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Hello, friends, I am so excited to bring you this wonderful conversation with Amber Coleman

Mortley. Originally broadcast in March 2019, this episode has been in the Locked Archive,

and I feel like we need it more than ever. This episode actually was originally titled

How to Talk Kids About Race, but in listening to the conversation again for this remix,

I realized that this conversation includes such excellent fodder for adults

too, so I changed the title to make it more inclusive. Amber is the compassionate guide we

need in tough conversations. She maintains a frame of you don't know what you don't know,

no judgment. She recognizes that we all make mistakes

and that things can get uncomfortable and that is normal and okay. She encourages curiosity and

empathy and connecting at a human level. And ultimately, she wants us to all lift one another up.

She makes talking about race as easy as talking about sandwiches. Literally,

there is an analogy in this episode that really brings that to light. I think this is

essential listening and it is not contentious. Please listen and share. Let's get right to the

conversation. Welcome, Amber. I am so excited to talk to you.

Welcome to edit your life. Yay. Thank you so very much for having me. I'm so thrilled to be here.

This is going to be awesome. This is going to be awesome. There's this very real challenge right now that,

you know, parents need to talk to kids about race,

but it's really hard to figure out how to do that in a way that doesn't make people feel

out of touch or ill-informed. So I would just love to hear a little bit more your thinking about

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