Understanding Privilege + Centering Empathy (with Amber Coleman-Mortley)

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Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We get it; talking about race and privilege can be difficult. We’re here to help. Christine is joined by the incredible Amber Coleman-Mortley, whose “hugs and truth” approach to communication is basically what all of us need. Christine and Amber talk about approaching and understanding privilege and whiteness, framed around the actions of centering empathy, creating space for others, and learning about other cultures. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co.
0:09.7	And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:16.6	We share practical ways to declutter your home schedule and mental space without getting bogged down by
0:21.2	perfection. And we believe that baby steps are the key to getting there.
0:26.7	Hello, Edit Your Life Friends. Christine here. And I am so delighted and honored to have the
0:34.5	wonderful Amber Coleman Morley on. Hi, Amber. Hi., my God. I'm so excited. I love you.
0:40.7	Oh, my God. I love you too. So let's just as a little bit of backstory, uh, well, you're a queen.
0:47.0	Let's just tell everyone that. But, um, the last time you were on the show was in March 2019,
0:53.8	which in pandemic time seems like about 11 years ago.
0:58.2	Oh, my God.
0:59.0	It doesn't it, though?
1:00.0	It's like, what was I even doing then, you know?
1:02.8	What were we doing?
1:04.6	We were not making bread.
1:05.9	That's what we were not doing.
1:06.8	But I will link that episode in the show notes.
1:10.2	But our conversation, it was episode 156,
1:13.1	how to talk to kids about race. It blew my mind. I mean, you've heard me make this joke multiple
1:18.8	times, but you literally made the hardest things so much easier to talk about, like, as in
1:24.1	as easy as talking about sandwiches. Like that was an actual example.
1:33.0	So, and that conversation, I think, had come to pass because there were some horrendousness going on.
1:43.4	And then, actually, I don't know how aware you are that this happened, but last year, in June 2020, there was more conflict and racial horrendousness.
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