Hello, and welcome back to Soft Black Woman, presented by The Betcha Sup.

I'm your host, Dr. Akila Kadeh, and each and every Friday on Soft Black Woman will be

talking about a range of topics from pop culture to politics and how we live our lives,

of course, through the lens of intersectionality.

Each and every week on Soft Black Woman, I'll be joined by a different guest, co-host,

who will help me break down those stories, and this week I'm very excited to introduce

my guest, Adrienne Lawrence. Adrienne is an award-winning commentator, equity advocate,

former litigator, teaches, law, media, USC, author of Staying in the Game, the playbook for

beating workplace sexual harassment, and all around incredible person. News personality,

I mean, there's so much more, but hey, Adrienne, welcome.

Thanks so much for having me. It's quite the introduction. Listen it all up.

Wait, I'm also forgetting, you're a VP of a DEI firm, right? There's also that.

That is correct. It's quite a busy woman in Sydney.

I'm a vice president in Jennifer Brown consulting.

Yeah, I mean, and then you just give us so many great looks with celebrating Black hair.

I really enjoyed your hair journey that you've been on like for the past year.

It's been wonderful to watch.

Oh, thank you so much. I've actually gone through a hair, I guess, issue in the last 24 hours

that would be somewhat relevant to the show, but what's going on?

A white colleague reached out and touched my hair yesterday, and I had to educate her

on being completely inappropriate, and the fact that it's the racial microaggression

Catholic racism, and so on and so forth. And so in taking that journey with her over the last 24

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