Highly Visible & A Little Misunderstood

Ep. 27 - Shoutout to the Ancestors

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 open dialogue, and creating meaningful experiences while cultivating community.  She is the founder of The Pink Tank, a women’s group integrating the personal and the professional, and a co-founder of S.N.O.B. (Sunday Night on Broadway), a monthly Broadway industry dance party.  She is also a member of PR collective Spiral5 and a coauthor of their signature course, The Career Rebel’s Guide to Modern PR.  Currently in development is Emily’s The Broadway Tarot.
This was a great conversation, yall. Where we talk about what Tarot is, how Emily got into it, and ways she uses tarot to tell powerful stories and help others do the same. For my Real Fam listeners, you will be able to watch our conversation and Emily gives me my first ever tarot reading.
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↳ @emilyannemcg
↳ Emily McGill Entertainment
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Folx to follow:
Donyae Coles
Sources of for the show:
An introduction to Hoodoo
13 Tarot and Oracle Decks Created For and By Black People
Hoodoo Tarot
Wild Unknown Deck
Osho Zen Tarot App
Production & Contact Details:
Producer: Jonathan Dumas 
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
Showart: Lia Osley (@liabedrawing)
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Ep. 26 - Unlearning Toward Liberation

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 society at large. You will often find her doing what she loves: meeting new people, enjoying nature, trying new food, dancing, laughing with her family (she has a partner and three beautiful children), and adventuring to new places experiencing first hand the beautiful diversity present in the world.
We talk about a topic near and dear to my heart: deconstruction and decolonization of spirituality.
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↳ Nereyda Yong or email at neddy.sd@gmail.com
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Sources & folks to follow:
Dr. Rosales Meza
IG: dr.rosalesmeza
Reclaiming Intuition By Decolonizing Minds: For women & femmes of color seeking liberation from colonial servitude
Unlearning & divesting from the white colonial mind
Nikki Sanchez
IG: Nikki La’es
Decolonization Is for Everyone - TEDxSFU
Desmond Tutu
IG: desmondtutu
Jo Luehmann
IG: joluehmann
Brandi Miller
IG: brandinico
IG: Reclaiming My Theology Podcast
Reclaiming My Theology Podcast
 
Production & Contact Details:
Producer: Jonathan Dumas
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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Ep. 25 - Real Moments: Pause

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! ✌🏾
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Ep. 24 - We’re Gonna Need To Unpack That

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 color. We also explore the importance of knowing ourselves in order to be the best allies we can be. This was an incredibly honest conversation that I hope you all enjoy.
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↳ @mel_delcarpio 
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Folx to follow:
@Lutzesegu aka the Social Justice Doula
@priscilagarciajacquier
Sources of for the show:
Code Switch: What Does It Mean To Be Latino? The “Light-Skinned Privilege” Edition
"Ethnicity vs Race." Diffen.com. Diffen LLC, n.d. Web. 22 Aug 2021. https://www.diffen.com/difference/Ethnicity_vs_Race
Madani, Doha, and Minyvonne Burke. “Miya Ponsetto Charged with Hate Crime after Falsely ACCUSING Black Teen of Phone Theft.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 1 July 2021, www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/miya-ponsetto-charged-hate-crime-after-falsely-accusing-black-teen-n1272781. 
Vic. “Latinidad, and Every Derivation Thereof Serves Four Purposes (At Least).” Dichos De Un Bicho, 22 Nov. 2017, dichosdeunbicho.com/on-latinidad/. 
Production & Contact Details:
Producer: Jonathan Dumas 
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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Ep. 23 - This Work Ain’t Linear

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 and cultivating a community in the middle of a pandemic, and the passion behind her advocacy work.
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↳ @browngirlplantscene
↳ @chicanahiking
 
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Sources:
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
Be The Bridge
Production & Contact Details:
Producer: Jonathan Dumas (@lemele_dumas)
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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Ep. 22 - Say It With Me: Equal Pay

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 journalist and founder of Women Kick Balls, an independent news source that exists to capture women’s soccer in an authentic voice. We chop it up about how she started writing, the support she has had from her family (Shout out uncle Joe), and the importance of equality in professional sports.
 
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↳ EIC on Instagram: @womenkickballs
↳ EIC on Twitter: @womenkickballs
↳ Subscribe to Women Kick Balls newsletter
 
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Producer: Jonathan Dumas
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Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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Ep. 21 - Yes, All Men

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.
 
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Sources:
Wakeman, Jessica. “The Real Cost of Pink Tax.” Healthline, Healthline Media, 6 Aug. 2020, www.healthline.com/health/the-real-cost-of-pink-tax. 
Hookway, James. “What Happened to Sarah Everard? The London Woman Whose Death Prompted a Safety Debate in the U.K.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 8 June 2021, www.wsj.com/articles/sarah-everard-uk-11615823395. 
Production & Contact Details:
Producer: Jonathan Dumas
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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Ep. 20 - Building Our Own Tables

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
↳ EIC on Twitter: @empoweredpoc
↳ Subscribe to Empowered In Color's newsletter
↳ Kriselle's personal socials: Instagram, Twitter
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Sources:
Yosso, T.J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8 (1), 69 – 91
Read, Bridget. “A Man Died After Police Knelt on His Neck for 5 Minutes.” The Cut, The Cut, 22 Feb. 2021, www.thecut.com/2021/02/what-we-know-about-the-killing-of-angelo-quinto.html. 
Fortin, Jacey. “California Man Died After Police Knelt on Him for 5 Minutes, Family Says.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/us/angelo-quinto-death-police-kneel.html.
Production & Contact Details:
Producer: Jonathan Dumas (@lemele_dumas)
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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Ep. 19 - I Don’t Think This is the Right Place For Me

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
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Ep. 18 - One year and Counting

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.
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Producer: Jonathan Dumas (@lemele_dumas)
Production help: Lindsay Dumas (@lindsaymariedumas)
Music: Tony Deras (@tonesterderas)
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