The Diversity Career Podcast with Fexingo: Inclusion, Equity, and Underrepresented Professionals

Lucas and Luna explore how a mid-size tech company called Calyx Software slashed turnover among underrepresented hires by 45 percent within two years — not by changing who they hired, but by redesigning their onboarding experience. They walk through the specific changes Calyx made: three-month mentorship pods, transparent career roadmaps, and a pre-emptive support system for microaggressions. The...

Employee resource groups are often treated as social clubs with no real power. But a mid-size tech company called Rivet Labs decided to change that. In 2024, they gave each of their five ERGs — focused on women, Black employees, Latino employees, LGBTQ+ employees, and disabled employees — a dedicated budget of $50,000 and direct access to the CEO. Within 18 months, retention among underrepresented...

Episode 5 of The Diversity Career Podcast digs into a quietly radical initiative by a Fortune 500 manufacturer, which published its disability pay gap and then actually closed it. Lucas walks through the data: a 12 percent gap in median hourly pay between disabled and non-disabled employees in 2021, narrowed to 2 percent by 2025. Luna presses on what it took — job redesigns, transparent salary ban...

Lucas and Luna examine how return-to-office mandates disproportionately impact women of color, using a 2025 Lean In and McKinsey study showing that 42% of women of color cite lack of flexibility as a top reason for considering leaving their jobs. They discuss the specific barriers — from commute burden to microaggression exposure — and look at how companies like Synchrony Financial have used remot...

Episode 3 of The Diversity Career Podcast digs into the mechanics of inclusive hiring beyond the job description. Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized tech firm named RelayTech redesigned its entire recruiting funnel — from where it sources candidates to how it structures interviews — and increased underrepresented hires by 40 percent over 18 months. They break down the specific changes that mov...

In this episode of The Diversity Career Podcast, Lucas and Luna dig into a specific challenge facing first-generation professionals: the mentorship gap. They examine a 2025 study from the Journal of Vocational Behavior showing that only 34% of first-gen college grads reported having a meaningful mentor in their first three years on the job, compared to 61% of their peers with college-educated pare...

May 19, 2026. In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, hundreds of companies pledged to diversify their workforces. Five years later, most have little to show for it. But one company—a mid-sized tech firm called Buffer—actually followed through. Lucas and Luna dig into Buffer's public diversity data, the specific policies that moved the needle (like publishing salary formulas and tying exec...