The Conversation is the Relationship
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The Conversation is the Relationship 🎙 Podcast 🎙
HOSTED BY LILLAH PENDDAH
Welcome to The Conversation is The Relationship Podcast!
I'm Lillah Penddah, CEO and entrepreneur of AFRO FACTS, where we create educational games to raise awareness about Black History and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging).
Join me as we dive into all things DEIB, share my personal experiences as a Black woman in Alberta, and learn from interviews with diverse voices. We'll explore how to be better allies, uncover hidden biases, and reflect on our roles in systemic racism.
Get ready to reflect, acknowledge, and be inspired as we journey together toward greater awareness and change.
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The Superpower of Queerness- Andy Saldaña - Part 2
Andy Saldaña and I are finishing our conversation talking about how he and the Queer Tech team are building resilience, encourage self-empowerment, and creating a sense of belonging that allows Queer people to thrive as their authentic selves in the tech industry.
The Superpower of Queerness - Part 1 - Andy Saldaña
Andy Saldaña, the Co-Founder of Queer Tech is with me and he is sharing how he navigated his way to recognizing, acknowledging and honoring his Queer identity and how doing so woke his calling to serve his community by helping them take up space in the tech world.
Leading Community - Dacious Richardson
Dacious Richardson, is with me and sharing how he leads and creates community with the use of sport and the youth soccer tournament that he founded that creates space for refugee youth, and through his work with the UN combatting systemic racism, terrorism for Youth, and Preventing Violent Extremism.
Allyship with My Fertility Labs - Sarah Harper
Sarah Harper, the CEO of My Fertility Labs, is with me and sharing how her own pregnancy journey and the IVF journey's of her friends has inspired how her company is pioneering advancements in technology to make comprehensive reproductive healthcare accessible and affordable, empowering other individuals on their own fertility journeys.
Tawhid - Tech Bringing Culture & Religion Together - Hasnain Baloach
Hasnain Baloach and I are talking about how tech, Islam and how combining the two can create a support system that creates community and reinforce one's connection to culture and religion. We get into our varying upbringings within the faith and how past experiences have influenced our connection to it.
Interracial Parenting - Esther Dusabe-Richards - Part 2
We have said it before, children can be amazing teachers as long as we heed the lessons presented. This week in part 2 of our conversation, Esther shares how parenting her daughters has helped her understand more the minority experience, and how she is preparing her children for a world that will try to impose its of ideas of identity onto them.
Interracial Parenting - Esther Dusabe-Richards - Part 1
Esther Dusabe-Richards and I are talking parenting from the interracial perspective. In part 1 of our conversation, she shares her experiences being in an interracial relationship, seeing the world through her partner's eyes, and how her exposure to different cultures at an early age contributed to priming her for the a-ha moments and self-reflections that would come her way as she increased her awareness and began her journey into parenthood.
Flawlessly Diverse Beauty - Jackie Ngondo
Entrepreneur and ANZA program participant Jackie Ngondo brings her perspectives and experience with her company Flawless Figures YEG to our conversation as we we dig into the modern perceptions of beauty, the beauty industry as a whole and how a lack of diversity is being corrected through the power of representation.
Surrogacy, a Journey to Fatherhood - Jeff Ngan - Part 2
It is part 2 of my ultimate catchup with my friend Jeff. We hear the rest of his journey to parenthood. The pregnancies, the cautious optimism, and what he learned about himself along the way. I also give an update on my own surrogacy journey and how Jeff continues to be an amazing source of support.
Surrogacy, a Journey to Fatherhood - Jeff Ngan - Part 1
My friend Jeff Ngan joins me for the ultimate catch up. We met all the way back in grade 7 of junior high, went to university together, partied together, and are now walking similar footstep on the path of parenthood. In part 1...
Speaking as a Superpower - Lisa Dublin - Part 2
Keynote speaker, Life coach and Author Lisa Dublin is back for part 2 of our two part conversation. We discuss why speaking with confidence is the life skill...
Saying Their Names and Using Our Voices - Lisa Dublin - Part 1
Keynote speaker, Life coach and Author, Lisa Dublin joins me for a two part conversation. In this week's part 1, we discuss how the recent Black shootings as the hands of the police have impacted her as the mother of 3 Black boys...
Vacation, The Olympics, and Saying Their Names
We are back! Season 2!
This week, we get into what has been happening in the world while we have been on break, the magic that is the Olympics, and of course a dose of the uncomfortable.
Journey to Purpose - Shobna Kannusamy - Part 1
Shobna Kannusamy, the founder and principal coach at Soirette Connections and the host of the Colour Me Brave podcast is with me to share her incredible journey choosing herself and her purpose through careers and over family expectations…
Mental Health/Mental Wealth - Noreen Sibanda
Noreen Sibanda, the owner of Kaizen Psychological and Consulting and the Executive Director of the Alberta Black Therapist Network joins me to talk about all things mental health…
Journeys & Destinations - Entrepreneurship w/Bontu Galataa
Entrepreneurship Strategist and founder of Sayoo Consulting and Sayoo Innovation, Bontu Galataa, joins me to talk about all things entrepreneurship…
Recaps and Reflections
This week I share my biggest takeaways from the Inventures Innovation Conference…
Kello Inclusive and the Power of Representation - Katie MacMillan
Katie MacMillan, the Founder of Kello Inclusive, a modeling agency that represents people with disabilities, joins me to share her experience being a parent of a child with a disability and how her journey…
BIPOC Healing - JeeHye Choi
Jeehye Choi, a registered social worker, shares the incredible work that she is doing as one of the therapists that the Edmonton based BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre, a place where racialized people can heal…
Immigrant Parents and the Accountable Mind - Calvin Yan Part 2
This week we pick up where we left off with Calvin Yan. We dive even deeper into our "child of immigrant parents" experiences…