Fighting Oppression With Joe Thurman
The CreateU Experience
Brendan Meyers
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
With everything happening around the race relations issue in the United States right now, thought leaders from all walks of life are stepping up and raising their voices in the fight against oppression. Joe Thurman is the Founder and CTO at Jobber Group – a corporate executive running a corporate organization. When not wearing his CEO suit, Joe is well aware that he is foremost a black person. With each turn of events, it becomes all the harder for him to ignore the realities around oppression and the struggle against it that is happening around him. Joining Brendan Meyers on this podcast, Joe shares his insights on the current state of events and raises a call to action against racial inequality and oppression.
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| 0:31.5 | welcome to the Create You experience Welcome to The Create You Experience. |
| 0:34.0 | Not going to lie, we have recorded the intro a few times because I'm not used to calling |
| 0:39.7 | someone like a black entrepreneur. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm not used to say my black friend Joe but hey |
| 0:45.2 | what's going on in the world right now in the United States specifically is I'm |
| 0:50.9 | gonna loss of words to be honest but I'm Brendan this is Joe Thurman he's the owner of a |
| 0:56.8 | Great business. What's the business name? Yeah Java group. We're a consulting company had for five years but yet to your point Brendan it's it is different and we had to do this take a couple times because to call out my color is not something that's not what we do when we go and grab a drink and when we go hang out you don't say this is my black friend Joe, but we're having to do that because of current state of things. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah, and I wanted to bring him on because I'm trying to find my own ways to be able to give back to the movement and to give to society |
| 1:30.3 | and shift the way people are thinking about what's going on and in a |
| 1:34.0 | a positive light. I want change, right? But more so I want transformation. |
| 1:39.0 | Because, like the way that I think is with change, it's like you're completely taking the |
| 1:44.5 | opposite of certain things that are happening but over the years there has |
| 1:49.0 | been transformation it's just not moving at the pace that we want yeah I would agree and I mean I think it's just not moving at the pace that we want. Yeah, I would agree. |
| 1:53.1 | And I mean, I think it's important to start out |
| 1:55.4 | by saying that, yeah, that mindset of giving back |
| 1:58.8 | or why you and I are talking right now, |
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