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TheAwayGames_Podcast

The workplace is becoming more diverse, but that means clashes of cultural normalities. We discuss how those clashes impact careers, mental health, interpersonal relationships and future generations ability to live more inclusively free. We also provide tools and resources to fight back to define your own future.

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10:38

Spook Diaries 11: Ingram Micro and Django

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2025/03/10

Welcome back to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast! On this episode, I start to breakdown the analysis by Jared Bauer of Django Unchained and its comparison to the modern day workplace. This is the first of 3 episodes dedicated to this topic and we start with Calvin Candie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4sjr2zGqr0&pp=ygUSamFyZWQgYmF1ZXIgRGphbmdv

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51:29

Dr. Jeannette Wade: Health Outcomes and Maternal...

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2025/03/07

On this episode of TheAwayGames_Podcast, Im joined by a special guest, esteemed professor and program director of Human Health Sciences at UNC Greensboro, Dr. Jeannette Wade. We discuss the drivers of health outcomes for any group of a population (specifically black women), physicians' responses to DEI and the fight for maternal mortality equity. We recorded this episode, not realizing that Dr. Wade had a scheduling conflict, but made it happen regardless! She's a hero. You can find Dr. Wade

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87:52

Concourse Arts Foundation Producer Luis "Macho"...

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2025/02/28

Today Im joined by a special guest, film maker, film produce and film/comedy/poetry festival producer, Luis Macho Miranda. On this episode, we discuss what it means to grow up in the Bronx, being a 2nd generation American and the importance of legacy.We also discuss what impact his father being murdered had on his career, developing a comic book with his son and how mentorship can be the greatest teacher that money can't buy.Please Like, Share and Follow TheAwayGames_Podcast for the latest

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76:19

Whitney Middlebrooks: Change management challenges...

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2025/02/14

Inclusivity can be challenging within a world conditioned towards comfort and away from equity.Today Im joined by a special guest, Whitney Middlebrooks of Black Luxe Co and The Black Luxe Expo. On this episode, well be discussing her journey into the world of pop culture, how Trayvon Martin changed her life and how her dismay with corporate DEI led to her creating her own impactful entrepreneurial venture.Please like, share and subscribe for better

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41:37

Jathan Blackburn: A Cape-less Hero

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2025/02/06

On this episode, I speak with Jathan Blackburn, a blue collar employee in healthcare and learn about his compassion for his community. He, along with a few other, started an organization called The Sock Coalition, dedicated to providing homeless citizens of Winston-Salem with new, clean goods and foods to help ease their daily struggle. Before starting this venture though, he had to endure the stigma of being thought of as the brute of behavioral health, coerced into creating larger budgets for

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75:37

Miranda Jones: Exceptional = Target in Teaching

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2025/01/31

On this episode, Im joined by a special guest, Miranda Jones, a North Carolina Exceptional Teacher supporting the Triad area, where we discuss the challenges of social conformity to white norms at the high school level, curriculum politics and student engagement tactics that work to increase student performance scores! We also discuss how this success can lead to conflict with administration, which we are all familiar with under Trump. Please Like, Share and Subscribe to support our growth

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60:35

Meleata & Hassan Pinto: The quiet buildings of a...

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2025/01/16

On today's episode, Im joined by a special guests and black executives, Meleta and Hassan Pinto. We start by discussing entrepreneurship vs. navigating corporate America and building a family dynasty; but then dive deep into the Pinto legacy, discussing their children's academic and social success and what the Pinto's plan to leave behind. Meleta is an Emmy winning producer turned Marketing Executive, while Hassan is a former LA Lakers executive, tech entrepreneur and a non-profit executive helping

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62:04

Janelle Romero: The TikTok famous Employment Attorney...

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2025/01/09

In today's episode, Im joined by a special guest, Employment Attorney Janelle Romero of Consumer Attorneys, representing in part undocumented workers. We discuss Janelles 3 key employment law focuses for employees to stay ahead of employer mistreatment, as well as pitfalls immigrant employers fall into when starting new businesses here in the states. Janelle is a well travelled, well studied employment attorney who utilizes TikTok to educate younger audience, like mine! I'm wildly excited about

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65:47

Religious Trauma and it's impact on the workplace...

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2025/01/02

We are starting off Season 2 with a bang, discussing how religion plays a role in our engagement with authority in the workplace. We focus on key ideas of Shame, Guilt and Coercion, which play major roles in religion's ability to condition social behavior and have been co-opted by authorities in other aspects of life, like the workplace, to suppress accountability of authority. We also dive deep into some of my own family experiences, discussing how Catholicism impacted my mom and her approach to

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20:52

Spook Diaries 10 - Lenovo's Retaliation, HR is not...

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2024/12/22

This is the last episode of Season 1 and it crescendos with me missing an opportunity to take legal action against Lenovo and my Director. Like most of us, I (at the time) was not legally savvy enough to recognize the situation and had not contacted an employment lawyer to know and understand my rights...so I left money on the table. There is a huge lesson in this story, as it shows middle managers working alongside Senior HR "professionals" to protect the business, set up employees and hurt

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Spook Diaries 9 - Lenovo, The Boys & Girls Club and...

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2024/12/16

On this episode of The Spook Diaries, I explore Lenovo's white employees treating black and brown kids like charity, the birth of The HBCU Initiative and learning that ambition can infect all of us, regardless of believing skin folk to be kin folk.

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Spook Diaries 8 - Lenovo and My 1st Black Manager

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2024/12/12

What happens when a minority sees themselves in their leadership...they thrive! On this episode, I discuss how important it was for my professional growth to have support that fostered great work habits, understood cultural nuance and appreciated different perspectives on solutions. Thank you Christina Taylor for being a light for me in a dark career corridor .

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16:56

Spook Diaries 7 - White Dude Solutions and Black Lunch

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2024/12/09

On this episode of the Spook Diaries, I dive deeper into my experience with "allies" in leadership positions, not understanding that inclusion doesn't mean the same thing to everyone...and shouldn't! From volunteering at Habitat-for-Humanity to lunch time segregation, every aspect of your culture should be examined to determine how inclusive you actually are.

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21:33

Spook Diaries 6 - Dude Solutions and Rohit

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2024/12/04

My 2nd tech company, Dude Solutions, introduced me to a number of problems in the workplace with inclusion and the mentality of black professionals. This insight would guide my direction into Team CT Consulting and this podcast years later. Conformity to white norms would never seem important again.

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Spook Diaries 5 - My First Tech Experience: Citrix

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2024/11/25

SD5 - My very first tech gig should have been a huge red flag for what these spaces were like to work in...luckily I had allies, before I even knew what allies were!

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Spook Diaries 4 - On My Malcolm: Triangle Pest Control

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2024/11/21

Malcolm X is one of my heroes, primarily because of his capacity to change. White culture rejects anything that holds itself to account and Malcolm was only her for that. Hear what happens when my co-workers have to face themselves through a productive, dominant co-worker like me.

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Spook Diaries 3 - Ignoring Black Lives - Triangle...

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2024/11/18

After escaping restaurants, I ended up with a pest control company. My transition was rough, but I quickly learned that white culture was the only culture excepted in presentation.

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Spook Diaries 2 - Codeswitching for Dollars: Restaurants

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2024/11/15

Customer service skills are of great benefit to multiple types of employment. However, in our society - as it is currently constructed - you learn a lot more about cultural hierarchy than you think. Restaurants proved that to me, hear how...

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Spook Diaries 1: Intro into TheAwayGames_Podcast

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2024/11/14

How we got here? How do we move forward in a 2nd Trump presidency without addressing the pushback of DEI, the future implementation of Project 2025 and the legal strategies to help cope in our workplaces? We don't! On the Spook Diaries, we walk through my work history, family history, social history and all other memories that created the urgency for TheAwayGames_Podcast. Listen. Learn. Live Smarter.

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54:10

Dr. Charles Wallington: An American Tale

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2024/10/31

Imagine working for a hospital that racism stopped you from being born in... In this episode, we follow Dr. Wallington, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Cone Health, through his career path from journalism, consumer packaged goods, and merchant transaction servicers to healthcare. He connects the dots and ties all of theses differing industries together through his continuous upskilling and faith. As an author of, A Seat at the C-Suite Table: Insights

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