TheAwayGames_Podcast

On today's episode, Im joined by a special guests and black executives, Meleta and Hassan Pinto. We start by discussing entrepreneurship vs. navigating corporate America and building a family dynasty; but then dive deep into the Pinto legacy, discussing their children's academic and social success and what the Pinto's plan to leave behind. Meleta is an Emmy winning producer turned Marketing Execut...

In today's episode, Im joined by a special guest, Employment Attorney Janelle Romero of Consumer Attorneys, representing in part undocumented workers. We discuss Janelles 3 key employment law focuses for employees to stay ahead of employer mistreatment, as well as pitfalls immigrant employers fall into when starting new businesses here in the states. Janelle is a well travelled, well studied emplo...

We are starting off Season 2 with a bang, discussing how religion plays a role in our engagement with authority in the workplace. We focus on key ideas of Shame, Guilt and Coercion, which play major roles in religion's ability to condition social behavior and have been co-opted by authorities in other aspects of life, like the workplace, to suppress accountability of authority. We also dive deep i...

This is the last episode of Season 1 and it crescendos with me missing an opportunity to take legal action against Lenovo and my Director. Like most of us, I (at the time) was not legally savvy enough to recognize the situation and had not contacted an employment lawyer to know and understand my rights...so I left money on the table. There is a huge lesson in this story, as it shows middle manager...

On this episode of The Spook Diaries, I explore Lenovo's white employees treating black and brown kids like charity, the birth of The HBCU Initiative and learning that ambition can infect all of us, regardless of believing skin folk to be kin folk.

What happens when a minority sees themselves in their leadership...they thrive! On this episode, I discuss how important it was for my professional growth to have support that fostered great work habits, understood cultural nuance and appreciated different perspectives on solutions. Thank you Christina Taylor for being a light for me in a dark career corridor .

On this episode of the Spook Diaries, I dive deeper into my experience with "allies" in leadership positions, not understanding that inclusion doesn't mean the same thing to everyone...and shouldn't! From volunteering at Habitat-for-Humanity to lunch time segregation, every aspect of your culture should be examined to determine how inclusive you actually are.

My 2nd tech company, Dude Solutions, introduced me to a number of problems in the workplace with inclusion and the mentality of black professionals. This insight would guide my direction into Team CT Consulting and this podcast years later. Conformity to white norms would never seem important again.

SD5 - My very first tech gig should have been a huge red flag for what these spaces were like to work in...luckily I had allies, before I even knew what allies were!

Malcolm X is one of my heroes, primarily because of his capacity to change. White culture rejects anything that holds itself to account and Malcolm was only her for that. Hear what happens when my co-workers have to face themselves through a productive, dominant co-worker like me.

After escaping restaurants, I ended up with a pest control company. My transition was rough, but I quickly learned that white culture was the only culture excepted in presentation.

Customer service skills are of great benefit to multiple types of employment. However, in our society - as it is currently constructed - you learn a lot more about cultural hierarchy than you think. Restaurants proved that to me, hear how...

How we got here? How do we move forward in a 2nd Trump presidency without addressing the pushback of DEI, the future implementation of Project 2025 and the legal strategies to help cope in our workplaces? We don't! On the Spook Diaries, we walk through my work history, family history, social history and all other memories that created the urgency for TheAwayGames_Podcast. Listen. Learn. Live Smart...

Imagine working for a hospital that racism stopped you from being born in... In this episode, we follow Dr. Wallington, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Cone Health, through his career path from journalism, consumer packaged goods, and merchant transaction servicers to healthcare. He connects the dots and ties all of theses differing industries together...

Here, we pick up the conversation with Anthony Moore, Founder of Four Squares Development, and learn more about is extraordinary engineering career that then transitioned into entrepreneurship. His company helps upgrade neighborhoods in York, PA from aging targets of gentrification to modern marvels of history. His company not only remodels older properties, but insures that those properties are s...

In this episode, we talk with Four Square Founder, Anthony Moore, a childhood friend of mine. In Part 1, we walk through his transition from athlete to engineer, from a PWI to an HBCU, and learn the differences in the ways these different types schools treat their students, who happen to be athletes. We also learn about the depth of HBCU connections to places like NASA and how those connections pr...

We are joined again by Gwendolyn J. Tucker to review my results of her "Erasing Isms" course. Spoiler alert...I have them too! Learn what holds me back in the workplace and why. Be sure to reach out to Gwendolyn using the link below and go purchase her book, "Called to Lead"! https://www.gwendolynjtucker.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Called-Lead-Leadership-Position-Finds/dp/1636984274

Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gwendolyn Tucker, President of RIX International LLC, who is a DEI Strategist for corporations across the country. We break down biases and how we develop them, as well as ways to combat them in the workplace. We also discuss her course, Erasing ISMs, which helps you identify your own biases in a non-threatening manor to maintain productive work and perso...

While Black women may be having a phenomenal year, it does not extend to everyone within those circles. In today's conversation with "Double J", we learn what the real life impact intersectionality on black women of faith that don't adhere to the "norms" of a sis white male society. We discuss the obvious hurdles of those on other sides of fences, but we also learn how some on her own side of the...

In this episode, we continue our discussion with Chiquita Hall-Jackson on Hall-Jackson and Associates, discussing specific portions of her book, We Gon' Be Alright: A Black Executives Guide to Navigating the Workplace. We comb through the detailed importance of involving an employment lawyer with Offer Letters, Arbitration Clauses and Severance Packages. We discuss something that most of us are al...

DEI is a tactic, not the solution. In our 1st Episode of TheAwayGames_Podcast, we welcome Garveyesq freedom fighters in Dr. Shindale Seale and Chiquita Hall-Jackson Esq. Dr. Seale, a veteran DEI expert, lays out what successful implementation of DEI looks like and why optimism should be lacking; while Employment Lawyer extraordinaire, Chiquita Hall-Jackson Esq, provides solutions to pre-empt the v...