The Equity Gap

Take a peek inside my ADHD brain, my late in life diagnosis and how the intersections of race, gender and being first generation Canadian make the process of coming to terms with such a diagnosis more complicated and nuanced.

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected] or learn more at shahzianoorally.com

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This first episode of the Equity Gap podcast is a sort of calling in to the white people in my circles of influence and any white person listening to this on how to engage, do the work and walk the walk.  With anything you’ll come to expect from this platform, it’s not designed for comfort. The work of dismantling the system of white supremacy is about challenging power structures that have kept equity deserving groups from advancing and living up to our fullest potential and it requires straight, raw and honest conversations to evoke some of the change. Many of us have a lot of unlearning to do around equity, so what I share on this platform is meant to challenge, and it will likely cause discomfort, but ideally it will make you think. 

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected] or learn more at shahzianoorally.com

Transcripts of all episodes can be found here

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Introducing the Equity Gap Podcast - a space to talk about race, gender and other forms of marginalization in the workplace and beyond.

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected] or learn more at shahzianoorally.com 

Transcripts of all episodes can be found here

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Resilience should no longer be a point of celebration - too many of us carry the weight of expectations to work harder, do better and play a constant game of proving ourselves in workplace environments that aren't designed for us as Black, Indigenous and women of colour. In this dynamic and powerful conversation with Chivon John - Workplace Wellness Lead for Shopify, Board Member, Speaker and Entrepreneur, we dig into the power of true self care to move further towards being well at work and accessing and celebrating the fullness of ourselves to truly thrive in our lives. 

More about Chivon - Chivon John is a Workplace Wellness Leader and Mental Health Advocate devoted to helping high achievers unlearn overwork and burnout as a necessary price of ambition.

Inspired by her own journey of learning and unlearning what it means to be well at work, Chivon helps organizations and individuals re-define having a strong ‘work ethic’ as one that includes caring for their overall wellbeing. As a purpose driven leader, she regularly speaks on the topics of workplace wellness, burnout prevention and remote and hybrid work.

In addition to her work in wellness advocacy, Chivon is the Global Wellness Lead at Shopify, serves on the Board of Directors for Taking It Global and is the founder of LightWork - a consultancy examining the things that weigh us down at work.

You can learn even more about Chivon and connect with her below:

www.chivonjohn.com
Connect with Chivon on LinkedIn
Subscribe to her newsletter: LightWork

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected]

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Meet Moji Taiwo: Creator & Host - The Immigrant Experience Show, Author, Speaker, Coach, Facilitator and Retired Civil Servant
 
Moji Taiwo is the author of - I GIVE because I’M BLESSED – I’M BLESSED because I GIVE – ‘A Chronicle of An Immigrant’s Journey’. Moji is also the Creator and Host of The Immigrant Experience Show (Tieshow) on Diversity TV's YouTube Channel. Tieshow is intended to be a platform to openly discuss matters of importance to the collective immigrant population (first and second generation), individuals and families.

In this conversation we glean so many gems of wisdom and insight from Moji on her own journey to Canada, her experiences finding her voice and success and most importantly, how to honour the immigrant experience to take up all the space you desire and deserve.

You can learn more about Moji through www.mojitaiwo.com and you can purchase Moji's incredible book through Amazon at https://www.amazon.ca/Give-Because-Blessed-Chronicle-Immigrants-ebook/dp/B07B44V2KB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M53NF354DVUK&keywords=moji+taiwo&qid=1652677743&sprefix=moji+taiwo%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-1

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected]

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Hustle culture feels outdated, archaic and unnecessary in a world that has shifted so deeply. So many of us have had awakenings around our relationship to work and labour in the last 2 years, yet reconciling that within ourselves is complicated. How do you work through the push and pull of unlearning what you once believed, of opting out of that which no longer serves you? Listen in to find out. 

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"If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive" - Audre Lorde

So much of the journey to finding career joy and a path that fulfils you is rooted in knowing ourselves and as Audre Lorde says "defining myself for myself" - leaning into the possibilities of what comes next for our pathways rooted in an uncompromised perspective of who we are in our hearts first.  Listen on to discover ways to get to a place of career joy, on your terms.

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected]

The Colour Gap Podcast is part of the Alberta Podcast Network, locally grown, community supported.

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I don't know, there is something I hate about the pressure to create and fulfill new year resolutions that are often rooted in fixing things we find flawed or imperfect about ourselves. The desire to fix what isn't even broken in the first place is such indoctrination from a society that deems us not being enough without hustle culture, discipline and perseverance. No more new year, new me BS. The latest episode of the podcast is a hopeful reframe for all those sick and tired of buying into the false reality of some flawed versions of ourselves. 

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected]

The Colour Gap Podcast is part of the Alberta Podcast Network, locally grown, community supported.

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If you stick around, what you'll find in this episode is a compilation of all my musings, learnings and ah ha moments that may help you see your path a little more clearly and ideally set you up for whatever is to come for your career in 2022. Whether starting your career or changing paths at any age and stage of your life, these sentiments ring such truth that I wish I had heard them and embraced them years ago - and with me, you will always get the unconventional viewpoint.

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected]

The Colour Gap Podcast is part of the Alberta Podcast Network, locally grown, community supported.

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When I started my career in HR, I somehow ended up in recruitment - truly by accidental happenstance. And boy did I learn a lot - about what it was like to be on both ends of the job searching process. I discovered so many things about how undermined the recruitment function can be, how few resources are dedicated for companies to humanize the experience for job seekers and the years I spent in the recruitment space sparked a passion project for me - a blog that was all about serving the job seeker, to help remove some of the mystery around the experience and that all led me to here - pivoting a few times to finally land on this podcast to relay insight, advice and my unconventional career strategy for other racialized women. 

In my brainstorming process for this episode, I came across an old blog post of mine that I thought I would resurrect. An open letter of sorts to job seekers to provide real perspective and insight on what it’s really like to be the recruiter and how to really master the game to connect in meaningful ways. At the time I was a tad frustrated with the hate rhetoric that I was seeing regularly on LinkedIn about how awful recruiters were, so I wanted to shed light and provide perspective on those recruiters that actually had integrity and good intentions, because not all of them do. To paint a picture of what we were up against and how to get inside the brain of a recruiter. So here it is, an open letter for job seekers from a former recruiter originally written and published by me in July 2014.

If you ever want to connect, provide feedback, share your story or give me any perspective on topics you want me to cover, reach out anytime at [email protected]

The Colour Gap Podcast is part of the Alberta Podcast Network, locally grown, community supported.

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