And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 187.

It's titled Pride and Prejudice.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hey folks.

I've got a tricky episode today,

and I've been mulling this over a few weeks, whether or not to comment on

it, because I try as much as I can to make this series fairly evergreen so that episodes can

be listened to years afterwards and still be relevant. But after chatting with some clients and

some colleagues about this, I'm going to bite the bullet and discuss

racism. And I'm aware that being yet another middle-aged white guy with a podcast, I don't

really speak with quite as much of authority as somebody else might, because I don't know

as much about it compared to a middle-aged black man. But as some black friends and clients have said to me recently, that is the whole point, because many other white folk don't know either.

And they're far less likely to be listening to a podcast series presented by a black therapist to talk about this far less likely.

Have you seen the podcast charts?

Most of us have an image of the presenter in the thumbnail and it's a proper whitewash.

87% of the UK are white, but it's probably about 99% of podcasters.

So if you don't listen to me talk about it, you might not listen to anyone and the whole

point of this podcast series, or one of the points, as I've always said in my intros,

I think I've always said it anyway, is about education, as well as inspiration and motivation,

etc., etc.

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