Jill interviews Jay McAllister, an active participant and board member of CollaborAction, a theater company designed to use art as a medium to raise awareness and evoke change in the world around issues such as systemic racism, gender inequality and other difficult to discuss topics.

In this episode, Jill discusses perfectionism as a characteristic of white supremacy culture and some of the ways it can manifest in ourselves and in our society, particularly in healthcare.

Jill discusses the concept of intersectionality and how it relates to power and privilege in our society. She discusses what it means to hold space not only for one’s own lived experience, but also for the lived experience of people with different identities from our own, and that honoring one’s own experience should not take away from the lived experience of other people with marginalized identities.

Jill interviews the founder of Empowered Leadership Cultivation, Trisha Daho. They discuss the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training and how bringing everyone to the table in an organization is necessary in order to make real change. Trisha also highlights her story of converting to Islam and addresses several misconceptions and assumptions about Islam.

What is internalized anti-semitism? What is the difference between white supremacy culture and white nationalism? How can white Jewish people hold space for both their own marginalization and their privilege in our society (which is at the cost of the marginalization of others)? What is the impact of sacrificing aspects of our own culture and identity to get closer to whiteness?

In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Marianne Miller, an eating disorder specialist, regarding diet culture, feminism, and the patriarchy.

She discusses the way that racism and bias are baked into the healthcare system, and the importance of healthcare professionals recognizing and owning their biases in order to reverse the inequities in healthcare.