What is an emotional tax and how does it affect Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC)? In this episode, Karlyn Percil shares the concept of an emotional tax and how it creates an unsafe work environment for BIPOC. Karlyn also shares how to use emotional intelligence to stumble bravely in one’s quest to become anti-bias, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive.
Karlyn Percil is a Certified Emotional Intelligence and Neuro-Life Coach with keen focus on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. She is the Chief Executive Officer of KDPM Consulting Group INC., and the Founder of SisterTalk Group Leadership and Wellness Academy, a group dedicated to amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous, and WoC on leveraging personal narratives as a catalyst of success.
She has served on the Board of the Black Business and Professional Association, as the Chair of The Harry Jerome Awards, and through SisterTalk Group, Karlyn mentored and supported the leadership development of young girls in North America, especially in her birth home of St. Lucia. Karlyn has also worked with UNICEF, the Toronto Police Service, and is a Guest Expert on Cityline, the longest-running daytime talk show for women.
Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:
- The word obedient and how Karlyn reclaims that word so she can operate as an empowered woman
- Seven times Britsh and second times French and how colonialism both shaped and harmed St. Lucia
- Why Karlyn embraces her French Creole ancestry as an act of resistance despite what the European colonists tried to do
- How her upbringing in St Lucia prepared her for life in Canada as a new migrant (and what she still needed to learn)
- How to think of emotions so you include them when creating a culture that is truly inclusive and liberating
- Why emotions are not bad and how to use them as a guide when exploring unconscious biases
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