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49 | Decolonizing Education with Adrienne Thomas

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She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is Adrienne Thomas. Adrienne is an unapologetically Black educator who hails from the city of Chicago. She is a passionate social advocate with a focus on Black liberation. 

While Adrienne is also a powerlifter and musician, her passion lies within classroom education, where her goal is to create inclusive curriculum that truly supports the lived experiences of our diverse students and children.

In this episode, we talk about…

  • How the US school curriculum can be more inclusive. 
  • Why it is so important for all students to learn from diverse curriculum.
  • Tangible ways to support educators. 
  • How inclusion has evolved in the powerlifting space. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

0:07.0

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

0:11.0

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much for

0:15.0

listening to this week's episode of the Balance Black Girl

0:17.6

podcast. If you are a new listener, thank you so much for tuning in and

0:21.8

welcome and if you are a returning listener. Thank you so much for tuning in and welcome.

0:22.5

And if you are a returning listener,

0:24.7

thank you so much, welcome back

0:26.9

and I am so happy to have you here.

0:31.3

So something that I would love to start incorporating more of into these weekly episodes

0:38.8

are a bit about my personal favorites. So on Instagram if you're not following me on

0:44.2

Instagram at Balance Less I do get quite a few messages about recommendations of

0:50.1

things that I love products that I like to use, black women-owned businesses to support.

0:57.8

Of course a lot of guests on the show are entrepreneurs who have black women-owned businesses and in their interviews you can

1:04.6

hear all about that and sometimes I just find things that I really love and want to

1:08.9

share about and haven't yet had a chance to interview the person behind it and just want to share. So before we dive into today's

1:16.1

episode I wanted to tell you about a favorite that I am loving and this is totally not sponsored. This is just something that I really love right now,

1:25.1

which is the organic Bathco naked organic body butter.

1:29.6

So a few weeks ago, I was in Boston attending

1:32.4

the inbound marketing conference which was a great time and I went to one of the black at inbound meetups.

1:39.0

So a couple years ago on Twitter, an individual who had been going to inbound for a couple of years ago on Twitter, an individual who had been going to

1:44.2

inbound for a couple of years started the hashtag black and inbound and started

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