Through historical analysis and contemporary reflection, the discussion explores how structural violence, racial ideology, colonial administration, propaganda, and international indifference converged to produce mass atrocity. The episode also examines how these events shaped American discourse—particularly within communities of color—around race, human dignity, global solidarity, and moral responsibility.

Drawing on Dr. Lamont A. Slater’s scholarship and lived experience in Namibia, the conversation reframes genocide not only as a historical tragedy but as a continuing ethical challenge. It asks how memory, erasure, and accountability influence present-day conflicts such as Sudan and other embattled regions across the continent.

The episode is both historical excavation and contemporary warning.

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Technical Producer for Profound Conversations is Erika Christie.

Writer & Associate Producer Wanda Belle

Executive Producer Karim Ali

www.ProfoundConvos.com

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In reality, broad composite-based investment vehicles outperform most active investors over time and require minimal technical skill. These instruments serve as an entry ramp for new investors seeking stability and long-term gains. The Profound Conversations Thoughtcast Technical Producer Erika Christie Associate Producer, Wanda Belle, Moderator is Dr. Kevin Washington. Written by Karim Ali. Executive Producer is the AALIANETWORK.

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How does Kemet function not only as history, but as a philosophical and ethical system?

What responsibilities come with being part of an intellectual lineage shaped by figures like John Henrik Clarke? How do we navigate truth, power, and contradiction within liberation movements without losing clarity or commitment?

These and other important questions will be answered in the enlightening conversation. Follow us on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profoundconversations/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundconversations/

The Profound Conversations is written by Karim Ali and Wanda Belle.

Our moderator is Dr. Kevin Washington (Mwata Kairi Sankara) PhD.

Our Thoughtcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Through her signature practice, Sacred Flow, Dana introduces listeners to a simple yet powerful process: guided movement, conscious breathing, and mindful presence. Designed to calm the nervous system and quiet mental noise, Sacred Flow helps release built-up tension, restore grounding, and invite peace back into the body. Even a few minutes, Dana reminds us, can help us feel clearer, calmer, and more in control — as if giving both body and spirit permission to exhale.

At the heart of Radiant Healing is Dana’s vision of becoming an effective healing partner — someone who walks alongside her clients as they rediscover their innate capacity to self-heal. Her work integrates:

• Medical Intuitive Insight to uncover root causes of physical and emotional discomfort
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• Energy Alignment & Balancing to restore natural flow and vitality
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• Trauma Release Modalities that gently free the body of stored stress
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• Sacred Flow Practices that empower sustainable self-care
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Listeners will leave this conversation with renewed faith in their body’s wisdom, and a sense of hope that healing can feel both spiritual and practical — a radiant return to oneself.

Connect with Dana Gant:

🌐 www.RadiantHenalingbyDana.com

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Profound Conversation is a listening & dialogue space which brings the foremost thought leaders into a conversation to grapple with the vexing challenges of our times!

In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

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Black-owned media outlets have long answered a call larger than journalism. They have stood as protectors of cultural memory, advocates for justice, and interpreters of complex social and political realities affecting Black communities. Yet these institutions operate under unique and often unforgiving pressures: financial precarity, shifting readership habits, political scrutiny, and the constant demand to serve as both chroniclers and defenders of their communities.

This conversation brings together leading voices who can speak to the particular ethos, editorial courage, and community-centered missions that distinguish African American–owned outlets from mainstream media—and from one another.

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Equality Health Foundation is proud to launch the Zip Code Exam—a groundbreaking initiative to bring awareness to health disparities and inequities and improve overall well-being in underserved communities plagued by chronic health conditions, diminished quality of life, and decreased life expectancy.

Where you live can potentially have a bigger impact on life expectancy than factors like genetics. From food security, community walkability, job availability, education, housing costs, and access to healthcare—environmental factors determined by geography play a significant role in overall health outcomes and well-being.

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This conversation challenges the either/or mentality that forces Muslims to choose between worldly success and spiritual devotion, revealing how our deepest ambitions can become acts of worship when approached with the right intention and framework. We'll explore why wanting more - whether in career, wealth, or personal growth - isn't "unspiritual" but rather an opportunity to demonstrate trust in Allah's abundance.

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Baltimore, MD — [October 28, 2025] — Obelisk Productions is proud to announce the development of They Said: Niggas Don’t Read – The Rise & Fall of the Black Bookstore, a feature documentary set to begin production in January 2026.

The film traces the rise, cultural significance, and attempted suppression of Black bookstores across the United States—once vibrant centers of knowledge, political organizing, and community empowerment. Through the voices of former bookstore owners, writers, activists, and patrons, the project explores the Black bookstore ecosystem of readers, authors, publishers, and sellers who built these spaces—alongside those who sought to dismantle them.

Directed by two Baltimore-based filmmakers, Sadiq Ali & Karim Ali, with direct ties to this movement, They Said: Niggas Don’t Read is both a deeply personal story and a national chronicle of cultural resistance and resilience.

To bring this essential story to the screen, the filmmakers are inviting bibliophiles, cultural enthusiasts, and supporters of untold histories to join the movement. A crowdfunding campaign launches Thursday, November 6, 2025, in Baltimore.

“This film is more than a documentary—it’s a reclamation,” says co-director Sadiq Ali. “Black bookstores weren’t just places to buy books; they were spaces of safety, imagination, and political power. Their story deserves to be remembered, honored, and shared widely.”

W. Paul Coates—one of the film’s primary subjects, founder of Black Classic Press, and father of acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates—adds:

“I am excited to be a part of this project and to also show folks Black bookstores actually haven't gone anywhere and this film is about that past and much more about our future.”

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This is a film built by community, for community. To make it possible, we need your support. Contribute to the campaign, share the story, and be part of preserving a vital piece of American history that still shapes our future.

Follow along and join our mailing list at ndrfilm.com and on Instagram @theysaidNDR.

Press Contact:

Blair McQueen

obeliskproductionsllc@gmail.com | 470-775-2931

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Yet, from its inception, the experiment has been fraught with contradiction and doubt. Early observers, including Benjamin Franklin, acknowledged the fragility of this undertaking: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The American project has always been a wager on the capacity of ordinary people to govern themselves, and history has tested that wager—through slavery and the Civil War, through the civil rights struggle, through ongoing debates about equality, justice, and belonging.

This episode grapples with the question: Is the American experiment succeeding, failing, or still unfolding in ways we have yet to grasp?

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Aura is an Afro-Latina Colombian immigrant, a fearless climate justice advocate, and a rising political figure whose work challenges systemic inequities, fights back against corporate overreach, and empowers everyday people to participate in shaping their communities.

At a time when authoritarian rhetoric is gaining traction and democratic norms are under threat, especially in immigrant-heavy urban centers like Los Angeles, Aura’s life story offers urgent lessons—and a call to action.

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Yet, from its inception, the experiment has been fraught with contradiction and doubt. Early observers, including Benjamin Franklin, acknowledged the fragility of this undertaking: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The American project has always been a wager on the capacity of ordinary people to govern themselves, and history has tested that wager—through slavery and the Civil War, through the civil rights struggle, through ongoing debates about equality, justice, and belonging.

This episode grapples with the question: Is the American experiment succeeding, failing, or still unfolding in ways we have yet to grasp?

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

Follow us on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profoundconversations/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundconversations/

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. www.MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

Follow us on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profoundconversations/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundconversations/

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. www.MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

Follow us on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profoundconversations/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundconversations/

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. www.MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

Follow us on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profoundconversations/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundconversations/

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. www.MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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This episode seeks to provide useful advice for quieting the spirit through listening. We will explore concepts inside the Ubuntu psychotherapeutic approach, as well as Cultures of Care and Quantum Listening methodologies; all in an effort to improve our communication within ourselves and between one another.

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This episode seeks to provide useful advice for quieting the spirit through listening.  We will explore concepts inside the Ubuntu psychotherapeutic approach, as well as Cultures of Care and Quantum Listening methodologies; all in an effort to improve our communication within ourselves and between one another.

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

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In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

Follow us on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/profoundconversations/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/profoundconversations/

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Our programming promises intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our dialogues, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

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Our programming promises intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our dialogues, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

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Our programming promises intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our dialogues, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to: https://www.profoundconvos.com

You can find our PODCAST on all major podcast platforms.

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Highlighting the deep impact of historical oppression and the necessity of re-Africanization and reclaiming cultural identity. Join us as we empower our spirits and embrace the essence of Ubuntu— "I am because we are." Make sure to tune in!

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This episode culminates with a powerful reminder: to thrive, we must reconnect with our inner frequencies, embrace our voices, and engage in restorative practices that harness the healing power of sound and movement. Dr. Kevin Washington and Sumayya Ali offer a hopeful message urging listeners to discover their souls and realign with universal rhythms, paving the way for holistic well-being and personal freedom.

Harness the profound power of sound therapy and embark on a journey of emotional and spiritual health by tuning into the divinely orchestrated frequencies within you.

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Profound Conversation is a listening & dialogue space which brings the foremost thought leaders into a conversation to grapple with the vexing challenges of our times!

In an ever evolving world new ideas and transformative ways of being are the lights at the end of the tunnel. Profound Conversations uses intercultural dialogue, extensive community and organizational engagement to initiate valuable cultural, educational, economic, and policy outcomes.

To find out more about our show, our mission, and our conversationalists, please go to:

https://www.profoundconvos.com

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The Interconnectedness of Music and Life: "You cannot separate our physical body from the emotional, the mental, the spiritual, the ancestral, or even the planets."

Our conversation will touch on the historical roots and cultural connections between African and Eastern medicine, and the power of rhythm and vibration in promoting energy flow and healing. We'll explore ancient wisdom about body, breath, and spirit integration, and discuss methods for clearing energy pathways to enhance spiritual well-being.

Sumayya Ali and Dr. Washington will share personal anecdotes and practical advice, emphasizing the importance of consistency and community in healing practices. From the vibratory nature of everything around us to the specific frequencies that promote positive thinking, this episode promises to expand your understanding of sound therapy's potential and inspire you to connect with your inner musicality for personal growth and healing. Stay tuned for a transformative discussion.

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An examination of cultural trauma caused by disparities, oppression and human denigration.

Sound therapy frequencies have been scientifically proven to treat a range of health challenges. Studies have demonstrated that sound therapy reduces pain, improves moods and speeds healing on a cellular level – making it an attractive noninvasive option for many people. Music has been linked with well-being across clinical and community settings. Yet, research has focused on assessment of single dimensions of well-being and on the typical receiver of support services. Acknowledging the burden that a caring role encompasses and integrating recent proposals for a multifaceted definition of well-being, we explore the extent to which group drumming interventions translate into multidimensional well-being change for both mental health service users and carers.

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Show Topics

Muslim faith and its impact on organ donation authorization rates in the US Muslim community

The Muslim community in America is diverse, well-integrated, and proud to be both Muslim and American

Scholarly opinions on organ donation allowed by fatwas, but understanding and influence among Muslims is the question

Breaking down silos in organ donation and transplantation

There are various barriers to cross-cultural collaboration in end-of-life care, including religious beliefs and practices.

Chaplains play a crucial role in addressing Muslim patients' concerns about organ donation, including mistrust of healthcare system and cultural beliefs

Working with Muslim families in end-of-life care

There's a need for specific resources and education for Muslim communities, as well as other communities, to address cultural and religious beliefs around organ donation

Muslims' cultural and religious sensitivity should be considered in end-of-life discussions with healthcare teams

Ways to increase organ donation in Muslim communities, emphasizing education and leadership

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Too often the physical, mental and emotional needs of Black men and boys are over-looked, ignored. They want to heal and change how they/we are perceived, however, find it difficult to do so unless things within our physical environment change as well. The lack of access to affordably decent housing, nutritious food and underperforming public schools have become standards in our black and brown neighborhoods.

This episode of Profound Conversations is a healing call for our Black community, with a focus on men and boys, to talk about what keeps us sane, where to find love and joy and how we must come together to elevate our spirits and rest our souls, which is OUR RIGHT AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY. Together we need to redefine what it means to be WELL.

Show Topics and Highlights

Importance of mental health and healing in black and brown communities as a critical component of black liberation

Emphasis on the importance of clarity and collective action for black liberation, citing the need to determine the goal and address critical components such as social, economic, and spiritual well-being

Rowe highlights the challenges of programming that hinders black people from depending on themselves and instead relies on the oppressor for liberation, emphasizing the need to connect the dots and come together as a collective to elevate themselves and move their agenda forward

Dayvon Love highlights the significance of historiography in shaping our personal relationship to history and how it impacts our solutions to problems

Healers and mental health professionals can enhance cultural competence to better serve black communities

Importance of intergenerational connection and valuing one another's perspectives to address mental health issues

Challenges of finding a sense of belonging for young people of color in a system not designed for them, and the importance of grounding them in history and the movement

Hazel Taylor Smith discusses challenges in providing mental health care in the community, including insurance issues and limited resources

Value of listening and being present for his children, rather than trying to mold them, and recognizes the importance of working in partnership with his wife in the parenting journey

Value of fatherhood and partnership in African-centered perspective, with a focus on building healthy marriages and communities

Dr. Aneesah Nadir emphasizes the importance of premarital education and counseling to prepare couples for marriage and prevent potential issues

Providing education and support from elders and spiritual leaders can help couples navigate challenges and strengthen their relationship

Importance of building a culture of care that is strength-based, life-affirming, healing-centered, and transformationally focused on every black and brown person

Importance of intergenerational understanding and appreciation of cultural artifacts in creating a culture of care

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Simply put, diversity is defined as the presence and representation of people of differing races, religions, ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups, and other characteristics that inform an individual’s worldview and experiences. It is impossible to comprehend or foster equity and inclusion without diversity.

Show Topics and Highlights

"Why is important that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is embedded in the cultures of organ procurement organizations or any other organization institutions for that matter?"

You need to have representation within the organ procurement community that reflects the population that you're serving in order to be able to reach that or that population.

We focus most of our efforts on figuring out what the barriers are, instead of making sure there is a more diverse leadership team.

We need to look into why it is that we're not getting applications from more diverse members that are capable of the job and can perform at a high level.

"What are the opportunities for people to get the minimum and necessary education and conditions to apply for the positions in the first place?"

The talent has to be developed in to be able to create pathways for people to be able to rise up in the organization.

"My experience is there's no shortage of people of color to fill CEO positions. The problem is that we're not reaching them and it can be because it's the personal bias of those that are doing the hiring."

We prefer, at the Nevada Donor Network, to try to give the opportunities to people within the organization versus having to recruit from the outside. When your organization prefers to develop its own, then it becomes about removing barriers and providing opportunities.

I think that's important that people looking to become a CEO find time to be exposed to those all areas of the organization. That's what makes an effective leader.

"I want to just expand the concept of diversity beyond the realm of race and ethnicity. Can people bring their whole self to work? If I'm a Muslim, do I feel comfortable being a Muslim in that environment?"

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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This episode seeks to create a dialogue which examines these challenges to social determinants of life, as we learn from grass root change makers and mental health professionals about the role their organizations are playing in the transformation of our communities under siege.

Show Topics and Highlights

What are the social determinants of health?

How much an individual is exposed to other negative health outcomes, whether that is violence or other forms of trauma, is a huge determinant of their health outcome

Importance of living in the community and getting to know the people

“It amazed me how many of the young people didn't expect to live beyond 20 years old”

We're really good at blaming the victim

“When you're told something long enough you start to believe it”

Viewing and being around violence can be just as damaging as being physically harmed

Stereotypes about mental health and treatment

There needs to be a definition of what "help" is for a community

The accessibility, or lack thereof, of mental health resources

Bringing help to the communities and meeting them where they are

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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How do our diets play a role in our ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and what are the signs to be aware of that hint to onset mental, emotional and physical decline in our wellbeing? These and other fascinating ideas will be examined by our Conductor and guest conversationalists.

Show Topics and Highlights

We exist in a society that supports and really actually rewards hustle culture, grind till you make it, sleep when you die, culture of high achievement, competition acquisition, that is made of just a bit worse by the fantasies that we see on social media

This construct of the 80 hour a week working until you drop, sleep when you're dead, was constructed by white men, and a aggressive drive to possess, own, and dominate. It's not something we have to take with us

Being born actually makes you equipped for every hard experience that you're ever going to have. That's why a birthing canal is so vitally important, because now you've experienced the biggest trauma and everything else is easy

You have to start to eliminate the noise. Right? We all have a very quiet space within us, every human being is given this, no matter what physical state you are in, you have this quiet space where if you go in there, there's answers to everything in there.

There are circumstances that bring you to your humble knees. And you have to take time to unfold into those spaces except where you are, and then try to develop a pathway out of those spaces.

I don't like starting over from scratch, I like to build off the heels of another. My motto is "the second mouse gets the cheese."

When I talk about cultural practices, oftentimes routine is everything. Right? Because routine will restart the clock, no matter what you're going through.

It's the inner critic, that small voice that most of us don't know is even talking. That tells us what we can't do. It says, "You're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough, you haven't done enough." I teach my clients a mantra, "I Am enough, I have enough, I do enough."

You don't have to be a human doer, you can be a human being

Stop and listen to your body

There's a big movement now, thankfully, for this whole expression of like "doing the work" like doing your own work. And people think of that in the in the frame of mental health therapy.

Some things on social media are completely not beneficial to our society, in terms of the sort of the images and the messaging that that we're seeing and the attention seeking and the ways that people are rewarded for bad behavior, but there's been a surgence of positive messaging of people on social media, of people offering alternative ways of thinking and looking at things that has actually benefited a lot of people and I've seen that myself

How do you deal with your inner critic?

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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When you get older and you start to appreciate music on its own, you see that it’s sustaining you generationally

There used to be more of a close connection between music, education, and learning

I'm so happy to hear what you're doing to bring your students back to those essences of the music so they can get to the scholarship of it, you know, the legacy

I teach jazz history, jazz combo, and jazz percussion, and it’s been quite a reward for me to be working with young people

I prove how the rhythms that we use today are rhythms that come straight out of Africa, I prove it by standing in front of them and showing them what the rhythm is

Music is a healing force. Especially if it is coupled with the strongest force in the universe, which is love

My work primarily now focuses on community development

My experience around building galleries and revitalizing theaters, actually revitalizing neighborhoods, is that inevitable they become richer and whiter and the local community gets pushed out

We do a deeper dive by trying to get into local communities, into schools, and to neighborhood associations, and so forth and so on. It's a lot of it's a lot of groundwork, you're trying to really improve the local conditions before the contractors move in, in other words, so that folks are prepared

Why don’t we decide that we're going to invest in our communities? That means that our communities will deliver the best that it can for us, because we have hands on. That will mean that our needs and our desires will be will be dealt with

The idea of attracting wealth and attracting opportunities to grow wealth, and develop wealth, means that if you have the positive attitude, and a positive outlook about it, it will seek you out, it's an attraction

A lot of times I think our voices are not centered in the conversation because they go looking for “experts”, and those experts, unfortunately, often don't look like us

What I like to tell the young people I work with is that I’m an old dog who learned new tricks

Creative spaces are so transformative for communities because all of those, those places that we've kind of abandoned, they will almost always see the creative places or they had multiple functions

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The difference between an organization doing well, or not, typically has to do with their culture.

A company's culture determines the behavior of the organization and how effectively it provides its service.

People can be insecure as it relates to what their strengths might be and sometimes they might need someone to identity those strengths for them

A leader knows that his or her job is to make the tough decision. And by definition, you're going to be wrong a lot of the time, and it's going to be your fault. And you're going to have to take that on your back and move forward. And nobody will see you as a leader until you're able to do that.

“The way you build a movement is through empowering small groups to success and to connect wit each other.”

“I have a friend, David Burkus is the absolute best teams guy out there. And one of the things he says is, the talent doesn't build the team, the team builds the talent.“

If you want to change behavior, you have to start with the majority, you can always expand a majority out, but the second you're in the minority, you're gonna feel immediate pushback

There are important differences between management and strategy

“Trust has to be a foundational element in any movement you're trying to create”

“And so I went through a period of time in my career where it was difficult for me to ascertain what exactly I was trying to accomplish, what was my passion, what was I good at. And then I realized something that was even more profound, that goals that I wanted to accomplish, and that I had set up for myself are only possible and could only be as fulfilling as possible, if I enjoyed the company of others while I was doing it”

If people don't believe that you value what they do, no factors or figure or evidence you put in front of them is going to make a difference.

If you can find others who believe as you do, and are just as enthusiastic as you are. And you can help them to succeed and get out of the business of selling an idea and into the business of selling a success

Although I didn't realize it at the time, when people were trying to help me, enable me, I took a path of humility and decided that I was going to be of service rather than just trying to fulfill my own goals and aspirations. It really created a this genuine love for trying to help other people actualize themselves

“Far too often we confuse leadership with authority”

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

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Our Profound Conversationalists include Dr. Clive Callender, Ingrid Palacios, Nila Schwab, Joey Boudreaux, and our conductor Joia Jefferson Nuri.

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“Over the past year we've been talking about organ donation and how that works. But the one thing we haven't discussed yet, until today, is the grieving process. The world knows more about grieving now then probably did two years ago as we grieve in mass numbers around COVID. “

“My brother wanted to be an organ donor. He wanted to help somebody.”

“If you ever met a donor recipient, they always want to give back. They want to share the story they want to help.“

It's very hard to think when you're in shock, and that's usually what's happening when we approach a family about organ donation.

There are many people who help support families through the organ donation process. What exactly does that "support" look like?

“There are so many different levels of grief. And sometimes it comes back.”

Not everyone is educated to work with different types of grieving, different types of culture.

“We are there to be advocates, we are there to be liaisons, we are there to be those people that will honor those family's wishes.”

“The law requires the deceased persons wishes be followed, whether the family likes it or not. That you if you decided you wanted to be a donor, you will be a donor. And if the family doesn't like it, it is unfortunate, but the donation will proceed.”

There's still a percentage of people who still believe that they need their organs to get into Heaven, that is why more education is needed.

“In the African American community, there is a fear that you will be left to die because your organs are needed, you could keep five people alive. And that the emergency room doctors will not do the best for you, because they want your organs. That's wholeheartedly not true.”

“Grief is ongoing. And someone like me who held it in for quite some time because I didn't know who to say it to, I didn't know if anybody would understand what I was going through. But when I got to LOPA and I tell everyone, my healing began when I began to share my story began to listen to others and and how we can help each other through what we were going through.”

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Episode VI will explore the less than obvious connections between mental illness and substance abuse. We would like to assert that one, often overlooked foundational connection is, the unhealthy need that leads to the opioid use, which completely destabilizes a Healthy Mental decision-making process. Are we still in an epidemic in 2022? What are harm reduction policies and what have been their outcomes? Which populations are currently most affected? What can individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities actively do to assist in solving this epidemic? What are good Samaritan laws? Are their signs that the tide is changing? What are the Trust factors in need of transforming that will lead to satisfactory resolutions?

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There is a lag between technology and knowledge and the criminal justice system

A physician's background beliefs may influence their decision making

My own efforts have been in getting new technologies into African American and Latino communities.

There's what we call an opiate, and then there's what we call an opioid.

Everyone has a genetic element that dictates what their response is to medications

Are doctors ever held responsible, legally?

What training are doctors getting on proper use of opioids?

We've had great difficulty in changing the dosage requirements, which is set by law in some places, and we find that when people get inadequate medication they may end up using drugs to get by

A lot of a prescriptive practices involve the patient being given responsibility of taking the medication correctly.

There is a huge importance in getting a support system around the patient

There's more training and information needed on the best ways to work with people and making sure you're doing right for that person

This is where health equity comes into play. Because it's not just about making things equitable. It's about what investments would have to go on to raise the value of care.

The number of African American physicians is actually about the same numbers as it was the 1960s. Same as for the Latino community.

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Conversationalists:

Farha Abbasi, MD Michigan State University Dept. of Psychiatry

Clive Callender, MD Professor of Surgery, Howard University Hospital

Shawn-Paul Harrison Medical Navigator Specialist Louisiana Organ Procurement Association

Anil Paramesh, MD, Professor of Surgery, Urology, and Pediatrics Tulane University School of Medicine

Joey Boudreaux Chief Clinical Officer Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency

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A lot of people think that anyone can become an organ donor. And unfortunately, that's not the case. It's a very small few who suffer a brain injury of some sort. So it's always a sudden event very tragic.

So one, our primary roles, besides obviously saving lives through donation, is to support these families who are suffering through this acute extreme grieving.

I started the transplant program at Howard University in 1973. And as we looked at the situation, the number one problem in transplantation, then and even now has been the shortage of donors.

There is a stigma around mental illnesses, right? And this stigma always arises from lack of information, not having that awareness, and things we don’t know about can lead to fear.

Imagine a scenario where we have a very scarce resource where there are not enough organs for everybody.

Because us as family advocates supporting the family, it's not just for donation purposes, every family should be supported during a time of loss.

We spoke earlier that transplant centers are graded upon your success rate, plus we're trying to look at utility as well as equity.

One of my favorite parts of my job is when the transplant recipient, and those donor families meet.

I think everyone here has expressed that we need more donors, we need more of the community to be part of the donor committee, and every show, I get to say I am a donor, I'm an African American, I'm an elder, by some people standards, and I still want my body to do something for somebody

I would like to say that saving a life is saving humanity

I'd add also to this that some people just aren't healthy enough to give organs. So they can also give tissues. Tissues that can enhance lives can make the blind see the deaf ear, the lame walk again, so that it is in this gift of life that we can have on this.

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Episode Summary and Highlights

Welcome to Profound Conversations. This is program number four of this season and we have been looking at justice, equality and all of the things that we need to balance out. And over the last few weeks as we saw the verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case, it gave us an opportunity to reset. Everyone got a verdict that says that there can be justice there can be fair, and people have good hearts will make a choice that says despite race, an injustice has happened, and those perpetrators must go to jail. A gleeful sound came out across the country, because it was a big deal. When case after case after case before this did not end in the same level of result of the Mr. Arbery verdict allowed us to reset as a nation or have the opportunity to reset as a nation and also begs the question “Is it time to reset in the medical and public health field?”

-I really appreciate the thought about co workers and collaboration. And I think I really want to and that's not something I hear enough about when discussing trust.

-I've learned to think about the healthcare system in the past few years, is materialist. Like economics money, right, so much of our healthcare system has to do who does or who doesn't have money.

-And I think that faith in the system would be better and possibly, people wanting to donate more, could be an end result of that, knowing that they're getting good information across the board, transparent information, and they're being treated fairly and presented all options.

-I think if we looked at things much like Dr. Berger said that we were actually coworkers. And we were not competitive or in separate organizations that we were all one, I think that the system would be so much better.

-I think it's always useful to try to teach my colleagues and people about listening to patients listen to everybody and to be more compassionate.

-Really working with people involves conflict and dispute and, and, you know, working well as a team doesn't mean everyone obeys.

-And I've been really inspired recently about the history of community health care and solidarity based health care in the US.

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Today, we will explore how structural, institutional interpersonal, and internalized racism influences racial disparities and health, and how they have been heightened by COVID-19 pandemic.

I appreciate that the author is telling us to step back and look at the entire picture of the person. When speaking about health, it's not just your blood pressure, and your cholesterol levels. It's the entirety of the person.

When we think about racism, actually interpersonal, for me, is the one that's probably the most common.

If we recognize that folks in positions of authority are not willing to make these changes, are not willing to do what we know they should, then we need to be brave enough to vote them out of office.

I can't just take anything for granted. Well, I'm a black woman, so every person in Baltimore who comes through the door should listen to me. It doesn't work that way.

How do you go about inspiring trust in the medical community?

I think at the end of the day, we are all human beings, right? We all have value. And the sooner that we recognize that and appreciate value in others, and are committed to doing the right things, because we inherently each have value.

We have to keep the conversation going.

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Highlights of the Episode

In public health, and public health, it's essential to have trust between those who provide services and those who are consumers of services

In the line of in working with organ procurement organizations and hospitals and physicians, you know, ultimately, our focus is on these families that have lost a loved one

Trust and integrity, that, for me is foundational trust means everything

Trust is woven into every aspect of what we do

You can tell who people are pretty much in the first 10 seconds

It's not about being successful in your organization, it's about being successful with people

It is making sure that you can give everything that you have of yourself, to help them and that gaining something in return

We have to break down those words and concepts, and perhaps shape them in a way that's culturally appropriate and sound for our community

If you go into a hospital, and your expectation is for your loved ones life to be saved, and you don't know that they have died, and there has been times where the conversation of organ donation has happened prematurely of a person dying

I started that conversation with my daughter and family. It's in my advanced directive that I'm an organ donor

Trust is always talking to that person where they are without any assumptions without trying to push them into a box or category

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“As leaders, as neighbors, as colleagues, it is time to turn to one another, to engage in the intentional search for human goodness. In our meetings and deliberations, we can reach out and invite in those we have excluded. We can recognize that no one person or leader has the answer, that we need everybody's creativity to find our way through this strange new world.”

- Margaret Wheatley. [Remembering Human Goodness, Shambala Sun, September 1999]

Trust is a two-way street. Each healthcare servant has the family trust and cooperation at stake. Lack of trust creates inconsistency in the delivery of care and influences patient family choices.

Episode one we will explore how medical ethics influences trust as well as govern patient and family rights; and to what extent does multicultural competency influence organizational approaches toward a more dynamic and inclusive culture. We will also seek to understand the underlying factors which erode trust and how to transform these dynamics at their inception and from breakdowns to breakthroughs.

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I take care of people, I have the luxury of taking care of people over time and having a longitudinal relationship with them. And I see trust is at the center and at the heart of, of what I do and my connection with patients. Without trust, we don't have a functioning robust therapeutic relationship without trust.

How do you know what's meaningful to a patient? You ask them.

How do you look at someone in your space and say, what's important to them? Well, one of the things that's that shows that you're important is that you have some people in the space that look like you, and that can understand you.

Trust is something you have to behave your way into.

And I and I think that that that's a part of the work around multicultural competency is being able to learn how to listen, learn how to understand.

There's a lot of things that go into the trust factor. So so one of the things I would say is basically expand your relationships, expand your relationships in the community, with trusted members of the community, and that those are relationships that you have prior to when you have to pick up the phone.

The teaching that I focus on clinical ethics, bioethics is a huge field and there's many subfields clinical ethics is one of them. There's research ethics, we've been talking about research ethics, a little bit with the Tuskegee and there's many other examples of terrible transgressions in the 20th century with research ethics, there's global ethics, food ethics, public health ethics, which has been in front and center during the pandemic. So lots of major subfields. I do most of my teaching in the area of clinical ethics because I'm teaching medical students and residents who are interacting with patients and family members.

If you had to pick one, innovation in the history of medicine that has been most effective, it's been the development of vaccines, and look at how we've all benefited from not having small polio or childhood diseases.

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A critical aspect of the racism that African Americans face is a continuing geographic segregation in many parts of the US, a legacy of ‘Jim Crow’ laws enacted in the South after the Civil War, as well as discriminatory attitudes right across the country including the so-called ‘white flight’ from urban areas to suburbs after the Second World War.

Join our host Linda Howard and our Profound Conversationalists Hassan Ali El-Amin, Dr. Charles Lewis, and Dayvon Love.

Topics and Highlights

As people of African Descent it is important for us to have an Ecosystem of Institutions that are self sufficient and self sustaining that can be containers for the transfer of wealth we’re asking for.

“Wealth is generational.”

The U.S. Government not only needs to stop mistreating its African Americans, but it needs to build all of us up in order to build up the entire country.

As African Americans we have come a long way, but we are still not where we want to be.

In many situations, life for African Americans has gotten worse not better.

Harriet Tubman could have freed more people but she struggled to convince some that they actually were slaves.

Advocacy is sometimes done by the same people who are hurting the community.

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Today's Guest Host is Zarinah Shakir and our Profound Conversationalist is Dr. Rana Dajani.

Topics and Highlights

We are all so similar. We are all human beings. We all have the same origin.

I consider myself a human. A global citizen. Wanting to serve the whole world. 

We are all responsible for the community around us.

Learning is beyond the classroom. It continues your entire life up until your last minute of life.

Inspiring a community leaves them with the new mindset of “I can”

What does it mean to be an Islamic Feminist?

What does it take to create a Covid-19 vaccine? Who should get it first?

Storytellers have preserved culture for thousands of years.

How do you reach out to other women and encourage them and let them know ‘you can do this too’ ?

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Our host is Linda Howard and our Profound Conversationalists are

Dr. Marcus Lambert and Dr. Rachel J. Thornton. 

Show Topics and Highlights

This pandemic has had a significant effect on students, especially those with socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. 

Is this pandemic going to create a pipeline issue with some of these underrepresented groups not being able to move students into certain medical fields?

Many students who are from economically disadvantage communities, many have had to step away from schooling and taken jobs to help support families.

One of the issues around health disparities and health inequities is that you don’t have those who are serving the community have the cultural competency to serve the community.

Trust issues have been so intense in some areas that it will also likely come into effect when and if there is a vaccine for Covid-19. Communities won’t take it if they don’t trust their medical establishments. 

My CHALLENGE as a Health Equity Researcher is making clear that fixing the TRUST gaps with the medical community is not about fixing the TRUST in the patient. . . It’s actually about BEING TRUSTWORTHY.

We need to think about the challenges that face us and not just us personally but those that are most vulnerable in our communities. 

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

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How does today inform our future as valued citizens? How do we evolve and grow from these putrid moments in American history? 

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Our guest host for Profound Conversations is Andre Robinson and our Profound Conversationalists are Dr. Ted Sutton, Dr. Debbie Almontaser, and Jamal Williams.

Help me learn and understand and become better as an ally.

Society has such obvious and dramatic lessons that Black Lives really don’t matter.

The though leadership conversation doesn’t mean that much to us when we’re dealing with food and water for the next day. The immediacy of the danger and the despair many find themselves in.

How do we have those conversations with young people that their resilience is baked in and to help them navigate to a place of self empowerment?

You’re not trash, you’re just tarnished. It can take just one person to shine you up to show what’s really inside you.

God changed my foundational system and now I know what’s worth dying for.

It’s the dehumanizing idea that someone from outside the culture can come along and decide to ‘civilize’ you as you are seen as a savage and in need of education.

Language really has an impact in how you form your ideas and think about yourself.

The subtle racism we see in schools is something we have to call out and something we need to change.

There is something worse than murder . . . oppression.

If mastery is hitting a large that others can’t hit, and genius is hitting a target that others can’t see, that what is collective genius?

These are the stories of community. These are the stories of leadership.

The “thought leadership” conversation doesn’t always mean that much to us when we’re helping others with finding food and water for the next day.

We need to contemplate our way forward to get real psychic liberation. And how do we teach young people that from a young age. 

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The system is broken. My passion is getting more social workers engaged in doing something to change the system.

Can Social Workers help change Democracy?

The people that are most affected by climate change are the same people most affected by Covid-19.

We have to engage in our local elections because so much impacts our daily lives.

We have a lack of adequate healthcare in our communities.

Civic engagement is participation.

We have to develop relationships with our representatives so they know what our concerns are.

In the history of the united states we have never had an equitable system.

Many immigrants are living in fear and are afraid to open their doors to census takers.

The census is supposed to include immigrants and undocumented persons just as you do citizens. It’s in the constitution to do that.

First and foremost we need an administration that is interested in the truth.

The biggest issues we have is lack of trust, especially in certain communities.

We are talking about power, and resources are power.

Try to identify a group that wants to make change.

Bureaucracy is very scared of community participation.

We are a party of the people and I don’t know if we always live up to that.

“Counseling Not Criminalization in the Schools Act” is a bill to provide federal funding for schools who would like to have more social workers and other service providers but they have to get rid of the police from the schools. 

The word “defunding” scares people its really more of a reimagining and putting money towards other services.

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Show Topics and Highlights

• “What is the idea behind anchor institutions working together knowing that, at times, the only anchor institution in some of these communities is the faith based community? How do we draw that knowledge and power in and use it as leverage to move us along.”
• “The first thing I want to make clear is that medicine and health are NOT synonymous.”
• Hospitals are recognizing more and more that if we are to make the biggest impact of health it will not be within the confines of the four walls of the hospital.
• What does a hospital mean in the 21st century? What does a faith based organization mean in the 21st century?
• “Food choices are so often rooted in access and that is rooted in community investment.”
• Medicine’s trust has been broken countless times for certain populations.
• Healthcare needs to be delivered effectively, equitably, appropriately, and it needs to be accessible in a just way. 

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

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This week’s episode of Muslim Life Planning Institutes’ Profound Conversations is presented in conjunction with the National Wellness Institute’s Reimagining Wellness Live Conversations Series.

Show Topics and Highlights

“Now, in terms of a pandemic, you know, the lines are a little bit blurred, you know, we're using the same ideology and the same science in the same understanding to look at things through a slightly different lens than we ordinarily would being from an epidemiological background.”

“I was involved also with organ recovery. This is part of what transplant surgeons do. So the organ procurement organizations and and transplant hospitals are joined at the hip. We have what I call codependency of existence, two sides of the same coin.”

“Now, the downside of being somebody like me [epidemiologist] is nobody really listens to us, unless there is a pandemic going on.”

Organ transplantation is an amazing thing. It's about life, passing it from one person to the other. 

There are people who are completely asymptomatic, that are actually positive for COVID and they can infect other people.

“This is an ongoing pandemic, you know, we're nowhere close to being over with regards to this.”

“There's this, this mentality that, you know, the worst is behind us, and, you know, we're done with the first wave and, you know, bring on the second wave sort of thing. And that is most definitely not the sands you know, we're still in in the midst of the first wave.”

The pandemic has changed our ability to do outreach dramatically. 

For people that want to know more about donation, I would encourage them to go to Donate Life that will give you an idea for donation across the United States and you would be able to register on the national registry.  

Today's host is Linda Howard and the panelists are Dr. Marwan Abouljoud, Kelly Ranum, Dr. Tyler Amell, Andrea Johnson, and Barry Massa.

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Today's panelists are Pastor Melvin Russell, Adar Ayira, Major Neill Franklin, Justin Hodge, DeBorah Ahmed, Dr. Charles Lewis, and the host is Linda Howard.

Show Topics and Highlights

When there's no consequences, when people break the rules within a system, it breeds corruption and it promotes lawlessness in that order. 

• What is happening now is 400 years of policies which privilege some people and disadvantage others, which have an impact on every single aspect of life in this country.
• The Black Lives Matter Matter Movement is now a positive movement being embraced by so many people . . others were trying to make this seem as as a hate group. Not anymore, folks. It's painted on the streets of Washington, DC leading up to the White House.
• Even in the wake of that visual murder of George Floyd by a police officer, the police still had the audacity to use violence in a peaceful protest. And so people are seeing with their own eyes with video after video after video that even with this horrific murder, the police are still out there pushing and shoving people and using tear gas and rubber bullets close up in peaceful protest.
• “I think we might need to do a little bit of an education lesson. And because if I look at some of the comments that I've gotten from people is, I've had people ask me exactly what is institutionalized racism? What is systemic racism?”
• “And what most agencies have done and most people have heard me say this, all they want to do is protect all they want to do is fight bad guys get the guns off the street, but nobody wants to serve anymore. Nobody wants to serve their community that the sworn to protect and serve. . . We don't listen anymore to our community. We are occupiers.”
• You need strong leadership, at least somebody that will stand up for the cops, because the leader not only got to take care of his cops, he's got to take care of his community. While he's taking care of the community, he takes care of his cops, and that's a rare breed.
• Let me just say that the police policing history in this country, it's never been for the benefit of black people. All right, we the policing model that we currently have came out of slave patrols in the south. It came out of protecting the property of the wealthy and the North. It was never been a benefit for the black people.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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These micro aggressions and victimization that we see our own. These are only symptomatic. It's not just about the police. It's about the system.

So now America is no longer seen as a moral leader. 

“Because there's another element here that is going on through these rioting and looting and trying to take over over our movement and our young folks are ‘No, no way. This is about us.’ And I commend them for that.”

World Health Organization conference in 1969 determined that the number one mental health problem in America was racism.

I think it's important that all of us and others be able to help people be able to utilize the moment in time we have.

“This is only profession we have [policing] with the authority to take someone's life.”

How do we change the police force for what it is now in terms of the militarization of it?

One quarter of the police department's nationwide have alcohol problems. 

There is a disincentive for officers to be more approachable.

Should there be a movement to have the videos of the killings of victims banned from constant television broadcasts because of the mental health of the community?

Today's host is Linda Howard and the panelists are Muhammad Bashir, Ameedah Rashid, Darnell Blackburn, Diane Bell McKoy, Pastor John Arnold, and Latif Rasheed.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Has there been any particular spiritual issues that have came about with COVID-19 where it's presented ethical challenges?

. . . . because your loved one is in front of you dying and you can't do anything.

“One of the things that we do with Muslim life planning Institute is we do a lot of work in the area of medical religious partnerships.”

“Medicine is the most humane of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.”

What is bioethics vs medical ethics vs social ethics?

Who makes the decisions about who gets ventilators when there is a limited supply?

“Through what lens should we view the action of accepting vaccines?”

“This is the first time that I find that the global community has come together to really help people  who are helpless, who don't even know how to proceed.”

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. ~Helen Keller

When you look at this country's history, which we're looking at, is taking what should be the most efficient use of capital and you damming it up to cut off some areas and redirecting it.

There's going to have to be a greater focus on cybersecurity and not just for the big companies.

“I’m sure that in the next few months, a lot of jobs are going to be looking for people who know to how to administer webinars who know how to run a zoom call and do all the things with the participants, etc.”

“People will always serve you better if you bring them something that they need.”

The economic stimulus is not dealing with the long term.

It's going to take a whole lot of black banks to get attention of large companies.

“I think most of what you're talking about which creates these inequities is just a basic desire to say ‘I have to make sure that I survive before I concern myself whether you survive.’ “

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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How do we support businesses and potential growth phases?

“We were able to bring together 49 strangers from across the world who had a common purpose.”

“We're interested in the kinds of stories that in what we call wicked problems that are actionable.”

The single most consensus oriented response of the of the whole seven day sprint was around one idea . . . be a better leader.

“As African Americans historically know, we've always been under pressure in a lot of different ways. And it's just like another opportunity to see how resilient are we as a people.”

The inertia of the old normal is the biggest obstacle to the new normal.

Think about what would happen if you replace the word “the” with the word “a”.

“You can improvise out of structure, you can't improvise when the entire environment is improvising like it is now.”

This is the environment that's ripe for innovation to occur. People are definitely going to rise and innovate. 

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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This week’s episode of Muslim Life Planning Institutes’ Profound Conversations is presented in conjunction with the National Wellness Institute’s Reimagining Wellness Live Conversations series.

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We know that that good health is so much more than the absence of disease

“Can we talk a little bit about what is the difference between wellness, health, and health care? Because people use those terms sometimes interchangeably?”

I think policies should align around creating the conditions that will generate health.

“Population health, from my perspective is a concept that is attempting to transform our healthcare delivery system in a way that pays more explicit attention to not just clinical outcomes, how long people live, and ideally how well people live by of life.”

“Why did COVID-19 become the epidemic it has become in the United States?”

COVID isn't creating the problem, but it is highlighting the existing problems.

So the the infrastructure which was fragile to begin with, has been to some extent unintentionally disrupted by being shut down and being a bit more isolated, well intentioned as those responses have been, I think it places those at greater risk. 

“I think it's important that people feel connected, ours is a journey meant to be shared.”

“I think as we all strive to become more effective stewards of our own health and the communities that we are part of this.”

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Do you have some thoughts around how we have dealt with this pandemic at a global level?

“How do you think the US has done compared to other countries in response to this?”

“We have to set aside all politics and set aside all the ideology and look at what this virus actually doing to us.”

One thing that we do know now, for those who didn’t know it before, the COVID-19 pandemic certainly educated us that viruses know no borders.

“There's an amazing effort that was actually a grassroots effort in Baltimore called the Baltimore neighbors network, where hundreds of volunteers are calling thousands and thousands of people at home to check on them.”

How is Detroit’s response to the global pandemic?

The problems that arise when healthcare professionals are put in a position of having to make these difficult decisions with little or no guidance.

There's also an opportunity for us to do the work to impact policy. There are so many remote systems set up right now for those with the proper skill set to help.

“This is an opportunity, also where we get to see who can see the best of people sometimes in the darkest of situations.”

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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What about the coronavirus is having the greatest impact on communities?

Are certain people truly essential workers, or are they sacrificial?

“Some cities are doing a good job of getting data and tracking who’s been impacted by the coronavirus, how are poor neighborhoods in Baltimore reacting?”

You’ve got to go to those places that are ugly.

It doesn’t matter how wealthy you are if your lungs are collapsing.

“We have systems set up to advantage one group over another.”

We need to keep allowing community leader to share their struggles and their successes. There needs to be an outlet for community voices.

“I care because I was raised in an environment  where I was always taking care of somebody and I learned to enjoy it early on. So essentially, what I'm doing is an outgrowth of environment I was lucky enough to grow up in and I want other people to have an environment that has something of beauty in it, even though the circumstances may be quite dire.” 

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

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Will we see a post traumatic pandemic syndrome?

“We are experiencing financial challenges, health challenges, we have fears about today, and we have fears about tomorrow. And many of our families are in crisis.”

We have this innate sense of helplessness and hopelessness that starts seeping into our own personal lives. 

“What have you been seeing in terms of what some of the first responders has been have been experiencing?”

“When we use the word mental health, that it kind of seen as a red flag for most people, something to be stigmatized. So we can hide it and say Behavioral Medicine or behavioral health . . . .  We are not talking mental illness, we are talking mental health and wellness.”

We rarely go to the underlying disease, which is the social, economic, cultural disparities, the inequalities that are still very prevalent in the country.

Hugging is a warm exercise in compassion. . . everybody will literally need a hug.

What kind of advice do we have for nurses and other first responders who are struggling with the life and death challenges on the front lines?

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

*this episode is reposted from 4/2/2024

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The world is experiencing unprecedented challenges:

• Economics
• Communities
• Family Dynamics
• Mental and Physical Well Being

Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life

The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com

*this episode is reposted from 3/26/2024

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