171 [New Series] Messaging For a More Just World

<div class="entry-content"> <p>Here we are, at the first episode of <strong>Speaking to What Matters:</strong> <strong><em>Conversations on Messaging for a More Just World</em></strong>. </p> <p>It’s my hope that this series of informal, real conversations with social justice leaders brings you <strong>at least one shift</strong>, aha moment, or breakthrough in how you want to show up. </p> <p><strong>Here’s where we’ll be going & who we’ll be learning from:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>[171]</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Messaging For a More Just World</span></li> <li><strong>[172]</strong> Being an <strong>Imperfect Ally</strong>…<em>When You’re a Sensitive Soul</em> with Erica Courdae </li> <li><strong>[173]</strong> Evolving Your Work to Have a <strong>Social Justice Lens</strong> with Cher Hale</li> <li><strong>[174</strong> Feminist Marketing & Copy that <strong>Doesn’t Oppress</strong> with Kelly Diels</li> <li><strong>[175]</strong> Is My Niche <strong>Excluding</strong> Marginalized People? With Trudi Lebron </li> <li><strong>[176]</strong> <strong>CIS- & Hetero-Normativity</strong> in Our Leadership with Tamala Poljak</li> <li><strong>[177]</strong> Speaking About Issues <strong>Without Co-Opting Them</strong> to “Sell” with Nisha Moodley</li> <li><strong>[178]</strong> What I Learned From 6 Social Justice Leaders About Messaging</li> </ul> <p>Today’s episode is our starting place, setting the foundation to lean into this series. </p> <p>In all honesty, I sat for a while with whether to share my personal experiences of privilege and fragility. (<em>Think sleepless nights debating whether to re-record this episode</em>.)</p> <p>I don’t want to center my own experience. </p> <p>But I also want to bring awareness to the layers of blindness we have when we posess dominant identities – white, CIS, hetero, able-bodied, medium-sized, middle class, youthful-looking. </p> <p>Because most of us have at least one dominant identity which means most of us have certain, often invisible (to us), privilege