In this episode, we talk about Decolonizing the Mind and what it means to empower womxn by raising the awareness of unfamiliar intersections and conversations that other women like Truth encounter daily.

• Truth chose her name because she has been seeking her truth with all of her heart and has become aligned with that truth, especially since coming out.
• Truth feels liberated by giving herself permission to be who she is and to seek her truth, and speak her truth, no matter what.
• No one can write your narrative for you, and your personal truth does not have to align with anyone else’s.
• We are given these hidden scripts that dictate how we “should” live, love, and be, and these scripts can be incredibly harmful if you do not fit in a cultural box.
• Truth agrees with James Baldwin’s writings - that we can disagree with one another, but it’s not ok to harm one another for being different or for having a truth that’s not a cultural “norm."
• Truth was born into a male-gendered body, but this was not the essence of her spirit. Truth knew at a very early age who she was but felt that she could not be true to this due to her upbringing and what the church dictated.
• Truth's mother knew she was having a girl, and yet, she birthed a boy.
• It’s only in the past few years that Truth has felt like she can fully express who she is, and it’s made a tremendous difference in her health and her joy.
• Black Mamas Matter focuses on the disproportionate rates that black women die in pregnancy and childbirth and how black women are treated based on stereotypes that subject them to unnecessary trauma and pain.
• Truth is passionate about art, modeling, music, and self-expression based on activism around issues such as police brutality, disparities in health care, and the treatment of queer black and brown people.
• We are seeing a lot of activity in progressive areas, but Truth understands that this is not yet the case in many places.
• Truth wants to bring change to how Black and Brown Women are treated. She wants to create more spaces and have access to the same opportunities without being discriminated against. She also wants to help educate through her art, voice, and activism.
• Pose, Drag, and J-Sette are art forms that are growing and being celebrated.
• Silence is violence. Truth works to bring her voice to the many ways racism is covert and hidden and how it needs to be revealed.

I loved this conversation with Truth. I will continue to follow and celebrate her beauty, grace, and fierce love for humanity and her incredible stand for making change happen in the world. Thank you for all you do as a cycle breaker, artist, and activist.

Links:

• Episode 54: Coral Brown - The Biology of Belief
• Facebook: Truuth Speaks
• Instagram • Truth (@truthspeaks207) photos and videos
• Patreon: Truuth Speaks (Truth) is creating BLACK MAGIC (writings, videos)...

Tracie is all about creating opportunities for conversations that shake things up, in the best way possible.

100 voices is about creating a space for authentic and grace filled conversations that makes space for the awkward and the messy, but also follow a format that uses the power of questions to invite people to listen to each other.

Her goal is to facilitate conversations that help others access personal transformation as it relates to dismantling racism. Using conversation as an instrument of change, especially now that the world has “cracked open”.

Join us as we explore Tracie’s vision for what’s possible when we dare to create brave spaces for necessary conversations that might be messy and hurtful, but also revealing and healing!

Listen in as she shares about her calling to dive more deeply into curiosity and asking questions as instruments of change and how asking questions and listening have become the pillars to her life’s work.

Learn why we must create brave space vs. safe space for women and men to have conversations about race and privilege and why she blows bubbles as a self-management tool when she is having difficult conversions, and what they remind her to do.

Laugh along with us as we talk about relationships, marriage, small talk and the situations in life that force us to self- examine.

• We can do things differently, and shake things up if we dare to have conversations that are difficult, awkward and messy.
• Disrupting the status quo does not have to be loud or destructive in the negative sense, sometimes it’s the quiet that makes all the difference-the listening.
• Talking about race might be triggering, but it does not have to be mean.
• We can be vulnerable and brave and come out on the other side but we have to be willing and we have to want to do that
• When we believe in our minds that we are entering a safe space, we believe that we can’t get hurt. However if we go into a brave space we realize we can get hurt and recover
• Beliefs about race both conscious and unconscious are formed within our families of origin, and so this is where the work begins.
• Many women who have attended the 100 Voices event have started to show up differently and have become activated positively by seeing their own privilege and how it has impacted their lives and how it’s different for others who have not had the same advantages.

There are important questions at the heart of understanding ourselves, and most of us have failed to ask them.” - Tracie Jae

More about Tracie: Tracie Jae believes the world can be a better place if we focus on human to human interactions. As the Lead Rebel of the Quiet Rebel brand, she creates space for authentic, grace-filled conversations about the things that matter most. Her signature event, 100 Voices, invites participants into dialogue about race and culture. 100 Voices and events based on its framework, offer a guided conversation that welcomes self- examination and a window into our humanity through other’s lived experience. Tracie is mom to 3 adult daughters and counts them as her greatest joys.

Links:

• Quiet Rebel Website
• About — Quiet Rebel
• Book an Appointment with Tracie
• Facebook - Always Tracie Jae
• Instagram • Quiet Rebel (@quietrebel.life)