Podcasts by Sway Them in Color
The status-quo when it comes to work, power, creativity, and inclusive relationships are crusty and broken, but the silver-lining of seeing the flaws in our systems is that we have the power and opportunity to build something exciting and new. Sway Them in Color explores acts of personal and professional courage and the leadership lessons gained from unconventional leaders who have gone against the status-quo to share new ideas and creations. From sex educators, tech entrepreneurs and performers, to spiritual advisors and corporate executives, each episode provides hilarious and enlightening universal lessons on some of the deeper questions of life and the leadership lessons anyone from any background can relate to and learn from. Created and hosted by Christina Blacken, Founder and Chief Narrative Strategist of TheNewQuo.com, a leadership and equity consultancy helping leaders use behavioral science based narrative strategies to disrupt bias, build better relationships, and communicate new ideas with deeper connection and influence to achieve status-quo breaking equity goals.
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Podcast on the topic Selbstverwirklichung
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Transitioning Gender and Radical Self-Acceptance from 2023-03-31T17:29
In this episode me and my guest Aurora Higgs have such a rich conversation that beginning with Aurora’s experiences and insights as a transgender individual, activist, and performer. A...
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Caring for Yourself When Caregiving for Those You Love from 2023-01-10T18:24
his episode is all about loss. Trigger warning we talk about death, covid, and overcoming with my guest Ada Chen, who is the founder of Chuan’s Promise, a sus...
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The Courage to Work With Family from 2022-11-29T21:45
In this episode my guest Nike Anani and I speak about her journey of leaving a cushy corporate job in London to move back to Lagos, Nigeria to work in her family ...
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Dear White People from 2022-11-21T19:44
In this episode my guests Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard are
Finding your authentic self from 2022-08-11T19:36:57
In this episode we explore authenticity in all its varieties and understandings. Sherri is a leader, Speaker, and Author who lives to help others see their own au...
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You're More Powerful Than You Think from 2022-07-18T21:03
In this episode we explore when my guest Janet Alexandersson created Listen
Changing our relationship to religion from 2022-07-05T22:01:28
In this episode my guest is Umbreen Bhatti who Listen
Redefining the crusty definitions of success that don’t work from 2022-06-07T20:39:57
In this episode my guest is Julissa Contreras, and after being laid off from WeWork ...
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How to become a chief evangelist officer for your ideas from 2022-05-17T22:39:09
In this episode we explore when my guest Nancy Soni sought out a hypnotherapist to help her reprogram deep-seated beliefs f...
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Creating safe relationships in an unsafe culture from 2022-05-09T22:33:30
In this episode we explore my guest Monisha Bajaj’s experiences with running relationship and sexual violence prevention p...
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Overcoming Burnout with Spiritual Psychology from 2022-04-18T21:59:47
In this episode we explore when my guest Trish Boes quit her full-time job after suffering from severe burnout. Not only d...
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Courage in the face of sexual harassment from 2022-04-05T01:40:42
In this episode we explore when my guest Deepali Vyas experienced sexual harassment while working for a recruiting firm in her early career and when she left the ...
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When your white colleague uses the N word from 2022-03-15T03:03:05
In this episode we explore when my guest while working in architecture and urban planning, wrestled with the perception of bei...
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Walking Away From 2 million Dollars from 2022-02-22T03:51:54
My guest on the Sway Them in Color Podcast today exemplifies walking the talk, as we explore when he took an act of courage by walking away from a 2 million dolla...
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What Failure Teaches Us from 2022-01-25T15:19:11
In this episode of Sway Them in Color I speak with my homie Ron Johnson. Ron Johnson is a curator of entrepreneurial experiences. His business Listen
What I Love About Being Black from 2020-09-10T01:45:06
When you’re raised as the only Black family for miles, in a place like Ogden Utah that has very little racial diversity, as a Black person, you get used to being ...
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Building What You Can't See from 2020-08-06T03:30:25
In this episode of Sway Them In Color I speak with Tony Chatman. Tony has worked with hundreds of corporations and government agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, Dept. of Homela...
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Why We Need Values Driven Business from 2020-07-09T00:07:17
In this episode of Sway Them In Color I speak with Zena Hanna founder of Zena Digital Group. With over ten years of digital media experience under her belt, she w...
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Why Symphony is a Better Term Than Diversity for Creating a Better World from 2020-07-03T00:59:18
In this episode of Sway Them in Color I speak with Oshoke Pamela Abalu, an architect and futurist, who was the Chief Architect for MetLife’s $1 billion inclusive workplace redesign. She...
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Being Your Authentic Self is a Courageous Act of Rebellion from 2020-06-11T16:26:59
Dr. Akilah Cadet is the founder of Change Cadet consulting, which offers a broad array of services including execu...
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Being Liberal Is Not an Oppression Pass from 2020-05-29T17:51:03
Oppression pass (n): a term I’ve coined about the belief that because you are liberal, marginalized yourself, like black people/have one black fr...
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Creating Something From Nothing from 2020-05-22T15:33:14
With every growth spurt I’ve gone through, both physically and mentally, there’s been a mark left it its wake, a story no longer fitting cast aside.
Finding Your Self-Worth In a Sea of Racism from 2020-05-15T06:04:31
I can’t tell you the number of times I have talked with friends about social and political issues with deep sadness and anguish. From white nationalist protestors...
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Emotional Athleticism and Resilience in Times of Trouble from 2020-04-22T05:19:33
Pain is something we take large precautions to avoid. The psychical pain of accidents, ill health, and pushing our bodies to our limits. The mental pain of stress...
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Innovation, Surviving recession, and Good leadership from 2020-03-25T03:23:26
What do you do when life hands you a big ol’ stanky basket of lemons? You make the most delicious remixed lemonade (with probably a splash of whiskey).
In this episode o...
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Health, Weight, And Taking Risks from 2020-03-05T04:46:59
My relationship with my body and health is a complicated one. There are days where I feel strong, and curvy and sexy. I can kill an HIIT class. I’m at the top of ...
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What They Don't Tell You About Love : 5 Ways To Love Better from 2020-02-14T15:54:15
Romantic love, that good good, is the type of love that’s fetishized as the ultimate achievement, the one type of love we must cherish and work on the most, so mu...
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I'm Rebranding Racism With Three Hilarious New Phrases and You Can't Stop Me from 2020-02-07T01:56:56
Racism and racist are triggering words. Use the R word and people clutch their pearls and run for the “not me, I’m not one of them!” hills no matter how accurate the term is to describe...
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Hair and The Beauty of The Parts of You That Were Bullied from 2020-01-30T07:07:33
My Afro has always generated conversations well before I did. Entering rooms, blocking pictures, catching sunlight and an array of other things I'd pull out of it...
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The Secret to Dealing with Rejection from 2020-01-18T16:07:24
"Think about the next big risk you want to take. The thing that makes you feel like your stomach is doing a backflip and you may shit your pants. The one that's t...
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Sex and Having Professional Joy Over Jealousy from 2020-01-08T19:56:37
We do it, we do it and we hope we do it well (shout outs LL Cool J), but we don’t talk about it. Sex plays such a massive role in our lives but there...
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Curiosity, Messing up, and Approaching Diversity and Inclusion as a Leader from 2020-01-02T19:23:23
Labels make life simple but they provide so many stumbling blocks to truly understanding and connecting with one another. Anyone who leads has big ol' blind spots when it comes to relating to pe...
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Let Go of Conformity If You Want To Succeed from 2019-12-18T17:52:45
What does it mean to be a spiritual gangster and how can our spiritual life be integrated into our careers?
That's what my guest Makhosi Candiss P...
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How to Do The Things That Scare The Sh*t Out Of You from 2019-12-06T01:00:55
Your Purpose is Greater Than External Validation from 2019-11-27T17:39:02
Your Uniqueness is a Strength and Not Someone’s Punchline from 2019-11-20T15:44:36
What do you do when you feel like you don't fit in, and you're not living up to your potential? Those questions propelled my guest Tayo Listen
Pleasure as Activism from 2019-11-13T14:22:01
What does it truly take to create a path less trekked, especially a career path that's built on what society considers taboo?
That's what me and my guest Cameron Glover tackle in the fir...
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