The Inclusion Bites Podcast
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago -Inclusion Ignited: Real Talks that Drive Change — Disrupting Norms with Conversations that Challenge
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Unhiding at Work
February 09, 2023 07:30 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBKat grew up in a military, southern, rural family. Then, they worked at conservative organisations. They know what it feels like to hide in plain sight at work. Kat teaches people to write job postings to remove biases and get the right people to apply. Kat envisions a world where people can imagine a whole new life and get access to it through a job post no matter who they are. Oh, and for the best workers to get paid the most instead of the best negotiators.
Staying positive in a world full of negativity
December 01, 2022 07:30 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBCaroline is a hypnotherapist and Master NLP Practitioner. She works with people 1-2-1 in a therapeutic relationship and also as a public speaker to share her message with a wider audience. Every technique Caroline shares is one that she has tried and tested herself. In these tough times, staying positive in a world full of negativity is hard. How can you avoid being dragged down by your own fearful thoughts? How do you strike a balance when you are being pulled in so many different directio...
Self-Forgiveness is Tough
November 24, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBLis felt as though she didn\'t fit in, or belong for most of her life, due in large part to an undiagnosed mental trauma. She is now on a mission to wipe out shame for good. The shame and self-rejection she felt impacted her destructively in different ways over several decades; she hated herself and didn\'t believe she deserved happiness. She now shares what she learnt on her own journey of personal transformation so that no one else has to suffer as she did. Lis was only thirteen years old...
Do What You Love, Love What You Do
November 17, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 31.2 MBMike helps clients achieve positive mental wealth through building handpicked support networks and helping them unlock significant performance improvements. He believes Mental Wealth comes from the pursuit of your true potential and positive wellbeing with a committed support network the Mental Wealth Team.
Only Ourselves Can Free Our Minds
November 10, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 31 MBBoth professionally and personally Moreen works on challenging beliefs, norms and assumptions that keep oppressive cultural, institutional practices and decision making in place, with often devastating consequences. Through training and communication, she wants to work towards her vision of a more just society.
It's Painful Not to Belong
November 03, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBScience confirms, we simply can't learn if we don't feel like we belong. Lysette is all about learning and breakthroughs, and explains people have to feel safe for that. She helps to provide the insights, knowledge, experience, skills, strategy to level the playing-field so that *everyone* knows how to 1. Pass exams first time, and 2. break through the glass ceiling, especially in male-dominated industries.
Autism Rocks
October 27, 2022 06:30 - 41 minutes - 19 MBSam\'s mission is to spread autism acceptance by sharing his own story about being excluded and how inclusion has affected his life. His D&I vision is that we all stop judging a man or a woman and see who they are beyond what you see on the outside.
Scavenger Mindset
October 20, 2022 06:30 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBClare launched a grassroots regen initiative in her high street 10 years ago, which transformed her thinking about leadership and where potential really lies. She believes people are capable of so much more when given the right environment to contribute. She says that all of her experience, meeting amazing grassroot innovators and building communities, has shown her that when people feel connected, belong, and have ownership they can achieve extraordinary things.
Dare to be YOU!
October 13, 2022 06:30 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBShelley is a passionate believer that every human being has genius within them and should be free to express their gifts and who they are and is very good at being with people who are struggling or in deep pain, and helping them to chart a way forward. She became a psychotherapist after thinking she was insane as a teenager and had a mentor who taught her about having a sales mindset, which she confesses was a game changer for her. Shelley believes we have gone backwards - more transphobia ...
Outright Optimism
September 08, 2022 06:30 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBAs a speaking coach, she has learned over the years how many people are hiding themselves, afraid to speak up and stand out because they don\'t fit into typical cultural or gender norms. Diversity in the professional world has become an important issue to me from the perspective of helping individuals bring their whole selves to their presentations.
Creating balance and representation in technology
September 01, 2022 06:30 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBNicole became an accidental technologist; it wasn't her career idea. She had been a techie for more than 20 years and the only woman not only in the tech team but also the only woman in the whole office. She has worked on all sorts of technologies. She has seen, heard, and been the subject of bias - from men and women. Queen bee syndrome in technology has been a problem, it's horrible to look at yourself and recognise this in an older version of you. I've grown, and I want to make sure that...
Busting the myths of inter-generational stereotypes
January 13, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBStereotyping occurs across all generations, and all involve myths, such as someone being ‘being past your sell by date’, or younger people ‘having no experience’. The challenge with myths is that we all have them and need to work to quell them and instead learn more about each other and accept and celebrate differences and variations.
Being on the periphery of society
January 06, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBKhakan felt, even from a young age that he did not really fit in. He felt different but was not able to label it. He felt that he wasn’t masculine enough to fit in with boys and stood out for liking to play with dolls and what were perceived as typically feminine games. He also didn’t fit in with girls as at school as they didn’t like to mix with boys.
Everyone should feel as though they belong, are welcome and valued
December 30, 2021 07:30 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBStatus quo about what being welcome and valued should be, inclusion is a feeling that comes from within, so if we don’t feel included it is because what society or a specific organisation/business are doing does not help us feel included. They should be creating an environment that is open to everyone – to Esi it should feel like a breath of fresh air, rather than for her, as a wheelchair user having to mitigate all of the barriers she is confronted with.
Domestic abuse must not be tolerated
December 23, 2021 07:30 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBAndrew, in a former marriage, was a long-term victim of domestic abuse. He is now a passionate campaigner on the topic and takes a non-gender stance to it.
Assimilation is not necessary
December 16, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 28 MBHung as a “triple migrant” believes when you are from an ethnic background that is not native to a country you end up living in, although you learn to follow the social rules and obey cultural values, you may never fully feel part of that group, without caveat. He remembers from his childhood trying to work out how he could belong better so that he didn’t stand out, even trying to wash his face for longer to make it appear whiter, after taunts that he looked dirty. This need to fit in can go ...
Peeling back our layers to uncover our Essence
December 09, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBMichelle always thought she understood human behaviour but began to question this after she was caught in the 2004 boxing day tsunami in Sri Lanka. It was during the aftermath she learnt she didn’t know as much as she thought, as she witnessed people, she knew acting in ways she didn’t expect or recognise, driven by something she wasn’t aware of, their core subconscious driving forces.
Learning to talk, to listen and to learn
December 02, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBIain is a 54-year-old heterosexual white male whose wish is for everyone to just be able to be themselves. He is aware that these characteristics put him in a privileged position, so he was worked hard to raise his own awareness on the topic of diversity and inclusion.
Building steppingstones to a better future
November 26, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBRachel is a dual national who sees her home as Australia, despite being born and now residing in the UK. She lives in the North and is proud to possess a unique mix of accents. She now works as a broadcaster after a career in nursing, a talent she says she has always had but that needed the right set of circumstances to come out.
Equality is not just a ‘nice to have’, it is a must
November 18, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 28 MBMany organisations say that they treat equality, diversity & inclusion as a ‘must have’, yet often it is an area where budget is not prioritised, raising the question as to whether this is now a ‘tick box’ exercise designed to merely avoid scrutiny
Escaping the echo chamber of D&I lingo
November 11, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBGreg believes we reuse the same lingo and terminology, i.e. ‘bringing your authentic self to work’, used as well-meaning terms, but without unpicking both what they mean to us and the people we are using it on. He believes people get caught up on the ‘lingo’ rather than the motivation behind the statement.
Stretching imaginations to achieve what's possible
November 04, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBMarcus believes we very rarely self-reflect because we are busy and fixated on carrying on doing things the way they have always been done, holding lots of attachment to received wisdom. He thinks that any important process should be reviewed every 3 months to consider; why did we start doing it this way, why are we still doing it this way, and does it serve our purpose and if it doesn’t, is there a better way? If you want better answers, you have to ask better questions.
Living on the Edge
September 16, 2021 17:30 - 1 hour - 31 MBGrowing up Andi never quite felt as though she fitted in, despite as she says, ‘playing the game’ and following expectations by going to university and then starting her career in the corporate world. Throughout this time, she felt she was hiding who she was, her intrinsic self.
Losing the Labels
September 09, 2021 05:30 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBAs a woman of colour living in Wisconsin, Briana feels a constant pressure to act a certain way, look a certain way or respond in a certain manner making her feel as though what she is doing is wrong and in fear of being labelled ignorant or too aggressive. Her dream is for everyone to not be defined by any one thing and be able to be themselves, unapologetically.
Freedom for Everybody
September 02, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBLulu used to be a criminal defence lawyer, fighting for people’s freedom from incarceration. She is now a coach and uses the word ‘rebel’ and all ‘rebels want freedom’ in her branding, especially the term ‘she rebel’ those who don’t just want freedom for themselves, but for everybody. Lulu believes as a society we are on a tipping point of exploring what this looks like and how much women have to contribute to this narrative.
Being a woman in a man’s world
August 26, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBMandy joined the Royal Air force in 1994 aged 21 and became part of the first group of women allowed to fly fast jets and only the second woman to fly the Tornado GR4 on the front line. She never struggled being a woman in a man’s world during the training or felt that she stuck out as the whole group banded together. She did however start to notice this more when she joined her squadron as the first woman pilot within that group.
Creating a level playing field so every human can be inspired
August 19, 2021 05:30 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBMindy believes there is broad recognition that we don’t have a level playing field in many sectors/pockets of society and she believes things can be different. She looks to inspiration; working with people that want to inspire others, but says they too need to feel inspired. They need to feel that they are going to be given a chance for their voice to be heard and she works to create opportunities to allow this. It is easier to speak out since the introduction of the internet, but it is about...
Rediscovering lost knowledge
August 12, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBWe all accumulate a vast amount of knowledge during out lifetime but how do we download this, and what happens to it all, especially specialist knowledge that has the power to make a real difference?
Viewing gender through a fresh perspective
August 05, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 32.1 MBAntoinette works with women in leadership to help further their careers, as they often contact her after experiencing imposter syndrome, confidence issues or feeling as though they were holding themselves back.
Secrets from the habitologist
July 29, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBTony helps people to make habits automatic. This started when he began to immerse himself in all aspects of health, he found he was easily able to impart his knowledge to others, but this didn’t translate into them being able to implement what they had learnt into their lives. . It was only when he read the book ‘tiny habits’ that everything clicked in to place and he realised that by starting small, scaling up gradually over time, you’re more likely to succeed in whatever behaviour you are t...
Homes for Heroes
July 22, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBWhen soldiers were returning from the trenches after World War I, the government launched an initiative called ‘homes for heroes’ and Mushtaq thinks that this is just as important today as we face multiple housing crises. He believes we need to, as a society build homes that are suitable for today’s need and to help people live and thrive. This crisis has been going on for last 30-40 years fuelled by the governments push on home ownership as the tenure of choice, houses being sold off through...
Freeing women from being prisoners of their pain
July 15, 2021 05:30 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MBDiksha has been a practising therapist for 23 years and offers integrated wellbeing services for women helping them manage stress, anxiety and pain. She uses pain as a generic term to include physical, emotional, mental, societal and spiritual pain. Through her therapy she enables women to find their own strengths, embracing pain they may have experienced so they can work through it and begin to live their true potential, without societal pressures.
Empowering everyone to be able to share their gifts with the world
July 08, 2021 05:30 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBPenny started her career as a Project & Programme Manager, working to ensure every programme was as good as it could possibly be and quickly realised that in order to achieve this she needed to focus on the attendees. She was just getting into her stride with managing in-person programmes when September 11th 2001 shifted her ways of working and forcing her to be an early adopter of virtual working. She was subsequently able to operate as a consultant to advise others on how to do this success...
Driving the message that inclusion is a cold-nosed business priority
April 08, 2021 05:30 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBInclusion is more than a buzz word in 2021, it is a critical business priority. The main message Neil shares with the Business leaders he works with is ‘don’t leave it to your HR Director’. Inclusion needs to be companywide and often a fundamental shift to ensure that employees feel comfortable within the environment you have created and can therefore perform to the best of their ability.
None of us are included fully in the world until all of us are!
March 25, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBUntil we are free of the discrimination that comes from not looking like or being like someone else then none of us are safe and none of us are really free. The same is true for inclusion, if the world that you are in does not include everyone then it isn’t the full world, it’s a bit of the world that isn’t fully representative or a safe, happy and fair environment for everyone.
Standing in the middle and feeling excluded
March 18, 2021 07:30 - 33 MBTom was naturally artistic, something that was encouraged by his mother and led to him becoming a vocal harmony facilitator. He had chosen this career path, in part due to a belief that this would finally see him be part of a group and feel included – standing in the middle of the circle with everyone looking at him. But it was during this time he realised that he could not engineer being in a group, this would naturally happen and only by being his authentic self.
Will Diversity and Inclusion "Just Happen"?
March 11, 2021 07:30 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBThere has been a lot of legislation to ensure that we are treating everyone as equals, but this has made some people believe D&I has happened, or that we don’t need to do any more. If we take that stance, to let things run as they are, change will still happen but too slowly.
Personal is Political and How Silence Speaks
March 04, 2021 15:44 - 1 hour - 28 MBPolitics in a social sense is distribution of services, who gets what, who counts, whose experience is promoted and whose is vilified. Our own personal experiences are a political point and are what count, what happens to us is a reflection of how and where we live. The statement ‘Personal is political’ comes from a book that Laura first read when she was 7, called Women’s Room. Re-reading the story aged 17, she realised her own experiences, especially around inclusion, feeling left out and ...
Giving Yourself a Gold Star
February 25, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBAt the end of ‘live’ Conferences, Pam gives each attendee a gold star, as a reminder that they are a star – someone truly amazing, with the ‘r’ standing for, yes really. These sessions are designed to help people realise what they bring to the world, to identify and stop denying it, to celebrate it.
Finding the Magic
February 19, 2021 12:01 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBWhilst working as an accountant, Mark kept his love of magic a secret from his clients, worried that it would adversely affect his professional credibility. It was only after being made redundant that he decided to focus on his passion for speaking, writing, and mentoring and is now happy to reveal his passion for magic, believing that you need to reveal parts of yourself and be your authentic self.
Who am I, and Who are You?
February 04, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 31.5 MBHow many hats do you wear and if we change hats for labels, which labels do we apply to ourselves or do others apply to us and how interchangeable are they? When does one label become more dominant? Individuals are multi-faceted, and our leading labels will vary, depending on the context at the time.
Me, My Hormones and I
February 01, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBIt was only after leaving her job due to suffering with low self-esteem, palpitations, anxiety and memory loss that Lauren discovered from her GP that all of the symptoms she was accrediting to onset dementia was actually due to going through the early menopause. This prompted her to start working on raising awareness and understanding of the menopause - something that is just a natural life stage and stop any other woman going through the same thing she did.
Being Visible, Listened to and Respected
January 21, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBSusan from an early age has been an introvert. Through her own life experience and client work she is aware that introverts tend to be underestimated and not as visible as they could be so can miss out on opportunities and be overlooked for promotions. In corporate culture it is not always the person that works the hardest that gets rewarded, it may be the person that is most vocal and seen.
Everybody can fit into the Soup model
January 14, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBDerek believes we implement so many rules that people begin to look for loopholes and they lose their power. Derek argues we should change our approach, starting with pupils at school and stop worrying about what they are learning, instead teach them how to learn. Once they have that skill, they can learn anything that they wish, which will carry them through life. It should not matter who we meet in our lives, we should be able to rely on our listening and communication skills.
Reducing your fear and anxiety
January 07, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBFear and anxiety are universal and unless we manage to conquer them, they can hold us back from performing our best and reaching our potential. Despite the richness of our society there are still too many people that are discriminated against, mistreated, bullied, or ignored. Mark works on empowering these people and offering techniques on how to deal with this effectively and appropriately to ensure they can reach their full potential.
It's never too late to be what you might have been
December 31, 2020 07:30 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBAmy believes who you are, what you do and what you have is all within your control and what you want to have determines what you become and what you do. She is a strong advocate for switching from just existing to living. Like the Henry Ford quote, ‘whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.’ You must put the effort in to get results.
Planting a seed of kindness and understanding
December 24, 2020 07:30 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBGrowing up in Ukraine, Ryals lived through the revolution, a time of suppression where he did not feel comfortable to come out as gay. It was only through moving to the US and finally coming out that he found acceptance and was able to let go off the anger he had held onto for so many years. He is now using his lyrics to empower people because, as he says, “we are all the same at the core and all need acceptance and love.”
Anti-racism work is not rocket science
December 17, 2020 17:52 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBA white male seems to become the default norm that we benchmark others upon, and we want to assimilate everyone to the same standards. The western world has built its economy on power, wealth and control and we want to compete and be better than others, and we assume everyone feels the same way. We still do not see other cultures as on a level playing field to us – it still matters where you come from and we fear the unknown. To become anti-racist needs not only a fundamental change on an ind...
Creating a level playing field in attitude and action
December 10, 2020 19:30 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBSarah is passionate about creating a culture that raises others up to allow the creation of a level playing field. We discuss how she has overcome her own fears and now uses her voice to challenge our systemic and historical inequalities. We live in an unequal world and need to recognise what we can do to empower others and ourselves to change this. By creating an open dialogue, we can begin to make our workforces more agile and as a result more inclusive. The recent pandemic has highlighted ...
Autism from an Autistic parent's perspective
October 15, 2020 05:30 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBJoin Laurie as they give a no-hold bared view of how their are so many misconceptions of Autistic People, the language, terminology and tropes that propagate many myths. Laurie is themselves an autistic person and is also the parent of autistic children. They share some insights of the challenges they face parenting and in the world of other parents and society. Laurie is a trainer and speaker on the topic of autistic and neurodiversity inclusion to make the workplace accessible.