Charity Elder - The Power of Self Belief, Using Your Voice & Rising

“Don’t let anyone take away your voice. What you have to say is important.” – Charity Elder

Where does our strength come from and how can we cultivate our strengths?

Today’s guest Charity Elder is an award-winning journalist and media executive with more than 20 years of experience working in and leading broadcast and digital newsrooms. She is also the author of the new book Power: The Rise of Black Women in America.

In 2020, Charity was a senior adviser to the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign, strategizing ways to engage the Black community. She was also profiled for NYC Media’s Vanguard: Women in Media, and in 2016 she was on Folio magazine’s list of top women in media.

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“You won’t be able to grow and change as an individual without having a central knowledge of who you are.” – Charity Elder

In this episode, Charity shares how she and other Black women rise to the challenge of building communities and creating lives of meaning and joy. She also talks about where her self-confidence comes from and why she believes that it’s the best time in history to be a Black woman in America.

Listen in as Charity shares her experience as a leader in boardrooms and newsrooms. She says that it’s important to use your voice even when it diverges from those around you because your voice and ideas are important.

“When someone is talking over you or diminishing you in some way, you stop them in that moment, calmly and clearly.” – Charity Elder

Show Notes:

Where do Black women get their strength
What is the story of Black women in America
Is the average income for Black women rising
Ways that Black women benefit from their communities
Do the stories we tell about ourselves influence our behavior
Is there value in helping others
What change can one individual make

“What I have to say matters, whether anyone else gets it or not.” – Charity Elder

3 Pieces of Advice or Action Steps:

Accept who you are.
Celebrate who you are.
Move with purpose and passion toward your goals.

“My mom did such a great job instilling the uniqueness of who I am. It’s radical for a Black woman to teach her Black daughter that she is special and unique when laws used to say that we were not fully human.” – Charity Elder

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