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Not Today with Michael Lopez Aug 17, 2022

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Most people think professionalism is about fitting in, but what if it’s actually the reason we feel disconnected from ourselves? This podcast explores the tension between who we are and who we feel pressured to be at work, in relationships, and in everyday life.

Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Michael Lopez is a graphic designer whose work can be found at www.postlopez.com. Originally from San Diego, now living in Los Angeles with their cartoonist spouse Rachel Dukes and 2 cats. They are Chicanx and non-binary.

Michael Lopez also shared the below post on LinkedIn and it went viral. This is his first and only interview about the situation and we are proud that he decided to share his story on our platform.

I'm a queer brown person and I was fired during Pride month for speaking up in defense of abortion rights at Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) (a subsidiary of Universal Music Group).
Last Friday, like countless other folks, I was devastated by the news of the supreme court's attack on abortion rights. Paired with the flood of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation, it's been hard to process how company's expect us to be productive while our rights are being stripped away. Especially when our company has been donating to several of these politicians (link in comments).
Every Friday, one of my tasks was to process reports for upcoming releases. This is an email list that goes out to 275 people. I don't know who's on it, I just knew it was the email list with the most people that I had access to. So I sent the following message:
Subject line: UMe Schedules
Message:
I didn't do them today.
I'm in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone.
Vivendi and Universal Music Group must stop donating to anti-abortion, anti-queer and anti-trans politicians. Politicians like Marsha Blackburn, Ken Buck, Victoria Spartz, etc. Or expect more unproductive days.
Yours in fury,
-Michael Lopez
The immediate aftermath was several supportive emails from other co-workers and a manager calling to tell me to take the rest of the day off. I appreciate the love from my coworkers, and I figured, based on management's response, there was a good possibility I might be fired as a result. But I was proud of letting allies know that our company has been donating to these politicians.
Around 9:30-ish today, I got a surprise Zoom video chat with HR. I was being let go for (paraphrasing) "Not doing your job, disrupting the day of 275 people and poor judgement." I was told to log out and that a courier would be there to pick up my laptop from my apartment within the hour.
Anticipating that I'd get shut out of my computer very soon, I sent a follow up to the email list:
Hey ya’ll,
Just got fired for this email from Friday, so they’re letting you know where they stand on employees speaking out on politicians that support marginalization for folks like me.
A brown queer person terminated during Pride month speaking in support of abortion rights. Seems like that’s exactly what America is all about right now.
Peace out,
-Michael Lopez
I don't speak for my former company. I speak for myself and employees that will suffer under these discriminatory laws.
Their actions today, their silence on Friday are indicative of their motivations. Profit at all costs. Solidarity, only if it's profitable. And above all of that is maintaining the status quo and saying fuck you to the working class.

Pero I'm Growing with Vanessa Toro Aug 09, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Vanessa Toro is Vice President of Brand Strategy. She writes about communication, culture, and identity. Vanessa has built a career leading branding and marketing for industries ranging from Airlines to Fintech to Chocolate. Her multi-hyphenate background includes extensive practice in behavioral economics, semiotics, and real talk.

Throughout the episode, Vanessa dropped some gems. Here are some of our favorite quotes that Vanessa said during the conversation.

- "If you don’t have a certain level of self awareness, then how do you know if you’re betraying that [authenticity]?"

- "I find it very easy to stand up for others."

- "I don’t save things for a special occasion because life is the occasion."

Unfiltered Live - July Aug 03, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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"We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us." — Ken Levine
Our families have sacrificed and worked too hard for us to not do well in life. It's pressure that we constantly feel and it impacts the daily decisions that we make. What is doing "well" though? Should we even be feeling this pressure?
This month's topic, Odalys and Pabel will be diving deep into decision making and the impact that recent decisions has had on our lives. Example questions and topics below.
- Did you ever regret any of your decisions, did it always open a new door etc.?
- How has therapy helped with decision making
- Am I making decisions for myself or others?
- Navigating the big decisions and the small ones throughout the day

Dique A Dragon with Jose Abreu Jul 26, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Jose Abreu (here he is on LinkedIn) is Vice President of Digital Strategies for Sony Music Entertainment’s US Hispanic, Latin American, and Iberian region. He has worked with some of the largest digital services providers in the world including, Spotify, Youtube, Facebook and Apple. His expertise revolves in the world of digital media, content distribution and audience development. Jose also holds an M.B.A. from New York University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Abuela & Art with Micaela Vargas Jul 19, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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A native of the Gage Park community on the South Side of Chicago, Micaela is a high-impact coalition-builder and social entrepreneur. She has over ten years of experience in public policy, political strategy, business development and operations.

Through her company, MAV Consulting, Micaela serves clients by performing external relations, enterprise sales and community impact development. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Chicago Latino Caucus Foundation where leads the organization’s charitable initiatives to support and mobilize the next generation of Latino leaders as well as manages the Caucus’ legislative agenda.

Other clients have included a startup women’s leadership development company where she directly supported the CEO in the company’s first round of sales and a technology company where she developed a social impact plan to bridge the digital divide specifically on the West Side of Chicago.

Micaela has served in a variety of leadership roles supporting senior-level executives and top government officials. She previously served as Chief of Staff in Cook County government where she analyzed a $5 billion budget and served as lead on legislation that positively impacted thousands of individuals and families in Illinois. Legislation drafted by Micaela has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business and the New York Times.

She is a member of the Global Shapers World Economic Forum Chicago Chapter and previously served for five years on the board of directors for Mujeres Latinas En Accion, in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, and the National Diversity Advisory Council for the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C. Micaela received her Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies and Business Administration from DePaul University in Chicago and received the Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University.

Micaela’s favorite quote:

“Do it for your last name.” -Richard Montañez, Inventor of the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, former janitor, and now VP of Multicultural Sales at PepsiCo

Visibility with Anne Bono Jul 12, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Anne is an accidental marketer, corporate executive, and multipotentialite with a smart mouth and a willingness to shout what most will only quietly think.

She has spent much of the last two decades working in marketing for startups and large organizations and, based largely on her prior experiences in those spaces, is on a mission to get the business world to focus on the humanity of their teams and put people over profits.

She partners with new, emerging leaders and seasoned execs, empowering them to build a humancentric future of work for themselves and their teams, and speaks to audiences on how to embrace and embody lucid leadership, create a humancentric workplace, and become an agent of authenticity.

She is loud, proud, heavily caffeinated and tattooed, and usually not safe for work.

To follow Anne, please use any of the following links: Website, LinkedIn, Tiktok, Instagram, and Twitter.

Oil & Wine with Eric Lopez Jul 06, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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For over ten years, Eric has worked with corporations and nonprofit organizations in the Washington DC area in order to ensure fair and equitable access to resources and opportunities for historically underrepresented populations. He is an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) champion who has collected and analyzed DEI data in order to understand trends in the advancement of inclusion. Through his work, Eric supports the efforts of organizations that seek to ensure the voices of diverse stakeholders are heard.

Prior to joining Coqual, Eric was a Managing Analyst at Ballast Research where he led the analysis, development, and presentation of research-based consulting engagements meant to inform the investments and strategy of major corporations. Prior to that, he was the Director of Corporate Accountability at the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR) leading the organization's Research Institute and their flagship project the HACR Corporate Inclusion Index. Eric is also the Founder and Principal of GlobeServe Consulting where he manages the analytical, fundraising, and event needs for nonprofit and for-profit clients.

Eric has utilized his research and communication skills to help propel the missions and work of nationally recognized organizations like the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), UnidosUS, and the Equal Rights Center (ERC). He has also served on several non-profit boards including Be Free Global, Jai Bhim International, and Prospanica DC.

Eric received both his bachelor’s degree in philosophy, history, and psychology and his master’s degree in applied social science and policy analysis from Hofstra University in New York. He is also a recipient of a Fulbright research grant to Hungary which was awarded to him in 2008. Eric's Fulbright focused on the discrimination of the Roma from public education institutions, the Decade of Roma Inclusion outcomes in Hungary, and parallels that could be drawn between the discrimination of the Roma and Post Brown v Board of Ed educational policy in the U.S.

Interested in DEI Research? Check out Coqual the HACR Corporate Inclusion Index

Bright & Bold with Selena Rezvani Jun 28, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Selena Rezvani is an award-winning author of two books and an expert on leadership and self-advocacy. She consults with leading organizations such as Microsoft, J&J, The World Bank and many others. Her TEDx talk on gender bias was recognized with a Croly Journalism Award, she wrote an award-winning column on women in leadership for the Washington Post, and she’s served as a commentator on NPR's nationally syndicated "The 51% Perspective." Today, she continues to be a regular contributor to NBC News’ Know Your Value.

Links: Website, TikTok, and Instagram.

El Grande with Alex Montas Hernández Jun 21, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Alex Montas is an Executive VP of Marketing, Entrepreneur, Husband and Father from New York City via Dominican Republic. He has held leadership roles for places such as Verizon, Bloomberg, CITI, and now BEN - Branded Entertainment Network. Throughout his career he has executed campaigns with brands like the NFL, NBA, Warner Brothers among others. He enjoys a good mangu, marketing chats and saying "de lo mio" as much as humanly possible.

Assimilation with Nancy Reyes Jun 15, 2022

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Through candid conversations, we unpack how different environments shape our behavior, how limiting beliefs form, and what it looks like to actually understand yourself beyond the roles you play.

Tools like ⁠⁠⁠Plurawl⁠⁠⁠ can help you break down your thoughts and understand what’s driving them → https://plurawl.com/

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Nancy Reyes is a 24 year veteran of the Marketing Industry. She is currently the CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, an award-winning advertising agency based in NY. During the course of her career Nancy has specialized in partnering with dozens of companies to develop their brands, create meaningful relationship with their consumers/customers and ultimately drive a more purposeful and profitable future.

Nancy’s experience spans a wide range of industries such as technology, healthcare, consumer goods, automotive, travel and financial services. Companies include IBM, HP, Adobe, Google, Facebook, Procter & Gamble, Henkel, Abbott. Throughout her career Nancy has devoted her attention to pushing a robust Diversity, Equity and Inclusion agenda in the marketing industry. In 2018, she founded a program called Circle of Women which provides executive coaching to women on the cusp of leadership to build a pipeline of future female leaders—and more than half of the participants are women of color. She is a founding member of Times UP and is in her fifth year of establishing a summer internship program for aspiring advertising young people of color which includes Prep for Prep students. Nancy is also on the board of the Ad Council and Prep for Prep.

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