I'm Amy Sandler, the host of the Radical Candor podcast, and with this episode, we're kicking off a series of radically candid conversations.

We are so honored to debut this series by introducing you to Dr. A. Breeze Harper.

She's a diversity and inclusion strategist, an anti-racism scholar, and a facilitator.

Dr. Harper and Kim Scott help us examine, why did it take COVID-19 to expose for so many of us

the virus of systemic racism? And we'll be radically candid, even though everyone has a role to play in being anti-racist,

this mindset is least likely to be practiced by most white people in the United States,

while a majority of black, indigenous, and people of color are already highly aware of the importance of framing anti-racism as a workplace practice.

So this podcast is for those of us, including me and our Radical Candor core team, who have not yet been leading with an anti-racist mindset.

Though, of course, everyone is invited to listen.

It is my great honor to introduce Dr. Breez Harper.

I saw a talk that you did in 2016 that really moved me about how to be anti-racist in the workplace.

And your talk was one of the best examples of radical candor I've ever seen,

because you started with so much love for everyone in the audience,

and yet you did not pull your punches when using language that people are often afraid of. So I admire that. I love that about you. And

I'd love it if you could talk a little bit about some of the things you said in that talk in

2016, which seem even more relevant today than they did in

2016, at least to me, probably because I was unsufficiency aware of what was going on in the world.

Kim, thank you very much for taking the time to look at that video.

I believe that's probably the most viewed

video that I have on my YouTube channel. And, you know, to talk about this talk, I would like to

give you some background. I was actually scared to give this talk. Over the past 15 years,

I've done a lot of lectures and workshops.

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