Nothing Without Us

In this  second episode of our Reimagining DEI series, you will hear excerpts from my conversation with Yee Won Chong. Yee Won is a strategist, trainer and speaker, and along with his partner, Brooks Nelson, created the film, Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer. We talk about the discussions the film has generated - about how we can make an effort to be more humane in the way that we intentionally create...

In this  first of our Reimagining DEI series, you  will hear excerpts from my conversation with  Cherry Steinwender. Cherry is cofounder of the Center for Healing Racism, and has  been working in this space for many years.  Our conversation ranges from how Cherry and her colleagues developed their methods, the  importance of inner  work, and how to keep going when you don't see the results you  wa...

Today, I'm really excited to introduce a unique series on the Being Luminary podcast, one that's really close to my heart. Earlier this month, we hosted a sensational event. It was a summit called Reimagining DEI for a new era of ethical leadership. And it was focused on reimagining diversity, equity and inclusion work in the context of all sorts of leadership roles, whether that's coaching or ser...

"I do think that because of my experiences, and because of, of my feeling around learning, that made me excel in the classroom as a teacher, because I really could understand how to do the building blocks of learning, you know, and break things down and make sure that understanding was there. I think that teachers I've met that have not struggled at school and that have been, you know, those learn...

Introducing our 2023 Virtual Summit - Reimagining Diversity, Equity, Inclusion for a new era of Ethical Leadership In this episode Angie introduces some of the speakers and conversations that will be available at the Summit, which will be taking place on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th October 2023. Register for your free ticket - https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/summit Connect with Angie on her webs...

Introducing our 2023 Virtual Summit - Reimagining Diversity, Equity, Inclusion for a new era of Ethical Leadership In this episode Angie explains the purpose and format of the summit, which will be taking place on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th October 2023. To be notified when tickets are available, sign up for Angie’s newsletter at  https://beingluminary.myflodesk.com/2023summit Connect with Angi...

"I'm really interested in this idea in spiritual education. And we don't we say it, but we don't really engage with it in schools. And when I have talked about it, people get a little bit kind of itchy." In this distilled episode, Angie talks to Rebecca Leek about how her faith as a Quaker informs her teaching, and why schools in Britain don't engage well with faith. Rebecca Leek is an experienced...

“So I want to live in a liberal society where people can have their freedom of speech recognised where people can debate openly on issues on the issues of the day, where people can debate things. Yeah, I think I think liberal societies need debate. And I think they need to have people feel confident enough to call others out as part of that debate. But debate isn't possible where tone policing hap...

“Now I've been the token., so I can wholeheartedly speak from experience of how being the one representative made me feel both a kind of responsibility, and a specialness, but also a visibility that perpetuated my marginalisation. That visibility, that responsibility and visibility also meant that it was impossible to genuinely include me, because I was never just like everybody else, I was always...

“Our colourblindness attempts to sanitise, through our intention, the very reliable and very lived impact of the significance of colour in the lives of many people who are racialized as black or brown. Because colourblindness ignores the persistence of racial discrimination and the lack of equity experienced in the day to day lives of people who hold racialized identities.” In this solo episode, A...

“When we say that we need to run diversity training, what we actually do is reassert the centre ground. We say we need to train people who don't hold minoritized identities, (the centre ground (everybody who we understand)) on all of those people who do have minoritized identities (those at the margins (everybody that we don't understand)). So what it becomes is a reassertion of the idea that ther...

"I do think that because of my experiences, and because of, of my feeling around learning, that made me excel in the classroom as a teacher, because I really could understand how to do the building blocks of learning, you know, and break things down and make sure that understanding was there. I think that teachers I've met that have not struggled at school and that have been, you know, those learn...

"What I have realised over this summer break, which itself has been a liminal space between everything that I worked on last year, and everything that has come together for the year ahead, what I've realised and come to realise, is that my practice has developed, my leadership training has developed into me facilitating liminal spaces for others, in order that they can emerge out of that space, kn...

"Once we dispense with the timeline, and the expectation that, you know, things are going to happen on a particular timeline, we can actually position ourselves in ways that make us feel excited about what's going to happen next. So our goals no longer feel impossibly hard to achieve. It becomes actually, what a journey,  I'm excited about the journey. I wonder what's going to happen along the way...

"Because I do this work as my leadership in the world, there is no off switch to it. In many ways, it's because I have become expert, adept, completely at one with constantly scanning the horizon for what's going on in the world, and constantly trying to make sense of it." In this solo episode, Angie guides you through six questions to ask yourself when encountering news stories, to develop your D...

"The idea of meritocracy validates inequality by putting an enormous amount of emphasis on skill and hard work. And it continues to propagate the belief that success hinges on personal determination and progress, brushing aside all of those intrinsic societal factors, all of those nuances. And it both implies a lack of competence, or inherent laziness in those who don't achieve as much as others....

"Now, I feel more so than ever, that diversity, equity inclusion work is just good leadership. So as we patrol the border between now and next, what we're also patrolling is the border between the kind of leader that would have been the kind of leader that we want to become. And this new leader doesn't do DEI as an extra thing. Rather, everything they do is infused with an understanding of the imp...

"Life does not always get to be easy. And for those of us who are, you know, have existed with the high tolerance levels for a life that hasn't been easy, that are existing with these continually minoritized identities, you know, deliberately saying these identities have been minoritized by a centre ground, if you live with these identities doesn't always get to be easy. And although we can change...

In this episode, Angie expands on her approach to receiving feedback, as a leader, and describes why calling detractors 'haters' is unhelpful. This Masterclass was recorded live on Instagram.  More lives from Angie can be found at her IG account - @angelambrowne Connect with Angie on her website - www.angelabrowne.co.uk A full transcript of this episode can be found at https://being-luminary.simpl...

"I'm really interested in this idea in spiritual education. And we don't we say it, but we don't really engage with it in schools. And when I have talked about it, people get a little bit kind of itchy." In this wide ranging conversation, Angie talks to Rebecca Leek about how her faith as a Quaker informs her teaching, why schools in Britain don't engage well with faith, sexism in British culture,...

"If we look at it in plain and simple terms, then some people will ask you to be part of something because of, of your ethnicity. You know, because you are this, this ethnicity, and it's exotic or interesting. But, you know, and then sometimes you might need to do that. So, very often, I'll be described as a Romani writer. And that might serve the purpose of that particular thing. But actually, in...

"My mom is white and English. And my dad is black and American. And he grew up in segregation in West Virginia. And I really don't think either of them expected me to experience racism. .. When I got older when I was 12, 11/12/13 and these kids were telling me, 'Don't let your dad pick you up. We can't let my parents know he's black. Don't tell them you're black'. I didn't tell my parents any of t...

"Our childhood was kind of framed with violence and neglect and struggle. But also alongside that there were kind of riches in terms of freedom, art, music, friendships...I think my origin story is a lot about holding two truths or multiple truths - dualities, juxtaposition."  In this distilled episode, Penny Rabiger explores her origin story, as the child of a Jewish mother in North London, and h...

"I allow myself the thoughts of doubt, but these are not self-isolating thoughts. No, I make these thoughts hold hands with others. I make them connect with thoughts like 'things are always working out',  like 'there are amazing opportunities around the corner', with thoughts like, 'how truly lucky you are.' In times like these, there is an opportunity for us all to face down misery, turmoil and s...

 "I feel like maybe disruption, maybe disorder, maybe some degree of changing and a little bit of chaos, even, it's just the way that we live. But in that we have the opportunity to cling on to things that are really sure that are really secure. And there is nothing short or secure than our own sense of ourselves. Because that's what we were born with, we walk with it every day, we hold it, whethe...