The Conversation Is The Relationship

Andy Saldaa, the Co-Founder of Queer Tech is with me and he is sharing how he navigated his way to recognizing, acknowledging and honoring his Queer identity and how doing so woke his calling to serve his community by helping them take up space in the tech world.

Dacious Richardson, is with me and sharing how he leads and creates community with the use of sport and the youth soccer tournament that he founded that creates space for refugee youth, and through his work with the UN combatting systemic racism, terrorism for Youth, and Preventing Violent Extremism.

Sarah Harper, the CEO of My Fertility Labs, is with me and sharing how her own pregnancy journey and the IVF journey's of her friends has inspired how her company is pioneering advancements in technology to make comprehensive reproductive healthcare accessible and affordable, empowering other individuals on their own fertility journeys.

Hasnain Baloach and I are talking about how tech, Islam and how combining the two can create a support system that creates community and reinforce one's connection to culture and religion. We get into our varying upbringings within the faith and how past experiences have influenced our connection to it.

We have said it before, children can be amazing teachers as long as we heed the lessons presented. This week in part 2 of our conversation, Esther shares how parenting her daughters has helped her understand more the minority experience, and how she is preparing her children for a world that will try to impose its of ideas of identity onto them.

Esther Dusabe-Richards and I are talking about her research on the impact of the Catholic church on reproductive decision making and gender and equity from a global health perspective in part 1 of our conversation. She also shares her experiences being in an interracial relationship, seeing the world through her partner's eyes, and how her exposure to different cultures at an early age contributed to priming her for the a-ha moments and self-reflections that would come her way as she increased her awareness and began her journey into parenthood.

Entrepreneur and ANZA program participant Jackie Ngondo brings her perspectives and experience with her company Flawless Figures YEG to our conversation as we we dig into the modern perceptions of beauty, the beauty industry as a whole and how a lack of diversity is being corrected through the power of representation.

It is part 2 of my ultimate catchup with my friend Jeff. We hear the rest of his journey to parenthood. The pregnancies, the cautious optimism, and what he learned about himself along the way. I also give an update on my own surrogacy journey and how Jeff continues to be an amazing source of support.

My friend Jeff Ngan joins me for the ultimate catch up. We met all the way back in grade 7 of junior high, went to university together, partied together, and are now walking similar footstep on the path of parenthood.

In part 1, he shares his journey to his authentic self and navigating the Chinese culture and how his family would become is greatest supporters. We also get into the decision that he and his husband made to have family and the incredible, and I mean incredible journey to parenthood via two friends that would become surrogates.

Keynote speaker, Life coach and Author Lisa Dublin is back for part 2 of our two part conversation. We discuss why speaking with confidence is the life skill that she has built her coaching programs around, the importance of knowing WHAT your message is, and how she is taking her business to the next level by sharing her message using her greatest gift, her voice, and helping others do exactly the same.