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Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Where Real Leaders Talk About the Hard Stuff
Welcome to Leadership Uncensored—the podcast that cuts through the polished scripts and curated personas to bring you raw, real, and unfiltered conversations about what it truly means to lead in today’s world.
Hosted by Dr. Dawn Emerick, a national voice in trauma-informed leadership and systems change, this podcast goes beyond buzzwords to explore the messy, meaningful, and transformative moments of leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive, a changemaker in the making, or someone navigating the tension between personal healing and professional growth, Leadership Uncensored is your space.
Each episode features courageous conversations with leaders across sectors—corporate, nonprofit, government, and education—who are willing to pull back the curtain. We talk burnout, breakthrough, betrayal, bias, boundaries, and becoming. No fluff. No filters. Just truth.
Leadership Uncensored with host Dawn Emerick, EdD
Season 1 Episode 3: The Only One
Many Black leaders find themselves being the “only one” in the c-suite, on boards, in meetings, at conferences, at strategic retreats. Black leaders often feel “Hoorah for me! and “Why just me?” all at the same time.
There is an unconscious bias that exists in leadership and business culture, whether people want to admit it or not. Companies can have all the diversity and inclusion trainings they want, but that doesn’t change the fact that Black women and men are continually overlooked, isolated, discriminated against or tokenized.
Join the next episode LEADERSHIP UNCENSORED as we explore what it’s like to simultaneously be invisible and hyper visible at work.