103. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome featuring Deesha Dyer
Let’s Talk Memoir25 Kesä 2024

103. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome featuring Deesha Dyer

Deesha Dyer joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her rise in the Obama White House and how imposter syndrome followed her up the ranks, tone policing and microaggressions, how her identity as a Black woman was weaponized in the workplace, engaging her inner child to heal, finding internal freedom and forgiving ourselves, how being yourself takes a while, self-care when writing, honoring our accomplishments and ourselves, and her memoir Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble.

Also in this episode:

- hustling for our books

-recognizing our accomplishments

-the right we all have to speak our truths

Books mentioned in this episode:

Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Gal: A True Story by Ruthie Bolton

Books by bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Tarana Burke

Deesha Dyer is an award-winning community organizer, event strategist, and speaker who specializes in transforming ideas into causes that create tangible change. A 2019 Resident Fellow for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, her career and mission reflects an unwavering passion for servant leadership and social justice. Her journey began at a community college and led to her role as Social Secretary for the Obama White House. In this role, she planned the historic visit of Pope Francis; State Dinners with leaders from around the world; and performances by Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, and more. Dyer was named one of Marie Claire’s new guard of women changing the world, the Root’s most influential African-Americans, and one of Washington DC's "Women of Excellence." Among her nonprofit enterprises is beGirl.world, which empowers teen girls through global education and travel. Her memoir UNDIPLOMATIC: HOW MY ATTITUDE CREATED THE BEST KIND OF TROUBLE is due out April 23, 2024.

Connect with Deesha:

Website: www.deeshadyer.com

Instagram: instagram.com/deedyer267

X: twitter.com/DeeshaDyer

Facebook: facebook.com/deesha34

Get Deesha’s Book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/undiplomatic-the-attitude-that-created-the-best-kind-of-trouble-deesha-dyer/20605019

Ronit’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches memoir workshops and is working on her next book.

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