Talking about race, identity, or politics used to be a step toward progress. Lately, it can feel like a landmine. How do we navigate that shift without staying silent—or getting canceled? In this episode, Alita Guillen sits down with Sara Blanchard: TEDx speaker, life coach, co-author of Dear White Women: Let's Get (Un)comfortable Talking About Racism, and co-host of the podcast What Do You Mean By That?

Together, they unpack what it means to stay in difficult conversations when everything in our culture tells us to opt out. Sara shares why it’s not about being perfect—it’s about being present. She talks about her journey from Wall Street to social change, how her multiracial identity shaped her worldview, and why white women have a critical role to play in building a more inclusive future.
This episode is a practical guide for anyone who wants to engage—but doesn’t know where to start. From questions to ask yourself, to how to respond when things get uncomfortable, Sara offers the tools we all need to show up better for one another.

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Stop following the rules and be weird, ruthless, and bossy. That’s the message from Jenny Wood, a former Google executive who approached a stranger on a train because she thought he was handsome. That man later became her husband. This former executive says too many people are being held back because they are afraid to be bossy, shameless, and weird. In this podcast and in her book, Wild Courage, she talks about her unconventional fundamentals to finding success. 

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All relationships have ups and downs. It’s not those differences that matter, it’s how those conflicts are resolved that makes a relationship a success.In this episode, Howard Markman, PhD, an internationally renowned relationship therapist, professor and author, dives into his latest research on what it takes to have the best possible relationship with your significant other. He talks about how to maintain fun, intimacy, navigate challenges, and resolve conflict. His book Fighting For Your Marriage is now in its 4th edition. He provides actionable tools, including using a “Fun Deck”, that we can implement to improve our relationships today.

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Women need two things to be “a likeable badass,” status and power.Alison Fragale, PhD is an organizational psychologist. She is a professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Business school, and the author of the best-selling book, Likeable Badass, How Women Get The Success They Deserve.In this episode, Fragale shares her research and tells us what to do to become a likeable badass.

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Do you think you can tell when someone is lying?

Are their eyes shifty, or maybe their body language gives it away? Or maybe those aren’t even the right clues, and you can’t tell at all because of something called the truth-default theory.

Tim Levine, Phd., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at The University of Alabama, Birmingham, is known internationally as a leader in deception research. His book Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Deception explains why we are unable to tell when someone is lying and how to find evidence that gets us closer to the truth. When we communicate with people, honesty is our default. Naturally, Dr.Levine consults for law enforcement and intelligence and counterintelligence workers.

He joins us on this podcast to explain the research and to help us identify honesty and deception.


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