Ep. 065: We Can’t Talk About Wellness Without Talking About Social Justice with William Igbokwe

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week’s episode is with my dear friend and law school classmate, William Igbokwe. William is both an attorney and a performer in Portland, Oregon. He views his career in law as just a piece of the larger part of his life’s work as an advocate. In this interview, we discuss a wide range of issues (hence the lengthy title!) primarily related to the law and social justice and how these macro issues affect each of us on the micro-level.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is my second interview with William and is really a furthering of the conversation we had in</span> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/on-social-justice-being-black-child-immigrants-in-small/id1373577651?i=1000418259471"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Episode 21</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. Definitely check out that episode first if you haven’t already!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK ABOUT</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why we can’t talk about wellness without talking about social justice and how both are intertwined within each other.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a time for people in the wellness industry to become more active in how they can more holistically support the collective.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How COVID-19 sparked an intense community wellness responsibility, but the killings of unarmed Black men and women didn’t invoke the same amount of pressure to protect each other’s safety.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Manueving wellness as a Black man with all that’s happening in society and how William has had to look at wellness in a different way. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How we can be both perpetrators of injustice and victims of trauma, and why it’s important to recognize that about ourselv