Spotlight is a series at Goodes Conversations meant to showcase students at Queen's and Goodes. Tune in as Sebastian speaks to Anna about what sustainability means and how to be imperfectly sustainable.

Anna Brabender is a third-year environmental science student taking a Certificate in Business.  Anna is extremely passionate about fighting for system change while also navigating how to live more a sustainable lifestyle. Anna helps fight for environmental justice with multiple groups within and outside of Queen's University and encourages others to be imperfectly sustainable through a social media account called @sustianabilitysimplified

Time Stamps:

0:15 : Anna introduces herself

0:50: What does sustainability mean?

1:50: Why care about sustainability?

2:55: A time budget and the time line

3:25: Do you feel like people are too overwhelmed? Do you think people just don't see a solution?

4:25: Transition: Intersectional Environmentalism and Eco Imperialism - How does it play out in our life?

7:15: Environmental justice is social justice

8:25: Who is feeling the effects of climate change today?

12:30: Stop the podcast. Look up: Eco Imperialism and Environmental Racism in Canada

12:50: Do environmentalists need to go about this from an institutional sort of standpoint?

13:50: Transition: How can we live sustainably on a daily and indivdual basis?

20:10: Combating societal norms

21:45: Radical change requires radical solutions

24:15: Why is veganism radical?

27:20: Sebastian's journey with veganism

28:45: Be an imperfect vegan, be imperfectly sustainable

32:00: Is being vegan the best thing you can do for the environment?

33:05: Is there no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist?

36:00: A parting word of advice, what you should take away from this podcast.

38:45: Conclusion: BE IMPERFECTLY SUSTAINABLE

A Goodes Conversations Project x The Queen's Global Markets

This podcast is a recap of the webinar held on Friday, November 13, 2020:

This year, Joseph R. Biden was elected as the 46th President of the United States in an explosive election cycle spanning several days, and with notable surprises. In newsrooms and homes across the world, discussions were had about the electoral college, battleground swing states, the fate of mail-in ballots, the minority vote, and more. Join 5 panelists from QBR, QGM, and a legislative aide from the United States Senate to have a post-mortem roundtable discussion on the US election, and what is to come next.

If you're a bit confused as to who is who, don't worry we were too!

Sebastian - First Speaker - Co-host! - QBR

Connor - Second Speaker - Legislative Aide from the US Senate

Keshiv - Third Speaker - QBR Panelist

Jordan - Fourth Speaker - QGM Panelist

Jacqui - Fifth Speaker - Co-host! - QGM

Timestamps:

1:28 - Refusal to concede

5:50 - There was a record turnout in this year's election cycle, are we seeing a shift in engagement from the American public?

8:40 - How do you think congress will react to this voter turnout? Does it translate into a mandate to be more accountable as politicians?

9:30 - What has been the biggest driver of polarization in the United States?

16:00 - The balance of power in congress

19:30 - Q&A with Noah!

Questions:

19:30 - The runoff races for the senate seats in Georgia, what can we expect?

21:00 - AOC and progressive policies

23:30 - Polling errors: The fundamental problems

27:00 - Has the existence of Trump been a net positive or net negative on the GOP

29:46 - Outro! Listen in for more information on how to get involved.

Spotlight is a series at Goodes Conversations meant to showcase students at Queen's and Goodes. Tune in as Sebastian speaks to Omar about his role in creating The Smith Black Business Association and the QTBIPOC mentorship program.

Omar brings energy to this segment that is unparalleled. Omar is in his third year at Commerce and continues to disrupt the spaces he's in to make space his own. We ask Omar about his passion projects and his challenges. You're listening to Spotlight on Goodes Conversations.

Time Stamps 

1:00 - Omar's Journey 

2:55 - Starting his involvement in equity work 

5:15 - What involvement do you have today in equity work at Queen's?

6:40 - How did black lives matter impact the movements

8:00 - Why mentors? 

10:50 - How is COMM 24? What's the energy like? 

12:30 - The fast creation of SBBA

15:10 - Challenges with the creation of SBBA?

17:40 - What keeps you motivated through the challenges?

20:15 - Opportunities you're opening up for students of tomorrow? 

22:20 - What is your vision for Smith's tomorrow?

25:00 - Conclusion 

26:00 - Outro (listen to learn how you can engage further with Goodes Conversations)

The Industry is a series of podcasts made with industry leaders - Tune in this episode as I speak to Brent Chamberlain, the senior director of diversity and inclusion and CIBC.

We talk about Corporate Canada's response to the Black Lives Matter movement, how CIBC responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and more. You're listening to The Industry on Goodes Conversations.

Time Stamps 

3:25 - The impact that the Black Lives Matter movement had on Corporate Canada 

6:25 - Is CIBC done listening? 

9:55 - How did CIBC handle the COVID-19 pandemic 

14:00 - Brent talks about how his team makes the tough decisions on which issues to prioritize 

17:30 - How can you be an inclusive leader?

22:00 - How to avoid performative action

28:15 - Parting word of advice

29:00 - Outro (listen to learn how you can engage further with Goodes Conversations)

This week, Zooni sits down with Sahil Grewal to discuss the power of diversity in thought and ideas in today’s business world. Sahil works at Deloitte Consulting, Sahil works on projects related to Cloud Engineering, Insurance Strategy, and Omnia AI. Although he entered the Commerce program envisioning a career in Finance, his first-year summer internship at a start-up called Flash Stock, marked a key shift in his career aspirations. Somewhere between organizing 25-course pop-up restaurant meals, and researching the application of data-science in up-and-coming cross-disciplinary industries, Sahil realized his interest in data-science. Listen-in to gain insight to Sahil’s knowledge, experience and well-developed perspective on the application of data-science to problems such as decreasing cancer diagnoses false positive rates, and improving natural disaster relief effort response times.

Coming into university, everyone has a plan. A dichotomy exists between the faith one has for the future they architect and the trust they have in the process required to realize their long-term goals. Inevitably, having too much faith in life unfolding favorably can overcrowd the reliability of accepting a resilient mindset. In reflecting back on our journey’s through four years of undergrad, many of us can quickly identify the rough waters we found ourselves in at one point in time. It’s important to champion the times when we have righted our boats and continued on course, as opposed to cursing the circumstances we fell under.

In this latest edition of Goodes Conversations, Zooni sits down with Noor Rahemtulla to continue exploring the theme of resilience. Noor and Zooni discuss their personal growth at university and the progress one can achieve through times of hardship.

Goodes Conversations Episode 4 ft. James Quinn

This week, Zooni sits down with Sophie Baremberg as she discusses her resolution for achieving sustainable perfectionism. At the onset of her post secondary life, Sophie's intensely academic family background intuitively led her to benchmark success with her academic performance (a familiar attitude for many of us at Smith). While her drive for high academic standards has not changed, her renewed emphasis on sustainably maintaining an effective work ethic and quality of life have led her to achieve what she would now define as "success". 

In this episode, we challenge some of the hard truths about Generation Z as we discuss the ideal workplace, our take on work life balance, and the nature of career progression. 

This week, we sat down with Taylor Durand to discuss the future of technology as we know it, with topics ranging from Cleantech to Space exploration.