PODCAST EPISODE № 88

Healing Corporate America is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

by Anita Charlot

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When the idea of healing corporate America came into my spirit, I questioned it. Each time it came up, I doubted it. On the one hand, I knew that if anyone could do it, I could… but on the other hand, I also realized that healing corporate America as a whole would not be accomplished in my lifetime. I questioned, if ever!

So why embark upon the journey knowing that I would never make it to the finish line?

Tune into the episode, where you get to hear the answer to this question, and also how you as a leader can step into conscious leadership.

See you on the inside…

What You Learn:

That running a successful business means preparing your mind, body, and soul
Why I embarked on this nearly impossible journey to heal corporate America
Four ways a Black or Brown mentor can walk you through your journey to conscious leadership
That healing corporate America may not happen in my lifetime, but I will still speak up!

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Anita also coaches White allies on how to ACTivate Your Privilege!™ and is hired to speak and train as The Corporate Metaphysician™ at organizations willing to begin reversing corporate America’s trauma by taking an honest look at their “unconscious DEI efforts,” all using practical and metaphysical concepts.

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Episode Transcript

When the idea of healing corporate America came into my spirit, I questioned it. Each time it came up, I doubted it. On the one hand, I knew that if anyone could do it, I could… but on the other hand, I also realized that healing corporate America as a whole would not be accomplished in my lifetime. I questioned, if ever!

So why embark upon the journey knowing that I would never make it to the finish line?

Tune into the episode, where you get to hear the answer to this question, and also how you as a leader can step into conscious leadership.

See you on the inside…
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I had a conversation this morning with a friend about her preparing for a busy season coming up in her life.

During our conversation, I was reminded of something another friend shared with me years ago as I was complaining about how long it was taking me to grow my business.

He told me that running a successful business meant I needed to prepare myself, mind, body, and soul, so I passed this advice on to her. At that time, I was exhausted, and I had hit a wall and couldn’t see my way through.

My friend pointed out, very comically, that I wouldn’t get up off my couch to run a marathon; I would need to prepare for it by training over an extended period. It would take a mindset shift, a change in my daily habits, working with a coach, or training with a team to prepare me to start and finish.

I had walked away from corporate America and expected my time in corporate to automatically transfer to me being able to run a successful coaching business. I quickly learned that it did not work that way.

The mindset shift required would take a few years to develop from an employee to a business owner. It would take stretching myself, learning different skills, and working with coaches to help me uncover my blind spots and then show me how to make the shifts necessary to move the business forward. And he was right!

When the idea of healing corporate America came into my spirit, I questioned it. Each time it came up, I doubted it.

Are you kidding me? Heal corporate America?? Do you know what corporate America is made up? Do you know who is in charge of corporate America?

On the one hand, I knew that if anyone could do it, I could. But on the other hand, I also realized that healing corporate America as a whole would not be accomplished in my lifetime, I questioned, if ever.

So why embark upon the journey at all, knowing that I would never make it to the finish line?

Because!

…and that is a complete sentence!

If I can’t heal ALL of corporate America, but on the way, find a way to heal a small percentage, one company, or only inspire one leader to come on over to the “conscious leadership side,” that would be one less leader and one less company ignoring the spirit of its Black and Brown employees.

As a metaphysician, a Black woman, and someone with a vested interest in bringing awareness to the empty promise of being able to “bring your authentic self to work,” based on my own experience, I know that leadership will need to prepare to begin by doing these three things, at a minimum:

Allow Black and Brown employees to share how it feels to “work while Black or Brown” at the organization anonymously and without retaliation.
Have the organization that gathered the information moderate the tough conversations that include your Black and Brown employees.
After gathering the information and having the conversations, partner with the company that helped collect the reality of the workplace culture to create a strategic plan and begin addressing the identified issues, including additional conscious leadership training.

This is easier said than done and could take years to implement or even to get organizations to care enough to see the truth and do something about it. But for those that do, retaining (and attracting) Black and Brown employees will not be difficult at all.

What can individual leaders do that are committed to being an ally for their Black and Brown team members? 
Here are four ways in which having a Black or Brown mentor that focuses on the “spirit” of your employees can walk you through your journey by helping you…
Uncover your unconscious (implicit) bias.
Become aware of your privilege and how it “shows up” in everyday interactions with Black and Brown people.
Provide you with practical and metaphysical tools to help you “grow through” ingrained belief systems so that you can understand the “weight” your Black and Brown employees carry with them every day for generations.
Understand how to deal with the backlash you will receive as you begin to Activate Your Privilege™ and “stand in the gap” for your Black and Brown employees.

Sometimes, companies waste time and money focusing more on meeting percentages for areas that (they think) affect Black and Brown employees that mean absolutely nothing to us and what we consider as actions simply for the sake of being able to say they checked the “DEI box.”

It’s time to stop playing with your employees’ emotional and mental health and start looking at how your company might be contributing to that stress.

Getting corporate America to acknowledge and own the fact that it needs to be healed is one thing, and getting them to set out on the path of actually doing something about it is another.

Either way, there are things that I, as a Metaphysician, Speaker, Trainer, and Healer, need to do to prepare myself for this journey and I am working on them.

I am quite clear that it will be a marathon vs. a sprint-type of situation, but that is what I’m here for.

If you are looking to step into Conscious Leadership in a way that helps to heal your employees vs. continuing to harm them, and you are ready to grow in self-awareness while doing so, let’s talk.

I’ve always been the Black person my white counterparts could come to ask questions and get honest feedback. Now, I do it formerly via Conscious DEI Leadership training and executive coaching programs.

I’m ready when you are!

Not sure if you’re ready? Here is the link to my calendar: http://www.calendly.com/coachanitacharlot.

Let’s find time to discuss your goals or your companies goals and how I can help you move them forward.

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Healing Corporate America is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

PODCAST EPISODE № 88

Healing Corporate America is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

by Anita Charlot

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Healing Corporate America is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

by Anita Charlot

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