InteSoul Leadership Podcast Season 2 Episode 10 Guest Donna Carter "Pioneering A Path"

Yvette Owens (00:03) Hello and welcome to InterSoul Leadership, a segment of my business, Destiny Speak, Inc. It's my pleasure to be here today with Donna Carter, who is part of the Clark County Equity Coalition. I'm just gonna pop that up so you can see that she founded this coalition out of a passion for her,

We're having these conversations with inter-soul leaders. These are members who have joined the inter-soul leadership community, which I launched. This community really gives leaders a safe place to know that they're not alone in wanting to stand for our integrity, have authenticity in what they're doing, and really.

Making a change for the organization's products and services and the people working alongside them. It's a holistic approach to leadership. And I'm honored to be with these leaders and have them come along. We're highlighting these leaders so that if you are feeling like you're flying solo and you have people around you who are not

holding up to the same standards that you want to hold up to and you're wondering what's going on in the world or even how do we navigate this new world? I invite you to join the InterSoul Leadership Community. I'll have a link where you can learn how to join and get started with us. We would love to have you. I believe I call it momentum. We're setting a momentum. It's a movement for leaders who want to make a difference for the people they are leading and help everybody around them within their influence to excel, right? And when we do that, it's not just about collaboration, but it's about getting the greater of the good because we have the community working towards their greatness. So with all that said, I'm going to welcome Mrs.

Donna Carter of the Clark County Equity Coalition. Woo hoo. Hi. Hi, how are you? And Donna, again, thank you for joining us. Would you please explain to the audience, I know we're going to get into what the community, InterSoul Leadership Community means to you, but if you could explain to us what you do, how you came about the Equity Coalition, why and where you all are right now.

Yeah, thank you for having me that the Clark County Equity Coalition is a grassroots nonprofit organization that came from a place of bridging a gap. So I'm a parent, my daughter's 14. I live in Kentucky and she was a couple years ago was in a school where there was a survey done and quite a nice percentage of the teachers were not comfortable.

speaking to a child of another race or culture. And so I, you know, give them credit for being honest on the survey. But at the time I was on the site -based decision -making council and asked what was going to be done. And of course they were doing DEI training and all of that. But I know, and we all know that it takes, like you said, an intersoul, a movement.

to make substantial change in areas like that. And so we actually took our daughter out of school for a year because what does that mean for my daughter, a young black girl? And there's not very much representation in the schools. It has improved, but that year I just felt an urging and just a nudge. And I definitely believe it was the Holy Spirit telling me that

Okay, you can do this for your child, but what about those parents who can't? What about those kids who can't? And so I started calling some like -minded people and I have a young woman who partnered with me, Vashay King, and I started calling around and we just, said, hey, let's do something. Got in touch with an organization in Kentucky called The Pritchett Committee, which

is focused on student achievement in the states and the equity of that achievement. And I've gotten in touch with some people there and they said, well, you if you want to start one, just start it. And so we did. Nice. That's how we got started. Nice. And I so appreciate you and the others who have come alongside you for doing this, for making, you know, so many times we say, we s