EMPOWERED HUMAN with Nina Garcia
Here, you're invited to play with being human, and you'll be given the skills to transform hard conversations - around your identity and diverse human narratives - into teachable moments. Empowered Human with Nina Garcia: an episodic journey to your most vibrant self, with new episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now ๐
EMPOWERED HUMAN with Nina Garcia
"I'm Not Your White Friend": Playing with Race - Repost from Jan 24 2021
A throwback episode of our first interview of season 2, supported by Erika Garcia: a conversation session with Host Nina, as she shares what it's like to not identify as a race in a world that expects you to fit in the category you've been assigned...only what happens when some of us don't check all the boxes? Listen in to:
๐ Explore your identity;
๐ Play with your uniqueness and challenge dominant social norms;
๐ Empower yourself to own your truth without oppressing yourself and without oppressing others.
What you'll get:
0:00 Empowered Human Throwback Intro
4:10 Beginning of the Original Episode
6:07 Set an Intent
10:28 Story: "I don't Identify as a Race"
36:45 The Closure
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*** Reminder: we are in a throwback episode phase while Nina writes the book: sheโll be listening in with you to see how things have transformed over the years! ***
Empowered Human with Nina Garcia is an episodic journey for self justice, personal freedom, and lifelong liberation. We can all use tools to recondition cultural beliefs that don't serve our lived experience as a human being. It starts with you, so have a journal on hand or a good friend to dialogue with what comes up for you in this episode. And if you can't play with this today? That's okay too. Stay curious. We'll see you later, or in the next episode friend. New episodes Wednesdays, with a tool for Empowerment in each one: subscribe for notifications!