This week’s episode took an unexpected turn. I sat down to reflect on my four-part Substack series on truth-telling, only to realize the truth needed more time than I imagined.
In Part 1 of this sacred two-part offering, I read from the first two letters: Choosing Integrity Over Appeasement and Emotional Honesty is Leadership, and answered the same questions I ask my community every week.
What came up was raw, real, and deeply rooted in lived experience from my childhood conditioning around silence to the cost of truth-telling in professional spaces. These aren’t just reflections. They’re reckonings.
Chapters
00:34 – Living in 3D Power: Episode 20
01:53 – The Cost and Calling of Living in Your Truth
06:22 – Choosing Integrity Over Appeasement
09:01 – Respectability and Silence
16:06 – Values and Personal Critique
23:10 – Navigating Criticism with Curiosity
23:58 – Reflections on School Psychology
25:25 – Empowering Students to Speak Up
27:24 – Creating Safe Spaces in the Workplace
32:03 – Emotional Honesty and Leadership
38:27 – Challenging Harmful Work Cultures
46:13 – Final Thoughts and Reflections
Resources
- Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor | TEDxAuckland - YouTube [SOME PROFANITY]
- I’ve Been Called Out For Causing Racial Harm. What Do I Do Now? (forbes.com)
- Yellowface, Whitewashing, and the History of White People Playing Asian Characters | Teen Vogue
- Media Diversity | Asian Americans Advancing Justice (advancingjustice-aajc.org)
- RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now – HarperCollins
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