Ep. 445 - When Self-Care Means Walking Away with Amber Field

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today we have an episode of another podcast produced by The North Star - W.O.C. at Work. Hosted by Rai King and Dr. Blanca Ruiz, it explores what it means to be a W.O.C. at Work by elevating the voices of female-identifying leaders of color in order to shed light on their common experiences as they push for transformational change in organizations across the country.

Feel stuck in a job that you know doesn’t serve your needs, but not sure you can walk away? In this episode of WOC at Work, Blanca and Rai talk with Dr. Amber Field about what it looks like to listen to your inner spirit when you know it’s time to move on. Amber talks with the hosts about how she walked away from a “big job” in a white-dominant organization and rested in the fact that even without the titles, salary, and accolades, she-all by herself was enough.

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:01.4	This is Willis, producer of all the podcasts here at the North Star.
0:05.4	Today, Sean is taking the day off and we're going to play a special episode of Woke at Work.
0:10.4	We hope you enjoy.
0:11.6	I am Blanca and I am Ray and this is Woke at Work.
0:16.8	Woke at Work, Woke at Work, Stay in Woke at Work.
0:23.8	Stay in Stain, Stain, Stain, Stain, Stain, Stain.
0:28.8	I met Amber when we first started teaching on different schools, but within the Stain
0:34.8	work.
0:35.8	And we were both teachers, reading teachers, different grades.
0:40.8	I really liked to connect until many years later when we both became principals.
0:48.8	And both were like the first female principals, wasn't we?
0:53.2	We were both female first female principals in the network and then we were both women
0:57.7	of color and we were both like what the hell are we doing?
1:01.7	And then from there, I think it was just like one of those kind of moments when you look
1:05.1	at each other and like we didn't got to say much but wow this is hard.
1:08.9	And then from there, I ended up building a stronger bond where we found out we were both
1:14.5	pregnant with our first kids to meet the part and it was like guess what, I'm pregnant
1:19.3	me too, you know, kind of.
1:21.9	And then it kept going to like hey we're sitting at home from a turning leave, like we got
1:28.0	this email saying hey do you guys want to do a doctorate program?
1:31.1	We're both sitting there, this leaked deprived, like pumping and like breastfeeding and texting
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