The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest.

For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Hey V.A. fam, I can't tell you how excited I am to introduce today's or this week's guest.

She is someone who I feel like I just don't know.

I'm embarrassed to say that I wasn't familiar with her work until more recently but when I tell you I am now a super fan.

Her name is Minda Hartz. Minda is a workplace and equity consultant.

She's also a best selling and award winning author of books like The MMO and Right Within which both have become just treasure troves of insights and strategies and real world tips for women of color struggling to find their place in the modern day workplace.

So you've got to check out Minda's books. However, she's also got a brand new book coming out as well that we're going to talk about called You Are More Than Magic for young adults and that's going to be released this spring.

I think like right now it's out you can go buy it right now. You are more than magic. Minda's also a professor at NYU Wagner.

She is a frequent guest on MSNBC and she's been featured all over the place from ABC to Fast Company Time Magazine.

She's a sought after speaker for companies like Liberty Mutual, Nike, Google, you know, no big deal. She's out there.

And in 2020 she was named the top voice for equity in the workplace by LinkedIn.

You can also check out Minda's podcast called Secure the Seat. She is our podcast sister.

Yeah, so definitely head over to MindaHearts.com and check out all of her incredible work after the show. Check the show notes. We'll have links to all of her amazing content where you can find her books. But for right now, Minda is joining us on Brown Ambition. Minda, welcome.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me big fan of you and Tiffany. Thank you for the work that you do.

How likewise, how long have you been in this space and why haven't I heard of you? This is my, I know it's my fault, but I want to know all about how I know people who are usually in your space have fascinating stories.

And I want to hear sort of like your origin story of how you became someone who is now getting hired by the likes of Google and Nike to hopefully come in and help them fix and better retain and develop and grow women of color talent.

Yeah, well, thank you for highlighting my work because like you said, everybody may not have read the memo. They may not know it, right? And sometimes as black women and brown women are were erased in different spaces.

So it's podcasts like yours. It's us amplifying each other so that people know that this work exists so we don't have to suffer in silence, but it really the work that I started doing. I started back in 2015 when it wasn't as popular to talk about, you know, how black women and brown women were experiencing the workplace.

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