TheAwayGames
Podcast:
Connecting Employees to Community
ABOUT
Ron "ROCO" Corley, the host of TheAwayGames_Podcast, advises employees on how to predict workplace discrimination, harassment and/or retaliation. Black women are his focus, but all protected class employees benefit from this community.
From a front line employee in Fortune 500 Technology businesses to an executive in SMB Tech and Logisitcis companies, ROCO has experienced it all and wants to share his and other experiences with up and coming talent so you can see the good, the bad and the ugly before tying your work future to a socially sinking ship.
TheAwayGames
Podcast: Season 1
Episodes 1-4
01
DEI is a tactic, not the solution.
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In this episode, I'm joined by DEI champions helping both employers and employees drive DEI goals forward in the workplace using different methods.
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Being Black, female, Muslim and a parent can be challenging within America...especially in the workplace. We connected with Double J who dives into her struggles with how others perceive her identity or identities. We also discuss future HR data that could better help professionals like her (and you) chose employers, based on their propensity to be biased against you.
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Lessons from We Gon Be Alright: A Black Executives Guide to Navigating the Workplace. We lose MILLIONS annually for ignore these lessons. Don't be the next to lose out!
04
Gwendolyn Tucker served in corporate America for 25+ years, before transitioning into a space that provides more impact for her and her clients. We discussed some of her tools and resources to help you better understand and identify you biases, to not impact your career.
TheAwayGames
Podcast: Season 1
Episodes 5-8
05
In our second discussion, we get a little more personal. Being able to admit there is a problem is always the toughest part of this type of accountability, but Gwendolyn make coming to terms with your flaws easy and painless in this discussion.
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In Part 2, we identified his breaking point with corporate America and his decision to pivot his focus to entrepreneurship. Here we learn that networking well, amidst co-worker biases and change management struggles, got him a lifelong friendship and an investor, connected by University of Michigan football. That connection allows Anthony Moore to slowdown gentrification and sell his upgraded properties back to residents of the neighborhood almost exclusively.
06
Special S/O to Anthony Moore of Four Squares Construction for spending so much time with me to discuss his career path. We discuss his transitioning from a collegiate athlete into engineering operations (via a NASA internship), and finally landing in entrepreneurship. Hear his renaissance story!
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On this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chuck Wallington, Ph.D., VP and Chief Communications and Marketing Officer of Cone Health and new author of A Seat at the C-Suite Table: Insights from the Leadership Journeys of African American Executives.
Here we discuss the importance of community while building a career, the need to stay flexible in your career path, why constant upskilling is invaluable for career longevity and why deciding on a workplace that fits your morals and personal journey is so necessary.
TheAwayGames
Podcast: Season 2
Episodes 1-4
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In our 1st episode of Season 2, we focus on key ideas of Shame, Guilt and Coercion, which play major roles in religion's ability to condition social behavior and have been co-opted by authorities in other aspects of life, like the workplace, to suppress accountability of authority.
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I’m joined by a special guests and black executives, Meleta and Hassan Pinto. We start by discussing entrepreneurship vs. navigating corporate America and building a family dynasty; but then dive deep into the Pinto legacy, discussing their children's academic and social success and what the Pinto's plan to leave behind.
02
I’m joined by a special guest, Employment Attorney Janelle Romero of Consumer Attorneys, representing in part undocumented workers. We discuss Janelle’s 3 key employment law focuses for employees to stay ahead of employer mistreatment, as well as pitfalls immigrant employers fall into when starting new businesses here in the states.
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We will discuss social conditioning in early education, the hurdles of adjusting curriculum to best engage students of changing demographics and winning over students instead of co-workers.
TheAwayGames
Podcast: Season 2
Episodes 5-8
05
We will be discussing how ordinary roles are impacted by social racial hierarchical conditioning, how this hierarchy is manipulated by healthcare professionals to drive corporate funds and how heroes are created.
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Meet Macho, the first Bronx NY film, comedy and poetry festival producer. We'll discuss his journey through loss and dysfunction that drove his entrepreneurial success.
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Come join us in conversation as he opens up to TheAwayGames_Podcast.
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We discuss her early success in entertainment, what re-directed her focus and how that focus led her down a path to give back through entrepreneurship. How she follows her intuition and reaches for her dreams is inspiring.
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We discuss the obstacles aspiring black parents face during childbirth, life-long factors that play roles in those hurdles and what all parents (and physicians) should be doing about it.
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Dr. Wade is a Black History Hero with her work, passion and drive. Join the discussion on TheAwayGames_Podcast.
TheAwayGames
Podcast: Season 3
Episodes 1-4
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On this episode, we interview the first of 3 white Americans who discuss how they feel post Trump's presidential election. This guest happens to be covered in tattoos, looks like a metal band lead singer and is bisexual...that last part makes his colleagues uncomfortable. Unfortunately, as he states in our discussion, it could have in impact on his ability to be successful in his career.
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Picking up the story with Double J (2), what happens after you decide to drop out of high school and how do you find the strength to be successful, especially when drugs and alcohol surround your social scene?
We'll dive into that and how the parallels between my personal life and Double J's (2) over lap. We'll also learn about my relationship with my dad and how my broken family influenced some of my bad decision at this same age.
The big takeaway should be the signs that your children are showing you that can lead to destructive behaviors that derail their future success.
02
Part 1 - Today we meet and discuss the early and teenage years of Double J, a smart young lady who has challenges avoiding the meanness of young girls and their cliques. Peer pressure impacts us all at this age and the question is, what are we doing as parents to present behaviors that support or negate these activities in our children.
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Identity shapes our self worth and understanding daily. What we do for a living, who we are to our families, the impact that we are working to make in the world all play roles in who we believe ourselves to be.
What happens when that belief is confronted with a debilitating disease? What happens when that disease slowly takes your identity away and your strengths must change? How malleable are you to deal with that type of life altering change?
On this, the last of our 3 episode series dedicated to Double J (2), we discuss her next challenge and the challenge that will ultimately take her from us. Her outlook on this reality is a beautiful one and her choice to continue pushing the people around her to be better sets an example for us all to follow.
TheAwayGames
Podcast: Season 3
Episodes 5-8
05
On this, the 5th episode of Season 5 of TheAwayGames_Podcast, we are speaking with Dr. Shindale Seale of Seade Coaching & Consulting in Los Angeles. We discuss the role ERGs should be playing during this time of corporate transition away from "DEI" and towards its next iteration.
While the focus may be moving away from identity based groups in the workplace, how are your counterparts in other protected classes standing up for you and vice versa? How does Seade Coaching & Consulting help ERGs better navigate this transition? And what is the value of calculating the ROI that your protected classed ERG brings to your organization to help prove some of these cuts to be financially costly to the organization?
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Sexual Assault is a life changing traumatic experience that is typically viewed through the lens of women and girls. Not enough emphasis is placed on the impacts of SA on males in our society.
Over the next 3 episodes, you will learn about a Conservative, tin foil hat wearing, MAGA supporting manager who doesn't believe DEI to be helpful, as he doesn't believe education is attained at concurrent rates for all races in the US. He is a manager at his workplace and carries these views with him to lead...everyday.
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On this, the final episode with Mr. Tin Foil, his mask comes off and we are able to see his hatred and discontent for those he thinks less of clearly. His humanity and the sexual abuse he endured as a child doesn't save him. His father's lack of emotional availability doesn't save him. His family wealth, his desire to walk the path of Jesus, his age all do not save him.
Over the course of this 3 part series, Double J(C) has proclaimed his humanity in efforts that you, the listeners, will hear his pain and excuse the pain he inflicts on others (which he wisely hides on this platform). However, his actions in the workplace became the center of an EEOC investigation focused on racism, creating a toxic work environment and retaliation against a whistle blower that held him accountable for his action. The same accountability that he discusses on these episodes, he repels when the mirror of change catches in the act and exposed his flaws...not as a person (though those surely exist), but as a manager of an organization.
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How can you ever be expected to align with your company's goals if they don't provide you with the most basic of starting points?
On this episode of #TheAwayGames_Podcast on #AlivePodcastNetwork, we talk with premiere executive talent placement extraordinaire, Chantelle Johnson of #Talent4DCulture. She walks us through her experience in Healthcare, how entrepreneurship provided a level of freedom that allowed for greater accuracy in her work and why seeking and asking for the right data, as an ERG leader, will help you become more successful for your company's goals!
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What happens to victims that aren't allowed to be victims? To families that don't talk about their histories of Sexual Abuse? To parents who never shared their trauma with their children and thus never stopped their children from hiding parts of themselves from the world?
On this, Part 2 of our discussion with Double J(3), the Anti-Semite MAGA supporter who doesn't believe blacks are intelligent enough for higher roles in organizations, we learn the darker sides of victimhood. Double J(3) talks through his academic disappointments, his lack of control around illicit substances and how the need for acceptance and belonging led him into the hands of more abusers.
Human. He is human. But does his humanity excuse his desire to believe in his superiority over others?
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What happens when you actualize that breaking through the glass ceilings in life isn't enough?
In this conversation, we sit done with Casey Duhart, General Councel of Acadia Healthcare and former Editor of the Tennessee University Law Review. She takes us through her career challenges, starting with the puppet-like roles she was asked to perform for law firms presenting diversity but practicing Americana.
She then talks to us about the need for diverse faces to "run through the tape", stating the importance of remembering that while "a" goal could be to reach a career plateau, the plateau should not slow or stall the excellency that got you there!
We round out the conversation discussing the challenges and stickiness of workplace discrimination vs workplace retaliation in litigation and key factors that help you identify if you have a potential retaliation case.