Let's Get Real

Seena Hodges is the founder of The Woke Coach, an organization that helps clients have a deeper understanding of how the legacy of racism and injustice affect us all.  Ms. Hodges and her team engage with clients to facilitate conversations that live at the intersection of equity, diversity, inclusion, antiracism, and empowerment.   She shared the specific distinctions between being an ally and an accomplice.  Nina and Seena also got real about what it will take for friendships between white women and black women to be more common.   
 
The Woke Coach

Leading through Complexity Peer Group

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Finding your Roots 

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In this episode Nina shares more about Season 2 and interviews a very special guest, her daughter Layne Bower.  Layne is a Senior at the University of Minnesota and is the president of the College of Liberal Arts Student Board.   Layne asked her mom the five questions that Nina has been asking each guest this season. Nina and Layne also talked about what makes their relationship unique and how Nina came up with the title for the show.  

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Eric Kohner is an internationally recognized executive coach and keynote speaker. He founded EKCOsystem, a global corporate training company dedicated to bringing the human being into business. He brings heart skills to high-level executives in global organizations such as the US Navy, Capgemini, and ING and is a pioneer of the coaching profession.  Eric shared candidly about how he is learning to work with his own privilege in his work with emerging talent.   Nina and Eric explored some of the taboo topics in leadership development.  They also discussed why it's more important than ever for leaders to be BADASS.  

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Seven Seconds

Bryan Stevenson

Leading through Complexity 

White Fragility

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Toronto-based executive coaches Joanna Cotton and Grace Churchill are the founders of the Do Good Collective, a community for women who want to create meaningful connections and change the world.  Grace and Joanna shared their insights about what professional women need most right now.  Nina also found out what helps them thrive as a partnership, and they got real about their reactive patterns.  Grace and Joanna were also candid about what it's like to face another lockdown just as the United States seems to be emerging out of the pandemic. 

Women Rising (Do Good Collective's May Session)

About Nina

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Do Good Collective Facebook Page

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For All Mankind (on Apple+)

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Kvon Tucker heads up leadership development for Google’s Staffing organization.   He is also the founder of Consciously, a purpose-driven Executive and Leadership Coaching firm.  Kvon and Nina dove into the topic of leadership presence and what it means to balance the masculine and the feminine.  Kvon shared specific practices he uses with clients to help them develop presence.  The two of them also explored the connection between personal transformation and working for the greater good, and the healing that happens when men support women. 

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Consciously

Coaching for Everyone

ACTO Conference

Tim Ferriss interview of Elizabeth Lesser

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Tina Meyers is a former environmental and social justice attorney turned coach and spiritual warrior.  She coaches high-performing women advocates and leaders, designs and leads feminine leadership programs for nonprofits, and is the founder of Women Advocates Rising and Warrior School. Tina and Nina explored what feminism means to each of them.  They also spoke candidly about what it would be like to live in a world where women were fully empowered to bring their full selves and where leadership was more balanced between the masculine and the feminine.  Nina even learned a new term, spiritual bypassing!

Leading through Complexity Peer Group

Warrior School

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Join internationally recognized facilitator and leadership coach Nina Simonds for the second season of Let's Get Real, an exploration of what it means to be a leader and activist in a world of increasing complexity and ambiguity.   This season Nina continues to have REAL (relevant, engaging, authentic, leadership) conversations that illuminate how our experiences shape who we are and what matters to us.   She also speaks with colleagues about the practice and evolution of leadership and personal development.  

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Nina and Andy chat about surprising moments and highlights of Season One. Nina also gives a sneak preview of Season Two.  They had a surprise guest in the studio. 

Season Two launches on April 12, 2021.

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José Trinidad Castaneda  (he/they) is a rising star in fighting for climate change and clean energy in Orange County.  He is the Orange County Policy Manager with Climate Action Campaign and currently serves on the City of Fullerton Planning Commission. He is also the  Communications Director for the Lavender Democrats of Orange County.  José opened up about early experiences that shaped his passion for climate action and social justice.  Nina and José also talked about the intersection between public policy issues such as housing and climate and the importance of approaching social change holistically.  He also shared where he feels the greatest sense of belonging and what inspires him to keep in the fight for a sustainable planet and a more equitable world.

Nina Simonds Coaching Peer Groups

Climate Action Campaign

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Lavender Democrats 

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Veronica King is a master facilitator, executive coach and social justice advocate based in Johannesburg. She is the founder and CEO of Emuthini Consulting which she established in 2002.   She draws on her extensive organizational experience at the senior executive level to work primarily with issues of inclusion and diversity with both private and public sector clients.  She shared what it was like to begin her career under Apartheid and how she found her authentic self by letting go of needing to make whites comfortable.  Nina and Veronica got real about how rank showed up in their conversation and where Nina's white lens limits her understanding of Veronica's experience.  It was obvious in this conversation that her work is driven by a deeply held commitment to social justice and transformation.

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Emuthini Consulting

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi

Octavia Butler

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

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My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem 

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