All Episodes
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Episode 15: How to Talk to Your Relatives About Politics at Thanksgiving
In this episode, we take a different approach to those articles you see all over the place this time of year that tell you how to talk to your relatives about politics...
Episode 14: Understanding Dehumanization
In this episode, we discuss Dehumanization, which is a pretty strong word but one that we all engage in in some degree or another. Dehumanization occurs when we don’t ...
Episode 13: The Importance of Safe Spaces — Even for White People
In this episode, we discuss the importance of safe spaces. They are certainly important for minority or marginalized people to associate to freely air grievances witho...
Episode 12: The Politics of Identity
In today's episode, we discuss how identity politics--the associating of people around social groups by which they identify--is often necessary to advancing equity whe...
Episode 11: White Fragility
In this episode we discuss the ego, and how the ego creates stories about ourselves and the world in a way to understand reality. Think of it as a sort of programming....
Episode 10: Conforming to Expectations
Today we’re going to talk about expectations, and how our expectations guide so many of our daily actions and how we see and interact with the world. So what are expec...
Episode 9: Reputation
Today's episode coincides with Columbus Day, a day dedicated to honoring a man for his contributions to history, but who also committed horrific atrocities in the name...
Episode 8: Generational Trauma
We all know that we inherit physical characteristics from our parents, but new understandings around a relatively new field called epigenetics, meaning “outside of gen...
Episode 7: Understanding Privilege
Privilege is a word given to an idea that says there are certain advantages that some people have access to based solely on their race, gender or economic status. Thes...
Episode 6: Are You Listening?
In this episode, we delve a little deeper into what it means to actually listen. It’s one thing to hear someone, but it’s another thing to actually understand what the...
Episode 5: Using Fear as a Guidepost
We’ve talked a lot about discomfort and tension when we encounter things that are different than us. This episode will go a little deeper into the actual psychology of...
Episode 4: The Excuses We Make
For this episode, it’s important that we talk about justification—or the excuses we make—when we’re confronted with our biases. If the last three episodes have caused ...
[BETA] Episode 3: Understanding 'Black Anger'
In this episode, we try to de-stigmatize the stereotype of the "angry black person." We have this idea that civil discourse means we can’t be passionate and angry, and...
[BETA] Episode 2: Understanding Whiteness
In the first episode, we talked about what is at the root of misunderstandings and the snap judgements we make about people based entirely on the information we’re pro...
[BETA] Episode 1: Understanding Misunderstanding
For this first episode, we introduce who we are, discuss what we’re trying to accomplish and lay some ground rules for the rest of the series. Ultimately, what we’re...
