On Openness and Equality in the Workplace | Deborah Owens

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Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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We’re in a moment where more people are awakening to the reality that there is no such thing as a universal experience. Especially in the world of work. And often, some blend of our identities, history, biases, gender, race, age, ability, and more play into whether any given experience feels welcoming and filled with dignity and possibility, or exclusionary and layered with inequity and intolerance.

And, the thing is, it’s not up to the person being harmed or excluded to dim their light and make everyone else feel comfortable, it’s up to all of us to enter into the conversation in an open, respectful, generous and generative way, and explore how to create cultures where everyone feels at peace, at home, and able to flourish.

That's where we're headed today with my guest and friend, Deborah Owens, whose own story has shaped her mission to ensure that every Person of Color is fully supported and equipped for both the opportunities and challenges in the corporate arena through her consulting company Corporate Alley Cat.

We explore her family's legacy of social justice before diving into the unique—yet, familiar—experiences and challenges she faced as a young Black woman finding her voice in corporate America and the lessons she's learned since on reclaiming her power, and how you can contribute to the conversation and solution.

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0:00.0	Because if you don't feel powerful at a place that you're spending 40 to 60 hours a week,
0:06.1	you feel powerless.
0:07.1	How can you go home and create powerful families?
0:11.4	How can you go and create powerful communities?
0:14.4	I want people to not give away their power.
0:17.5	And I don't say get the power.
0:19.1	I say don't give it away because you already have it.
0:22.7	And sometimes we just don't know it.
0:26.9	So we're in this moment where more people are awakening to the reality that there is
0:32.0	no such thing as a quote universal experience, especially in the world of work.
0:37.0	And often some blend of our identities and histories and biases and gender and race
0:42.6	and age and ability and more.
0:44.8	They play into whether any given experience feels welcoming and filled with dignity and
0:50.9	possibility or exclusionary and layered with inequity and maybe intolerance.
0:57.4	And the thing is it's not up to the person that is being harmed or excluded to dim their
1:02.8	light or do the work to make everybody else feel comfortable in these moments.
1:06.4	It's up to all of us, every single one of us to enter into the conversation in an open
1:11.6	and respectful and generous and generative way and explore how to create cultures where
1:17.5	everybody feels at peace and at home and fully expressed and able to flourish.
1:23.2	And that's where we're headed today with my guest and friend Deborah Owens, whose own
1:27.4	story has shaped her mission to ensure that every person of color is fully supported
1:32.1	and equipped for both the opportunities and challenges in the corporate arena.
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