Episode 276: Andrew McCaskill

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Lauren has an eye-opening conversation with the VELVET-VOICED Andrew McCaskill, a LinkedIn Career Expert and 2023 brand ambassador for Nike's #BeTrue campaign! When LinkedIn conducted a study of LGBTQ+ professionals for Pride Month of last year, they were surprised to learn that more than half of the respondents polled said they hide their identity in the workplace. Andrew kicks off our in-depth discussion about coming out at work with his own personal story, which begins in a rural Mississippi town that literally had more cows than people. His first big job out of college was in the financial industry, and not only was he not out to his colleagues; he found himself watching hours of SportsCenter every night before he saw clients, "because everybody wants to talk to the 6'3" Black guy about sports." We run the gamut of what it means to be queer in the workplace, including the importance of knowing your "why" if you're planning on coming out, how to find resources if you're transitioning, and the ironic downside of passing privilege. It's an invaluable conversation with somebody who's been on both sides of the out-at-work experience!

Follow Andrew on Twitter at @DrewMcCaskill and find him on LinkedIn at "Andrew McCaskill," where you can also subscribe to his newsletter, The Black Guy In Marketing!

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:10.0	Okay, so today we're going to be talking about work environment, career type stuff.
0:18.0	So queer root shout out, I tried to tie it thematically to one of the all-time
0:24.2	greatest career women. Shout out to you if your queer root is Miss Honey from the movie Matilda.
0:31.2	This was a very formative figure in many folks' lives. Let's honor our teachers, respect them. One of the hardest professions.
0:40.3	Shout out to you, if you're a Miss Honey fan. If I have shouted out your queer root, or if you
0:45.6	have a queer root that you're like, how is she not mentioned this one so far? Let me know
0:49.5	at coming out pod at gmail.com. But enough about that.
0:54.8	Okay.
1:00.0	So yes, as I teased, we're going to be talking work stuff today.
1:04.8	And my guest, I am here with Andrew McCaskill.
1:05.9	Hi, Andrew.
1:07.6	Hey, Lauren.
1:08.3	How are you?
1:10.0	I'm good.
1:18.6	Okay, so Andrew is a marketing and communications leader. He is a LinkedIn career expert. And this is especially exciting.
1:29.7	2023 Nike B-True brand ambassador. For those who don't know, B-True is a Nike campaign that is honoring and uplifting LGBTQ plus folks in sports, which is so cool. And yeah, Andrew got to be a part of that,
1:38.7	of that whole deal. Do you want to like talk about that at all? That sounds really cool. Yeah, it was it was actually
1:45.4	really, really cool. I, um, they selected me because of some of the LGBTQ plus DEI activism work
1:53.0	that I've done throughout my career. And they wanted me originally to lead a conversation with
2:00.1	queer athletes, right?
2:01.4	And I talked to these amazing brave queer athletes and did a roundtable with them.
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