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I’d like to begin this episode by acknowledging the land that I am learning and living on is the traditional unceded, un-surrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People.


In this special bonus episode, we are joined by Martine Roy, The Regional Director for the 2SLGBTQ+ Business Development Quebec & Eastern Canada for TD Bank and Chair of the LGBT Purge Fund.  You’ll also hear fromCWO (Retired) Necole Belanger, mother, wife, author, mentor, and former Command Chief Warrant Officer for the Canadian Armed Forces Intelligence Branch.  

These brave women will talk about the personal and professional cost to serve, forced to hide in plain sight, all the while living in an environment that didn’t want them. Martine and Necole will share their stories, their pain and anguish, their triumphs and their failures, so todays leaders learn from the mistakes of the past.

  

Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front is humbled to have been named #7 in the Top 20 for Best Canadian Leadership-themed podcasts for 2023.

Martine’s Episode Links:
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Necole’s Episode Links:
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Necole’s Recommended Book/Movie/Podcast List:
Book:
5 levels of leadership by John C. Maxwell 

Movie:
G.I. Jane 

Podcast:
Shame, Perfectionism and Vulnerability by Brené Brown

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