Sway Them in Color
The status-quo when it comes to work, power, creativity, and inclusive relationships are crusty and broken, but the silver-lining of seeing the flaws in our systems is that we have the power and opportunity to build something exciting and new. Sway Them in Color explores acts of personal and professional courage and the leadership lessons gained from unconventional leaders who have gone against the status-quo to share new ideas and creations. From sex educators, tech entrepreneurs and performers, to spiritual advisors and corporate executives, each episode provides hilarious and enlightening universal lessons on some of the deeper questions of life and the leadership lessons anyone from any background can relate to and learn from. Created and hosted by Christina Blacken, Founder and Chief Narrative Strategist of TheNewQuo.com, a leadership and equity consultancy helping leaders use behavioral science based narrative strategies to disrupt bias, build better relationships, and communicate new ideas with deeper connection and influence to achieve status-quo breaking equity goals.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
Transitioning Gender and Radical Self-Acceptance
In this episode me and my guest Aurora Higgs have such a rich conversation that beginning with Aurora’s experiences and insights as a transgender individual, activist, and performer. Aurora is an act…
Caring for Yourself When Caregiving for Those You Love
his episode is all about loss. Trigger warning we talk about death, covid, and overcoming with my guest Ada Chen, who is the founder of Chuan’s Promise, a sustainable natural skincare line. Her miss…
The Courage to Work With Family
In this episode my guest Nike Anani and I speak about her journey of leaving a cushy corporate job in London to move back to Lagos, Nigeria to work in her family business. Nike is an international a…
Dear White People
In this episode my guests Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard are founders of an amazing podcast titled Dear White Women. Misasha is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School, a prac…
Finding your authentic self
In this episode we explore authenticity in all its varieties and understandings. Sherri is a leader, Speaker, and Author who lives to help others see their own authentic gifts and then teach them to …
You're More Powerful Than You Think
In this episode we explore when my guest Janet Alexandersson created 40 frameworks on topics like justice, conflict, power, which she thought would take years but was able to achieve this goal in jus…
Changing our relationship to religion
In this episode my guest is Umbreen Bhatti who decided to stop wearing a hijab after it was a central part of her identity for a significant portion of her life. We discuss this journey and process o…
Redefining the crusty definitions of success that don’t work
In this episode my guest is Julissa Contreras, and after being laid off from WeWork in May 2020 she decided to file a police report about a sexual assault experience she had unconsciously buried in a…
How to become a chief evangelist officer for your ideas
In this episode we explore when my guest Nancy Soni sought out a hypnotherapist to help her reprogram deep-seated beliefs from childhood that created mental blocks to building her professional brand.
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Creating safe relationships in an unsafe culture
In this episode we explore my guest Monisha Bajaj’s experiences with running relationship and sexual violence prevention programs that go against some of conservative cultural norms in Thailand where…
Overcoming Burnout with Spiritual Psychology
In this episode we explore when my guest Trish Boes quit her full-time job after suffering from severe burnout. Not only did she quit she also then did went against the grain of how she was raised to…
Courage in the face of sexual harassment
In this episode we explore when my guest Deepali Vyas experienced sexual harassment while working for a recruiting firm in her early career and when she left the firm and started her own business, he…
When your white colleague uses the N word
Walking Away From 2 million Dollars
My guest on the Sway Them in Color Podcast today exemplifies walking the talk, as we explore when he took an act of courage by walking away from a 2 million dollars venture capital offer because it w…
What Failure Teaches Us
In this episode of Sway Them in Color I speak with my homie Ron Johnson. Ron Johnson is a curator of entrepreneurial experiences. His business Triton Consulting NYC empowers individuals to prepare fo…
What I Love About Being Black
When you’re raised as the only Black family for miles, in a place like Ogden Utah that has very little racial diversity, as a Black person, you get used to being ignored. The book Invisible Man shoul…
Building What You Can't See
In this episode of Sway Them In Color I speak with Tony Chatman. Tony has worked with hundreds of corporations and government agencies including the U.S. Secret Service, Dept. of Homeland Security, C…
Why We Need Values Driven Business
In this episode of Sway Them In Color I speak with Zena Hanna founder of Zena Digital Group. With over ten years of digital media experience under her belt, she wanted to start an agency that had a d…
Why Symphony is a Better Term Than Diversity for Creating a Better World
In this episode of Sway Them in Color I speak with Oshoke Pamela Abalu, an architect and futurist, who was the Chief Architect for MetLife’s $1 billion inclusive workplace redesign. She pioneers huma…
Being Your Authentic Self is a Courageous Act of Rebellion
Dr. Akilah Cadet is the founder of Change Cadet consulting, which offers a broad array of services including executive coaching, strategic planning, innovation, and diversity facilitation. Cadet is a…