Speaking Your Truth: Ways We Can Create Change and Spark Dialogue

PLEASE NOTE: This episode touches on sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised. If you are uncomfortable with that topic, we encourage you to avoid this episode. “When it's about finding our voice and speaking our truth… what I like to draw back to is: this is a job that you have, but who you are, how you feel about yourself and the way you function in the world is more paramount,” Minita Gandhi shares. “And so in terms of whether to speak up or not and finding truth, the really simple thing I say is: if you were to talk to your 80-year-old self right now, what would they want you to do in this moment?”Minita Gandhi is an actress, playwright, healer, and the former National Program Director for AGE (Advance Gender Equity in the Arts). In addition to leading workshops for business leadership and a variety of other topics, they privately coach arts leaders and senior executives at Minita Studio, aiding them in achieving their goals through a holistic lens. Their platforms include but are not limited to: equity through an intersectional lens, sexual assault, mentorship, and advocacy and empowerment for those who represent marginalized genders.In this week’s show we talk about:The collective experience of the pandemic, and what it taught us.The importance of pluralism - why it’s imperative that we come together and compromise because there will never be just one right voice to follow.Ways in which we can create change.Allowing people to learn from their mistakes, and not defining others based on one moment of their lives.ResourcesMinita Gandhi on the Web, Twitter, Instagram