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Hey there. I'm Ashley C. Ford and I host Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.

I don't know about you, but I've seen a lot of headlines about how Florida Governor Ron DeSantis wants to end what he calls woke indoctrination. Like in 2021, when Florida passed the so-called stop-woke act, that would

limit how schools and businesses could talk about race and sexual identity. But we wanted to ask,

how does it affect the actual people and business owners in Florida?

To find out, I talked to a man named Antonio McBroom.

Antonio is a black business owner who says he found purpose in uplifting marginalized people.

He even started his own company with a mission to help people like him

navigate bias in the workplace. If we literally cannot address the real challenges of our marketplace,

the real challenges historically that have led to this, if we can't be attention to talk about that

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