S E117: Twitter Question (Volume 9): Agency!

This Is Karen Hunter

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Karen takes "agency" to another level and gives a fire response to this Sunday's Twitter question about equity, social justice and what these terms mean.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. More than a hundred plus episodes ago, episodes 13 and 14 when I was doing this
0:16.8	podcast once a week, I did a two-part series on the Road to Agency.
0:22.6	And if you haven't listened to it, please check it out
0:25.0	because it was life changing for me.
0:26.7	I had been spending most of my adult career
0:31.2	trying to achieve financial freedom.
0:33.0	But after reading this study, I realized that I have been looking in the wrong direction for where I needed to be.
0:40.0	I needed agency.
0:42.0	And there's a difference, all right right because I know a lot of people who are financially free I know a lot of people who are wealthy enough to leave their jobs right now they have enough money in the bank that they never have to work again but yet but yet they don't have
0:55.0	agency because there is fear in how they live their lives I know people that have
1:00.4	money I'm not naming any names but they have enough money to live off for the rest of their lives enough money to take care of their family and yet they still do things that are detrimental to themselves and to our community be out of fear and they want to be liked and they want the man
1:16.4	to consider them worthy.
1:18.4	So they do crazy things and say crazy things even though they have financial freedom because they're still afraid of not being
1:26.5	deemed worthy. That's not agency. And I'm going a little bit deeper when you listen to that
1:31.2	podcast. It's strictly financial, but I'm taking agency to a whole other level because I have physically taken agency to a whole other level so let me just be clear I may not have enough money to retire, right?
1:44.1	But I have agency, meaning I'm willing to walk away
1:49.3	from any situation irrespective of how much money is on the table because I have that much
1:56.4	Confidence and courage in myself to be able to take care of myself
2:00.2	Recently and I feel like you know also as also as you grow in this feeling you become less tolerant of the shenanigans,
2:08.6	especially the racial shenanigans that are going on in this country in this world right now.
2:12.6	Like you have zero tolerance for it.
2:15.6	At least that's where I am.
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