E10: Beyond the Stereotype: Black Women, Work & What Real Merit Looks Like

24/09/2025 1h 36min

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Coach and advocate Tamera Rowls joins Empress Addi for a candid, solutions-focused conversation on navigating hostile systems, documenting retaliation, protecting your peace, and building careers that match your brilliance. We ground this talk in data, lived experience, and practical tools leaders can use to fix the “broken rung.”What you’ll hear:Receipts vs. rhetoric: why merit must be measured, not assumedDocument–then–decide: a simple playbook for speaking up safelyThe “broken rung” for Black women—and how to repair itMoney as community power: circulating dollars, building brandsSelf-care as strategy: boundaries, therapy, and soft-era practicesGuestTamera Rowls — Coach, brand strategist, and advocate for Black women at work.Connect with Tamera on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamera-rowls/Keep going!!!Read the companion article on The Write Movement:https://addicasseus.com/2025/09/18/beyond-the-stereotype-black-women-work-and-what-real-merit-looks-like/Grab Addi’s book: What’s Next For You: Living In Purposehttps://a.co/d/1VNWtd8Work with Addi (Ascend Revenue Group): [email protected] this resonated with you, please like, subscribe, and share with someone who deserves people-centered systems at work.#EmpressAddi #BlackWomenAtWork #WorkplaceEquity #CareerAdvancement #Leadership #DEI #Retaliation #Meritocracy #TheWriteMovement