Summary of Minda Harts's Right Within

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Get the Summary of Minda Harts' Right Within in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank talk and honest advice on how to deal with microaggressions, heal from racialized trauma, and find relief from invisible workplace burdens. Filled with Minda Harts’s signature wit and warmth, Right Within offers strategies for women of color to speak up during racialized moments with managers and clients, work through past triggers they may not even know still cause pain, and reframe past career disappointments as opportunities to grow into a new path. Through action points, exercises, and clear-eyed coaching, Harts encourages women to summon hidden reserves of strength and courage. She includes advice from therapists and faith leaders of color on a full range of ways to heal. Right Within will help women of color strengthen their resolve across corporate America, ensuring that we can all, finally, rise together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669341956

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Insights on Minda Harts's Right Within

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 5

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Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author was the only Black woman in the room for much of her career, and she had to deal with a lot of racialized workplace harassment.

#2

In the workplace, white employees often make excuses for their colleagues’ racist behavior. They pretend that their colleagues had no ill intentions, when in reality, they were simply displaying their own racial biases.

#3

One of the author’s friends, a Black woman, had to leave her dream job because she didn’t have any allies in the company.

#4

While reading this book, you will understand that the author too, has experienced workplace aggression and racialized trauma.

#5

We have to stop letting the past affect the present, because if we continue to do so, we are allowing the past to control our lives.

#6

Healing from workplace trauma is important for all women of color to achieve, because it will help us stand strong in the face of adversity.

#7

To heal from racial trauma, you must first understand it.

#8

We have to give ourselves time to heal in order to maintain our Empire State of Mind.

#9

The author had experienced racialized workplace trauma, and it had changed her personality. It had also affected her family