The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar

How do you respond when young students say something racist? What do you do when you are the one who has said something racist? How do you address an entire community pushing against equity work? Today we’re wrapping up our special What to Say When You Hear Something Racist series with a listener questions episode. Listen in to hear our answers to these questions and several more. Mentioned in this episode: The Art of Coaching (retired July 2024 with the release of Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching) Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators (book by Elena) Marshall Rosenberg and non-violent communicationThe Person You Mean to Be, Dolly Chugh The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development (forthcoming book by Elena and Lori Cohen) Opportunities for continued learning: Read Coaching for EquityAttend Coaching for Equity or Coaching for Equity Masterclass (retired workshop) Visit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://brightmorningteam.com/newsletter/ Support us 

We’re busy working to put together our What to Say When You Hear Something Racist Listener Questions episode, so today we’re replaying one of our favorite shows from August 2021, Episode 85: You Want to Coach for Equity? Start Here. This episode will help you tie together the content from What to Say When to your coaching practice. It’s intricately connected. Mentioned in this episode: Friends of the Show Mind the Gap (handout)3 Bs: Behaviors, Beliefs and Ways of Being Opportunities for continued learning: Coaching for Equity (workshop)Coaching for Equity Masterclass (retired workshop)Coaching for Equity(book) Podcast Transcript and Use:Bright Morning Consulting owns the copyright in and to all content in and transcripts of The Bright Morning Podcast, with all rights reserved. You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content.If you would like to support the show and enable us to invest additional resources into providing more polished transcripts, you can do so by becoming a Friend of the Show.Episode TranscriptVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://brightmorningteam.com/newsletter/ Support us 

The last episode of our limited series, What to Say When You Hear Something Racist, wrapped up last week and today Elena is back with an invitation for listeners: get all of your What to Say When… questions answered! Mentioned on this episode: Submit your questions here (https://bit.ly/WTSWquestions)  Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuideVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://brightmorningteam.com/newsletter/ Support us 

In the final episode of our limited series, What to Say When You Hear Something Racist, Elena shares recommendations and resources to continue this critical work. Mentioned on this episode: Books: How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi.The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo  The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad Coaching for Equity: Conversations that Change Practice by Elena Aguilar Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar  Onward Workbook: Daily Activities to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience and Thrive by Elena Aguilar  Learning Experiences: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Professional Learning Community Coaching for Equity workshopAdditional Resources: 

In this episode of our limited series, What to Say When You Hear Something Racist, Elena is joined by Stacey Goodman to discuss the additional considerations the two are mindful of as people of color engaging in conversations that address racism.  Mentioned on this episode:Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuideVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://subscriber.brightmorningteam.com/resources  Support us

How do you hold compassion and curiosity when you experience racism? When do you draw boundaries around people who say racist things? These are a few of the questions we explore in today’s episode where Elena is once again joined by her teammate, LesLee Bickford, who shares a very personal story about how she responded to racism expressed by her family. Mentioned on this episode: Facebook is a Doomsday Machine (An Atlantic article that expands on LesLee’s mention of how Facebook is destroying society) Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuideVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram Receive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://subscriber.brightmorningteam.com/resources Support us 

In this episode of our limited series, What to Say When You Hear Something Racist, Elena demonstrates specific sentence stems and responses you can use.  Mentioned on this episode: Here’s What to Say (handout with sentence stems and sample responses) The Three Ps (handout of Elena’s framework) Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuidePodcast Transcript and Use:Bright Morning Consulting owns the copyright in and to all content in and transcripts of The Bright Morning Podcast, with all rights reserved. You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content.If you would like to support the show and enable us to invest additional resources into providing more polished transcripts, you can do so by becoming a Friend of the Show.Episode TranscriptVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://subscriber.brightmorningteam.com/resources Support us 

In today’s episode of our limited series, What to Say When You Hear Something Racist, Elena dives into the third (and final) P in her 3 P’s framework for responding to racism. The third P is Possibility. And in this episode you’ll hear how to evaluate the possibility in a situation and how doing so will help you determine both what to say and whether you need to say something in that moment, or perhaps at a later time. Mentioned on this Episode:Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuideVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://subscriber.brightmorningteam.com/resources Support us 

In this episode of our What to Say When You Hear Something Racist limited series, Elena guides you through how to reflect on power dynamics that are present in a situation in which you hear something racist. Listen in to hear the three types of power dynamics commonly at play, how your identity markers add complexity that must be considered, and how an awareness of both can help you find a springboard to open up the conversation.Mentioned on this episode: The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development (Book by Elena and co-author, Lori Cohen, releasing in May 2022) Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuideVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram Receive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://subscriber.brightmorningteam.com/resources  Support us

Effectively responding to racism requires you to act with a clear purpose. In this episode of our What to Say When You Hear Something Racist limited series, Elena shares a process for you to get clear on your purpose for saying something, including the five categories of purposes you’ll likely be drawing from. Mentioned in this Episode:Download your "What to Say When You Hear Something Racist" GuideVisit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show.  Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, InstagramReceive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://subscriber.brightmorningteam.com/resources  Support us