Understanding What Pride Means Today

Operationalizing Love With Dr. Durryle Brooks

What is the role of love in social transformation? How can increased self-awareness and self-compassion allow us to cultivate deeper connections across different communities? In the Season 7 finale of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez, Marketing and PR Strategist at The Winters Group, Inc., invites Justice for All Summit speaker Dr. Durryle Brooks, founder and CEO of Love and Justice Consulting LLC [https://www.loveandjusticeconsulting.com/], to share his story and discuss the origins of his Critical Theory of Love framework. Listen in to hear more about the transformative power of taking a trauma-centered, healing-focused approach that prioritizes people’s dignity. At the same time, get inspired to create a safe and affirming space for doing the work of unlearning and reimagining the systems that influence our day-to-day interactions, making it possible to operationalize love and realize meaningful change.

How Women of Color Heal From Workplace Trauma

How do women of color recover after experiencing injustice in the workplace? How does daily exposure to traumatic events affect their health? In this episode of the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez, Marketing and PR Strategist at The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Kimberly Lee Minor, CEO of Women of Color Retail Alliance [https://www.wocretailalliance.org/], to discuss the power of storytelling and the community that can emerge when women of color share their truths and take collective action. Just in time for National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month [https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/national-minority-mental-health-awareness-month-2024], listen in for Kimberly’s tips for self-care during tough times and for her advice on proactively seeking out the people who will have your back so that you can move forward and thrive.

Bridging Across Differences as a Black Leader Living Abroad

How do we mitigate bias when working as part of a multicultural team? In this seventh episode of the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez, Marketing and PR Strategist at The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with retail executive Lisa R. Bannister, CEO of The Missouri Rowe Collective, to discuss some of the lessons Lisa learned as a leader of color working in Ralph Lauren’s Hong Kong office. Listen in for Lisa’s takeaways as she shares how mutual accountability and being able to admit mistakes plays into inclusive leadership, and the importance of leveraging informal mentors, allies, and sponsors for career success.

Understanding What Pride Means Today

How do we lean in with curiosity when our colleagues from the LGBTQIA+ community express that Pride doesn’t always resonate for them? How do we hold space for the complexities of the grief and frustration that Pride can evoke while at the same acknowledging Pride as a forum for healing, connection, and joy? In this sixth episode of the Justice for All season of The Inclusion Solution LIVE podcast, host Leigh Morrison, Learning and Innovation Manager at The Winters Group, Inc., sits down with Sarah Rimmel, founder of Slow Integration Coaching [http://www.sarahrimmel.com] (sarahrimmel.com), to discuss what Pride means today. Tune in to this insightful invitation to think critically about the impact on those with intersecting identities, and how the relationship to Pride can shift depending on where one is on their own journey to self-understanding. As a bonus, Leigh tees up the continuation of this conversation at The Winters Group’s upcoming Virtual Learning Lab on justice for the queer community, “Pride for Past, Present, and the Future.” [https://go.wintersgroup.com/june24vll]

The Inclusion Solution: Amplifying Diverse Perspectives

What do we miss when we don’t have diverse perspectives represented in the media? How can we remove barriers and amplify the voices of those from historically marginalized backgrounds? In today’s episode of The Inclusion Solution LIVE, co-managing editors of The Inclusion Solution online publication Leigh Morrison and Gabrielle “Gabby” Gayagoy Gonzalez discuss the power of building empathy through storytelling. Listen in as Gabby and Leigh share the lived experiences they bring to this work and discuss the themes that frequently surface when practicing inclusive writing, from raising awareness about ableist language to ensuring current events are framed using historical context. As a bonus, listeners will get a preview of The Winters Group’s upcoming Virtual Learning Lab moderated by Leigh, “Pride for Past, Present, and the Future,” on justice for the queer community in today’s world.