4 ways to redefine power at work to include women of color | Rha Goddess and Deepa Purushothaman

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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With many women of color considering exiting the workforce due to unfair conditions, it's time to reshape systems in order to put an end to this massive loss of talent. Exposing the harmful repercussions of racist, toxic organizational cultures, soul coach Rha Goddess and corporate inclusion visionary Deepa Purushothaman share four pathways to reimagine work so women of color are centered as leaders. They urge us to aspire to more than a "seat at the table" and, instead, to remake the whole table -- together -- and finally stop fighting for "one broke-ass chair."

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hu, you're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:07.5	Raw goddess and Deepa Puru Shataman call themselves corporate refugees.
0:12.6	Now they are authors and coaches, encouraging us to rethink how, why, and where we work.
0:18.8	In their talk from TED Women in 2021,
0:21.6	Ra and Deepa share ideas to make the workplace better for people of color
0:25.7	and as a result, better for all of us.
0:31.3	We are in a moment of reckoning.
0:34.6	An epic global plague, a massive workforce peace out,
0:40.0	and a worldwide racial awakening
0:42.1	have revealed that current corporate structures
0:45.2	are not living up to evolving expectations.
0:49.2	Work is just not working for most of us,
0:53.0	especially when it comes to women of color.
0:56.0	And while there can be no question
0:57.5	that the last two years have harmed us,
1:01.0	it's also encouraged us to rethink how, where, and why we work.
1:08.3	We have an opportunity to reimagine.
1:11.6	And women of color are ready to share and to lead.
1:16.6	We want to bring the world of work into the 21st century
1:20.6	so that it works for everybody.
1:23.6	And that starts, we're getting real.
1:26.6	Mm-hmm. Our data shows that one in three women And that starts, we're getting real.
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