


We are learning and growing together as a community, and it has been important for us to create a moving-forward action plan that invites engagement from our entire audience. We also want to learn and evolve in partnership with you. It has taken me a while to write this email to you, our beloved customers and Sounds True community, because we have felt as a team the need to listen carefully and look deeply within in order to lay out an action plan moving forward that will contribute to meaningful and substantive change.Īnything less falls short of what I believe this moment is asking of us. The answers to these questions are not simple, quick, or easy. And how do we actively address these areas so that we can evolve as an organization and be a force of genuine service in the world?.What’s in our Shadow, as individuals and as an organization? What unconscious areas must now be brought into awareness?.How can we best use our platform to better amplify the voices of wisdom teachers who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)?.We have been asking ourselves questions such as: Since George Floyd’s murder, we have been having many in-depth discussions among the 125-person staff at Sounds True about the most meaningful actions we can take as a transformational learning company to help educate ourselves and our community and contribute to the dismantling of racism. We stand with and for our Black employees, our Black authors and colleagues, our Black customers, and all of the protestors and social change activists-past, present, and future- who are working to put an end to racism in every corner of our society.Īnd we are committed to not just stand in solidarity but to step up. While holding a mirror to our own organizational accountability, Sounds True unequivocally stands in solidarity with the Black community, the family of George Floyd, and the many others who have been victims of police brutality and ongoing racial injustice.
