TheAwayGames_Podcast

 We read about land-owning freed African Americans being manipulated into surrendering their land and the central theme is always the same: knowing the law. Yet professionals enter workplaces daily expecting not to be exploited. According to Strada Education Foundation data, 52% of college graduates are underemployed in their first job; 45% are still underemployed after 10 years; Black, Latin...

When taking a contract role, it is vitally important to know what terms are your responsibility and what terms are the company's. Ron Corley breaks down contract law from the worker's perspective what to look for, what to negotiate, and what you should never sign without legal advice. Explicit content. Topics: contract law, startup employment, contract worker rights, independent contractor vs. emp...

 Retaliation is a power play. In personal life, it's rarely consequential. In the workplace, a lack of emotional intelligence from leadership can lead to retaliatory acts that cross legal lines and cost companies far more than keeping an employee ever would. Ron Corley breaks down the anatomy of retaliatory termination with the authority of someone who has lived it and studied it. Explicit co...

Ron Corley was fired from Benmo Pane in direct retaliation for pushing back on documented racism and hostile workplace behavior. This episode is a real-time employment law case study: what constitutes retaliatory firing, how to document it, and what your rights are in the moment it happens. Explicit content. Topics: retaliatory firing, wrongful termination, hostile work environment, employment law...

Ron Corley documents the escalation at Benmo Pane where the MAGA manager's racism, drug use, and antisemitism are no longer ambient but direct and documented. This episode is about the moment Ron chooses to confront rather than comply and what that costs. Explicit content. Topics: white nationalist workplace, confronting racism at work, MAGA extremism, hostile work environment, workplace drug use,...

After Dorsey Express, Ron Corley navigates day labor and then lands at Benmo Pane a white-owned trucking company with a manager whose open racism, antisemitism, and MAGA ideology created a documented hostile work environment. This episode directly confronts white nationalist rhetoric in the workplace and what employment law says about it. Explicit content. Topics: day labor rights, hostile work en...

Part 2 of the Dorsey Express saga documents the breakdown promises made, contracts violated, and what happens when a Black-owned business fails its own employees. Ron Corley applies the employment law lens he's been developing all season to a situation most people assume doesn't apply to minority-owned companies. Explicit content. Topics: labor law violations, broken employment contracts, Dorsey E...

Season 4 of the Spook Diaries opens with a new chapter: Dorsey Express, a Black-owned trucking company. Ron Corley documents his entry into a new industry, the first red flags in the organizational culture, and what happens when a Black-owned business replicates the same problematic dynamics Ron has been documenting all along. Explicit content. Topics: Black-owned business, trucking industry, Dors...

International best-selling author and DEI keynote speaker Jacquie Abram author of 'Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in Her Workplace & Kept Her Job' (featured in Forbes) joins TheAwayGames_Podcast for a generational conversation about Black women's survival in corporate spaces and what it takes to build lasting advancement. Topics: Black women in corporate America, systemic rac...

Aki Garrett joins TheAwayGames_Podcast at the intersection of DEI, gender equity, and professional sports exploring how the pay and treatment disparities in women's professional soccer mirror the dynamics Black professionals face in corporate America. Topics: women's professional soccer, equal pay, gender equity in sports, DEI in professional athletics, National Women's Soccer League, workplace ge...

Global DEI leader Carlos Butler-Vale formerly of McDonald's and now leading DEI at Constellation Brands joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to discuss how Human Resources functions can be used against the employees they're meant to protect, how ERGs can be co-opted by organizations, and what genuinely effective DEI leadership looks like from the inside. Topics: DEI leadership, HR weaponization, Employee Re...

Employment and immigration attorney Olivia Bensinger of Shaheen & Gordon joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to trace the history of U.S. immigration law and connect it directly to today's workforce dynamics, including who gets hired, who gets protected, and who gets exploited. A Harvard Law-trained attorney who won a landmark asylum case, Bensinger brings a nuanced, historically grounded perspective....

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas This episode dovetails off of our last conversation around the founding of EROC (End Rape on Campus), a discussion with Annie Clark. In that conversation, Annie mentioned passing the CEO torch to Kenyora Johnson, a capable innovative leader. We...

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.   David Mitchell,  Cloud Atlas Annie Clark co-founder of End Rape on Campus (EROC) and a co-lead complainant in Title IX action against UNC-Chapel Hill joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to connect campus sexual violence policy to workplace safety. Clark helped write th...

Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and economist Andre M. Perry joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to discuss his book 'Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It.' Perry's work quantifies Black Americans' economic and social power and calculates what it would take to close the gap. Topics: Black economic power, racial wealth gap, Black Power Scorecard, Brookings Insti...

We begin Season 4 of TheAwayGames_Podcast with Marcus Alston a prison reform advocate whose framing of 'potential vs. kinetic' energy redefines how we think about human capability and the systems that suppress it. This conversation connects carceral justice directly to workplace equity. Topics: prison reform, criminal re-entry, potential vs. kinetic, mass incarceration, Black men and the justice s...

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Stepping away from a 100k annual salary is difficult to do...especially when you're black, especially when you know that the opportunities to make this much may not come back around so quickly without specific credentials. But it is our integrity we are selling in toxic work environments: Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But with...

When playing an away game, you must always be careful not to beat the home team too badly...as you still must escape unscathed. On this episode, I discuss how #REVGEN leadership and inner circle plotted to weaken the winning streak that I had been on, ensuring that I got dealt the worst hand of resumes to rebuild my dynasty. My success had hurt my internal relationships allowing work politics to l...

2 months into a promotion and I already want to quit! Sometimes company leaders want to see certain people fail, so they elevate them publicly and sabotage them privately...welcome to my life! Up to this point, my co-workers (almost exclusively my management peers) are becoming increasingly upset with the success that I've been able to have, to their expense in some cases! This leads to jealousy a...

"Respect is always earned...so we must remain undeniable." - Moonshine Wallace It is difficult to take leaders seriously when they do not perform consistently as a deserving individual of such. Big Daddy, and his plantation of Brittle Brothers, where consistently embarrassed by their lack of success in the business that they had all worked within for several years (about 30 years between their cor...

Winning is only fun when others can enjoy it with you...o r, when you're playing an away game! On this episode of #TheAwayGames_Podcast, we get into how the sustained success of the person brought into the organization to be a scapegoat or punching bag, turned their internal politics upside down at REVGEN.  Big Daddy is not impressed by your success, because like DuBois said, "the only thing...

As black people, we are all faced with varying degrees of capitulation when raising a family - housing them, feeding them and clothing them. While I know that our blackness doesn't distinguish us as compromisers to these ends, it does place us in a unique position as one tries to define their identity against the backdrop of such an American history as race.  This month clarified that struggl...

After 11 months of not being employed, we pick up the story on #TheAwayGames_Podcast and #TheSpookDiaries, with starting my role within REVGEN, a lead generation business in Raleigh, North Carolina. We continue with the theme of Big Daddy's plantation from D'Jango Unchained and we introduce some of the characters of the plantation - Wes Proctor, Chelsea Roach, Caty Renn and others. The first (and...

Welcome back to TheAwayGames_Podcast, Spook Diaries, our sub-series walking through the work history of our host, Ron Corley.  On this episode, we introduce REVGEN as a workplace and the characters within it that give D'Jango Unchained plantation like vibes; from Big Daddy to the Brittle Brothers to Betina. All of these characters play a role, both in the movie....and in REVGEN. This season,...