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The Shift is a podcast series exploring stories of resistance and resilience from activists, creatives, and leaders across industries who are boldly challenging the status quo.
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Confronting Death and Defining Time with Darnell Lamont Walker & Mark Travis Rivera (opens the original)
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This is not a normal episode of The Shift. The camera is fine. Mark is fine. But the chair is flipped. Season 2 opens with a special episode in the tradition of last season's two-part "How I Became the Professional Storyteller" series with Araya Baker, in which Mark sits in the guest chair while someone else asks the questions. This time, there was only one person he wanted to do the asking. It’s only fitting that season 2 concludes with the person who helped kick off the season, Darnell Lamont
Leading with a People-First Approach with Nick Reich (opens the original)
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Nick is Mark's business coach, the man who didn't renew his contract five years ago (we don't say fired here), and the same man who turned around immediately after and helped Mark launch The Professional Storyteller. He is, as Mark puts it, the one white straight man in his life he is fully committed to, and this episode is the story of how an unlikely pairing across every surface-level identity marker became one of the most formative professional relationships in both their lives. Nick's debut
Being An Unapologetic Black Girl with Amena Brown (opens the original)
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Mark met Amena Brown through Creative Mornings ATL, the community she led as chapter host for five years. From the moment they connected, it was, in her words, a handshake emoji. This conversation catches Amena in the middle of her book tour for her new release, Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl , days before heading to Essence Fest. But she made time. Because that's what real community looks like. What follows is a wide-ranging, warm, and often deeply funny conversation about ancestral
Reclaiming Our Identities and Language with Rodney Eric López (opens the original)
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Two Boricuas walk into a podcast. One is a Jersey Rican who grew up understanding Spanish but not speaking it, who moves his whole body when merengue comes on, who just went back to the island for his birthday for the first time as an adult and healed something deep. The other is a Nuyorican who got a 100 on his Spanish Regents exam and was still made fun of for sounding like a gringo, who found the language he was looking for not in a classroom, but on a dance floor. Mark met Rodney Eric López
Leading with Humanity in the Digital Age with Dr. Josie Ahlquist (opens the original)
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Content Warning: this episode makes reference to sexual assault. Dr. Josie Ahlquist is the blueprint. If you've spent any time in higher education — especially at the intersection of communications, student affairs, and digital leadership — you already know her name. And if you don't, this episode is your introduction to someone who was doing the work before the field had a name for it. This is their first face-to-face conversation despite years of existing in overlapping orbits, connected throu
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