Fearless Diversity — Series Two Premiere

Title: “Words, Violence, and the Tribe: Beyond the Workplace”

Series Two is here. Rachel Cashman, your Fearless Facilitator, and Simon Fanshawe, the Diversity Dissident, are back. This season we’re stepping past the office door. Fearless Diversity now lives in life and work because the tensions shaping our feeds, families, and friendships don’t clock off at 6pm. We’ll go where others swerve, holding space for difference without collapsing into silence or dogma. We have the conversations you want to have.

Episode 1: “Words, Violence, and the Tribe”

We open with a hard conversation: the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the chaotic 48-hour whirlpool that followed. Not a hot-take; a cool-head. We examine why it’s crucial to condemn political violence without equivocation, the effect of social-media virality in real time (yes, teens seeing it minutes after it happened on TikTok), and how “words are violence” became a cultural reflex that is just a step away from meeting wordswith violence. We probe Christian identity and movement-building, algorithmic tribalism, why the right lurches towards authoritarianism and the left embraces a fearsome illiberalism. And what it would mean to rebuild a norm where free speech is a value - not a thing we do but a way we do things.

Along the way: compassion that isn’t contingent, the difference between dialogue and conversion, Sister Helen Prejean’s radical humanism, MLK’s non-violence as both means and end, and the old-school discipline of checking sources before you hit “post.” We’re honest about the personal, too health scares, kids’ digital lives, and an insight for episode two on what leaders (in teams, communities, and homes) can do on Monday morning when rival protests meet around the same table.

Why listen (and why now):

• We refuse the false choice: safety or dissent. You get both.
• Practical takeaways for managers, parents, and community leaders who must host disagreement well.
• A season-long commitment: conversations that model the society we actually want to live in.

Join us: Follow, rate, and share. Drop us your “yes, but…” and we’ll feature sharp listener questions in upcoming Q&As and bring guests who disagree with us well. Fearless Diversity, Series Two: beyond work now—because culture happens everywhere, and so does courage

For more about Rachel: Who Is The Fearless Facilitator? - Fearless Facilitator

For more about Simon: Who We Are – Diversity by Design

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