So I wanted to try to play my hand at this podcast. I have so much to say. And I don't want my writing to suffer because I'm blogging about things that don't necessarily bring in the decades. In academia, it's all about right to thrive, right to die.
You got to publish to keep your jobs, teach promotions, et cetera. So I need to keep my writing separated. But I also have some ideas I want to share. And I don't always have time to set a computer and bang it out.
So I want to just start these podcasts as a way of getting some ideas out of my head and out to people so that they, you know, I really believe that ideas can construct or be read dialogue on one another. And I wanted to share some things with you guys and hear back from you. Like, I don't want this to be a long-term street. I still don't tell you, I don't like lectures.
You know, I'm all about the discourse for dialogue. So I wanted to start telling to told you because I think I have a lot of good ideas that I don't want that to sound ever get. But I think we all have a lot of good ideas. And we got to find the best means to get them out there.
And so I want this podcast to be that today is kind of like an introductory of what you can expect when telling to tell them to tell. And by my mind, it's the complicated mix that reflects the complicated mix that we need. So it's a little bit, a little bit ratchet. Maybe a little cursing because it's kind of how we talk.
It's a little bit academic and stuffy because sometimes that's how my mind is working. It's a whole lot of black-centered, African-centered ideology, simply because it's my end as I've been trying. And quite frankly, it's how it was raised. I am pro-black.
And I mean that in the most open of ways. And I don't mean that to be anti-anything else. I often tell people just because I love my mother does not mean that I hate yours. So I'm pro-black but that doesn't mean I'm anti-anything else.
I'm pro-vibration for all oppressed people. I'm pro-equity for all oppressed people. I'm pro-power for all oppressed people. And I'm a little bit of a nerd.
I like to be because of that. I have a lot that I would want to share with you guys. I'm still trying to figure out who I am in terms of what my niche is. In the academy, all are supposed to have this niche of what we're good at.
And I don't know that I've narrowed it down in the way that some people want me to narrow it down. I think it's perfect for myself. It fits me as this complicated mix of the things I'm interested in. And so I'm a literacy scholar.
I study how literacy is used to create community among African descendants primarily in spiritual settings. How do we use literacy to maintain, establish, and preserve our spiritual traditions? So my dissertation was around me. I've since moved on to look at the comparisons between me and black kinds of work from the US out.
Partly because my grade A was a congement. So I'm interested in how our family lost that knowledge. That's a whole other time. Let me not go there yet.
So I am interested in black leaders' institutions. Also in teacher education, so I'm interested in diversifying the teaching workforce. There's all these research that shows that black teachers are incredibly powerful sources of academic learning in the classroom. They have tremendous benefit to their students.
None of the lectures by what you know about their role is they're severely underrepresented in the US public teaching course. And so some of my work is around why I do black teachers into the field and why do they say I think if we understand that a little bit better, then we'll understand better how to recruit and retain black teachers. So I'm interested in that. So also very big on cultural learning and pedagogy.
Teaching should be appropriate for the students that you're teaching quite frankly. And unfortunately, I'm the US public school system. So I'm also interested in cultural learning and pedagogy. Professional development for teachers to gain.
But cultural learning and pedagogy is not my side hustles. Sidebook, coeducation consulting.com. If you are a school leader, looking for some professionals to learn and bring teachers out here at your service. And then I also have a big huge interest in historically black colleges and universities.
I am the product of HBCUs. And I'm a president of your professor at HBCU. I'm a specific data assistant professor. I wanted to claim rank that I have not earned.
I'm an HBCU. And I have tremendous love for these institutions because I understand the historical importance that they've had in our communities. I'm fiercely protected of their students and their faculty. In light of that, my other side hustles, HBCUProff.com.
The website is under revamped. It will be reloaded August 7, 2017. So soon come, it will be a place where faculty at historically black colleges, universities, come to share information to network, to find out about job and grant opportunities, and to be celebrated. So it's a space specifically for the HBCU professor.
And it's going to be defined in a couple of different ways. Both those of us who are products of HBCUs and maybe in academia and PWIs are the minority-serving institutions. But most specifically for HBCU faculty who are presently teaching at these institutions, we know many of you are overworked and underpaid. And we wanted to do our part to try to equal that playing field and to honor you for all the sacrifices you make on behalf of institutions that work for me on the meetings.
So that's another one of my interests. I'm also a life and life purpose coach. So I like to work with assistants in particular, but to anyone who's interested in having a professional accountability partner, someone who's going to help you achieve your wildest dreams, by pushing you in your thinking, providing some strategies for you, and most importantly, being there for you, and that's about ideas I'll love to ask you the hard questions, to really move you towards doing the things you say you want to do. So I also like purpose and I like purpose and I coach of Telensetold.com.
That's the side hustle from which this podcast housed. But it's not just the life and purpose culture, it's all of you. Because that's why I bring everything to the table. I think for us to be completely well, we have to be completely old.
So at least how you're dealing with me. I'm sometimes less interested in chagrin. I bring all of that to the table. And I want to deal with people who want to bring the whole set up and stuff like this, nothing to hide.
We were all made better by your full presence who created here and individualized specific experiences that no one else has. So you have a specific knowledge base that you all get to go from. We're going to make this world a better place. We need all the talents.
All the talents. And there's Afro-Prover. This is not lying in one hand alone. And we all have the answers.
We just get together and talk about it. So I don't want to run over or talk too much on this. It's just an introduction. It's time to talk to you again.
And I just want to talk to you and to know you. So I'm dropping this podcast. I want you to share it wide. I want you to think you'll be interesting.
But make sure you share it with people who are going to talk back to me. They'll come to my box and they'll foolishness. Because people who know what we will tell you. I got the flip mouth.
Let me comment. I'm getting there now. So anyway, I want to talk to you guys. I want to know you.
I want to have fun with you. And I hope you enjoy. Give me feedback. I'm dropping a leak.
But you know how you feel about this introduction. But you know how things get better. It proves that you know if you're a rock and coo-roo. You want to buy some services.
You know, all that kind of stuff. I think you'll win this week. Have a great day. And we want to talk to you too.
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