Episode 139: White Women Address Inequity and Privilege
About the Podcast
In this podcast, join two white women speaking about diversity and inclusion based on their own experience and on what they want to change about their environment. We feature Sage Hobbs, author, podcast host, former school counselor, expert in difficult conversations and leadership coach and facilitator. Sage and Clancy candidly engage in a conversation about equity and privilege.
About Sage Hobbs
Sage’s passion for maximizing human potential, building emotional intelligence, and cultivating cultures of equity has led to over 20 years of experience working in public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Her specialty is relational leadership and communication, enabling leaders and team members to create positive relationships and organizational cultures that ensure greater success and satisfaction.
Sage has worked within the public sector, offering consultation, coaching, and facilitation for school districts and the Health Resources and Services Administration. Her work has also spanned a broad spectrum of global companies, including Halliburton, HP, and Medtronic. She was honored to speak at Google’s local headquarters on International Women’s Day 2019.
With a commitment to continual learning of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Sage brings an equity lens to all of her work. She’s comfortable facilitating uncomfortable conversations in order to support the growth and impact that her clients seek.
With a quick ability to see the underlying challenges, Sage supports clients to access deep insight, discover their full capacity, and take meaningful action for positive change. She helps leaders to make an even bigger impact in their communities, organizations, and the broader world.
Sage is the host of “Race, Culture, & Beyond: A Naked Conversations Podcast” Series and the author of “Naked Communication”. She holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Colorado Denver and a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania.
She’s also a mom of two, a cancer survivor, a “retired” school counselor, a world traveler, and a beach-loving-book-nerd. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband (a lifelong educator) and their two awesome kids.
Discussion Takeaways
- Sage hosts leadership and communication workshops across the nation about leadership, diversity and inclusion and a has a podcast, “Race, Culture, and Beyond: A Naked Conversation Series,” to lift voices of those who are typically not heard.
- We can all dissect what worked to our advantage and what didn’t when we think about our privilege.
- We should honor that we all have different lived experiences, and some are more privileged than others. Society has deemed that men who are white are at the top of society. This hierarchy doesn’t make anyone bad. It doesn’t make you bad. But we all must consider our part in looking at others’ experiences, then thinking of how we can close the gap between those who have less access and those with more privilege.
- Privilege is not a dirty word. It helps us understand ourselves better.
- Privilege takes on different forms. You can have privilege and still have a really tough life. You can also be a person of color and have privilege. It’s not entirely exclusive.
- Having trust in a relationship leverages our ability to have hard conversations.
- It always seems radical when we try to make change, and we don’t always do it in the best ways.
- If we learn to humanize one another, give up our positionality, and listen effectively; then we don’t need to agree. But we also must consider what we should do next regardless of the situation.
- The tenants that Sage focuses on are communication, trust, and relationship building. They bridge various worldviews.
- Curiosity is the best tool for being empathetic toward how others move in the world.
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- To recognize your privilege is to deal with discomfort.
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