The Diverse Minds Podcast

Welcome to the 113th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. In today’s episode, I talk about ensuring a Black History Month 365 approach, as we draw towards the end of Black History Month and towards the season of winter.

• What Black History Month 365 is all about. [00:54]
• Why you should care about Black History Month 365 approach. [01:17]
• Some ways I've seen some organisations wrongly approach Black History Month events. [02:00]
• What organisations can do to have a better Black History Month 365 approach. [03:05]
• Some ideas for organisations celebrating Black History Month for the first time. [09:06]

• Black History 365 is about conscious shift to truly understand black contributions, excellence and legacies in society today.
• if you want to change the usual way of doing things and set yourself ahead of the pack, you don't want to appear tokenistic.
• Black History Month is vital, and one month, much like South Asian History Month, is not enough to recognise the ongoing inequalities, inequity, history and truths.
• There's old fashioned language and there's hate speech.
• Tokenism isn't helpful. And although it may be done with the right intention, the impact can be harmful.

 Resources on

• Black History Cymru/Wales
• Celebrating Black History 365
• Black History Haringey 365
• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• Episode #9: How to organise meaningful Black History Month Events at work

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Talia Loderick is a Money Coach, based in Cardiff. She calls her money coaching practice TLC because when she realised the acronym for Tender Loving Care also stands for Talia Loderick Coaching she almost swooned with joy. Because who doesn’t need a dose of TLC from time to time? Rhetorical question – we all do. 

Talia offers one-to-one coaching helping women understand their emotions and beliefs around money so they can improve their behaviour with money, feel better and be better with money. Talia also delivers financial education workshops to 11-19-year-olds, helping young people build lifelong money-management skills.

• About Talia, and her coaching practice. [02:20]
• How she became a money coach. [07:30]
• What the term “good with money” means to her. [11:23]
• The specific money mindsets and challenges Global Majority women face [15.20]
• How there is finally a space for Black women to talk about money [21.12]
• What workplaces can do to encourage more money conversations amongst their employees [23:59]
• Her top 3 tips for looking after her mental health. [29:15]

• Unless you know what drives your behaviour, it’s really hard to change your behaviour.
• Many of women from, global majority /diaspora backgrounds, are taught explicitly and also by modelled behaviour, to support others first, to care for others first, to nurture everyone around us.
• In order to look after others well, we need to look after ourselves.
• It’s really hard to motivate yourself from a place of negativity.
• Financial wellbeing to me, means having enough for my day to day needs.

• Email: [email protected]
• Talia’s website
• Talia on Instagram and LinkedIn