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TheAwayGames_Podcast
by Ron Corley
The workplace is becoming more diverse, but that means clashes of cultural normalities. We discuss how those clashes impact careers, mental health, interpersonal relationships and future generations ability to live more inclusively free. We also provide tools and resources to fight back to define your own future.
Episodes
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TheAwayGames_Podcast * The_HustleLegacy = TheOffSeason
Building more empathetic communities requires a broadening of the imagination of what your community is. In America, white communities don't see Black and Brown people as a part of their community. Unfortunately, the inverse is true as well...Black communities operate and strive for the…
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TheAwayGames_Podcast x The Hustle Legacy = TheOffSeason
This is the first episode of several (no true count in mind) where Taz of The Hustle Legacy and I sit down to discuss our evolutions that brought us to the point of podcasting, becoming entrepreneurs and fighting familial, religious and social systems that had a specific place for us. We decided…
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TheOffSeason - Taz's story Part 2
This is a continuation of the last episode, where Taz's explores the dark side of her family, culture and religious histories....secrets snowball into norms, creating generational trauma. Leave comments if you've had similar things like this happen in your family. https://www.thehustlelegacy.com/...
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TheOffSeason - Taz's Story Part 1
This is a continuation of the last episode, where Taz's explores the dark side of her family, culture and religious histories....secrets snowball into norms, creating generational trauma. Leave comments if you've had similar things like this happen in your family. https://www.thehustlelegacy.com/...
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TheAwayGames_Podcast + The Hustle Legacy = TheOffSeason
Taz (of The Hustle Legacy) and I met over a year ago, and through the course of learning of each other's journey through both life and the workplace, we found to share some common threads! Across generations, religious & racial histories, gender & family dynamics, while not always aligned, there…
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SD S4 E8 | Billion Dollar Shifts: Free Employment Law Education for HBCU Students
We read about land-owning freed African Americans being manipulated into surrendering their land and the central theme is always the same: knowing the law. Yet professionals enter workplaces daily expecting not to be exploited. According to Strada Education Foundation data, 52% of college…
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SD S4 E7 | Contract Law for Workers: What Startups and Contractors Must Know
When taking a contract role, it is vitally important to know what terms are your responsibility and what terms are the company's. Ron Corley breaks down contract law from the worker's perspective what to look for, what to negotiate, and what you should never sign without legal advice. Explicit...
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SD S4 E6 | Retaliation as a Power Play: Employment Law & Your Next Move
Retaliation is a power play. In personal life, it's rarely consequential. In the workplace, a lack of emotional intelligence from leadership can lead to retaliatory acts that cross legal lines and cost companies far more than keeping an employee ever would. Ron Corley breaks down the anatomy of...
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SD S4 E5 | Fired in Retaliation: What the Law Says & What to Do Next
Ron Corley was fired from Benmo Pane in direct retaliation for pushing back on documented racism and hostile workplace behavior. This episode is a real-time employment law case study: what constitutes retaliatory firing, how to document it, and what your rights are in the moment it happens....
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SD S4 E4 | Confronting White Nationalist Rhetoric at Work: The Benmo Pane Chapter
Ron Corley documents the escalation at Benmo Pane where the MAGA manager's racism, drug use, and antisemitism are no longer ambient but direct and documented. This episode is about the moment Ron chooses to confront rather than comply and what that costs. Explicit content. Topics: white…
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SD S4 E3 | Day Labor, a Racist MAGA Manager & What the Law Says
After Dorsey Express, Ron Corley navigates day labor and then lands at Benmo Pane a white-owned trucking company with a manager whose open racism, antisemitism, and MAGA ideology created a documented hostile work environment. This episode directly confronts white nationalist rhetoric in the...
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SD S4 E2 | Broken Promises & Labor Violations: Dorsey Express Pt. 2
Part 2 of the Dorsey Express saga documents the breakdown promises made, contracts violated, and what happens when a Black-owned business fails its own employees. Ron Corley applies the employment law lens he's been developing all season to a situation most people assume doesn't apply to...
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SD S4 E1 | Black-Owned Trucking & the First Red Flags: Dorsey Express Pt. 1
Season 4 of the Spook Diaries opens with a new chapter: Dorsey Express, a Black-owned trucking company. Ron Corley documents his entry into a new industry, the first red flags in the organizational culture, and what happens when a Black-owned business replicates the same problematic dynamics Ron...
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S4 E8 | Black Women Surviving Corporate America & Building Generational Advancement w/ Jacquie Abram
International best-selling author and DEI keynote speaker Jacquie Abram author of 'Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in Her Workplace & Kept Her Job' (featured in Forbes) joins TheAwayGames_Podcast for a generational conversation about Black women's survival in corporate spaces and...
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S4 E7 | Equal Pay, Gender Equity & DEI w/ Aki Garrett
Aki Garrett joins TheAwayGames_Podcast at the intersection of DEI, gender equity, and professional sports exploring how the pay and treatment disparities in women's professional soccer mirror the dynamics Black professionals face in corporate America. Topics: women's professional soccer, equal…
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S4 E6 | How HR Gets Weaponized Against Employees & What DEI Leaders Know w/ Carlos Butler-Vale
Global DEI leader Carlos Butler-Vale formerly of McDonald's and now leading DEI at Constellation Brands joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to discuss how Human Resources functions can be used against the employees they're meant to protect, how ERGs can be co-opted by organizations, and what genuinely...
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S4 E5 | U.S. Immigration Law History & Its Impact on the American Workforce w/ Olivia Bensinger
Employment and immigration attorney Olivia Bensinger of Shaheen & Gordon joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to trace the history of U.S. immigration law and connect it directly to today's workforce dynamics, including who gets hired, who gets protected, and who gets exploited. A Harvard Law-trained...
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S4 E4 | HBCU Campus Safety, Sexual Violence & the Workplace w/ Kenyora Johnson & Renee Best
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas This episode dovetails off of our last conversation around the founding of EROC (End Rape on Campus), a discussion with Annie Clark. In that...
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S4 E3 | Title IX, Campus Sexual Violence & the Workplace w/ Annie Clark, EROC Co-Founder
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Annie Clark co-founder of End Rape on Campus (EROC) and a co-lead complainant in Title IX action against UNC-Chapel Hill joins...
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S4 E2 | Measuring Black Economic Power in America w/ Andre M. Perry, Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and economist Andre M. Perry joins TheAwayGames_Podcast to discuss his book 'Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It.' Perry's work quantifies Black Americans' economic and social power and calculates what it would take to...
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S4 E1 | Prison Reform, Re-Entry & Unlocking Human Potential w/ Marcus Alston
We begin Season 4 of TheAwayGames_Podcast with Marcus Alston a prison reform advocate whose framing of 'potential vs. kinetic' energy redefines how we think about human capability and the systems that suppress it. This conversation connects carceral justice directly to workplace equity. Topics:...
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Spook Diaries S3 E19: REVGEN - Bonus Episode, Don't Trust Them Niggas Over There
Here are 4 short stories that didn't make it into their respective months. Please enjoy this additional context and remember, "Fucking Llamas!" Enjoy! Join the conversation and get all the gritty details of #TheAwayGames_Podcast, a #ALIVEPodcastNetwork feature. Don't forget to #Like, #Share,...
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Spook Diaries S3 E18: REVGEN - It's Over, A Defeatless Loss
Stepping away from a 100k annual salary is difficult to do...especially when you're black, especially when you know that the opportunities to make this much may not come back around so quickly without specific credentials. But it is our integrity we are selling in toxic work environments: Our...
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Spook Diaries S3 E17: REVGEN - Sore Losers and Saboteurs
When playing an away game, you must always be careful not to beat the home team too badly...as you still must escape unscathed. On this episode, I discuss how #REVGEN leadership and inner circle plotted to weaken the winning streak that I had been on, ensuring that I got dealt the worst hand of...
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Spook Diaries S3 E16: REVGEN - The Spies of the Inner Circle
2 months into a promotion and I already want to quit! Sometimes company leaders want to see certain people fail, so they elevate them publicly and sabotage them privately...welcome to my life! Up to this point, my co-workers (almost exclusively my management peers) are becoming increasingly upset...
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Spook Diaries S3 E15: REVGEN - Heavy is the head that wears the crown
"Respect is always earned...so we must remain undeniable." - Moonshine Wallace It is difficult to take leaders seriously when they do not perform consistently as a deserving individual of such. Big Daddy, and his plantation of Brittle Brothers, where consistently embarrassed by their lack of...
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Spook Diaries S3 E14 - REVGEN: Winning has its Downsides
Winning is only fun when others can enjoy it with you...or, when you're playing an away game! On this episode of #TheAwayGames_Podcast, we get into how the sustained success of the person brought into the organization to be a scapegoat or punching bag, turned their internal politics upside down…
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Spook Diaries S3 E13: REVGEN - Black History Month, QBR and Whoopin' Ass
As black people, we are all faced with varying degrees of capitulation when raising a family - housing them, feeding them and clothing them. While I know that our blackness doesn't distinguish us as compromisers to these ends, it does place us in a unique position as one tries to define their...
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Spook Diaries S3 E12: REVGEN - A Token Hire
After 11 months of not being employed, we pick up the story on #TheAwayGames_Podcast and #TheSpookDiaries, with starting my role within REVGEN, a lead generation business in Raleigh, North Carolina. We continue with the theme of Big Daddy's plantation from D'Jango Unchained and we introduce some…
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Spook Diaries E11 - Big Daddy's Plantation: An intro into REVGEN
Welcome back to TheAwayGames_Podcast, Spook Diaries, our sub-series walking through the work history of our host, Ron Corley. On this episode, we introduce REVGEN as a workplace and the characters within it that give D'Jango Unchained plantation like vibes; from Big Daddy to the Brittle Brothers…
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Casey Duhart: Glass Ceilings, Performative DEI and Workplace Retaliation v Discrimination
What happens when you actualize that breaking through the glass ceilings in life isn't enough? In this conversation, we sit done with Casey Duhart, General Councel of Acadia Healthcare and former Editor of the Tennessee University Law Review. She takes us through her career challenges, starting...
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Double J(C) Part 3: Mr. Tin Foil, MAGA Conservative manager shows his racism and Anti-Semitism
The veil of kindness, Jesus and freedom masks some of the ugliest social constructions our society has ever seen. On this, the final episode with Mr. Tin Foil, his mask comes off and we are able to see his hatred and discontent for those he thinks less of clearly. His humanity and the sexual…
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Double J(C) Part 2: Mr. Tin Foil Smokes Crack
What happens to victims that aren't allowed to be victims? To families that don't talk about their histories of Sexual Abuse? To parents who never shared their trauma with their children and thus never stopped their children from hiding parts of themselves from the world? On this, Part 2 of our...
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Double J(C) Part 1: Mr. Tin Foil, MAGA and S.A.
Sexual Assault is a life changing traumatic experience that is typically viewed through the lens of women and girls. Not enough emphasis is placed on the impacts of SA on males in our society. Over the next 3 episodes, you will learn about a Conservative, tin foil hat wearing, MAGA supporting...
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Chantelle Johnson of Talent 4D Culture: Data tells the story
How can you ever be expected to align with your company's goals if they don't provide you with the most basic of starting points? On this episode of #TheAwayGames_Podcast on #AlivePodcastNetwork, we talk with premiere executive talent placement extraordinaire, Chantelle Johnson of…
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Dr. Shindale Seale: ERGs - Friends and Foes
Over 300,000 Black women left the workforce between March and September of 2025...What did your ERG do to help slow, stop and/or prevent this from happening to more Black women and/or other protected classed groups in your workplace? On this, the 5th episode of Season 5 of TheAwayGames_Podcast…
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Neurodivergent: The Turn w/Double J (2) - P3
Identity shapes our self worth and understanding daily. What we do for a living, who we are to our families, the impact that we are working to make in the world all play roles in who we believe ourselves to be. What happens when that belief is confronted with a debilitating disease? What happens...
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High School Drop Out to College Scholar: Double J (2) - P2
Picking up the story with Double J (2), what happens after you decide to drop out of high school and how do you find the strength to be successful, especially when drugs and alcohol surround your social scene? We'll dive into that and how the parallels between my personal life and Double J's (2)...
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Straight A student to High School Drop Out: Double J (2) - P1
In this 3 part series interview, we dive deep into the role identity development plays into the success of young women and how that identity changes and has the ability to trap you. Part 1 - Today we meet and discuss the early and teenage years of Double J, a smart young lady who has challenges...
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The Inconspicuous Ally: A wolf in sheep's clothing - Double J (1)
It can be easy to be an ally from afar. But what happens when you're in the thick of it. You blend in to your surroundings and you have a choice, hide or speak out? On this episode, we interview the first of 3 white Americans who discuss how they feel post Trump's presidential election. This…
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Spook Diaries 20: Ingram Micro - Stephens Amongst Us
If you recall from the last episode, co-workers began to abandon our work relationships once I filed the lawsuit against Ingram Micro. What happens when that battle extends to your "friends" and "family"? On this episode of the Spook Diaries, we discuss the decline of my mental health during my...
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Spook Diaries 19: Ingram Micro - Filing a Lawsuit and Alienation of Co-Workers
When standing up against oppressive management and company policies that discriminate, your co-workers may feel like you're putting their jobs in jeopardy. This jeopardy could cause them to flee...then all of the sudden, you're not just battling for equity within your workplace, you're battling…
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Spook Diaries 18: Deciding to Sue
Getting to your breaking point could negatively impact your state of mind. I took a vacation. On this episode, I discuss being placed on Administrative Leave, my daughters enjoying the Keys and a flawed Ingram Micro legal team who tried to erased data from our thread, before firing me. Like…
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Spook Diaries 17: Ingram DEI All Hands and Self-Segregation
How do you tell a whole culture that their inherently flawed because of some of the practices of said culture? For a lot of Americans, this is true for anyone in or from non-American society. How do cultures become self reflective? In this episode I breakdown what DEI in practice at scale looked...
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Spook Diaries 16: Lou Brunetto and Cheryl Rang - Collusion and Retaliation
On this episode I dive deeper into the relationships that pushed me out of Ingram Micro, how Cheryl Rang posed as a friend and ally and how Lou Brunetto's lack of technical intellect within the product portfolio caused my job to be threatened. I discuss this from the point of view of Django...
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Spook Diaries 15: Edge Computing and Incentives to Sell
On this episode, I walk listeners through how I was going to solve the problem of losing 75 Million in annual business while gaining new partners and customers through Edge Computing. I also discuss the desires of Ingram Micro to utilize my strategy of marrying Edge Computing and the Internet of...
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Spook Diaries 14: Books of Business and a 75 Million Dollar Loss
On this episode of The Spook Diaries on TheAwayGames_Podcast, I discuss my transition into Ingram Micro and the problems in sales that they faced due to the conditioning of mediocrity as a standard of outcomes by leadership. This is laying the foundation and ground work for listeners to…
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Spook Diaries 13: Stephen (my boy)
This episode continues our dissection of the film and review of the film Django Unchained, however it focuses on the head enslaved African, Stephen. His role in society is mirrored in modern day workplaces by men and women who aim to consolidate power by being viewed as a value to the oppressive...
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Spook Diaries 12: 1 in 10,000 and Shultz
This is the 2nd in our 3 part introduction to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast. on this episode, I focus on Calvin Candie's idea that 1 in 10,000 "niggers" will be exceptional and that the number of exceptional "niggers" will grow as time goes on. I then…
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Spook Diaries 11: Ingram Micro and Django
Welcome back to Season 2 of The Spook Diaries, a series segment of TheAwayGames_Podcast! On this episode, I start to breakdown the analysis by Jared Bauer of Django Unchained and its comparison to the modern day workplace. This is the first of 3 episodes dedicated to this topic and we start with...
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The workplace is becoming more diverse, but that means clashes of cultural normalities. We discuss how those clashes impact careers, mental health, interpersonal relationships and future generations ability to live more inclusively free. We also provide tools and resources to fight back to define your own future.
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Ron Corley
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