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The Get InPowered Podcast: Fostering Community through Shared Stories

The Get InPowered Podcast by Inclusivus is about individuals, innovators, advocates, activists, and agents of social change across sectors and industries who are working to transform their communities and the world at large. In each episode, we travel with host Judithe Registre to a different location and talk with InPowered women and men whose stories and work are inspiring change and action and making a transformative impact in their communities. These are people who, through their own personal experiences and a gender equity lens, are working to create more inclusive and progressive communities.
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Mar 30, 2017

“You have to [support] people to tap into themselves, to believe in themselves. It’s [about creating the space] to help them realize that they’re so much more than their circumstance” - Kunda.

In this episode, Judithe visits with Kunda Musonda, a career–life coach focusing on people in transition, such as the homeless, victims/survivors of domestic violence, immigrants, and other underserved populations. Kunda focuses on helping people in her community envision a different future for themselves during difficult times and then taking actionable steps to get to that future. The idea is to dream a dream and then live into it.

 

You can’t give the world what you’re NOT. –Judithe

Domestic violence is one of those things; it has no age discrimination, it has no color, it has no sense of economic structure. It affects everybody. –Kunda

My parents allowed me to dream big—they allowed me to explore! –Kunda

Mar 22, 2017

"To be white means to exist. Well, it means the same thing to be black: To exist."

In this solo episode, Judithe discusses her thoughts on the “mainstreaming” of the concept of intersectionality as well as gender and racial biases that we all hold about other “tribes” as well as our own. 

"We must move beyond despair to create the world we want to exist in."

"What if we were to start creating the kind of information we’re consuming?

Mar 15, 2017

In this episode, Judithe is joined by Coach Smedley (Alisa Smedley)  to discuss Coach's background growing up in an unstable home, and how she now brings that experience to her work with imprisoned young men.

With her full grasp of the barriers that many children face as they traverse young adulthood, Coach Smedley’s message is one of personal responsibility and opportunity.

 

Highlights from this episode:

"Dating is a test drive. You do that apart from your parenting." - Coach Smedley

"I thought, ‘We’re in survival mode, lady! The heck with college-ruled paper, we bought the paper that was on sale at K-Mart!’" - Coach Smedley

"You cannot give into your environment." - Coach Smedley

"You’re never supposed to be comfortable in a jail, that’s not your home!" - Coach Smedley.

"Sometimes, coming out of unstable situations like I did, you have to create something that you’ve never seen. I want to let them know THAT IS POSSIBLE." - Coach Smedley

"In some states, they determine how many correctional facilities they’ll need on fourth-grade reading scores." - Coach Smedley.

 

Coach Smedley's four things that will keep you out of jail:

1. Your relationship with money: How you think and feel about money

2. Education: Whatever level of education you have, work to achieve more

3. Learn to do many things: Skills mean opportunities

4. You have to want more: Don’t be satisfied with your circumstances or environment.

Mar 8, 2017

In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we bring you our final installment of coverage from the Women's March on Washington. This episode features comedian Sarah Jones, women's rights activists Lisa Schejola Akin, American expat Emily Miller, and citizen and friend, Kerrie Mitchell. We discuss the limit and privilege of white women's Individuality and black women’s solidarity in voting for Hillary, and the continuing quest to further human rights by securing women's rights through intersectionality.

 

Highlights from this episode:

 

“People need very simple, direct recommendations on how they can easily impact.” - Lisa Schejola Akin

 

“[The Women’s March] was just a show of solidarity among everyone. There was everybody represented there on the march.” - Lisa Schejola Akin

 

“Four years can go by fast or it can go by slow. If you take action every single day right where you stand with the power you have in your community, it'll go by a lot quicker.” - Sarah Jones

 

“Who are you? I’m me. My mother always beams with pride when she shares the story of my identical twin sister and me looking in the mirror when we were two and answering her question (separately), ‘Who are you?’ with ‘I’m me.’” -Kerrie Mitchell

 

“As a person, I’ve had the privilege of being born female and white. We didn’t identify, we shouldn’t identify, by our race, our gender.” - Kerrie Mitchell

 

“For those of us who do not belong to the dominant group, we cannot afford to purely be individuals and think only about our personal lives. We tend to hold multiple realities and are able to simultaneously hold and understand the consequences of things on everyone.“ - Judithe Registre

Mar 2, 2017

Mary Zeints discusses her life in South Africa and how it has shaped her struggle for human rights, especially women’s rights. She and Judithe discuss some “worst case scenarios” for the current American administration and how the lessons of history can inform our resistance. Mary dreams of a 10-point plan for women’s rights in the new international climate.

 

Highlights from this episode:

 

“[In South Africa], ordinary people were doing extraordinary things because they had such terrible leaders trying to do things they didn’t believe in.” - Mary Zeints

 

“You can have institutions, [but] you’re still reliant on individuals acting.” - Mary Zeints

 

“When people grow up in environments where those things [civil rights and civil responsibilities] are not taken for granted, they might be much more prepared to protect them and stand up for them.” - Mary Zeints

 

“The freedom and access to resources that women have is not only essential for the woman, but for her family, and her community and her nation!” - Mary Zeint.

 

“We’re talking about the very foundation of our society when we attack women’s wellbeing.” - Judithe Registre

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