Gill Turton is an Operations manager at Relate, the counselling charity. She also runs two businesses, Life Admin virtual assistant service and Gill’s Place serving nachos at Worcester City Women's Football Club home games. In this episode Gill shares her experiences as a Black woman navigating school, university and her career spanning multiple industries.

She grew up one of just three Black students in her school in south London, learning that she would have to work harder and do better than her white counterparts, an experience she learnt applied to the workplace too.

Gill's career began as a paediatric nurse at the Royal London Hospital treating young patients from diverse backgrounds. When she decided to leave the nursing profession she moved through a variety of roles including working at Emma Bridgewater where she was surrounded by people who didn't look like her. Gill has also worked with Justgiving, Expedia and News International before moving to her current role with Relate. Helping people is fundamental in all the roles Gill has had throughout her career, including her new role as a mentor through the Diana Award Mentoring Programme supporting children in schools who are at risk of becoming unemployed and not in education as they grow up.

In this episode we discuss prejudice, privilege and unconscious bias, racism, that Black women are historically the worst treated people in society, and the shifts from "I'm not being included" to "I am at risk here" in some environments. From these experiences, Gill shares her advice for young Black women, and what she'd want white colleagues to understand too.

Gill also tells us who the Women Who inspire her are and what she wanted to be when she grew up.

Gill's Place website https://www.homeofthenachos.co.uk/

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