So happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring women we've had on the show.

What happens when someone who hasn't had systemic power is elevated into a leadership position where power is then conferred onto them.

As Carla Mataroso tells me, that experience can be shocking.

You probably know that either because you have lived it,

or if you've watched another leader grapple with that same discomfort.

It is one of the many uncomfortable truths that Carla,

a leadership coach, strategists, and racial equity

advocate manages to articulate like no one else can, which is why I wanted to talk with her

about the work she's doing to build a language around power to coach leaders who are trying

to do both the work of their organizations and the work of dismantling workplace and equity

and what it looks like to get it right when it feels so easy to get it wrong.

Carla, thank you so much for doing this.

I'm so excited to do it.

Long time fan. First time caller. First time caller,

long time fan. As you know, I am obsessed with your work, obsessed with you. You go to USC,

going through your LinkedIn, sort of watching those early years out of college where it's like,

you know you want to be in the change space, you want to be in the nonprofit space, but you can

sort of feel the early 20s trying to figure out what that is. And you land at Code 2040. You spend

more than six years there, about half of it as its CEO. Around the time you become its CEO, you find out that the organization

is in a $3 million deficit. Can you take me back to that moment? I think that when I got the

organization, I was clear there was a lot of work that needed to happen, right?

And I had had conversations about the cultural work that needed to happen in the organization.

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