The Equity Gap

Today’s conversation is one I’ve been eager to bring to you all. It’s with someone I deeply admire and respect, whose expertise in personal branding is second to none. She’s thoughtful, engaging, genuine and full of practical and insightful tips and insight on the power and possibilities of investing in your personal brand.  She’s Chanèle McFarlane and Chanèle is a multiple award-winning Certified...

I lost my beloved Papa on May 25, 2021 and his sudden death was a wake up call to life that I didn't know I needed. Here is my tribute to him and the lessons I've gleaned from the deep reflection I've done since then.   Licensed intro music from NoMo

In today's episode, we’re going to in deep on how authenticity is the key to levelling up in your career and my guest on this episode is someone who shows up as herself in each and every interaction, and someone who has an incredible career to demonstrate how this approach can and will work for you.  Celinda Farias Appleby, (she/her/ella) is also known as Celly. She is the Director of Global...

" How do we develop, or regain trust within ourselves and honour our experiences, as is without judgment? There is a gift in the process of unlearning, al be it a difficult one, that creates space for new, healthy, authentic ways of how we show up in the world. On the other side, there is comfort in remaining stagnant. Whatever we choose, consciously or not, this is the version that is then m...

“In a gentle way you can shake the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi Your introversion should be seen as your superpower, yet so many of us are taught that being quiet equates to shy, unseen, unheard. We get looked over for opportunities, may hold ourselves back from pursuing roles that push us out of our comfort zones and may not always allow ourselves to celebrate our quiet confidence.   If you yourself...

Navigating being an only - the first, the only woman of colour in leadership, is exhausting, isolating and almost forces you to confront the things that make you uncomfortable about your lived experience, but you’re not alone and you deserve to have those experiences seen and heard and for spaces to be created where you can thrive in spite of the things that have systematically held you back. In t...

How many of us have had that experience of knowing our otherness through our names? It’s interesting to think of all the ways we quiet ourselves to make it comfortable for other people in our lives. We laugh off jokes about our names, we sit in silence as some make zero attempts to ask or clarify pronunciation and we even go as far as to remove any semblance of ethnicity from our identities to avo...

“There is a difference in being nice and being kind.” Niceness is rooted in pleasing other people and kindness, though baked in thoughtfulness, has boundaries and allows you to put yourself first.  Now that is a novel concept for me and dare I say, probably a number of other racialized women. How many of us are taught to live our lives on autopilot operating out of a desire to please, to never ruf...

“Your playing small does not serve the world.” - Marianne Williamson, a Return to Love Our journeys as WOC look and feel different, but that does not mean that our worthiness is any less. Imagine the possibilities for your life if you stopped playing small.  I believe in the core of my being that if you’re struggling to come across work that fulfills you, if you’ve found yourself chasing career pa...

Today is a bittersweet day as we announce the departure of our dear Susy Ko from the Colour Gap podcast. 2020 certainly did a number on all of our lives, but brought Susy closer to a focus on her priorities which include her family first and foremost.  Susy will be dearly missed, but her voice and impact carries on so much. At the heart of what we set out to do with the Colour Gap was bringing sto...

As a person of colour, my entire existence has been defined in some way by the white people in my life. White leaders, white politicians, white beauty standards and white voices have been at the forefront of my important influences, and as I’ve come to find value in my own voice, presence, identity and worth as a woman of colour, what I struggle with now is reconciling the depth of that influence...

We shouldn’t have to be extraordinary to be recognized and acknowledged, yet despite countless examples of impact and influence, so many of the stories of racialized people in Canada’s history have been omitted in our education curriculum. Cinde Adegbesan, Nicole Dodd and Pam Tzeng are working to change that for current and future generations of our province's children by calling on the Minis...

6 months and counting into the global pandemic and our new normal and yet nothing seems normal. When you have the President of the United States tweeting about Covid-19 calling it the "China virus" - that kind of validation of hate only further perpetuates divide, is highly irresponsible, racist, hate based and normalizes the othering of racialized minorities. What isn’t new is the blame...

"The best things in life are on the other side of a difficult conversation." - Kwame Christian 2020 has given us a lot to talk about. We’ve got a global pandemic, quarantine and isolation, we even had a potential for killer bees at one point and most importantly and most hopeful - we’ve got a real moment of pause in history for race relations with the black lives matter movement that is...

Too many women of colour are opting out of vital conversations on the importance of being fully seen, and are ok with the equity and equality conversations not going beyond gender. This is our call to action to the WOC in our lives to start standing fully in their identities and asking for more - to be fully seen and heard and recognized for their differences in ways that will lift them up.

Join us for our last episode of Season 2 to do some reflection on all the learning, the ah ha moments and what we're hoping to call in for the experiences of women of colour moving forward. 

Just as women have been fighting for centuries to be seen for their smarts, expertise and all that they bring to the table, the intersectional layers of experiences that are unique to you as a women of colour also deserve the same level of recognition. For you to be truly seen for who and what you are - all of you. For so long, we've been working off the playbooks of how to navigate our caree...

In this episode, we're so excited to introduce you to the deeply inspiring, Dr. Golnaz Golnaraghi. Dr. Golnaraghi is an inclusion + belonging advocate, the Founder of Divity Group & Accelerate Her Future as well as a Founding Activator with SheEO and a TedX Speaker. She joins us in conversation about her life's work, her passions and the incredible impact she has made in advancing th...

Being a parent, the worry and fear of being able to help our children - especially our daughters, find their place in this world and be able to feel a sense of belonging and confidence in who they are can feel overwhelming. Adding in the extra layer of being a “girl of colour” in a world that may not look like them or the family that surrounds them, creates a whole different experience and conside...

As we close off 2019, we wanted to take the opportunity to explore the many ways in which the conversation around the advancement of women and people of colour has progressed. 

It's the biggest elephant in the room. As HR practitioner John Sumser says, "HR is a 47 year old white woman." and this leaves little room for women of colour to ever feel like they can find their places within the profession. When the HR departments of corporations don't actually represent the faces of team members for which they build policies, programs and experiences, they...

In this episode, we explore why we believe immigrants and people of colour have the upper hand when it comes to navigating all the change that is to come with the future of work and automation.

"So many women have a hard time liking themselves because they don’t see themselves reflected in the norms." - Michelle Obama In our second episode of Season 2, we explore beauty narratives for women of colour and how a lack of representation leads to idealizing westernized beauty over our own.

In our first episode of Season 2 we dive into the many reasons we need to celebrate the uniqueness of being women of colour - all the layers of beauty, character and magnificence that can often be forgotten.

Our last episode of the season where we explore the journey of embarking on uncovering uncomfortable truths. An episode about reflection, learning and discussing what's to come next.