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Episode Synopsis
What are you deeply interested in exploring right now? Is it a social issue? Is it how to twerk without breaking your back? Whatever it is, your next big creative idea is probably in that exploration. When you start that journey, everything will magically fall into place.
On this week's episode of Creatives Making Moves, I interviewed the lovely Kenyatta Forbes. She is a native Chicagoan who uses humor and her own experience as a black woman to have challenging conversations about race and identity. She is a multi-talented creative who does it all from macrame, film, performance, game design, consulting, and community activations. She is also the founder of her widely successful brain child Trading Races, a trading card game for blackness.
The idea for Trading Races was sparked from Kenyatta’s personal desire to have conversations about the complexities of being a black person. She knew that there were three access points to have these conversations; with self, with your community, and folks outside your community. She thought about a tool to visually present the complexity of race that would be accessible in all three spaces, and the rest is history.
Kenyatta shows that a great starting point for your next big idea, that can lead to a thriving business, starts with your deep need to know more about something. By the end of this episode, you’ll understand the power of staying committed to projects that interest you.
Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
What Kenyatta does for a work life balance that allows her to show up fully.
Why Kenyatta created Trading Races, and how she knew instinctively when it was the right time to bring it out into the world.
How Kenyatta facilitates safe space in Trading Races in order to have real conversations about race with a mixed crowd.
Why open dialogue about race and identity must be had, and why it's important to allow people to get it wrong.
Kenyatta’s greatest accomplishment, that has nothing to do with her work or a product.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Trading Races
Kenyatta Forbes
Marwen
Kindred Creatives Collective
On this week's episode of Creatives Making Moves, I interviewed the lovely Kenyatta Forbes. She is a native Chicagoan who uses humor and her own experience as a black woman to have challenging conversations about race and identity. She is a multi-talented creative who does it all from macrame, film, performance, game design, consulting, and community activations. She is also the founder of her widely successful brain child Trading Races, a trading card game for blackness.
The idea for Trading Races was sparked from Kenyatta’s personal desire to have conversations about the complexities of being a black person. She knew that there were three access points to have these conversations; with self, with your community, and folks outside your community. She thought about a tool to visually present the complexity of race that would be accessible in all three spaces, and the rest is history.
Kenyatta shows that a great starting point for your next big idea, that can lead to a thriving business, starts with your deep need to know more about something. By the end of this episode, you’ll understand the power of staying committed to projects that interest you.
Here’s what we discussed in this episode:
What Kenyatta does for a work life balance that allows her to show up fully.
Why Kenyatta created Trading Races, and how she knew instinctively when it was the right time to bring it out into the world.
How Kenyatta facilitates safe space in Trading Races in order to have real conversations about race with a mixed crowd.
Why open dialogue about race and identity must be had, and why it's important to allow people to get it wrong.
Kenyatta’s greatest accomplishment, that has nothing to do with her work or a product.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Trading Races
Kenyatta Forbes
Marwen
Kindred Creatives Collective
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