The TDG crew is BACK in this from the vault episode all about jobs. Baylee, Sienna and Angela are joined by producer Spencer to talk about stories from the workplace. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot to our Instagram…

Today Sienna makes a big announcement. The crew then gets to know each other better by asking and answering questions. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot to our Instagram, we'll send you a sticker 🙌🏻 Tie Dye and Gelato…

Today Baylee, Cory, Angela, and Sienna laugh a lot as they sort one another into different categories, such as Hogwarts house and Disney Princesses. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot to our Instagram, we'll send you a…

Today the group continues affirming one another, this time focusing on Angela and Baylee. They build each other up by discussing admirable qualities and favorite memories. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot to our Inst…

Today the group gets together to affirm one another and to build each other up. They discuss admirable qualities in Sienna and Cory, and reminisce about good memories with them. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot to ou…

In today’s episode, the group plays a game of Would You Rather! Join them for hilarious debates involving sloths, time travel, and magic closets. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a screenshot to our Instagram, we'll send you a st…

In todays episode, Angela, Cory, Baylee and Sienna talk about all things college! They give advice and stories about what to do or what not to do to get the most out of your college experience. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and send a …

In today’s episode, Angela, Julie, Sienna, and Baylee continue their conversation about roommates. Angela admits to hiding under Julie’s bed like a creepy gremlin, and the group gives their advice on how to make roommate relationships better. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! If yo…

In today's episode, Angela, Baylee, and Sienna are joined by the podcast's producer, Julie! Together they relive their history of being roommates with one another and recount some of their favorite stories. Did you draw a pic of Shirtless Santa? Submit it to win a candle! Submit Here Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTub…

In today’s episode, the group discusses all things food! They each share what their most memorable meal has been and why, and Angela proudly tells of how she converted the other members of the group to the church of gelato. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! Tie Dye and Gelato is ho…

Today, Angela and Baylee are joined by the show’s lovely producers, Julie and Spencer. They discuss marriage, conflict resolution, maintaining friendships, and much more. Spencer's YouTube Channel Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! Tie Dye and Gelato is hosted by Angela Krull, Bayle…

In today’s episode, the group discusses relationships and single-hood. They talk about both the ups and downs of single life, and share lessons they’ve learned through their experiences. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! Tie Dye and Gelato is hosted by Angela Krull, Baylee Dettman,…

In today’s episode, Angela, Baylee, and Sienna look back at 2022 and reminisce about good moments and lessons learned. They then discuss their goals moving forward into 2023. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! Tie Dye and Gelato is hosted by Angela Krull, Baylee Dettman, Cory Van Ro…

In this week’s episode, the group share how they met one another and what their first impressions were. We learn that Angela is very possibly a stalker and that Baylee is actually way too cool for this group. Follow us on social media Instagram TikTok Check us out on YouTube! Love the show? Leave us a review! Tie Dye and Gelato is hosted by Angela …

In their debut episode, Baylee, Cory, Angela, and Sienna introduce each other and discuss their motivations for recording a podcast. Cory talks about what it’s like to be the only guy in the group and Angela shares how it feels to be the only one of a different faith. Sienna's Top 20 Playlist: Apple Music or Spotify Are you Angela and Sienna's miss…

This episode is the fifth conversation in the Black Lives Matter series. In it, you will hear Dr. Ervin talk about the collapse of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for black people. He also talks about the choice between gradual change in contrast to “cataclysmic change” (his words) as relating to the liberation of black people around the…

This episode is the fourth conversation in the Black Lives Matter series where empowerment starts here with Reverend Dr. Valerie Bridgeman. In this call, Rev. Valerie links BLM to the spiritual. She talks about God as not sharing, about Jesus being a black woman, and about uprooting historical systems such as the police department so we can properl…

In this episode, Empowerment Starts Here with Senator Lena Taylor from Wisconsin. The Senator joins this BLM series as a public servant trying to disrupt social margins for her constituents while personally being in those margins. She talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by going right to the U.S. Constitution and then directly co…

In this episode, the Informant, a local artist, talks black lives matter through the lens of a black man growing up in Milwaukee, WI. He talks about his lived experiences with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and his encounters with police. In the close out, the host will explore humanization, self actualization and liberation as specific…

In this episode, Henry Leonard talks about public education and black lives matter through the lens of a union worker. He also shares his perspective on life as a contested experience for blacks yet a privileged experience for whites. Finally, in the close out, the host will consider white supremacy and its relatedness to the education of black min…

This episode is the first of a season of seven where the host explores what black lives matter means to her on a personal level and then engages with others to find out what it means to them as well. To learn more about this episode and to access the show notes, please visit our webpage.By Angela Dye

By Angela Dye

In this episode, the informant talks about the capital required for parents to enroll their children in charter public schools and the ways in which this requirement violates the tenets of free education. In the close out, the host adds to the conversation by talking about democratic education from the angle of property, privilege and power. Visit …

In the recorded conversation, the Informant talks about public school employment for educators of color and how it differs from what their white counterparts experience. He also talks about educators of color only being allowed to teach in under-resourced schools and finally, he talks about different access points to privilege and power. In the clo…

Contrary to public treatment, racism is not just about the n-word. It is also not just about blatant discrimination on the grounds of color. In this episode, the host talks about the subtleties of racism at the interpersonal level relating to legitimacy, authority and the control of resources. For a full description and the show notes, please click…

In the Case of Black Love, the informants talk about happiness, love, sex, sexuality, sexual assault, black men, black women, black consciousness, R. Kelly, Judge Kavanough, polyamory and monogamy, white patriarchy, black matriarchy, and much, much more! In the close out, the host talks about the causal relationship (made throughout the conversatio…

In this episode, the informant shares insight on words and the human experience those words represent. She talks about writing, publishing and the development of the mind. In the close out, the host talks about a mental function called chunking and how it is essential for experts and the highly creative mind.…

In this episode, the informant and host talk about sex from a sociological perspective. Together, they interrogate ideas on sex as an act of pleasure, the right to have pleasurable sex, and the dignity of sex as related to being human. They also talk about parenting in the development of healthy sexual identities and the role that church plays in t…

The Sunken Place is a term/metaphor borrowed from Jordan Peele's movie, Get Out. In this episode, the host proposes four conditions that creates this condition. Instead discussing racism, as was the premise of Peel's interpretation of the Sunken Place, she explores how other conditions in the physical, social and political world also creates causes…

To be critical is to understand all events, experiences and phenomenon by examining their relationship with the social world. One who is critical accepts the social world as a series of interconnecting systems ...usually enacted to maintain current distributions of power. In this episode, the hosts considers how two seemingly similar people can hav…

In this episode, the informant talks about three levels of power shifting: the power shift that happens at the classroom level when whiteness is de-centered in the literature read by black and brown students; at the local level when gentrification takes over black and brown communities; and at the global level when white Americans must confront the…

In this episode, four ESH returns come back to talk about a common theme they share: being white, male and privileged. In this conversation is Chris Thinnes from Ep03 (The Case of Allyship in Context); Peter Anderson from Ep09 (The Case of Gradelessness); Dr. Paul Thomas from Ep10 (The Case of Critical Literacy) and Justin Schleider from Ep24 (The …

In this episode, the informant models what it means to be unapologetic around issues relating to women. She talks boldly about birth control, about abortions as a reproductive right, about being child-free, and about her relationship with women of color and queer women. Also in this conversation, you will learn that it is quite difficult to talk ab…

In this episode, the host talks about property, power and prestige as conditions of social class; about class inconsistency and class stratification; and about the consequences of a social class system. To access detailed notes for this episode along with a list of the resources mentioned, click here.…

In this episode, the informant talks about being black at school as a psychosocial phenomenon impacting black students and families, black educators, and black community stakeholders. She also talks about the nonprofit and for-profit organization that fuels her work and the dynamic challenges of monetizing social justice and providing services to s…

In this episode, Dr. Marachi offers a critique on standardized testing as part of a larger phenomenon of big data and predictive analytics. She talks about testing as relating to resource distribution and data mining; about power holders as test makers and the design and coding of tests to keep them secure as power holders; and about social justice…

In this episode, the informant talks about individualism versus collectivism (in terms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness); about traditionalism versus innovation (in terms of critical pedagogy and rejecting the middle as the naming of the case); and about the English language as a power tool of culture and privilege (in terms of intrape…

This case explores three themes extracted from Senate hearings around the Supreme Court vacancy and the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh: body and space; power-over; and the contested nature of the invisible. In this episode, the conversation is more academic (ish) than newsworthy. Whereas other programs have discussed Judge Kavanaugh in …

In this episode, we spend a good chunk of time talking politically about giftedness, about the federal definition provided for gifted and talented programming, and about the ways in which capitalism and commercialism make space for some gifts while ignoring/invalidating others. To access show notes and resources discussed in the episode, please vis…

In this episode, the informant talks about medicine and the health profession in terms of how prepared it is (or not) in dealing with communities of color. To access show notes and resources mentioned in the episode, visit the webpage.By Angela Dye

In this episode, the informant talks about socioeconomic conditions of fathering and challenges faced by black, low-income dads (unemployment, housing and mental health). In the closeout, the host talks about the physiological impact of children (even adult children) when neglected by a parent during childhood. To access show notes and resources me…

When you have multiple access points to powerlessness, the work of social change can seem impossible—even secondary to the work of survival. But nonetheless, there are those of us fighting for our wholeness, fighting for our humanness, all while trying to pursue a vision for a better tomorrow for us all. This episode talks intimately about the work…

In this eisode, the host focuses on the social world as relating to the power and privilege afforded to specific cognitive functions (within Meyers Briggs personality theory). She also brings attention to the challenges that exist when certain functions are embodied by women of color. This is the second part where Part I (Episode 33) focused on det…

The final case is being presented over two episodes allowing for an adequate representation of two related yet distinct discussions. In the first episode (Ep33), the host provides an argument for why knowing the landscape of one's internal world is essential to disrupting margins. The case was inspired by six informants (in Ep20, Ep22, Ep25, Ep27, …

In this episode, the informant talks about self-love and self-care as liberatory practices. She provides a five-part construct on critical race feminism. She also talks about the bleeding nature of the subthemes within critical race theory: critical feminism, feminism, jurisprudence, and critical legal studies. For a complete list of the key points…

In this episode, the informant explores racism and sexism in higher education. To get more of a description and access resources mentioned in the conversation, please visit our webpage: https://empowermentstartshere.net/2018/05/16/the-case-of-the-academy-and-women-of-color/By Angela Dye

In this episode, the informant talked about dignity as a sense of mutual self-worth within the human race and race and gender as social constructs that serve to disrupt our overall sense of oneness with each other. She also talked about blackness within global white supremacy, about multiple community membership versus single community membership, …

In this episode, the host talks about student power as a practice of teaching and learning. She makes a case that it is an essential element of student empowerment... specifically relating to learners who are disenfranchised from the learning process. Visit the webpage to access the show notes where resources mentioned in the episode are listed: ht…

In this episode, the informant talks about what happens when your life becomes the place of protest impacting your body, your home and your reputation. In it, you will learn how she handled attacks on her character, her reputation, and her inside access to local change efforts happening in her city– all as the price paid for walking in her integrit…

In this episode, the informant talks about the unique teaching style of black female educators that comes from suffering and surviving in an inequitable society. While this case covers issues in teaching and learning, it also covers issues in the social world. The informant does a wonderful job exploring how these two areas (schooling and society) …