112: Dancing About Vulnerability with Marcel Byrd

Greater Than Code

• Episode: 112: Dancing About Vulnerability with Marcel Byrd
• Website: Greater Than Code
• Feed URL: https://www.greaterthancode.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 00:48:22
• Published: 2019-01-09 06:00

In this episode, Marcel Byrd talks about the intersection of public health and art, authenticity and vulnerability, reading a room and determining safety, and the beauty of dance. Panelists: Avdi Grimm | Astrid Countee | Coraline Ada Ehmke | Jessica Kerr Special Guest: Marcel Byrd: LinkedIn Marcel Byrd is a public health and arts advocate originally from Atlanta, Georgia, but currently residing in D.C. Through his work, Marcel is curious to further articulate and foster the relationship between public health, systems-level social change, and dance. Show Notes: 00:53 – Marcel’s Superpower: An Explosive Relationship with Laughter 01:45 – The Intersection of Public Health and Art 06:36 – Authenticity and Vulnerability; Bringing Your Whole Self While Remaining Professional 14:59 – Reading a Room and Determining Safety for Being Vulnerable & Making it Safe for People Around You While Being Vulnerable 19:41 – The Beauty of Dance 30:58 – Seeing and Being Outside The Box 38:57 – Gaining Confidence While Retaining Humility Reflections: Astrid: The feedback loop can’t be, “I’m only going to keep doing this if I’m positively affirmed.” Coraline: Vulnerability is scalable. Avdi: Being the person on the dance floor not necessarily nailing their moves perfectly, but that has a big smile on their face regardless. Jessica: Imagination is paramount to creating a better world. Marcel: Articulating the importance of art, creativity, and vulnerability. Want to help keep us a weekly show, buy and ship you swag, and bring us to conferences near you? Support us via Patreon! Or tell your organization to send sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]. Are you Greater Than Code? Submit guest blog posts to [email protected] Please leave us a review on iTunes! This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode. To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Transcript: AVDI:  Hello, this is Episode 112 of Greater Than Code. I am Avdi Grimm and with me is Astrid Countee. ASTRID:  Thank you, Avdi and I'm also here with my great friend, Coraline Ada Ehmke. CORALINE:  Hey, everybody. Also here today is Jessica Kerr. JESSICA:  Good morning and I am happy to be here today with our guest Marcel Byrd. Marcel is a public health and arts advocate, originally from Atlanta, Georgia but currently residing in DC. Through his work, Marcel is curious to further articulate and foster the relationship between public health, systems level social change, and dance. Welcome to the show, Marcel. MARCEL:  Hi. Thank you for having me. JESSICA:  We're so glad you're here and we're very curious to learn what is your superpower and how did you acquire it? MARCEL:  Something about me, I'm usually very easy for me to laugh. I'm very much someone that finds everything hilarious and certainly, it definitely helps with that social interactions and stuff like that. I would say, sort of a really explosive relationship with laughter and acquired that through just being in this body for 25 years. JESSICA:  Awesome. CORALINE:  Jessica is known for laughter too and enthusiasm and it's wonderful. JESSICA:  That's a beautiful superpower -- finding everything hilarious. CORALINE:  It's also a great survival tactic for the times that we live in. MARCEL:  Yeah. That's very real. JESSICA:  No kidding. CORALINE:  Marcel, I'm really interested in hearing about the intersection of public health and arts. What can you tell me about that? MARCEL:  My background historically,