![]() When I finally understood how my confidence had been discouraged and how it affected my life, I knew that it was my job to rebuild it. If you are a woman, woman or person of color, LGBTQ+, disabled, or more, we are socialized to be less confident in our authentic selves and encouraged to conform to white, male-dominant archetypes of excellence. That’s because the confidence of marginalized people is rarely encouraged-and often seen as a threat. Like I shared in my TED Talk, for some of us, confidence is a radical act. Oh, I absolutely had to learn confidence. ![]() Does confidence come naturally to you or did you have to learn it? What advice can you share for women on cultivating confidence and going after their dreams? But going after what you deserve in life takes confidence and guts. You’re an accomplished social justice activist, educator, and writer. We want to be a place that empowers, challenges, and activates. Not for our sake, but so that we are adding to the conversation. We keep tweaking and evaluating and working to take it from good to great to excellent. I’m learning so much from the process of building this with Cindi and our incredible teams at The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios about shaping concepts and conversations, and I love how it’s taking shape. I was incredibly serious and intentional about co-creating a project where I could protect my own intellectual property and creative control, secure my financial stake, and most importantly, define our desired impact through the platform. Our sponsors, like Chambord, donate a portion of their advertising inventory to BIPOC women, femme, and gender non-conforming owned brands. For example, at “Undistracted,” I created a spotlight series. As a Black woman diving deeper into what I call “impact media,” how I show up matters just as much as what I have to say. It is in the doing that we change things. I try my best not to just to speak transformative words but to engage in transformative actions. How are you making a difference and pushing your industry forward? ![]() Throughout your wide-ranging career, you’ve used your platforms to amplify, educate, and activate everyday people to take transformative action against every form of injustice. In finding confidence through therapy, redefining the relationship between productivity and success, and not conforming to the world around her, ahead, she speaks about the value in nurturing the journey to reach the destination. This also entails looking inward and checking in with her own purpose, acknowledging it, and taking the steps to affirm it.Ĭunningham’s ability to drive change and empower marginalized voices starts with reflecting the changes she wants to see in the world. And Cunningham’s role in what she’s deemed “impact media” means consistently standing up for what needs to change. It is a day-to-day task as much as it is a big-picture responsibility. ![]() Showing up is an act that has no finish line. And with her new book, “We Are Like Those Who Dream,” on the way her engagement with civic activism is far from slowing down. As an NBC News and MSNBC contributor, a Harvard Institute of Politics 2020 fellow, and the host and executive producer of the podcast “Undistracted,” change is at the forefront of everything Brittany Packnett Cunningham does. ![]()
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