A Dog Called Diversity

Dannie Lynn Fountain identifies as lots of things. She’s a staffer at Google where she is also the global inclusion lead for #Iamremarkable program . She’s an author having just released her book Ending Checkbox Diversity . She’s neurodiverse, bi-racial and queer.  In episode 71 Dannie Lynn talks about all these things as well as weight discrimination and accessibility.    Support the show   The C...

Ayanna Davis suffers from sensory overload and was diagnosed with autism later in life by accident.  Did you know that black children are diagnosed with autism 3 years later than white children, and females are diagnosed later than males?  In episode 70 autism advocate artist, and author Ayanna Davis shares why this happens, while telling her own story. Support the show   The Culture Ministry we s...

Welcome to A dog called diversity. A podcast from The Culture Ministry , where we explore the themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion through sharing stories of personal and powerful lived experiences, including how people have found their feet and developed their career in diversity and inclusion.  We are so glad you are listening in and if you need some help or support with your Diversity &am...

In our first episode for 2023 Lisa introduces our fantastic podcast guests for February. They are Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance Coco Brown on 3 February Phenomenally autistic Ayanna Davis on 10 February Intersectional Dannie Lynn Fountain on weight discrimination on 17 February Diversity & Inclusion advocate for sex, sexuality and gender diversities Tidge Backhouse on 24 February In addit...

2022 was the year we emerged from Covid-19. Mostly.  It was also the year of ups and downs for Diversity & Inclusion around the world. In this episode, your host Lisa Mulligan reviews the year that was. The wins and the loses. The steps made for a more inclusive world, and the set backs that at times felt like we were getting nowhere. Here are the resources referred to in this episode:   New Z...

As we near the end of 2022 Lisa talks about the processes she uses to stop and reflect on what’s she has achieved, what she has learnt, what progress she has made, and where she could have done better.  She then uses this process to set her intentions and goals for the coming year. This process includes where she wants to go with her business and career and personal and family goals, setting out w...

In this episode we speak with Karen Loon , author of Fostering Culturally Diverse Leadership in Organisations: Lessons from those who smashed the bamboo ceiling.   She interweaves solid research with her own and the personal experiences of other Asian-Australian and Asian leaders. The end result is a contemporary and relevant understanding of the challenges of Asian leaders, including how their fa...

At her heart Vanessa is a storyteller. She has done many types of writing, from poems, songs, and short stories to news articles, blog posts, copywriting, and even scriptwriting. Her favourite, however, has always been writing stories where she gets to create new worlds, getting to know her sassy characters, going on epic adventures, and seeing good triumph over evil.  Vanessa also has some disabi...

We met Laura Kangas back in episode 57 with her co-author Jim Rogers. They have written “ Diversity Training that generates real change ” which was released recently. Today’s episode is a more personal one. While learning about Laura for episode 57 we learnt that Laura adopted 2 baby girls from China. Listen in to hear Lisa Mulligan in conversation with Laura to learn how international adoption ha...

J. R. Reed has some great ways of helping us learn and understand about being neurodiverse . Based in Missouri, USA J.R. is an autism self advocate, writer, speaker and consultant who growing up was described as weird, stupid and lazy.  A later in life diagnosis has helped him and others understand that his brain is just a bit different. A Mac in a PC world. A different operating system is a good...

Apart from having a super cool name Dan Draper is doing some super cool things in Diversity & Inclusion.  When he is not leading his current venture CipherStash , a data-storage platform that keeps data encrypted while still providing the search capability to which developers have become accustomed, he is championing diversity.  As the Executive Producer for Debugging Diversity , a 3-part docu...

A 20 year career in the public service, repeated bully and a nervous breakdown forced wheelchair user Ainslee Hooper to re-evaluate her life and do something with much more independence and purpose.    Listen in to hear from Ainslee on how: Disability inclusion includes starting with the customer of your product or service and thinking about how you can meet their needs. People working in call cen...

We are so glad you are listening in and if you need some help or support with your Diversity & Inclusion work go to www.thecultureministry.com for more information.  Anne-Marie’s coming out process took longer than some, though as you will find many women are coming out later in life in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Anne-Marie lived the life that was expected. She married to a man, had kids and b...

We are so glad you are listening in and if you need some help or support with your Diversity & Inclusion work go to www.thecultureministry.com for more information.  Chinali Patel has led an incredibly impressive career and it’s not over yet. A broken heart led to a career in law enforcement. More recently she has been leading International Illicit Finance Policy as a diplomat for the British...

We are so glad you are listening in and if you need some help or support with your Diversity & Inclusion work go to www.thecultureministry.com for more information. This weeks episode includes two guests. Laura Kangas and James Rogers . Independently they run their own businesses, Riverbend Associates Inc and The Diversity Coach respectively, while also collaborating on diversity & inclusi...

In this episode Lisa Mulligan , Founder and CEO of The Culture Ministry shares the results and the insights from the 2022 APAC Diversity & Inclusion Salary Survey . The survey set out to answer a fundamental question for which there is currently no reliable data;  How much should a Diversity & Inclusion professional be paid?  During February and March 2022 Diversity & Inclusion profess...

I love hearing people's career stories. Do you?  This week I decided to share my career story and how I ended up working in Diversty & Inclusion. I get asked a lot from people who also want to work in this space so I felt like it was high time I shared.  Listen in to hear how: I grew up and how the experience of living on a farm and working in retail shaped how I like to work I took the o...

This week’s episode was recorded with a live online audience during World Breastfeeding Week 2022. Simone Casey is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and member of the Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ) and College of Lactation Consultants Victoria (CLC-VIC). She works in a private hospital breastfeeding clinic in the inner-city, and has her own p...

We love talking to people who are making a difference for individuals AND organisations. Today we hear about Louise Tagliante’s career and why she started Protégé , to deliver women’s and business mentoring programs. Mentoring programs are one of the interventions that support underrepresented people in organisations to progress their careers.  Listen in to learn more.  Our key takeaways from Loui...

I hope you will enjoy listening to Gemma Saunders as much as we did. From her beautiful acknowledgement of country to her story of coming out, she has a beautiful way of describing the world.  She talks about coming into herself, meeting her wife and having her children, and how she loves heading off with her wife and kids in their caravan (listen to learn why).  We talk through: The process of tw...

Stephanie Duesing discovered her son Sebastian was nearly completely blind at 15 years of age. How did she discover this and how was he navigating the world until then? Listen in to learn about cerebral visual impairment (CVI), a disorder caused by damage to the parts of the brain that process vision and prosopagnosia , commonly known about face blindness. Such an interesting and beautiful story t...

Dominick Domingo identifies as a Storyteller, an artist, a gay man and more recently as HIV positive. He graduated with distinction from Art Center College of Design in 1991 and spent 11 years as an artist with Disney Feature Animation in both LA and Paris, working on films including Lion King, Pocahontas and Hunchback of Notre Dame.  He also has illustrated books for major publishers including Pe...

Farzana Nayani joins this weeks podcast episode from Los Angeles where she is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion specialist, coach, and international keynote speaker. Her advisory work with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) led her to write The Power of Employee Resource Groups: How People Create Authentic Change We had to speak with Farzana because at The Culture Ministry we know how important Empl...

If you haven’t heard about Cindy Gallop you are in for a treat. As a start her LinkedIn headline says she likes to blow shit up.  That's sounds fun doesn't it? She does this through her platform Make Love Not Porn , the first user generated human-curated social sex platform. It’s like Facebook for real world sex. We invited her on A Dog Called Diversity because she is making the world of...

Welcome to A dog called diversity. A podcast from The Culture Ministry, where we explore the themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion through sharing stories of personal and powerful lived experiences, including how people have found their feet and developed their career in diversity and inclusion.  We are so glad you are listening in and if you need some help or support with your Diversity &amp...