589: Dr. Traci Baxley: Social Justice Parenting - Raising Allies & Activists

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Traci Baxley is a mother of five, consultant, educator and coach dedicated to supporting families, organizations and corporations in developing diversity & inclusion practices that lead to meaningful relationships, genuine belonging and high productivity. She is also the creator of Social Justice Parenting®, a philosophy that moves families from fear-based parenting to creating spaces of belonging through compassion, radical love and social justice engagement. Her book, Social Justice Parenting, comes out next week on October 19th. This is a book you definitely want in your home library. As part of Traci’s book launch, I will be joining her for her virtual book launch party on October, 20th. This will be a one hour conversation with Traci and me, as well as audience members, as Traci shares stories from the book and talks through some of the most critical things we need to face if we want to parent our children through the lens of social justice values. Sign up to join Traci and me live for this virtual conversation at shamelessmom.com/justice. Listen in to hear Traci share: Why we must go beyond becoming allies and activists ourselves, and also raise our children to become activists Her identity as a mother of 5 who has biracial children, neurodiverse children, and children with mental health struggles The pushback she gets being in an interracial marriage What fear based parenting looks like - especially in comparison to social justice parenting How to start shifting gears into social justice parenting How to talk to your kids about race in small ways that have big impact Why you can’t always be the fixer for your kids - and the importance of listening for clarity & empathy not just to solve problems as a parent How parents in mostly white communities can raise conscientious children who are invested in racial equity and social justice The importance of learning about and talking about Black joy with your kids Links mentioned: Join Traci and me for Traci’s virtual book launch on October 20th Buy the Book: Social Justice Parenting by Dr. Traci Baxley Connect with Traci: Social Justice Parenting Traci on IG Traci on FB Traci on LinkedIn Traci on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 589, with Dr. Tracy Baxley.
0:05.6	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going
0:09.7	to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 589.
0:17.9	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.
0:20.0	I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other
0:23.4	passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:29.5	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
0:34.9	Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at shamelessom.com forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
0:53.7	Dr. Tracy Baxley is a mother of five, a consultant and educator and a coach dedicated to supporting families, organizations, and corporations, and developing diversity and inclusion practices that lead to meaningful relationships, genuine belonging, and high productivity.
1:08.4	She's also the creator of social justice parenting, a philosophy
1:11.7	that moves families from fear-based parenting to creating spaces of belonging through compassion,
1:17.2	radical love, and social justice engagement. Her book, Social Justice Parenting, comes out
1:22.1	next week on October 19th, and this book is definitely one you will want in your home library.
1:27.5	As part of Tracy's book launch, I'm going to be joining her for a virtual book launch party on October 20th.
1:33.0	And any of you can attend.
1:34.8	So this one hour conversation with Tracy and me, as well as our audience members, will be a great opportunity for you to listen to Tracy share stories from the book and talk through some of the most critical things we need to face if we want to parent our children through the lens
1:47.7	of social justice values. If you want to join Tracy and I for this virtual conversation on October 20th,
1:53.8	go to shamelessmom.com slash justice and you can sign up. That's shamelessmom.com slash justice.
2:00.7	Listen in to this fabulous conversation with Dr. Tracy
2:03.7	Baxley, where she shares why we must go beyond becoming allies and activists ourselves and also
2:09.1	raise our children to become activists. Her identity as a mother of five who has biracial children,
2:14.3	neurodiverse children, and children with mental health struggles, the pushback that
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