Profound Conversations

This episode of Profound Conversations will focus on the need for culturally appropriate resources and guidance tailored to younger adult Muslim populations predisposed to shifting attitudes and awareness about donation and the efficacy of local healthcare system. Learning initiatives should also address knowledge and understanding within the different professional areas of the organ procurement organizations and transplant centers in the US. These professionals include Physicians, clinical and hospital services, as well as family services teams responsible for the support, communication and coordination of donor authorization and transplant medical services. Show Topics Muslim faith and its impact on organ donation authorization rates in the US Muslim communityThe Muslim community in America is diverse, well-integrated, and proud to be both Muslim and AmericanScholarly opinions on organ donation allowed by fatwas, but understanding and influence among Muslims is the questionBreaking down silos in organ donation and transplantation There are various barriers to cross-cultural collaboration in end-of-life care, including religious beliefs and practices.Chaplains play a crucial role in addressing Muslim patients' concerns about organ donation, including mistrust of healthcare system and cultural beliefsWorking with Muslim families in end-of-life care There's a need for specific resources and education for Muslim communities, as well as other communities, to address cultural and religious beliefs around organ donationMuslims' cultural and religious sensitivity should be considered in end-of-life discussions with healthcare teamsWays to increase organ donation in Muslim communities, emphasizing education and leadershipProfound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Creating cultures of care include an examination of the determinants of health and wellness. To the extent that this analysis demonstrates gaps, the care requires initiatives that are inclusive of all people impacted; the culture must transform.Too often the physical, mental and emotional needs of Black men and boys are over-looked, ignored. They want to heal and change how they/we are perceived, however, find it difficult to do so unless things within our physical environment change as well. The lack of access to affordably decent housing, nutritious food and underperforming public schools have become standards in our black and brown neighborhoods.This episode of Profound Conversations is a healing call for our Black community, with a focus on men and boys, to talk about what keeps us sane, where to find love and joy and how we must come together to elevate our spirits and rest our souls, which is OUR RIGHT AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY. Together we need to redefine what it means to be WELL.Show Topics and HighlightsImportance of mental health and healing in black and brown communities as a critical component of black liberationEmphasis on the importance of clarity and collective action for black liberation, citing the need to determine the goal and address critical components such as social, economic, and spiritual well-beingRowe highlights the challenges of programming that hinders black people from depending on themselves and instead relies on the oppressor for liberation, emphasizing the need to connect the dots and come together as a collective to elevate themselves and move their agenda forwardDayvon Love highlights the significance of historiography in shaping our personal relationship to history and how it impacts our solutions to problemsHealers and mental health professionals can enhance cultural competence to better serve black communitiesImportance of intergenerational connection and valuing one another's perspectives to address mental health issuesChallenges of finding a sense of belonging for young people of color in a system not designed for them, and the importance of grounding them in history and the movementHazel Taylor Smith discusses challenges in providing mental health care in the community, including insurance issues and limited resourcesValue of listening and being present for his children, rather than trying to mold them, and recognizes the importance of working in partnership with his wife in the parenting journeyValue of fatherhood and partnership in African-centered perspective, with a focus on building healthy marriages and communitiesDr. Aneesah Nadir emphasizes the importance of premarital education and counseling to prepare couples for marriage and prevent potential issuesProviding education and support from elders and spiritual leaders can help couples navigate challenges and strengthen their relationshipImportance of building a culture of care that is strength-based, life-affirming, healing-centered, and transformationally focused on every black and brown personImportance of intergenerational understanding and appreciation of cultural artifacts in creating a culture of careProfound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode will examine the imbedded strategies and pillars which support effective DEI initiatives within the organ procurement community. We will examine what it looks like to become holistically and systemically equitable, inclusive and diverse? Then we will ask executive leaders to rate their organizational performance alongside the standards recognized as the most effective for multicultural populations.Simply put, diversity is defined as the presence and representation of people of differing races, religions, ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups, and other characteristics that inform an individual’s worldview and experiences. It is impossible to comprehend or foster equity and inclusion without diversity. Show Topics and Highlights"Why is important that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is embedded in the cultures of organ procurement organizations or any other organization institutions for that matter?"You need to have representation within the organ procurement community that reflects the population that you're serving in order to be able to reach that or that population.We focus most of our efforts on figuring out what the barriers are, instead of making sure there is a more diverse leadership team. We need to look into why it is that we're not getting applications from more diverse members that are capable of the job and can perform at a high level."What are the opportunities for people to get the minimum and necessary education and conditions to apply for the positions in the first place?"The talent has to be developed in to be able to create pathways for people to be able to rise up in the organization. "My experience is there's no shortage of people of color to fill CEO positions. The problem is that we're not reaching them and it can be because it's the personal bias of those that are doing the hiring."We prefer, at the Nevada Donor Network, to try to give the opportunities to people within the organization versus having to recruit from the outside. When your organization prefers to develop its own, then it becomes about removing barriers and providing opportunities. I think that's important that people looking to become a CEO find time to be exposed to those all areas of the organization. That's what makes an effective leader. "I want to just expand the concept of diversity beyond the realm of race and ethnicity. Can people bring their whole self to work? If I'm a Muslim, do I feel comfortable being a Muslim in that environment?"Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. Violence within communities across America has a major impact on health outcomes. Washington DC, Baltimore and many other urban centers throughout America experience the horrors of gun violence and other serious acts of crime.This episode seeks to create a dialogue which examines these challenges to social determinants of life, as we learn from grass root change makers and mental health professionals about the role their organizations are playing in the transformation of our communities under siege. Show Topics and HighlightsWhat are the social determinants of health?How much an individual is exposed to other negative health outcomes, whether that is violence or other forms of trauma, is a huge determinant of their health outcomeImportance of living in the community and getting to know the people “It amazed me how many of the young people didn't expect to live beyond 20 years old”We're really good at blaming the victim“When you're told something long enough you start to believe it”Viewing and being around violence can be just as damaging as being physically harmedStereotypes about mental health and treatmentThere needs to be a definition of what "help" is for a community The accessibility, or lack thereof, of mental health resourcesBringing help to the communities and meeting them where they areProfound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most Executives clearly advocate for “work/life balance”, however what does that balance actually require; and is it a shoe size that fits all? In 2023 how do women who have questions about balancing their desires for financial stability, luxury, family responsibilities, health, joy, and fulfilment, achieve this while pushing back against burnout and self-sacrifice? How do our diets play a role in our ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle, and what are the signs to be aware of that hint to onset mental, emotional and physical decline in our wellbeing? These and other fascinating ideas will be examined by our Conductor and guest conversationalists. Show Topics and HighlightsWe exist in a society that supports and really actually rewards hustle culture, grind till you make it, sleep when you die, culture of high achievement, competition acquisition, that is made of just a bit worse by the fantasies that we see on social media This construct of the 80 hour a week working until you drop, sleep when you're dead, was constructed by white men, and a aggressive drive to possess, own, and dominate. It's not something we have to take with usBeing born actually makes you equipped for every hard experience that you're ever going to have. That's why a birthing canal is so vitally important, because now you've experienced the biggest trauma and everything else is easyYou have to start to eliminate the noise. Right? We all have a very quiet space within us, every human being is given this, no matter what physical state you are in, you have this quiet space where if you go in there, there's answers to everything in there.There are circumstances that bring you to your humble knees. And you have to take time to unfold into those spaces except where you are, and then try to develop a pathway out of those spaces.I don't like starting over from scratch, I like to build off the heels of another. My motto is "the second mouse gets the cheese."When I talk about cultural practices, oftentimes routine is everything. Right? Because routine will restart the clock, no matter what you're going through.It's the inner critic, that small voice that most of us don't know is even talking. That tells us what we can't do. It says, "You're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough, you're not enough, you haven't done enough." I teach my clients a mantra, "I Am enough, I have enough, I do enough."You don't have to be a human doer, you can be a human beingStop and listen to your bodyThere's a big movement now, thankfully, for this whole expression of like "doing the work" like doing your own work. And people think of that in the in the frame of mental health therapy.Some things on social media are completely not beneficial to our society, in terms of the sort of the images and the messaging that that we're seeing and the attention seeking and the ways that people are rewarded for bad behavior, but there's been a surgence of positive messaging of people on social media, of people offering alternative ways of thinking and looking at things that has actually benefited a lot of people and I've seen that myselfHow do you deal with your inner critic?Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The virtues of sight, sound and movement are therapeutic modalities essential to obtaining Universal Health, Well Being, and Community Transformation. Episode one speaks into the use of sound/music as a common bond that provides an on ramp for deeper examinations of the realities of where we experience disease. This informative conversation is part one of a series of episodes which will examine sight, sound and movement as therapeutic modalities for patients as well as those who may not perceive the health challenges they are inside of due to inequality, white supremacy, lack of trust, as well as a myriad of social challenges prevalent in today's world.Show quotes and highlightsWhen you get older and you start to appreciate music on its own, you see that it’s sustaining you generationallyThere used to be more of a close connection between music, education, and learningI'm so happy to hear what you're doing to bring your students back to those essences of the music so they can get to the scholarship of it, you know, the legacyI teach jazz history, jazz combo, and jazz percussion, and it’s been quite a reward for me to be working with young peopleI prove how the rhythms that we use today are rhythms that come straight out of Africa, I prove it by standing in front of them and showing them what the rhythm isMusic is a healing force. Especially if it is coupled with the strongest force in the universe, which is loveMy work primarily now focuses on community developmentMy experience around building galleries and revitalizing theaters, actually revitalizing neighborhoods, is that inevitable they become richer and whiter and the local community gets pushed outWe do a deeper dive by trying to get into local communities, into schools, and to neighborhood associations, and so forth and so on. It's a lot of it's a lot of groundwork, you're trying to really improve the local conditions before the contractors move in, in other words, so that folks are prepared Why don’t we decide that we're going to invest in our communities? That means that our communities will deliver the best that it can for us, because we have hands on. That will mean that our needs and our desires will be will be dealt withThe idea of attracting wealth and attracting opportunities to grow wealth, and develop wealth, means that if you have the positive attitude, and a positive outlook about it, it will seek you out, it's an attraction A lot of times I think our voices are not centered in the conversation because they go looking for “experts”, and those experts, unfortunately, often don't look like us What I like to tell the young people I work with is that I’m an old dog who learned new tricksCreative spaces are so transformative for communities because all of those, those places that we've kind of abandoned, they will almost always see the creative places or they had multiple functions Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When organizations set out to achieve lofty goals, whether they are record breaking profits, client satisfaction indexes or the achievement of record-breaking organ transplants, what are essential elements that must exist within their culture in order to achieve success? This episode examines how effective Executive Leadership has the potential to create the deep sense of purpose and commitment to an organization's values and mission, and how this can ultimately lead that organization to breakthrough outcomes. Show quotes and highlightsThe difference between an organization doing well, or not, typically has to do with their culture.A company's culture determines the behavior of the organization and how effectively it provides its service.People can be insecure as it relates to what their strengths might be and sometimes they might need someone to identity those strengths for themA leader knows that his or her job is to make the tough decision. And by definition, you're going to be wrong a lot of the time, and it's going to be your fault. And you're going to have to take that on your back and move forward. And nobody will see you as a leader until you're able to do that. “The way you build a movement is through empowering small groups to success and to connect wit each other.”“I have a friend, David Burkus is the absolute best teams guy out there. And one of the things he says is, the talent doesn't build the team, the team builds the talent.“If you want to change behavior, you have to start with the majority, you can always expand a majority out, but the second you're in the minority, you're gonna feel immediate pushbackThere are important differences between management and strategy “Trust has to be a foundational element in any movement you're trying to create”“And so I went through a period of time in my career where it was difficult for me to ascertain what exactly I was trying to accomplish, what was my passion, what was I good at. And then I realized something that was even more profound, that goals that I wanted to accomplish, and that I had set up for myself are only possible and could only be as fulfilling as possible, if I enjoyed the company of others while I was doing it”If people don't believe that you value what they do, no factors or figure or evidence you put in front of them is going to make a difference.If you can find others who believe as you do, and are just as enthusiastic as you are. And you can help them to succeed and get out of the business of selling an idea and into the business of selling a successAlthough I didn't realize it at the time, when people were trying to help me, enable me, I took a path of humility and decided that I was going to be of service rather than just trying to fulfill my own goals and aspirations. It really created a this genuine love for trying to help other people actualize themselves“Far too often we confuse leadership with authority”Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode of Profound Conversations will explore the intersection between cultures of care, the dynamics of loss and grieving, as well as the impact that donation has for families that give and receive the gift of life. Our intent for this episode will be to create new understandings and pathways to wellness within the context of great loss. Our Profound Conversationalists include Dr. Clive Callender, Ingrid Palacios, Nila Schwab, Joey Boudreaux, and our conductor Joia Jefferson Nuri.Show Topics and Highlights“Over the past year we've been talking about organ donation and how that works. But the one thing we haven't discussed yet, until today, is the grieving process. The world knows more about grieving now then probably did two years ago as we grieve in mass numbers around COVID. ““My brother wanted to be an organ donor. He wanted to help somebody.”“If you ever met a donor recipient, they always want to give back. They want to share the story they want to help.“It's very hard to think when you're in shock, and that's usually what's happening when we approach a family about organ donation.There are many people who help support families through the organ donation process. What exactly does that "support" look like?“There are so many different levels of grief. And sometimes it comes back.”Not everyone is educated to work with different types of grieving, different types of culture.“We are there to be advocates, we are there to be liaisons, we are there to be those people that will honor those family's wishes.”“The law requires the deceased persons wishes be followed, whether the family likes it or not. That you if you decided you wanted to be a donor, you will be a donor. And if the family doesn't like it, it is unfortunate, but the donation will proceed.”There's still a percentage of people who still believe that they need their organs to get into Heaven, that is why more education is needed. “In the African American community, there is a fear that you will be left to die because your organs are needed, you could keep five people alive. And that the emergency room doctors will not do the best for you, because they want your organs. That's wholeheartedly not true.”“Grief is ongoing. And someone like me who held it in for quite some time because I didn't know who to say it to, I didn't know if anybody would understand what I was going through. But when I got to LOPA and I tell everyone, my healing began when I began to share my story began to listen to others and and how we can help each other through what we were going through.”Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The opioid epidemic refers to the enormous surge in opioid addiction and overdose over the last several decades in the United States. Much of the epidemic has its origins in medical practice. Devastating consequences of the opioid epidemic include increases in opioid misuse and related overdoses, as well as the rising incidence of newborns experiencing withdrawal syndrome due to opioid use and misuse during pregnancy. Opioid overdoses accounted for more than 42,000 deaths in 2016, more than any previous year on record. An estimated 40% of opioid overdose deaths involved a prescription opioid.Episode VI will explore the less than obvious connections between mental illness and substance abuse. We would like to assert that one, often overlooked foundational connection is, the unhealthy need that leads to the opioid use, which completely destabilizes a Healthy Mental decision-making process. Are we still in an epidemic in 2022? What are harm reduction policies and what have been their outcomes? Which populations are currently most affected? What can individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities actively do to assist in solving this epidemic? What are good Samaritan laws? Are their signs that the tide is changing? What are the Trust factors in need of transforming that will lead to satisfactory resolutions?Show Topics and HighlightsThere is a lag between technology and knowledge and the criminal justice systemA physician's background beliefs may influence their decision makingMy own efforts have been in getting new technologies into African American and Latino communities.There's what we call an opiate, and then there's what we call an opioid.Everyone has a genetic element that dictates what their response is to medicationsAre doctors ever held responsible, legally?What training are doctors getting on proper use of opioids?We've had great difficulty in changing the dosage requirements, which is set by law in some places, and we find that when people get inadequate medication they may end up using drugs to get byA lot of a prescriptive practices involve the patient being given responsibility of taking the medication correctly.There is a huge importance in getting a support system around the patientThere's more training and information needed on the best ways to work with people and making sure you're doing right for that personThis is where health equity comes into play. Because it's not just about making things equitable. It's about what investments would have to go on to raise the value of care.The number of African American physicians is actually about the same numbers as it was the 1960s. Same as for the Latino community.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The overriding opinion within the medical community of practice is that caregivers should attempt to reduce psychiatric barriers to successful transplantation. However certain questions remain after years of debate: (i) are current evaluations uniform throughout transplant centers throughout the country? How should we view transplant eligibility criteria that exclude patients with affective and psychotic disorders from transplantation on the basis of their psychiatric diagnosis? These and other questions will be explored during this in depth hour of Profound Conversations with our esteemed guests from the medical community. Conversationalists: Farha Abbasi, MD Michigan State University Dept. of Psychiatry Clive Callender, MD Professor of Surgery, Howard University Hospital Shawn-Paul Harrison Medical Navigator Specialist Louisiana Organ Procurement Association Anil Paramesh, MD, Professor of Surgery, Urology, and Pediatrics Tulane University School of Medicine Joey Boudreaux Chief Clinical Officer Louisiana Organ Procurement AgencyShow quotes and highlightsA lot of people think that anyone can become an organ donor. And unfortunately, that's not the case. It's a very small few who suffer a brain injury of some sort. So it's always a sudden event very tragic.So one, our primary roles, besides obviously saving lives through donation, is to support these families who are suffering through this acute extreme grieving.I started the transplant program at Howard University in 1973. And as we looked at the situation, the number one problem in transplantation, then and even now has been the shortage of donors.There is a stigma around mental illnesses, right? And this stigma always arises from lack of information, not having that awareness, and things we don’t know about can lead to fear.Imagine a scenario where we have a very scarce resource where there are not enough organs for everybody.Because us as family advocates supporting the family, it's not just for donation purposes, every family should be supported during a time of loss.We spoke earlier that transplant centers are graded upon your success rate, plus we're trying to look at utility as well as equity.One of my favorite parts of my job is when the transplant recipient, and those donor families meet.I think everyone here has expressed that we need more donors, we need more of the community to be part of the donor committee, and every show, I get to say I am a donor, I'm an African American, I'm an elder, by some people standards, and I still want my body to do something for somebodyI would like to say that saving a life is saving humanityI'd add also to this that some people just aren't healthy enough to give organs. So they can also give tissues. Tissues that can enhance lives can make the blind see the deaf ear, the lame walk again, so that it is in this gift of life that we can have on this.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do we ‘re-imagine trust’ such that we effectively engage the hearts and minds in communities throughout America?  What is our responsibility as professionals within Public Health?  What are the things the we need to talk about when we talk about 21st century community engagement? Our efforts to Re-Imagining Trust: Engaging Hearts and Minds in Communities Throughout America must create more practical and effective solutions, drawing on the listening of diverse groups.  Our efforts should improve citizens' knowledge and skills through immersive experiences. Our task is to begin the conversation that generates these outcomes. Episode Summary and HighlightsWelcome to Profound Conversations. This is program number four of this season and we have been looking at justice, equality and all of the things that we need to balance out. And over the last few weeks as we saw the verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case, it gave us an opportunity to reset. Everyone got a verdict that says that there can be justice there can be fair, and people have good hearts will make a choice that says despite race, an injustice has happened, and those perpetrators must go to jail. A gleeful sound came out across the country, because it was a big deal. When case after case after case before this did not end in the same level of result of the Mr. Arbery verdict allowed us to reset as a nation or have the opportunity to reset as a nation and also begs the question “Is it time to reset in the medical and public health field?” -I really appreciate the thought about co workers and collaboration. And I think I really want to and that's not something I hear enough about when discussing trust.-I've learned to think about the healthcare system in the past few years, is materialist. Like economics money, right, so much of our healthcare system has to do who does or who doesn't have money.-And I think that faith in the system would be better and possibly, people wanting to donate more, could be an end result of that, knowing that they're getting good information across the board, transparent information, and they're being treated fairly and presented all options. -I think if we looked at things much like Dr. Berger said that we were actually coworkers. And we were not competitive or in separate organizations that we were all one, I think that the system would be so much better.-I think it's always useful to try to teach my colleagues and people about listening to patients listen to everybody and to be more compassionate.-Really working with people involves conflict and dispute and, and, you know, working well as a team doesn't mean everyone obeys. -And I've been really inspired recently about the history of community health care and solidarity based health care in the US.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Profound Conversations views racism not as an attribute of minority groups; rather, as an aspect of the social context and is linked with the differential power relations among racial and ethnic groups. Most studies of racism are based on African American samples; however, other populations may be at risk for manifestations of racism that differ from the African American experience. Asians, Hispanics, and, more recently, Arabs and Muslims are subject to similar inequitable opportunities in health and health care.Show Topics and HighlightsToday, we will explore how structural, institutional interpersonal, and internalized racism influences racial disparities and health, and how they have been heightened by COVID-19 pandemic.I appreciate that the author is telling us to step back and look at the entire picture of the person. When speaking about health, it's not just your blood pressure, and your cholesterol levels. It's the entirety of the person.When we think about racism, actually interpersonal, for me, is the one that's probably the most common.If we recognize that folks in positions of authority are not willing to make these changes, are not willing to do what we know they should, then we need to be brave enough to vote them out of office.I can't just take anything for granted. Well, I'm a black woman, so every person in Baltimore who comes through the door should listen to me. It doesn't work that way.How do you go about inspiring trust in the medical community?I think at the end of the day, we are all human beings, right? We all have value. And the sooner that we recognize that and appreciate value in others, and are committed to doing the right things, because we inherently each have value.We have to keep the conversation going.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Part of the huge job in successfully building healthy communities lies in accurately identifying behaviors that lead to breakdowns which impede progress. Episode II will explore co-work processes which enable organizations to effectively build and maintain internal trust; while also examining models of coalition development that map targeted, evaluative measures, which create effective collaborations and cultures of trust.Highlights of the EpisodeIn public health, and public health, it's essential to have trust between those who provide services and those who are consumers of servicesIn the line of in working with organ procurement organizations and hospitals and physicians, you know, ultimately, our focus is on these families that have lost a loved oneTrust and integrity, that, for me is foundational trust means everythingTrust is woven into every aspect of what we doYou can tell who people are pretty much in the first 10 secondsIt's not about being successful in your organization, it's about being successful with peopleIt is making sure that you can give everything that you have of yourself, to help them and that gaining something in returnWe have to break down those words and concepts, and perhaps shape them in a way that's culturally appropriate and sound for our communityIf you go into a hospital, and your expectation is for your loved ones life to be saved, and you don't know that they have died, and there has been times where the conversation of organ donation has happened prematurely of a person dyingI started that conversation with my daughter and family. It's in my advanced directive that I'm an organ donorTrust is always talking to that person where they are without any assumptions without trying to push them into a box or categoryProfound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“As leaders, as neighbors, as colleagues, it is time to turn to one another, to engage in the intentional search for human goodness. In our meetings and deliberations, we can reach out and invite in those we have excluded. We can recognize that no one person or leader has the answer, that we need everybody's creativity to find our way through this strange new world.” - Margaret Wheatley. [Remembering Human Goodness, Shambala Sun, September 1999] Trust is a two-way street. Each healthcare servant has the family trust and cooperation at stake. Lack of trust creates inconsistency in the delivery of care and influences patient family choices. Episode one we will explore how medical ethics influences trust as well as govern patient and family rights; and to what extent does multicultural competency influence organizational approaches toward a more dynamic and inclusive culture. We will also seek to understand the underlying factors which erode trust and how to transform these dynamics at their inception and from breakdowns to breakthroughs.Show Topics and HighlightsI take care of people, I have the luxury of taking care of people over time and having a longitudinal relationship with them. And I see trust is at the center and at the heart of, of what I do and my connection with patients. Without trust, we don't have a functioning robust therapeutic relationship without trust.How do you know what's meaningful to a patient? You ask them.How do you look at someone in your space and say, what's important to them? Well, one of the things that's that shows that you're important is that you have some people in the space that look like you, and that can understand you.Trust is something you have to behave your way into.And I and I think that that that's a part of the work around multicultural competency is being able to learn how to listen, learn how to understand.There's a lot of things that go into the trust factor. So so one of the things I would say is basically expand your relationships, expand your relationships in the community, with trusted members of the community, and that those are relationships that you have prior to when you have to pick up the phone.The teaching that I focus on clinical ethics, bioethics is a huge field and there's many subfields clinical ethics is one of them. There's research ethics, we've been talking about research ethics, a little bit with the Tuskegee and there's many other examples of terrible transgressions in the 20th century with research ethics, there's global ethics, food ethics, public health ethics, which has been in front and center during the pandemic. So lots of major subfields. I do most of my teaching in the area of clinical ethics because I'm teaching medical students and residents who are interacting with patients and family members.If you had to pick one, innovation in the history of medicine that has been most effective, it's been the development of vaccines, and look at how we've all benefited from not having small polio or childhood diseases.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With their history of forced immigration to the United States (US), African Americans were de-cultured and dehumanized, their misery treated as ‘natural’ and benign. Today, they are an important minority in a nation with a singular degree of world influence. Much of the country’s vitality, especially its contemporary cultural life, can be credited to African Americans, but racism remains a definitive and stark reality. A critical aspect of the racism that African Americans face is a continuing geographic segregation in many parts of the US, a legacy of ‘Jim Crow’ laws enacted in the South after the Civil War, as well as discriminatory attitudes right across the country including the so-called ‘white flight’ from urban areas to suburbs after the Second World War.Join our host Linda Howard and our Profound Conversationalists Hassan Ali El-Amin, Dr. Charles Lewis, and Dayvon Love.Topics and HighlightsAs people of African Descent it is important for us to have an Ecosystem of Institutions that are self sufficient and self sustaining that can be containers for the transfer of wealth we’re asking for.“Wealth is generational.”The U.S. Government not only needs to stop mistreating its African Americans, but it needs to build all of us up in order to build up the entire country.As African Americans we have come a long way, but we are still not where we want to be.In many situations, life for African Americans has gotten worse not better.Harriet Tubman could have freed more people but she struggled to convince some that they actually were slaves.Advocacy is sometimes done by the same people who are hurting the community.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Modern democracy requires people who can think critically, reason ethically, and participate effectively. Successful organizations must be populated by people who understand group processes and how to guide them while maintaining the proper respect for all participants. Ethical leadership thrives when it is directed by respect for ethical beliefs and values and for the dignity and rights of all people. As we move further into the twenty first century what will global leadership need to embody in order to effectively grapple with the vexing challenges of climate change, earth population density, biodiversity, science, technology and the social-political-economic realities of a post COVID-19 America? Today's Guest Host is Zarinah Shakir and our Profound Conversationalist is Dr. Rana Dajani. Topics and HighlightsWe are all so similar. We are all human beings. We all have the same origin. I consider myself a human. A global citizen. Wanting to serve the whole world. We are all responsible for the community around us.Learning is beyond the classroom. It continues your entire life up until your last minute of life. Inspiring a community leaves them with the new mindset of “I can”What does it mean to be an Islamic Feminist?What does it take to create a Covid-19 vaccine? Who should get it first? Storytellers have preserved culture for thousands of years.How do you reach out to other women and encourage them and let them know ‘you can do this too’ ?Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does COVID-19 threaten or enhance the academic community’s ability to close the gap in diversity and cultural inclusiveness for students seeking higher education? Are we in a better or worse position regarding the recruitment of the very best talent within vulnerable populations? What solutions are institutions grappling with to remain competitive in this ever-evolving environment?Our host is Linda Howard and our Profound Conversationalists are Dr. Marcus Lambert and Dr. Rachel J. Thornton. Show Topics and HighlightsThis pandemic has had a significant effect on students, especially those with socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Is this pandemic going to create a pipeline issue with some of these underrepresented groups not being able to move students into certain medical fields?Many students who are from economically disadvantage communities, many have had to step away from schooling and taken jobs to help support families.One of the issues around health disparities and health inequities is that you don’t have those who are serving the community have the cultural competency to serve the community.Trust issues have been so intense in some areas that it will also likely come into effect when and if there is a vaccine for Covid-19. Communities won’t take it if they don’t trust their medical establishments. My CHALLENGE as a Health Equity Researcher is making clear that fixing the TRUST gaps with the medical community is not about fixing the TRUST in the patient. . . It’s actually about BEING TRUSTWORTHY.We need to think about the challenges that face us and not just us personally but those that are most vulnerable in our communities. Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.lifeThe Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Difficulty Comes Ease...  How do we make sense of the days and times we find ourselves in?  Common impulses to the injustice and corruption are raw and visceral.  Words don’t seem to contain the energy to hold the gravity of the moment.  There is bewilderment, anger and even rage.  However, within the midst of the senseless there remains a need to bring all things into balance.  Our human intelligence demands that we search for answers.  Being proactive in the pursuit of a better life requires contributions from diverse perspectives and cultures, hence the new-found unity in the streets.  As tensions continue swirling due to the global pandemic, national elections and turmoil in city streets, where should right minded people focus their energies?How does today inform our future as valued citizens? How do we evolve and grow from these putrid moments in American history? Show Topics and HighlightsOur guest host for Profound Conversations is Andre Robinson and our Profound Conversationalists are Dr. Ted Sutton, Dr. Debbie Almontaser, and Jamal Williams.Help me learn and understand and become better as an ally.Society has such obvious and dramatic lessons that Black Lives really don’t matter.The though leadership conversation doesn’t mean that much to us when we’re dealing with food and water for the next day. The immediacy of the danger and the despair many find themselves in.How do we have those conversations with young people that their resilience is baked in and to help them navigate to a place of self empowerment?You’re not trash, you’re just tarnished. It can take just one person to shine you up to show what’s really inside you.God changed my foundational system and now I know what’s worth dying for.It’s the dehumanizing idea that someone from outside the culture can come along and decide to ‘civilize’ you as you are seen as a savage and in need of education.Language really has an impact in how you form your ideas and think about yourself.The subtle racism we see in schools is something we have to call out and something we need to change.There is something worse than murder . . . oppression.If mastery is hitting a large that others can’t hit, and genius is hitting a target that others can’t see, that what is collective genius?These are the stories of community. These are the stories of leadership.The “thought leadership” conversation doesn’t always mean that much to us when we’re helping others with finding food and water for the next day.We need to contemplate our way forward to get real psychic liberation. And how do we teach young people that from a young age.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we discuss the need for making informed decisions as we listen to politicians' campaign speeches or read news stories about the people running for office.  Part of being an informed voter is being familiar with down ballot candidates and understanding the referendums which impact local elections.  Has your family discussed a vote plan?  Are you an early voter intending to mail your ballot?  Have you checked to ensure you are registered to vote in your district?  These and other timely considerations will be part of the Profound Conversations.Show Topics and HighlightsThe system is broken. My passion is getting more social workers engaged in doing something to change the system.Can Social Workers help change Democracy?The people that are most affected by climate change are the same people most affected by Covid-19.We have to engage in our local elections because so much impacts our daily lives.We have a lack of adequate healthcare in our communities.Civic engagement is participation.We have to develop relationships with our representatives so they know what our concerns are.In the history of the united states we have never had an equitable system.Many immigrants are living in fear and are afraid to open their doors to census takers.The census is supposed to include immigrants and undocumented persons just as you do citizens. It’s in the constitution to do that.First and foremost we need an administration that is interested in the truth.The biggest issues we have is lack of trust, especially in certain communities. We are talking about power, and resources are power.Try to identify a group that wants to make change.Bureaucracy is very scared of community participation.We are a party of the people and I don’t know if we always live up to that.“Counseling Not Criminalization in the Schools Act” is a bill to provide federal funding for schools who would like to have more social workers and other service providers but they have to get rid of the police from the schools. The word “defunding” scares people its really more of a reimagining and putting money towards other services.Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As we come to a close of the summer season with Labor Day weekend in our rear view, what is the current state of the union regarding the coronavirus pandemic in the United States?  How do we prevent needless loss of life as we head into the winter flu season?  What are the prospects for an effective vaccine before years end and how long can we expect to have impacts to our current social culture in America - including education, sports and business convening? Many community health activities have enormous value for preventing adverse outcomes and advancing equity. As major healthcare institutions, hospitals and health systems can play a direct or indirect role in supporting this work. Show Topics and Highlights“What is the idea behind anchor institutions working together knowing that, at times, the only anchor institution in some of these communities is the faith based community? How do we draw that knowledge and power in and use it as leverage to move us along.”“The first thing I want to make clear is that medicine and health are NOT synonymous.”Hospitals are recognizing more and more that if we are to make the biggest impact of health it will not be within the confines of the four walls of the hospital.What does a hospital mean in the 21st century? What does a faith based organization mean in the 21st century?“Food choices are so often rooted in access and that is rooted in community investment.”Medicine’s trust has been broken countless times for certain populations.Healthcare needs to be delivered effectively, equitably, appropriately, and it needs to be accessible in a just way. Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level.   MLPN.life The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.