6-Month Check-In on Our Social Justice Action Plan

Limitless Life

Melyssa Griffin

Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Business

4.9 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Roughly 6 months ago, I co-created a 1-Year Anti-Racism Action Plan for myself and my company. It was created in June 2020, about a month after George Floyd's tragic murder, as a way to truly pledge my commitment to this work beyond half-hearted promises.

Social Justice and white supremacy have been topics I've personally been learning about for about a decade, yet as I looked around my life and business, I saw plenty of unconscious bias and room for improvement (and even things that kind of embarrassed me to admit...more on that in this post!). To me this means that, especially as a white womxn, learning how to dismantle systems of oppression and cause less harm is a lifelong journey. It's a language I can't learn from reading a single book or taking one class, as social justice is an ever-expanding process of self-examination, education, and action.

Now that my company and I have had half a year to implement this plan, I wanted to give you a FULL 6-month update to share where we've succeeded, what we're still working on, and what's next. And since Black History Month is kicking off right now, it seems like the perfect time to share this and keep the momentum moving.

Let’s dive in.

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0:00.0	I'm Melissa Griffin and while I was in my 20s, I turned a hobby blog into a multi-million
0:05.8	dollar company. Now, what I've discovered after working with thousands of entrepreneurs is that the
0:10.7	greatest thing standing in the way of success isn't another business tactic or marketing strategy.
0:17.3	It's your own mindset. Now, I believe that you're meant for more than just the status quo.
0:23.3	So on this show, you'll feel like you're sitting down with a friend who's here to help you transform your fears and roadblocks into a truly limitless version of yourself.
0:34.0	It's time to upgrade your life and business from the inside out. Let's do this.
0:42.7	Hello, my friends. So excited for today's episode because we're talking about the updates that
0:51.3	myself and my company have made over the last six months to really embody anti-racism
0:57.3	and social justice. So you may have remembered that about six, seven months ago, around June of
1:05.1	2020, we created an anti-racism action plan. And inside of that plan, it detailed a lot of different things
1:13.0	that we were going to be changing in my company and also in my own personal life. Now, this was about a
1:18.4	month after George Floyd's murder. And obviously, there was so much social unrest that was happening.
1:24.7	And people were really making a lot of pledges about what they wanted to do
1:27.7	to embody anti-racism and make a difference and create more socially conscious companies.
1:33.8	But I always like to have a plan because I know that if I don't have one, then I'm probably not
1:40.0	actually going to do anything. So that's why this idea of creating a very detailed plan was born.
1:47.3	And so, you know, for me personally, I've been studying social justice for over 10 years. It was my
1:54.1	main focus in my major in college, and I continued learning about it over the years ever since then.
2:01.0	But as I looked around my life and business, I saw plenty of unconscious bias and room for improvement.
2:08.0	So I share that with you because even as somebody who is not new to this work,
2:12.5	who had a decent foundation of understanding social justice, You know, I've really humbled myself to
2:19.3	seeing how much work I have yet to do and understand. And that's why I think that this work,
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