Stop Blaming Avocados
Welcome to Stop Blaming Avocados, hosted by Chava Vietze. Throughout episodes, Chava speaks with guests from many walks of life hoping to elevate their voices and their stories. Stop Blaming Avocados was created to break from "tradition", have thoughtful conversation about human-first work and inspire a more human-first approach to life, community, and organization.
Episodes
21 episodes
Becoming Unlimited: Rebuilding Systems That Weren't Built for Us
Season 1 Episode Finale: Why are most leadership books written by white men? Eugina Jordan read nearly 50 leadership books during COVID and of those books, only 3 of them were written...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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52:12
Diversity and Success: Your Difference is Your Power
Humans want to fit in. We want to be included. Perhaps it is human nature, the need to be a part of the group. And when it comes to success, assimilating yourself has often been a part of survival. However, navigating the world looks different ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:07:13
The Pivot: Defining Your Values and Finding Your Fire
Have you ever experienced something in life so incredibly substantial and life-changing that it led you to reevaluate your why? Many have, many will, and many currently are. We lived through a world pandemic. We're fighting for...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:00:12
Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Democratizing AI Education and Building for Equity
Lori Mazor is the CEO and Founder of Synthetivity, an innovative company at the leading edge of executive education, specializing in training professionals on the transformative appli...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:04:59
What's Success?: Understanding Our Conditioning and Creating Ritual
Katharine Smith, MA, CPCC, ACC is an Organizational Psychologist and Executive Coach. She has a unique approach to helping her clients prioritize their higher purpose, avoid burnout, redesign their relationship with work, and phase out fear-bas...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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58:03
Founder Journey: Leaning into Vulnerability and Building Community
Sara Chandran is the Founder of Fresh and Fearless, a consultancy that helps organizations build brave initiatives to create a workplace that is inclusive for all.Sara is an empathetic, peo...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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1:19:06
Advocacy: The Fight for Bereavement Support and Stillbirth Prevention
Did you know that stillbirth is still very prevalent today, that it is often preventable, and that the U.S. falls well behind other first-world countries in stillbirth prevention and research? For most, the answer is no. We co...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:07:55
AAPI+ Month: Busting the Model Minority Myth
May is AAPI+ Month (Asian American and Pacific Islander + Month). During this month, we celebrate, commemorate, and honor the accomplishments and contributions of Asian Americans throughout history. This is also a time that we can discuss and b...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:11:57
Mental Health Support in the Workplace: Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway?
Over and over we are seeing articles talking about mental health in the workplace. Finally, it's starting to take center stage! The importance of caring for one's mental health and the immense influence that work has on our mental health. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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54:30
Let the Adults Play: How Integrating Play Leads to Transformative Success
Acey Holmes is a play advocate and enabler and the founder of BoredLess. She wants adults to engage in more play and thinks that they deserve more play. But why and what does that mean? As a fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:17:50
A Case for Generalists: A Multi-directional Conversation on Embracing the Path of a Generalist
Lech calls himself a "cultural square peg". What is that? I mean literally, it's that he doesn't fit into the typical "mold" in traditional organizational practices that pigeon-hole people. Lech is a generalist. Guess what? So is your host, Cha...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:05:17
Bravery and Confidence: Empowering From Within to Evolve Organizational Culture
Throughout her career, Shandia Drummond-Butt has remained rooted in her values and the concept that “if this is the place for me, then it will be for me. If it’s not, then I’m going to find the right place.” Shandi is the Director of People and...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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53:45
Superpowers: Reframing Soft Skills and Leaning Into Your Natural Abilities
Carrie Allen (founder of The Human Array) joins Chava Vietze to discuss truly how powerful "power skills" (formerly known as soft skills) are. We discuss:How to embrace your power skills and how to lean into them while acknowledging...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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54:01
Flow: Discovering your non-negotiables to help you find your state of flow
We all want to feel good and that takes continuous work overtime. Life will ebb and flow and external factors can be intruding. But you are worth investing in. Your wellbeing is worth investing in. Teresa Clark joins Chava Vietze ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:05:05
Work, Work, Work: Creating Fulfillment and Evolving How We View Work
People Leader? Candidate? Manager? IC? Wherever you fall, you'll likely find at least one takeaway from my conversation with Lia James, founder and CEO of & Human. Lia is a executive coach, facilitator, career designer, and part-time woodwo...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:05:44
Wage Justice: Building Equity in the Non Profit World
Anu Menon is the Executive Director of Oasis for Girls, a non-profit based in San Francisco focused on empowering girls and supporting them with resources to enact equitable, inclusive change. Anu's c...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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47:05
DEI: We're done with performative Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Kristen Bakalar is a workplace innovator and diversity advocate and she’s tired of performative diversity, equity, inclusive “initiatives”. Our conversation gets real about the work that needs to be done still and touches on what is going well ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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53:04
Founder Story: The New Era of Cultivating Social Change
Catharine Montgomery is the founder of Better Together, a VC-funded, purpose-driven, Black and woman-founded, Public Relations and Communications agency. In this episode, Catharine shares her founder journey, which was the result of a culminati...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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38:53
Layoffs: They suck, but we can do better
Layoffs suck. And most of us will go through at least one layoff in our lifetime. But why is it that nearly every time layoffs are done they're done so with an archaic playbook? Kelly Ceynowa joins Chava to throw away the 40-year-old pl...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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47:05
Chronic Stress: Break the Cycle with Integrative Wellness
On this episode, Chava is joined by Cindy Tsai, MD, the award winning, board certified internal medicine physician, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author to discuss: Breaking the cycle of chronic stress and approaching our health with integrati...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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47:48
Trailer: Why are we blaming avocados?
Welcome to Stop Blaming Avocados, hosted by Chava Vietze. Throughout episodes, Chava speaks with guests from many walks of life hoping to elevate their voices and their stories. Stop Blaming Avocados was created to break from "tradition", have ...
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Season 1
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Episode 0
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