"I talk about Decolonizing Work so that my black male child can walk though the world safely, and eat skittles and wear a hoodie, without the fear of losing his life."

This is how Giavanni and I started this beautiful conversation, had the way only black mamas can have it.

"Jack, you are a white personal growing up in a majority white country. You are going to be racist" - Jack's godmother to 12 year old Jack.

This is a conversation for all of us, who's work is to help and care for others. Parents. Therapists. Social workers. Teachers. Medical professionals. Nannies… and everyone else! This helping work must be decolonized too.

Angela and I start this deeply personal conversation with a story about her company picnic that triggered her own fragility. A pun made into the picnic theme, prompted a trusted friend to tell her: "that's a colonizer joke. It's not your joke to make. Find a different joke". We talk about how much being well-being isn't enough, how all our immersion in all these systems impact our relationship with ourselves, loved ones and our work.

Caryn and Faith explore societal and work culture rules and the spaciousness that’s found when we interrogate and reframe these rules to honor us deeply.

“My mother understood the assignment” - Dr Kimberly Douglass

In this conversation, Kimberly and I compare our experiences as African descent mothers, and talk about how the educational systems prepare people to work in work environments that aren't supportive to human thriving.

“As we speak, we heal” - Yanaëlle Ntwa

Decolonization at work means changing the narrative around who gets to share which emotions at work. This conversation is about grief and story-telling as a tool of healing (and content creation!) within normal, weekly workflow.

E-learning specialist Nina Everflow talks with Faith about decolonizing our notions of human value in the workplace.

"What in our work space affects us? .. Our secrets make us sick."

In today's conversation, SharRon and I talk about workplace well-being and the struggle to feel good and the large scale impact on worker experience in many companies.

"You can't step on my toe and tell me that it didn't hurt"

“What does it feel like to be free?”

These statements hit hard as Bart and I process the systemic limitations to belonging at work, and the persistent, multi-level strategies needed to affect real change.

Merel and I have a vulnerable conversation about the practice of learning, decolonizing self and creating new ways of working and more equitable economies.

"The tears we shed waters the seeds."

In this Decolonize Work conversation, Anuradha and I reflect on what it would actually mean for people to be able to bring their full selves to work. We talk about the experience of grief that many marginalized people deal with constantly and the fact that showing and sharing grief isn't something that is done 'at work'. We talk about how the work day could have space for grief, depending on the needs of the actual humans in our workspace.