The Conversation Is The Relationship

The Conversation Is The Relationship

By Lillah Penddah, Founder of AFRO FACTS, DEIB Speaker, and world changerEducationSelf-Improvement
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The Conversation Is The Relationship episodes

  • Saying Their Names and Using Our Voices - Lisa Dublin - Part 1
    Keynote speaker, Life coach and Author, Lisa Dublin joins me for a two part conversation. In this week's part 1, we discuss how the recent Black shootings as the hands of the police have impacted her as the mother of 3 Black boys.
    She gets vulnerable as she shares her worries for her son's and the conversations they are having in the home to prepare them for world in which people that look like them disproportionately face this fate.
    1 hr 17 min
  • Journey to Purpose - Shobna Kannusamy - Part 2
    My Conversation with Shobna continues as we connect on the power of baking. She shares how she found her way from engineering to being a successful bakery owner and Food Network judge, and her own IVF journey. We look at how she is pulling inspiration from the lessons of those experiences to inspire her emotionally intelligent approach to coaching.
    1 hr 21 min
  • Journey to Purpose - Shobna Kannusamy - Part 1

    Shobna Kannusamy, the founder and principal coach at Soirette Connections and the host of the Colour Me Brave podcast is with me to share her incredible journey choosing herself and her purpose through careers and over family expectations while navigating microaggressions and a world that was intent on reminding her that she was other. We get into how all of this led her to owning her own bakery, and choosing to empower entrepreneurs and leaders, and help them navigate career transitions, embrace change, and find clarity in discomfort.

    48 min
  • Mental Health/Mental Wealth - Noreen Sibanda

    Noreen Sibanda, the owner of Kaizen Psychological and Consulting and the Executive Director of the Alberta Black Therapist Network joins me to talk about all things mental health. She shares her story of how her passion for supporting others led her to her current profession, what she has learned along the way, the areas of mental health support that still need improvement, and the cultural impacts on mental health from the Black perspective.

    1 hr 33 min
  • Journeys & Destinations - Entrepreneurship w/Bontu Galataa

    Entrepreneurship Strategist and founder of Sayoo Consulting and Sayoo Innovation, Bontu Galataa, joins me to talk about all things entrepreneurship. She shares how staying connected to her Oromia roots and her own journey as a founder of a firm that specializes in social business consulting, dedicated to the development of rural African communities through engaging the diaspora, marries well with her role as a strategist and her inherent passion for supporting entrepreneurs achieve their goals and dreams.

    1 hr 19 min
  • Recaps and Reflections

    This week I share my biggest takeaways from the Inventures Innovation Conference. What inspired me and what slightly scared me as we look to the future of innovation.

    On the rainbow side, it is Pride month and the events have started. I talk about what it means to me and what I am doing to be a better ally.

    31 min
  • Kello Inclusive and the Power of Representation - Katie MacMillan

    Katie MacMillan, the Founder of Kello Inclusive, a modeling agency that represents people with disabilities, joins me to share her experience being a parent of a child with a disability and how her journey of allyship through self reflection and checking her own implicit biases, inspired the incredible work that she is doing to move the dial forward on inclusion and representation.

    1 hr 33 min
  • BIPOC Healing - JeeHye Choi

    Jeehye Choi, a registered social worker, shares the incredible work that she is doing as one of the therapists that the Edmonton based BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre, a place where racialized people can heal.

    As a person that is passionate about culturally sensitive counseling, she shares her personal journey as an immigrant, stepping away from cultural expectations and how choosing what makes her happy has allowed her to be a healing force for others. We touch on all things therapy and how she is bringing a new perspective by specializing in Asian family dynamics and trauma-focused therapy for racialized communities facing displacement, racism, and discrimination.

    1 hr 19 min
  • Immigrant Parents and the Accountable Mind - Calvin Yan Part 2

    This week we pick up where we left off with Calvin Yan. We dive even deeper into our "child of immigrant parents" experiences, how those experiences have made us who we are today and what we are doing in each of our lives to break the cycle, seeing our parents for who they are, and letting go of the past.

    51 min

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