This week, I am joined by Nicole Gwanzura. Nicole immigrated to the U.S over 16 years ago and has had profound personal and professional experiences that increase her impact in helping others navigate higher education and has become a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has spent the last decade working in MBA admissions, supporting early-career students, and coaching high school students who are the future of our nation. Nicole can always be found hanging out with her tiny humans...
Mar 10, 2022•53 min•Ep. 37
This week, I am joined by Marya Wright. Marya is the founder of Marya Wright Consulting, which provides innovative, high-value, and culturally responsive training content for professionals. Marya offers continuing education training (CEUs) for agencies that service system-involved youth, foster youth, children, and families. Marya is a Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker with the Board of Behavioral Sciences. Marya is a Child Welfare Worker II with County Children and Family Services in ...
Mar 03, 2022•46 min•Ep. 36
This week, I am joined by Brandon Lee. Brandon is a Community Conscious Policing Strategist, author, and co-founder of Training 4 Transformation, LLC. a community-led organization best known for its unprecedented work in Police-Community Integrated Training and Education (P-CITE). An expert in transforming traumatic circumstances into healing opportunities, he developed Community Conscious Policing, a public-health response model to end unnecessary police violence. Now, in the past, on the show ...
Feb 24, 2022•52 min•Ep. 35
This week I am joined by Crystal Ellington. Crystal is a recently retired military veteran and the current Director of Communications for Minority Veterans of America (MVA), an organization with a mission to create belonging and advance equity for minority veterans. Crystal is passionate about speaking up for those who have historically been disenfranchised, systemically excluded, and institutionally oppressed. She leverages her service to her country to ensure that those that have served, and t...
Feb 17, 2022•55 min•Ep. 34
This week, I am joined by Jeff Harry. Jeff is the founder of Discover our Play where he combines positive psychology and play to help teams/organizations create psychologically safe workspaces and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Some of the topics he covers include how to deal with toxicity in the workplace, how to address office politics, how to play with your inner critic, how to help your staff rediscover their flow...
Feb 10, 2022•56 min•Ep. 33
This week, I am joined by Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis. Dr. Dennis is a community advocate, sociologist, criminologist, educator, researcher, and founder of 365 Diversity. I’m going to share all of her amazing work in the show notes. We spend some time talking about Dr. Dennis’ work and background in the DEI space, the issues with the DEI committees and official statements that have so conveniently been forgotten by many organizations after 2020, and how organizations can determine whether a supposed D...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 32
This week, I am joined by Iffy Ibekwe. Iffy is an estate planning attorney evangelist for intergenerational wealth transfer and legacy building with effective wills and trusts. She activates intentional women so they can take agency over their lives and build impactful legacies. Yall we are still in the midst of a pandemic and there are soooo many things that are unknown. That's why Iffy and I talk about the importance of thinking ahead when we don't know the future, why planning for the unexpec...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 31
Joel and I had a great conversation about our experiences working in higher education, particularly in predominantly white institutions, transitioning out of higher ed, and his vast higher education experience has influenced his coaching and consulting firm, Apoyo coaching and consulting. Stay in Touch with: ↳ Joel Perez on LinkedIn ↳ Apoyo Coaching & Consulting CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Ways to support the show: 👉🏾 Support RTWD Monthly 👉🏾 Support us one-time 👉🏾 Follow us on IG ...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 30
This week, I am joined by Mariah Poitier. Mariah (She/Her) is a Black Femme, Bay Area native and scholar-activist. She loves dismantling white supremacy almost as much as she loves to dance. She enjoys the norcal and socal dual lifestyle, and procrastinating on her thesis. Mariah currently is a graduate student at San Francisco State University studying Master of Art in Education with a concentration in Equity and Social Justice. I don’t know if y'all noticed, but I have never really mentioned w...
Oct 21, 2021•55 min•Ep. 29
Bonus Ep for yall! I hopped on the Bro Nouveau Podcast a few weeks ago and had a dope time. Make sure to check out the Bro Nouveau Podcast wherever you listen to your pods. Jonathan Dumas @rtwdpodcast is the founder and owner of CommonCulture Coaching & Consulting. He is an Organizational Psychologist and Leadership Coach, specializing in organizational and team development. Jonathan works with clients across industries to create sustainable and thriving cultures that encourage diversity, eq...
Oct 14, 2021•56 min•Ep. 28
This week, I am joined by Emily McGill, Communications Consultant and Tarot Reader. Emily McGill is a communications consultant and tarot reader. After nearly a decade and a half working in entertainment in New York City as a storytelling strategist and Broadway publicist, her path of self-exploration led to healing and evolution - and reading tarot cards professionally. Emily’s passions are unlocking the magic in others, amplifying unheard voices (inner and otherwise), offering platforms for op...
Oct 07, 2021•48 min•Ep. 27
I have the pleasure of chatting it up with my friend, Nereyda Yong. Neddy is a proud Latina and first generation seminarian at San Francisco Theological Seminary who is also a spiritual director and ordination candidate within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She was raised in a Pentecostal Christian congregation pastored by her grandparents and her spiritual journey has fueled her passion to strengthen and support efforts of liberation for minoritized peoples in the church and societ...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 27
Hey yall! There is an never ending stream of things going on in the world: violation of women's rights, the U.S screwing over the people of Afghanistan...again, Hurricane Ida, the Panaroma V.2, and a stupid recall election in my home state of California. With everything going on, it is still important to pause. So, thats what this episode is. We are going to slow down, be still, and breathe. Find something to celebrate or find some joy, yall! ✌🏾 CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Ways to support ...
Sep 10, 2021•13 min•Ep. 26
This week I am joined by my friend Melany Del Carpio. Melany is Peruvian, a taurus, and is just trying to discover more of her truest self. She is also a llama lover and life long learner who wants to believe there is still good in the world. Melany and I dive into a taboo topic in the Black and Brown community: colorism. She shares about her own exploration of her racial identity, why she believes colorism is just a safe way to say antiblack, and why she no longer identifies as a person of colo...
Aug 26, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 25
This week, I have the homie, my friend, my neighbor, and sister, Tania Miron-Perez come through on the pod to chop it up. For her job, Tania is the Training & Strategy Coordinator at Be The Bridge a non-profit org that does some great work in the racial equity space. In her spare time she is putting in work for social justice advocacy, but recharges in nature, with friends, or enjoying a great book In our conversation, we talk about her big move to the West coast a few years back, finding an...
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 24
If you didn’t know, the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics are jumpin off this week and athletes across the world are set to do their thing. There have already been a ton of storylines that have come about leading up to the Olympic games this year, but one in particular surrounds the women’s national soccer team's ongoing lawsuit for equal pay. The guest this week is perfect to go into the finer points of the lawsuit, so let me introduce y'all to Jackie Gutierrez aka Jackie G. Jackie is a sports journal...
Jul 21, 2021•58 min•Ep. 23
In this episode, we talk about how we handled 2020 and how we are doing now, the impact all of the unrest of 2020 had on our relationships, what being a good ally looks like as men and why the #notallmen thing is stupid af, and how we are trying to find ways to support ourselves and our partners. Just a heads up that this episode does contain some mention of shootings and rape. No specific details, but wanted to flag nonetheless. CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Ways to support the show: 👉🏾 Su...
Jul 08, 2021•55 min•Ep. 22
In this conversation, I chop it up with Entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and Founder of Empowered In Color. In our conversation where we talked about the difficulties of being an entrepreneur of color, why you can give back and make a profit, what allyship looks like in business and in life, and a whole lot more. There are a bunch of great tidbits in this episode, so you may need to listen back to this one. Stay in Touch with Kriselle and Empowered in Color: ↳ EIC on Instagram : @empoweredincolor ...
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 21
In this conversation, War and I talk about identity, Black spirituality, faith deconstruction, what we miss about the church, and why we have no desire to go back and take some time castin’ a whole lotta shade at Chick-fil-a. I really appreciated this conversation and I know you all will too. You can find Saint War's music on IG @saintwarmusic & Saint War on Spotify Here is the podcast episode From White Supremacy: Paternalism w/Carlos A. Rodriguez from the Reclaiming my Theology Podcast Way...
Apr 02, 2021•57 min•Ep. 19
Yoooo RTWD made it a whole trip around the sun yall! It is RTWD’s pod bday! In this episode, Linds and I talk about behind-the-scenes production, what keeps me going in very difficult and emotionally laborious work, and what is to come for RTWD. I had fun talkin to Linds and I appreciate her for steppin outside of her comfort zone and interviewing me. CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Production & Contact Details: Producer: Jonathan Dumas ( @lemele_dumas ) Production help: Lindsay Dumas ( @li...
Mar 18, 2021•36 min•Ep. 18
In the 2nd half of my conversation with my friend THE Reverend Dr. Aizaiah Yong, we continue discussing the intersectionality of religion, race and overcoming white supremacy, but we get into why it is important and necessary to not fall prey to the systems that try to pin us against each other. Rather, what truly disrupts and dismantles these systems of oppression is acknowledging that we are ALL in this together. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review, and share! Healing for Black, Indigenous...
Mar 10, 2021•32 min•Ep. 17
This week I had the chance to connect with one of my best friends, THE Reverend Dr. Aizaiah Yong. Z and I have been coworkers, conference copresenters, we hooped together, all of it. This is one of my bros. In this episode, we talk about his multicultural and multiracial identity and how that has played a role in the past year, the intersectionality of religion, race, and overcoming white supremacy. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review, and share! Healing for Black, Indigenous, & People o...
Mar 04, 2021•35 min•Ep. 16
In this 2nd part of my convo with B, we talk more about labels and stereotypes and the emotional weight that comes with being someone we are not, along with anti-blackness racism and how we care for our mental health and be authentically Black with a capital B in spaces that are not designed for us. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review, and share! Healing for Black, Indigenous, & People of Color Sources: https://mrc.ucsf.edu/healing-black-indigenous-and-people-color Racial Equity & An...
Feb 18, 2021•39 min•Ep. 15
This week I talk with my guy, Brannon Andrews. In the first part of this two-part conversation, we talk about labels and stereotypes that are placed on us as Black men, the ones we choose to place on ourselves, and how we are both learning to unburden ourselves with the need to make others comfortable with our Blackness. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, review, and share! Producer: Jonathan Dumas Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas) Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas) Instagram: @R...
Feb 12, 2021•29 min•Ep. 14
In this episode, I try my best to reflect on the trash ass year that was 2020.⠀ ⠀ A global pandemic 😷.⠀ Economic instability 📉.⠀ Racial inequity and civil unrest ✊🏾.⠀ Our Democratic processes & Presidential election being undermined by an 🍊.⠀ The incredible amount of loss 🙏🏾. I walk through a simple reflection guide I put together on my IG Page that consists of three questions to help process 2020: What in 2020, can I be grateful for? What will I leave in 2020? What will I take in...
Jan 16, 2021•24 min•Ep. 13
This week I sat down with one of my best friends, David Beavis. It's actually because of David that we are as good of friends as we are. He is one of those kinds of people that are naturally great friends. The kind that is intentional and remembers most of the little things you tell them, check in on you consistently, support your dreams. It's kind of annoying. It's for these reasons and many more reasons why I chose him to be one of the best men at my wedding. That's why it sucked when David an...
Dec 10, 2020•48 min•Ep. 12
Here is the second half of my conversation with Gustavo Boldrini, from the Goose is Loose Podcast. We talk about politics, society, faith, and life in Orange County as a Black man. Can’t wait for y'all to tune into this, and also check out the Goose is Loose Podcast available on any of your favorite listening platforms. Don't forget to leave a review and share! CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Ways to support the show: 👉🏾 Support RTWD Monthly 👉🏾 Support us one-time 👉🏾 Follow us on IG @RTWD...
Oct 07, 2020•46 min•Ep. 11
This week I sat down with my guy, Gustavo Boldrini, from the Goose is Loose Podcast. I was excited for the conversation for a couple of reasons: one, this is the first of many collabs to come; two, we always have some great conversations on politics, society, faith, and life in general. Gustavo is a husband to his wonderful wife Chelsea, he is a soon to be lawyer, a Christian, and an ex-libertarian. He and his mom immigrated from Brazil when he was a kid and is now a U.S citizen. He and his wife...
Oct 07, 2020•41 min•Ep. 10
A short episode on what I feel it means to be an Ally. I touch on the shooting of Jacob Blake and the white supremacist, Kyle Rittenhouse and why a clear dedication to allyship is necessary to capitalize on the Black Lives Matter movement's recent surge. I outline what an ally is and is not, why it is important to be ALL in and commit, and why we must all stay vigilant in a pivotal time in modern American history. Don't forget to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, FOLLOW, & leave a REVIEW. Producer: Jonathan ...
Aug 28, 2020•14 min•Ep. 9
This week I sit down with my sister-in-law, Robin. This was a fun chat, where I ask first impressions of me and what it was like meeting her sister’s Black boyfriend? Her growth in the conversation of Diversity and Inclusion, mental health, and the importance of self-love, and what friendships are like in a drastically changing and polarizing world. Producer: Jonathan Dumas Music: Tony Deras Instagram: @RTWDPodcast Email: RTWDPodcast@gmail.com CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Ways to support the...
Aug 14, 2020•40 min•Ep. 8
