🎙 Episode 1-Doing the Work: A White Woman’s Story of Becoming Equity-Minded

In this episode of Know Thy Neighbor, I sit down with Darcy Heath — a mother, grandmother, educator, and lifelong learner — who opens her heart to share what it truly means to wake up to the stories we’ve been taught… and choose to do the work of uncovering personal bias.

As a White woman, Darcy’s personal journey is rooted in love — but also in deep reflection, discomfort, and growth. Together, we talk about what it means to hold privilege and still have gaps in our understanding… to want to do better and not always know how… and to choose, every day, to stay in the conversation anyway.

We explore early childhood education, race, family, systemic inequity, and the quiet moments that shape how we see — or don’t see — one another.

This is a conversation about bravery, not perfection. About listening, even when it’s uncomfortable. And about the sacred work of raising children — and ourselves — to be more awake, more accountable, and more human.

From Listening to Living: A Post Listening Reflection Guide

Resources mentioned in the Episode

Author Blair Imani

Embrace Race

🎧 Listen. Share. Talk about it. Because these stories don’t just deserve to be heard — they deserve to be remembered.

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🎙 Episode 1 — The System Doesn’t See Us: Navigating Everyday Bias

In this powerful first episode of Know Thy Neighbor, Susan sits down with Dr. Isela Garcia — an educator, mother, Chicana woman, and fierce advocate — to talk about what it means to live, love, and raise a family within systems never built to see you.

Together, they explore the emotional weight of being unseen — as a Latina woman married to a Black man, and as a mother raising a neurodivergent daughter.

Isela shares deeply personal stories of bias, racism, and systemic failure — from being disowned by family for marrying outside her race, to police encounters shaped by skin color, to fighting for her daughter’s right to be fully seen in school and society.

This episode challenges us to confront the quiet, everyday ways bias shows up — in policies, in families, in ourselves — and to ask what it really means to know your neighbor.

From Listening to Living: A Post-Listening Reflection Guide

🎧 Listen. Share. Talk about it. Because these stories don’t just deserve to be heard — they deserve to be remembered.

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