Episode 51: Regina Jackson from Race2Dinner on "What it means to call yourself an ALLY?"

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In this episode Regina Jackson of Race2Dinner joins the Embracing Only Podcast where they deconstruct how being nice has not stopped racism. Thorugh her work and lived experiences over the last 72 years she is on a mission to change the status quo she co-founded Race2Dinner with Saira Roa. They took the experiences from these dinners and developed a documentary with film maker Patty Ivins called Deconstructing Karen. In the words of the filmaker’s themselves “It is a provocative documentary, white women experience RADICAL HONESTY ABOUT RACISM…their daily role in upholding it, their conditioning to ignore it and the essential part they can play in tearing down the systems that are killing black and brown people every single day.”

How does this translate into the workplace?

  • It provides thought provoking questions to consider if you call yourself an Ally at work?

  • It challenges you to start with yourself in deconstructing your beliefs and triggers first

  • It leaves us with key messages to ACT as there is urgency in having honest discussion however uncomfortable that make us feel. Only then can we seek to make the impact we seek within the Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s) or diverse teams we are leading in organizations.

  • Finally, a recognition that is a constant journey of learning, recognition and evolution

If you are ready to join in on this journey to deconstruct your own racism we encourage you to engage in the following way.

  • Purchase their book “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better”. You can purchase it here or anywhere you read books. https://www.amazon.com/White-Women-Everything-Already-Racism-ebook/dp/B09RPPV3B8

  • Watch their movie “Deconstructing Karen”. You can watch it by purchasing it on iTunes or on YouTube

  • Engage with the Race2Dinner Community if you recognize as a white woman. If you are ready to unravel, connect and commit. You can buy one for yourself and gift one to another friend here through January 2023. https://www.race2dinner.com/race2community.

  • Register for the Race2Dinner Self Actualization Program if you identify as a person of color. An opportunity to dive deep, live authentically and free. https://www.race2dinner.com/race2selfactualization

  • Host a Race2Dinner with a group of your girlfriends. Reach out to Saira Rao and Regina Jackson here. They have SOLD Out of their dinner in 2023 but be on the watch out for more in 2024

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Episode 48: Do What Matters with Katherine Byam

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Katherine Ann Byam is a best selling author of “Do What Matters”, sustainability activist, coach and consultant for business resilience and sustainable change, partnering with leaders committed to a shared future. Katherine chose “Doing what matters” after 20+ years in big corporate. She has developed a model to build your own career transition process. As ‘an only’ thriving in spaces across Corporate Audit, to ESG to the big tech she has always lead with a mind of abundance to take up space as a courageous leader. In this episode she navigates how to thrive as ‘an only’, how to work on yourself and discover your biases and those of others with curiosity and in doing so get curious about the planet. She is on a mission to engage and empower more businesses and individuals to lead net positive lives.


Key takeaways from this episode:

  • A company‘s culture when weaponised can be a blueprint for bias.

  • As long as your brain functions there is some kind of bias in you

  • You need to work through vulnerability on your own, make sure you are speaking from your scar not your wound

  • Take time to understand what leading a net positive lifestyle can mean for you

  • Questions are your friend, conclusions are your worst enemy

  • Black women don’t start off wanting to be a stereotype and be labelled a troublemaker.

  • Diversity created our one blue planet and inclusion will help us save it

Episode 42: 500 stories of THE FIRST, THE FEW, THE ONLY

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In her new book, THE FIRST, THE FEW, THE ONLY: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America (March 1, 2022, Harper Business), Deepa Purushothaman lays the groundwork for how other women of color can redefine success on their own terms. It’s the book she says she needed when launching her own career. In this episode of the Embracing Only Podcast, Archita Fritz and Olivia Cream unpack these stories as they share how they saw themselves on every page of the book for the first time. They talk through the inclusion delusion, the toll on the health of women leading from the front and the definitions women of color take on and how women of color can step into their power! Deepa’s book recieved raving reviews from Indra Nooyi, Billie Jean King, Dan Pink and many others. This episode is for all women of color, women and allies on the journey to building more inclusive workplaces.

PC: Leslie Bohm

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