637: Sage B. Hobbs: How To Sit in Conversations About Race and Culture as a White Woman

Sage B. Hobbs is the author of Naked Communication and the host of Race, Culture, & Beyond: A Naked Conversations Podcast Series. Sage’s passion for maximizing human potential, building emotional intelligence, and cultivating cultures of equity has led to over 20 years of experience working in public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Her speciality is relational leadership and communication, enabling leaders and team members to create positive relationships and organizational cultures that ensure greater success and satisfaction.

With a commitment to continual learning of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Sage brings an equity lens to all of her work. She’s comfortable facilitating uncomfortable conversations in order to support the growth and impact that her clients seek.

Sage and I became friends after she was on my show for the first time a couple years ago. As her work has evolved to be more centered around DEI work, we have had some great conversations around what it means to be a white woman talking about race and culture in America. I know many of you are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion across your communities, so I thought this would be a really valuable conversation to have here. 

Listen in to hear Sage share:

• How we are building resilience in the smallest moments of joy right now
• Her daily 10 minute practice with 3 girlfriends that has had massive impact over the last few months
• Why she decided to launch her podcast, Race, Culture, and Beyond, and the considerations she made to create a show on race as a white woman
• How she’s handled making inadvertent microaggressions on her show
• The truth about being an ally, who gets to own that word and the significance of ally being a verb
• How we can make equity a throughline in all the ways we show up in various communities
• The power of choosing curiosity over assumption to de escalate conflict and come to a solution
• How to make space for everyone, especially introverts and slower processors, in conversations

Links mentioned:

• Join my April 6th business training, Build Your Courageous & Confident CEO Blueprint: shamelessmom.com/ceo
• Podcast: Race, Culture, and Beyond
• Connect with Sage: sagebhobbs.com
• Sage on LinkedIn
• Sage on Instagram: @sagebhobbs and @racecultureandbeyondpodcast
• TV Shows: Queen Sugar and Remy
• Book: Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

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