Africa Brooke (Replay): Why Uncomfortable Conversations Matter
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emma gannon
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Africa Brooke is a consultant, coach, writer and speaker who specialises in helping many people including public figures. entrepreneurs, teams, and individuals with challenges related to self-censorship and self-sabotage. I really enjoy following Africa’s work, her straightforward (yet compassionate) no BS route to helping people examine what is going on with them, establish boundaries and define their values. There is such a genuine curiosity to Africa’s approach which I love.
In January 2021. Africa published an open letter called ‘Why I’m leaving the cult of wokeness’ which has now been read almost 5 million times. You can read the full thing below. We discuss this, why she invites people 'into the grey', why uncomfortable conversations matter and much much more. I hope you enjoy this conversation!
- Read ‘Why I’m leaving the cult of wokeness’: https://ckarchive.com/b/d0ueh0h67mpd
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| 0:53.1 | roles, thank you so much to King Fischer for sponsoring this podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello and welcome back to Control Out Delete. |
| 1:00.3 | This is a replay of my episode with the brilliant Africa Brook recorded in 2021. |
| 1:05.8 | She is a coach, writer, speaker, and she specialises in helping people with challenges related |
| 1:11.3 | to self-sensorship in self-sabotage. |
| 1:14.6 | Self-sensorship is when you sense yourself and you feel like you can't say your own opinion |
| 1:19.6 | and you feel like you don't have a voice on the internet. |
| 1:23.4 | And it feels very relevant to now about how you have to have the right opinion. |
| 1:28.8 | You're not allowed to say certain things, even if you really believe them. |
| 1:32.4 | And it feels like it's just a bit of a treading on eggshell's time. |
| 1:36.6 | And obviously that sort of caveated with the fact that obviously no one wants to cause anyone harm. |
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