I’ve had a five-year pregnancy journey full of incredible highs and terrible lows, and while I’ve mentioned it in passing, this is the first time I’m really opening up and sharing in detail – including life-threatening complications. If all goes as hoped, I’ll be birthing my wonderful boy, my PurposeBoy, two weeks from the release of this episode, and in the next few solo episodes I’ll be sharing my experiences of new motherhood with you! But I want to share my full journey with you as when we have challenges, we often don’t talk about it, and I want us to change that. I also want to share how I processed all the challenges so you can move through any challenge you face too.

In this episode I talk about…

• My own pregnancy journey, with its many challenges along the way
• My two miscarriages
• Being diagnosed at week 17 with a very serious and rare medical condition
• How I approached this pregnancy in the feminine, from using my voice to holding a women’s circle in the fertility clinic
• Fighting for what you deeply believe in, and never giving up
• Learning to ask the right questions, turning the “I can’t” into “How can I”?
• You can’t always control what life throws at you but you can choose what you do with it

And if you’re listening to this the week it comes out, and you want to know your purpose and do something now to be part of the massive change this world needs, check out my new Goddess on Purpose DIY course: purposegirl.com/diy – It’s 8 modules, 35 video lessons, 8 workbooks with 50 pages of exercises for you to discover your purpose and birth it while I birth Baby. This is available only for a few days and at a seriously reduced rate before I go off on maternity leave.

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May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

In this episode of The PurposeGirl Podcast, I’m fortunate to be joined by Sophie Williams, author and Marketing and Operations specialist with a focus on organic social media, who loves thinking about intersectional identities (especially race and gender) and how they shape our experiences of the world. She’s also an active and vocal anti-racism advocate.

In this episode, Sophie Williams and I discuss the following:

• The challenges in using terminology such as BAME, BIPOC, and black
• The importance of taking some sort of action, even if imperfect, and not letting the fear of taking imperfect action paralyze you
• The meaning of allyship (as it pertains to race)
• How to be an ally (and how not to be)
• White privilege
• How white privilege shows up in job opportunities and advancement
• Sophie’s experience as a black woman COO
• The wage gap, both by gender and by race
• Her upcoming book, Millennial Black

You can learn more about Sophie Williams and her work on her website (http://sophiewilliamsofficial.com/) and at her Instagram account (https://www.instagram.com/officialmillennialblack/).

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Thank you so much spending your time with me! And if you aren’t following me already, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook, and click here to receive my newsletter.

May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.

Bye for now!

About Sophie Williams

Sophie Williams is the author is the upcoming book Millennial Black – a guide for black womxn in their careers, and for businesses that need to learn how to attract, and retain, diverse talent. Before writing Sophie worked in advertising at some of the biggest agencies in London as a Creative Producer, Head of Production, and then Chief Operating Officer. Sophie is an active and vocal anti-racism activist.

As I record this episode here in the United States, we are seeing boil over the anger, frustration, and rage over the killing of George Floyd, and more generally, police brutality disproportionately aimed at people of color and the systemic racism that has been so prevalent in our society. I typically don’t dive into what’s going on in the news, but this is not news. This has been going on for a long, long time. And either I speak up and run the risk of offending people, or I stay silent for fear of saying the wrong thing. Since I believe in uplifting people to speak their truth, I’m going to speak mine, as imperfectly as I might do it. I apologize in advance if my words are inelegant, if I “say the wrong thing,” and I’m open to learning and doing better.

I talk about my own journey of coming to terms with my white privilege, just how unaware I’ve been, and what I’ve started to do to change that. And I offer a collection of resources that I’ve started learning from and that you might find helpful as well.

I give action steps that you can take with your local government and police force, a list of organizations to which you can donate, businesses you can support, ways to have impact within your own company and even family, and a variety of things you can do on a day to day basis. Here are links to a few things I mention:

Black Lives Matter https://blacklivesmatter.com/

NAACP https://www.naacp.org/

UNCF https://uncf.org/

Embrace Race https://www.embracerace.org/

We Buy Black https://webuyblack.com/

The Black Wallet http://theblackwallet.com/

 

Rachel Cargle

https://www.instagram.com/rachel.cargle

https://www.instagram.com/thelovelandfoundation/

https://www.instagram.com/thegreatunlearn/

https://www.rachelcargle.com/

 

Austin Channing Brown (her book, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness)

http://austinchanning.com/

https://www.instagram.com/austinchanning

 

Sophie Williams

https://www.instagram.com/officialmillennialblack

http://sophiewilliamsofficial.com/

 

Silver Danielle

https://www.instagram.com/thatgirlsfly

http://www.herroyaldopeness.com/

 

And here are some books that I plan to read:

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo.

Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad

What If I Say the Wrong Thing? 25 Habits for Culturally Effective People, by Vernā Myers

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

 

This is our time, my sisters. This is how we change the world, one woman at a time. May you live purposefully, may you love yourself, and may you love life.