ReImagining Community with Garland
ReImagining Community with Garland
Podcast Description
"ReImagining Community with Garland" is a weekly podcast that amplifies Black and Brown voices driving social, cultural, and organizational transformation in their communities locally and globally.
Each episode explores personal journeys, pivotal moments, and actionable insights from trailblazers and changemakers across a variety of organizations.
Our mission with this podcast is to connect leaders like you to honor the past while shaping the future of changemakers.
Garland Fuller will share her experience and perspectives and also invite members of her growing community and network to join her to share their experiences and origin stories with the audience.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of themes centered around community empowerment, entrepreneurship, and leadership insights. Episodes explore topics such as the role of digital storytelling in connecting communities, navigating multicultural spaces, and the intersection of personal growth with community-building efforts. For example, recent episodes discuss actionable insights on entrepreneurship, building meaningful connections post-pandemic, and personal reflections on overcoming fear.
“ReImagining Community with Garland” is a podcast where each episode explores personal journeys, pivotal moments, and actionable insights from trailblazers and changemakers across a variety of organizations.
Garland Fuller will share her experience and perspectives and also invite members of her growing community and network to join her to share their experiences and origin stories with the audience.
Layoffs are loud, and so is the fear that comes with them. In this episode, I share why I paused career coaching this year and why I believe this breakdown of the job market is part of what humanity needs. For many of us, a job is more than income. It’s our identity, our title, our rank, and our influence. When that gets taken away, what’s left? We talk about what you want to see more of in the world, and how to start returning to the dreams, ideas, and possibilities you set down.
In this episode
- Why I took a break from career coaching this year
- How jobs became identity, and what happens when the structure goes
- Why I start with strengths, and what they reveal about what’s missing
- The self-limiting beliefs running a loop that keeps you stuck
- The honest conversation about bills, responsibility, and making time for what you love
Numbers behind the conversation
- Black women lost 251,000 jobs between January and August 2025. That was 54.7% of all job losses for women, though Black women were 14.1% of the female workforce. (IWPR)
- Black women’s employment in the federal government dropped 30%, compared with 11.6% for all women. (IWPR)
- Global employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020. (Gallup)
Reflection prompts
- What part of my identity was tied to my job?
- What am I putting off that I can’t stop thinking about?
- What do I want to see more of in the world?
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