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Hey, everyone, as promised here is part one of the virtual town hall that we did on the topic of

how to have difficult conversations about race.

A lot of people have been asking for this for weeks and they have been waiting patiently for it.

So sorry for the delay, but we're excited to get this to you.

Now here in part one, this is the prepared portion.

This is where I was sharing my thoughts and giving some

actionable tips and then in the next three videos what you're going to get is

the Q and a portion and these questions were fantastic and this is what made the

the presentation takes so long because that's what pushed this over three

hours so right now we're going to do the

prepared portion and then keep an eye out for the next episode coming out tomorrow with the Q&A.

So with that, let's move to Q&A. So I'm going to open up the Google document and we're going to

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