How Do You Care For You When Your Work Requires Emotional Labor? with DEI Professional Zahida Sherman

Self-Helpless

Crossover Media Group

Comedy, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Delanie Fischer is joined by Zahida Sherman, a diversity and inclusion professional who is the inaugural director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Southern California Institute of Architecture, a lecturer of anti-racism for The School of Drama at Yale University, and founder of the DEI consultancy, Z Crown Consulting. Zahida shares how she stays organized while balancing a variety of responsibilities, the feelings she navigates doing this work, and how she cares for herself in seasons of heaviness and overwhelm. This guidance, and peak behind the curtain, that Zahida offers is great for people who work in (or are interested in working in) DEI, service providers who facilitate transformative experiences, and those who are in a field that requires a significant amount of emotional labor — be it education, caregiving, advocacy, and others.

Plus:

+ The #1 Boundary Zahida Set Around Her Work

+ The First Steps Zahida Took To Start Her Consultancy (Plus 3 Tips For Facilitating Transformation)

+ The 2 Lists That Help Her In Tough Times

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0:00.0	I'm no good I taking good advice and I'm self-careless so don't tell me twice that lately
0:10.3	I've been so stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said
0:18.2	maybe I'm self helpless maybe I'm self helpless.
0:25.0	Maybe I'm self helpless.
0:27.0	Maybe I'm self helpless.
0:30.0	Maybe we are all self helpless.
0:37.4	Hey everyone, welcome to self helpless.
0:39.2	I'm Delaney Fisher and I'm joined by a fantastic guest,
0:42.4	Zayita Sherman, who is the inaugural director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
0:49.0	She's a lecturer of anti-racism for the School of Drama at Yale University and she runs her own
0:54.8	DEI consultancy and I know that so many of you are either in a field or want to be in a
1:00.2	field where you facilitate some kind of transformative service, whether that's in a group setting,
1:05.7	one-to-one setting as a speaker at events, and that's exactly what Zayida does.
1:10.0	So not only does this episode give you a peek behind the curtain on what being a
1:13.9	DEI specialist can look like, but there's a lot of great information and tips in
1:18.0	here for service providers in general and especially for those who have to
1:22.0	navigate emotional labor as part of their career,
1:24.8	whether it's activism, caregiving, the mental health or medical field, and the things that can support
1:29.9	with that, whether it's setting different boundaries, exercises you can do, self-care practices that can ultimately
1:36.8	make this work more sustainable. So in this conversation, Zayida shares the ups and downs and the
1:42.4	feelings that can come with this work, systems she uses to keep tasks organized as she balances a day job, a business, and speaking at different events.
1:51.0	The simple thing that she did to get started, this is a really
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