr. solutions sales specialist, and Ron Corley, solutions development executive, both with Ingram Micro, about:- Lenovo’s relationship with Ingram Micro- The ONE Lenovo Booster Program- How to pitch the program to your clientsFor more information, email Ron (ron.corley@ingrammicro.com) or Alyssa (alyssa.unterborn@ingrammicro.com) or visit Ingram Micro’s Lenovo...
2021-12-0813 min
Digital Sui Generis PodcastEpisódio 31 - MONSTER: DESEJO ASSASSINO"MONSTER - DESEJO ASSASSINO"
Pais: Estados Unidos, Alemanha
Gênero: Drama, Crime, Suspense, Biográfico
Direção: Patty Jenkins
Roteiro: Patty Jenkins
Produção: Mark Damon, Charlize Theron, Clark Peterson, Brad Wyman
Design Produção: Edward T. McAvoy
Música Original: BT
Direção Musical: Howard Paar
Fotografia: Steven Bernstein
Edição: Arthur Coburn, Jane Kurson
Direção de Arte: Orvis Rigsby
Figurino: Rhona Meyers
Guarda-Roupa: Claudia Combee, Pamela Lee Incardona, Emae Villalobos
Maquiagem: Lee Grimes, Toni G
Efeitos Sonoros: John Bires, Tony Lamberti, Geoffrey G. Rubay e outros
Efeitos Especiais: Phillip Beck, Ron Keller
Nota: 8.2
Filme Assistido em: 2004
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Charlize Theron...
2021-08-0208 min
OIS Podcast | Ophthalmology's leading PodcastLeadership - How to Measure & Motivate in a Startup EnvironmentFor this episode of the OIS Podcast, we are sharing a panel discussion on Leadership which took place during the last OIS@AAO meeting in San Francisco.The focus of the conversation was on “How to Measure and Motivate in a Startup Environment” and featured some valuable insights from Adrienne Graves, Bernie Haffey, Ron Kurtz, Kirk Nielsen, and Andy Corley.Participants:Adrienne Graves, PhD, Independent Board Member - Nicox, IVERIC, Oxurion, Akorn, Greenbrook TMS, Surface PharmaBernie Haffey, President - Haffey & Co.Ron Kurtz, MD, President & CEO - RxSightKirk...
2020-04-3027 min
Saturday LiveMichael Morpurgo, Dr Helen SharmanMichael Morpurgo joins Aasmah Mir and the Reverend Richard Coles. He describes how stories from his mother, and a decorated soldier from WWI, have inspired his latest novel; the importance of daydreaming and his reimagining of the Nativity.
Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space in 1991. She recalls how that experience affected the rest of her life as we countdown the days to Tim Peake's launch.
Tony talks about his experience of being homeless for nine months, before being helped by The Connection at St. Martins.
We have tracked down last week's mystery muralist: Ron Brocklehurst tells us...
2015-12-121h 26
The Boomer and The Babe Radio NetworkRon Nawrocki - Wealth DNARich Habits - The Wealth DNA radio show is dedicated to helping you increase your wealth, as well as educating savers & investors. During this show our guest will definitely help educate savers & investors on what good habits and bad habits they have. Have you heard the old adage "Understanding the Problem is half the Solution"? Certainly each of us can find examples of what others are doing wrong & what they should do differently. But it's much harder when the "other person" is the one we see in the mirror! So why not analyze many different people - some Rich and o...
2015-04-271h 14
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