241: Why diversifying your friend group is important & how to start - Tiffany Ellis
ON AIR WITH ELLA | Women's Wellness
Ella Lucas-Averett
5.0 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
SHOW NOTES: https://www.onairella.com/post/241-cross-racial-friendships
Tiffany Ellis and I are discovering there's so much to learn and enjoy when we widen our circles, expand beyond our comfort zones, and are willing to say the things that others won't - all in the name of friendship and connection.
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT:
- Women supporting women....all women.
- Cross-Racial friendships
- Why are they important? Why are they hard(er)?
- When the media is creating narratives and feeding you what it thinks will provoke and engage you, the best antidote - in our opinion - is to make a friend!
- In 2014, a study found that three-quarters of white people don’t have any non-white friends!
- How to make friends that don't look like you
- What NOT to do when we're trying to build real relationships (vs engaging in tokenism)
- Why social media probably isn't the best place for this work
- Intent vs impact, performative vs transformative - building relationships on safe ground
- Our differences makes for richer experiences... and yet, we have so much in common!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hold on. That's what we call a bar. When you say something that was like profound, we call it a bar. So you just drop the bar. |
| 0:05.5 | Wait, am I spitting bars? You're spitting Ella. |
| 0:11.1 | Welcome. You're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and tips from people who are doing something better than we are. |
| 0:18.2 | Whether it's wellness or relationships to just living better and with more |
| 0:21.6 | energy or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however you |
| 0:26.6 | define it. This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts and we're |
| 0:30.5 | learning more every day. Live better. Start now. Hey, you're on air with Ella. |
| 0:40.7 | And today I am joined by Ms. Tiffany Ellis. |
| 0:41.6 | Tiffany, how are you? |
| 0:42.6 | I'm outstanding. |
| 0:43.4 | How about yourself? |
| 0:45.6 | Hey, where are you talking to us from today? |
| 0:48.8 | I am speaking with you from Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:52.4 | I have spent some time down there, my friend. |
| 0:53.8 | Tiffany, you know the drill. |
| 0:56.0 | Can you tell everybody who you are and what you do? |
| 1:04.4 | Like I said, I'm Tiffany Ellis, and I'm a risk analyst now for Amazon. Prior to that, I worked in the property and casualty insurance industry for about 12 years. Well, even though I spend an inordinate |
| 1:09.3 | amount of time and resources with Amazon, |
| 1:11.6 | that's not how I know you, is it? No, you know me from some of my other venture, some of the |
| 1:18.1 | things I do outside of Amazon. Okay, tell us a little bit about that, Tiffany. It's funny because |
| 1:23.2 | it's my side job, but it takes up probably more of my time than anything else. And it is my passion, |
| 1:29.8 | which is pods and PR. You know, pods and PR led me to both you and Shanty Jackson. So Chanty |
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