TheAwayGames_Podcast

What happens when you actualize that breaking through the glass ceilings in life isn't enough? In this conversation, we sit done with Casey Duhart, General Councel of Acadia Healthcare and former Editor of the Tennessee University Law Review. She takes us through her career challenges, starting with the puppet-like roles she was asked to perform for law firms presenting diversity but practicing Am...

The veil of kindness, Jesus and freedom masks some of the ugliest social constructions our society has ever seen. On this, the final episode with Mr. Tin Foil, his mask comes off and we are able to see his hatred and discontent for those he thinks less of clearly. His humanity and the sexual abuse he endured as a child doesn't save him. His father's lack of emotional availability doesn't save him....

What happens to victims that aren't allowed to be victims? To families that don't talk about their histories of Sexual Abuse? To parents who never shared their trauma with their children and thus never stopped their children from hiding parts of themselves from the world? On this, Part 2 of our discussion with Double J(C), the Anti-Semite MAGA supporter who doesn't believe blacks are intelligent e...

Sexual Assault is a life changing traumatic experience that is typically viewed through the lens of women and girls. Not enough emphasis is placed on the impacts of SA on males in our society. Over the next 3 episodes, you will learn about a Conservative, tin foil hat wearing, MAGA supporting manager who doesn't believe DEI to be helpful, as he doesn't believe education is attained at concurrent r...

How can you ever be expected to align with your company's goals if they don't provide you with the most basic of starting points? On this episode of  #TheAwayGames_Podcast  on  #AlivePodcastNetwork , we talk with premiere executive talent placement extraordinaire, Chantelle Johnson of #Talent4DCulture. She walks us through her experience in Healthcare, how entrepreneurship provided...

Over 300,000 Black women left the workforce between March and September of 2025...What did your ERG do to help slow, stop and/or prevent this from happening to more Black women and/or other protected classed groups in your workplace? On this, the 5th episode of Season 5 of TheAwayGames_Podcast, we are speaking with Dr. Shindale Seale of Seade Coaching & Consulting in Los Angeles. We discuss th...

Identity shapes our self worth and understanding daily. What we do for a living, who we are to our families, the impact that we are working to make in the world all play roles in who we believe ourselves to be. What happens when that belief is confronted with a debilitating disease? What happens when that disease slowly takes your identity away and your strengths must change? How malleable are you...

Picking up the story with Double J (2), what happens after you decide to drop out of high school and how do you find the strength to be successful, especially when drugs and alcohol surround your social scene? We'll dive into that and how the parallels between my personal life and Double J's (2) over lap. We'll also learn about my relationship with my dad and how my broken family influ...

In this 3 part series interview, we dive deep into the role identity development plays into the success of young women and how that identity changes and has the ability to trap you. Part 1 - Today we meet and discuss the early and teenage years of Double J, a smart young lady who has challenges avoiding the meanness of young girls and their cliques. Peer pressure impacts us all at this age and the...

It can be easy to be an ally from afar. But what happens when you're in the thick of it. You blend in to your surroundings and you have a choice, hide or speak out? On this episode, we interview the first of 3 white Americans who discuss how they feel post Trump's presidential election. This guest happens to be covered in tattoos, looks like a metal band lead singer and is bisexual...that...

If you recall from the last episode, co-workers began to abandon our work relationships once I filed the lawsuit against Ingram Micro. What happens when that battle extends to your "friends" and "family"? On this episode of the Spook Diaries, we discuss the decline of my mental health during my battle with ingram Micro and how having "Stephens" in your corner will lea...

When standing up against oppressive management and company policies that discriminate, your co-workers may feel like you're putting their jobs in jeopardy. This jeopardy could cause them to flee...then all of the sudden, you're not just battling for equity within your workplace, you're battling for psychological safety. Like, Share and Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast

Getting to your breaking point could negatively impact your state of mind. I took a vacation. On this episode, I discuss being placed on Administrative Leave, my daughters enjoying the Keys and a flawed Ingram Micro legal team who tried to erased data from our thread, before firing me. Like, Share and Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast

How do you tell a whole culture that their inherently flawed because of some of the practices of said culture? For a lot of Americans, this is true for anyone in or from non-American society. How do cultures become self reflective? In this episode I breakdown what DEI in practice at scale looked like at Ingram Micro, how their employees reacted to it and what the Director of HR said when answering...

On this episode I dive deeper into the relationships that pushed me out of Ingram Micro, how Cheryl Rang posed as a friend and ally and how Lou Brunetto's lack of technical intellect within the product portfolio caused my job to be threatened. I discuss this from the point of view of Django Unchained characters and bring to light how racial alliances out weighed Ingram Micro's business goals. It w...

On this episode, I walk listeners through how I was going to solve the problem of losing 75 Million in annual business while gaining new partners and customers through Edge Computing. I also discuss the desires of Ingram Micro to utilize my strategy of marrying Edge Computing and the Internet of Things Department in order to grow sales, but how internal Ingram employee relationships with internal...

On this episode of The Spook Diaries on TheAwayGames_Podcast, I discuss my transition into Ingram Micro and the problems in sales that they faced due to the conditioning of mediocrity as a standard of outcomes by leadership. This is laying the foundation and ground work for listeners to understand the comparisons to the film Django Unchained and how my story, our stories, connect today to those st...

This episode continues our dissection of the film and review of the film Django Unchained, however it focuses on the head enslaved African, Stephen. His role in society is mirrored in modern day workplaces by men and women who aim to consolidate power by being viewed as a value to the oppressive figures of the society even though they inhabit the shell of what said society is looking to oppress. H...

This is the 2nd in our 3 part introduction to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast. on this episode, I focus on Calvin Candie's idea that 1 in 10,000 "niggers" will be exceptional and that the number of exceptional "niggers" will grow as time goes on. I then turn the focus to Dr. King Schultz and breakdown the value that he brings to the film as the other protago...

Welcome back to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast! On this episode, I start to breakdown the analysis by Jared Bauer of Django Unchained and its comparison to the modern day workplace. This is the first of 3 episodes dedicated to this topic and we start with Calvin Candie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sjr2zGqr0&pp=ygUSamFyZWQgYmF1ZXIgRGphbmdv

On this episode of TheAwayGames_Podcast, Im joined by a special guest, esteemed professor and program director of Human Health Sciences at UNC Greensboro, Dr. Jeannette Wade. We discuss the drivers of health outcomes for any group of a population (specifically black women), physicians' responses to DEI and the fight for maternal mortality equity. We recorded this episode, not realizing that Dr...

Today Im joined by a special guest, film maker, film produce and film/comedy/poetry festival producer, Luis Macho Miranda. On this episode, we discuss what it means to grow up in the Bronx, being a 2nd generation American and the importance of legacy. We also discuss what impact his father being murdered had on his career, developing a comic book with his son and how mentorship can be the greatest...

Inclusivity can be challenging within a world conditioned towards comfort and away from equity. Today Im joined by a special guest, Whitney Middlebrooks of Black Luxe Co and The Black Luxe Expo. On this episode, well be discussing her journey into the world of pop culture, how Trayvon Martin changed her life and how her dismay with corporate DEI led to her creating her own impactful entrepreneuria...

On this episode, I speak with Jathan Blackburn, a blue collar employee in healthcare and learn about his compassion for his community. He, along with a few other, started an organization called The Sock Coalition, dedicated to providing homeless citizens of Winston-Salem with new, clean goods and foods to help ease their daily struggle. Before starting this venture though, he had to endure the sti...

On this episode, Im joined by a special guest, Miranda Jones, a North Carolina Exceptional Teacher supporting the Triad area, where we discuss the challenges of social conformity to white norms at the high school level, curriculum politics and student engagement tactics that work to increase student performance scores! We also discuss how this success can lead to conflict with administration, whic...