230 - Parenting Wisdom and Bridge-Building Encouragement with Author, Speaker, Podcast Host Jamie Ivey
Be the Bridge Podcast
Be the Bridge
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Jamie Ivey is an author and speaker, talk show host, and the popular podcast host of The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey. She joins Be the Bridge founder Latasha Morrison for a great conversation where they discuss the difference between empathy and sympathy, share wisdom in parenting, and give encouragement for the times you get pushback in this bridge building work. Jamie also opens up about her Native heritage. This conversation will be helpful and hopeful.
Host & Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Senior Producer - Lauren C. Brown
Producer, Editor & Music By - Travon Potts
Transcriber - Sarah Connatser
Quotes:
“One of the things that has really been important for me is to think through what voices can I elevate because of the people who are listening to me?” - Jamie
“My brain and my eyes and my heart have been opened wider than I ever imagined they could have been. And that's taken work. And I’ve taken heat for it in some ways.” -Jamie
“Empathy is the difference of sitting in it with someone. Sympathy is when I'm a bystander but I'm not sitting in it with you.” -Tasha
“It's not my children's responsibility to open my eyes up to racial injustice in our country.” -Jamie
“If you're raising a Black child and you're white, their experience in life is going to be 100% different than yours. And you want your child to feel like they can tell you and that you are an advocate for them.” -Jamie
“I love to tell people, it's not always what people do in front, but it's also what they're doing behind the curtain.” -Tasha
“This work is spiritual work. This is discipleship. This is spiritual formation that we're going through.” -Tasha“You have to be teachable. And if you're not teachable, that is exhausting to a person of color.” -Tasha
“This is not my work. This is God's work. And that's what sustains me.” -Tasha
“I started Be the Bridge because of the local church. So I want to see the Church whole and well. And when we get it, the world gets it.” -Tasha
“I hold on to my ancestors before me that hoped for a better future.” -Tasha
“Like our ethnicity, our culture comes from God. And it's expansive. Look at all the people and languages that God has created. And so when that is stolen from us, or when that is withheld from us, there's disruption that happens in God's original design. And so it's about the reordering of things, reconciliation. Justice is about the reordering of things.” -Tasha
“I wish that people would enter into spaces and conversations with people and trust that their feelings are real.” - Jamie
“I think the hope is we see glimpses of change...And if there were so many stories of change, there's hope for everyone to also change as well.” -Jamie
“Broken systems create broken language.” -Tasha
Podcast link: https://podlink.to/BeTheBridgeSocial handles/links: Instagram: @LatashaMorrisonTwitter: @LatashaMorrisonFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LatashaMMorrison/Official Hashtag: #bethebridge
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