In today's episode Simone reflects on the “brand driven culture war” supposedly ignited by Sydney Sweeney’s racist advertising campaign with American Eagle. They also look at the flip-flopping on Cracker Barrel’s choice of logo. They consider how when a companies commitment to diversity is shallow it is very easily dismantled, especially when aided by the media and the American President.

Articles referred to:

American Eagle doubles down on controversial ad campaign: https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/american-eagle-sydney-sweeney-backlash

Cracker Barrel reverses course and will scrap new logo after intense backlash: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/cracker-barrel-logo-apology

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In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the first 100 episodes(!) of Race Reflections AT WORK. She talks about what she’s learned from the process, considers some areas to develop, and picks out her top three episodes using the criteria of which episodes resonated with her the most.

The episodes Guilaine picks out:

Episode 61: Reflections on a trip to the Congo: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/14947769

Episode 2: Location of Disturbance and Scapegoating: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/8127268

Episode 23: Thinking critically about feelings: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/episodes/10099716

This is a good opportunity for us to say thank you to all who have listened to the podcast. From the statistics we see through our podcasting platform we know that we’ve had over 160K downloads since we launched with people listening from all over the world. Do please continue to let people know about the show and to let us know if there are things we could do to improve what we are doing (and also what you have enjoyed or valued about what we do.)

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In today's episode Guilaine reflects on the last year, both for Race Reflections as an institution and for herself personally, and thinks forward towards the year to come.

Wishing you a Happy New Year from all at Race Reflections!

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