How would you sum up 2020 in one word?
Chrissie: In 1 phrase?
Storm: [gives a little laugh]
initially assumed is s***display, but obviously I cannot say that.
Chrissie [gives a look of incredulity]
Storm: One particular word is “change.”
Tamon: The word that I would choose would be “courage.”
Chrissie: “Testing.”
Storm: And why did I select the term “change”?
Truthfully, the world and the people, including myself, we are not the identical
in the last couple of months and not even from a yr ago.
Our voices now are starting to be much more heard and louder, and the accountability is better.
Chrissie: Tests of on your own, of your resilience,
of the tension that you set on one particular another, and then displaying up and offering upon your guarantees.
Tamon: When you think
about businesses, the two huge and little, there was brave steps that folks experienced to acquire
on all fronts, sacrificing get the job done, laying people off, creating seriously, seriously tough
choices. I believe it took a lot of courage from a whole lot of persons to do what was appropriate
for the health and fitness and basic safety of us as a modern society, but then also to do what is actually correct by your spouse and children.
Storm: Quite often the tales with
folks with incapacity, in phrases of representation and inclusiveness, it arrives from the lens of
totally abled and non-disabled people today who are writing the stories about us. And it’s time
for us to reclaim our possess stories and, and convey that in advertising and television and media and
technological know-how and in numerous industries, because the entire world is continuing to evolve as we know it.
Chrissie: This has been a yr that has analyzed
companies, that has tested procedures, that has tested your particular person degree of grit.
And it has been challenging and it will proceed to be tough.
Tamon: It was a yr that
took a large amount of courage from, truly, everybody to band with each other and do what desired to be finished.