S E268: Racism, Gender Bias...None of It Can Stop You!
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Karen shares a recent conversation she had that shifted her view on obstacles. Are you walking around braced for rejection? If you are, it means you are focusing on the negative. Karen reminds you to shift your focus.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I recently had lunch with one of my favorite people in the whole white world and I |
| 0:17.2 | check in with him from time to time and we agreed after lunch we got to do it way more |
| 0:21.3 | frequently because he reminded me about something. |
| 0:25.1 | I was in a rut a couple of weeks ago feeling kind of some ways and frustrated because the things that I wanted to get done weren't happening and I was looking around. |
| 0:36.6 | It was like they won't let me do X, Y and Z. |
| 0:40.0 | And we had a conversation actually he shared with me this job that he really wanted. |
| 0:44.8 | Major company we all know the name. |
| 0:47.6 | He had gotten to the final round. This is a high level position. |
| 0:51.6 | They flew him out. |
| 0:53.9 | Everybody, even HR was like, we're going to pay for your move. |
| 0:57.7 | And his final meeting, his final interview |
| 1:00.4 | was with the CEO of the company. |
| 1:02.1 | And this was like, this is how big the |
| 1:03.9 | position was and he wanted it so badly. Everybody thought he was amazing his |
| 1:10.3 | resume was tight everyone loved him they were ready to hire him he just had to get |
| 1:14.9 | through the CEO he came in and I said well you yourself he was like yes you know |
| 1:20.0 | and he's one of the most optimistic positive I mean he just brings sunshine into every |
| 1:24.8 | space that he comes into which is why I love being around him. He said he met with the |
| 1:30.4 | guy and he you know he could tell that it was like pulling teeth that |
| 1:35.1 | there was something off now this is a guy of color he's a colored person he's not |
| 1:40.6 | black but he's not white he's not black, but he's not white. |
| 1:42.6 | He's not a white man from Silicon Valley, right? |
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