Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders
Jaz Ampaw-Farr on Reversing Toxic Trajectories
We live in a world full of conflict. A friendly conv...
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Jul 28 2020 48m
Chapter 1 4 mins
Jaz, tell us your storyChapter 2 2 mins
Jaz says that she is often called inspirational, and her response always is, “Great, what have I inspired you to do?Chapter 3 27 sec
Leadership isn’t what you do, but it’s what happens when you aren’t even in the room and this is shown through Jaz’s elementary school teacher Mrs. CookChapter 4 1 min
With people, kids in particular, what you things you do matters. You can do things to people, for people, and with peopleChapter 5 1 min
Labeled 3 Categories of Adults: 3 Dangerous 2 Benign 1 Heroic/GuidingChapter 6 1 min
What is your perspective on shifting from the “small as possible” mindset that people of color are often advised to assume to confronting racial conflict and standing differently?Chapter 7 2 mins
Playing small works as it can provide some protection, but the cost of it is giving up who you are and who you could potentially beChapter 8 2 mins
Wanting change more than wanting to be right is how you start overcoming the fear of saying or doing the wrong thing. It is where you can start addressing unconscious biasChapter 9 3 mins
Entice people with empathy, engage them in a conversation, and enroll them to your way of thinking. The idea of going straight to enrolling is wrongChapter 10 3 mins
Knowing what it is to have nothing can influence who you stand with and how you stand with themChapter 11 1 min
How do you manage to cross this chasm; on one side you are surviving and standing up against racial tension, and then on the other side you thrive in a hope for a better future? what is the next step beyond where we are now?Chapter 12 4 mins
The stages are suffer, survive, thrive, be alive and drive change. We tend to want to jump from a place of suffering to driving change, but the work must be put in to advance from each stepChapter 13 59 sec
When you move past suffering, surviving, and thriving, you see existence coinciding with real peace. It’s being aliveChapter 14 24 sec
Driving change: Do, Engage, BeChapter 15 7 mins
If you are not ready to drive change, it is okay, but you must own. Don’t blame external locus of controlsChapter 16 1 min
2 Perspectives on racial discourse: How to navigate semantics respectfully as a white person, and how to resist closure/cancelling someone when they are not as careful as they could beChapter 17 5 mins
When we engage, do we engage out of inspiration or out of desperation?