Episode 19: Being Transgender Says Nothing About Who I Am with Tina Madison White
Curiously Enough
English - June 07, 2019 13:14 - 44 minutes - 32.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHealth & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to Curiously Enough, Episode 19. This week we talk with Tina Madison White, a brave + inspiring human being. Tina is the Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Pride Center, in Asheville, North Carolina, and a member of the board of directors for the Human Rights Campaign. After 35 years in business management, she has shifted her focus to activism, writing and speaking.
Tina entered the workforce in the 1980s as a white, Ivy League-educated male. She spent most of the next 30 years consulting to and working for large corporations. Her specialty was business transformation: redesigning systems, processes, and organizations to improve performance.
In 2013, Tina embarked on her most ambitious transformation project yet: herself. With the support of her wife, Mary, and her family and colleagues, Tina finally acknowledged the gender identity she had spent fifty years working so hard to hide.
Today, Tina’s transformation continues. She is learning how to be a community activist and a public servant. She speaks and writes on issues of diversity & inclusion, organization transformation, social justice, and personal identity. In 2015, she published her book, “Between Shadow & Sun: A Husband‘s Journey Through Gender - A Wife’s Labor of Love”.
Tina holds an MBA in Strategy & Finance from the Booth School of Business and a BA in Economics from Princeton University. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina with Mary, her wife of nineteen years. From there, they watch their five children and five grandchildren take on the world.
In this episode we dig deep into: speaking up about your truth + the rewards that follow, what labels are and aren't good for, the journey of being transgender, and how to support LGBTQ.
If you would like to learn more about Tina and the work she’s doing please head over to www.personinside.com.
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