79. The Power of Rethinking Everything with Dr. Yaba Blay

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

1. Why the construct of beauty is oppressive, but the essence of beauty is freedom. 2. What living with integrity looks like. 3. Why Dr. Blay doesn’t need any more allies—and what she really wants from an accomplice. 4. How “Karens” have been around for centuries—and the direct line from “Miss Anne to Karen.” 5. Dr. Blay’s greatest hope for her granddaughters—even if she doesn’t like it. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to we can do hard things. It's a good. It's a good day. One of my favorite
0:16.2	days I'm very excited. She's very excited. We're all very excited. I'm already sweating
0:19.3	from excitement. Sissy, I know you've been real excited for this day. Yeah, very much.
0:26.2	Yeah, because I have had a secret friend that you don't know. I know it's so but but I do. You
0:35.3	know she just doesn't know that I'm her friend. Yes, because I have watched everything that she's
0:40.7	ever done and read everything she's ever done. But so I have a friend. Yeah, she just doesn't have
0:45.6	the same friend in me. Yeah, it's a one-sided friendship. But today we're going to make it two-sided
0:51.6	because today one of our favorite humans on this planet earth is here and it is a great honor
1:00.0	of yours to meet her. Okay, Dr. Yaba Blay is an author, producer, scholar, and consultant born
1:10.6	and raised in New Orleans to Ghanaian parents. Dr. Blay earned two masters degrees and then a
1:16.1	PhD in African American studies. Her first book one job. I love that book. Shifting the lens on
1:22.5	race challenges narrow perceptions of blackness as both in identity and lived reality to understand
1:28.5	the diversity of what it means to be black in the US and around the world. Dr. Blay was named one
1:33.8	of today's leading black voices by the root 100 and essence magazines woke 100. She has launched
1:40.6	several incredible viral campaigns including hashtag professional black girl. Her multi-platform
1:48.7	digital community. She's brilliant, beautiful, and a fiery, Sagittarius, and one of the wisest,
1:55.9	most beloved people in my life. Welcome Dr. Yaba Blay. Yeah, I feel like there should be applause.
2:03.4	I just did. That's just me. I always scorn when people read my bio. I'm like, all right,
2:12.6	they can read it online. Let's get to it. But thank you. Tell us about what is most important to you
2:20.4	about your work in the world. Much of your work as an academic and a cultural critic is about beauty.
2:27.6	How do you describe this passion of yours that you study and teach about so beautifully?
2:36.4	Well, I would say it's about beauty. Beauty feels like one of the things that falls under the
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