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Uncovering inequity. Empowering change.
Hosted by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner Shahzia Noorally, The Equity Gap is where bold conversations meet transformative action. Through candid interviews with leading experts and thought-provoking solo episodes, Shahzia explores the real-world impact of systemic inequity—centering the lived experiences of equity-deserving individuals and challenging power structures across workplaces and beyond.
From race and gender to neurodiversity and anti-fat bias, each episode tackles hard truths and invites listeners to reimagine what equity really means—on personal, organizational, and societal levels.
Whether you're a DEI professional, a leader ready to use your privilege for good, or someone seeking to deepen your social consciousness, The Equity Gap will educate, unsettle, and inspire.
Join the conversation. Close the gap.
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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 Career Strategist, TEDx Speaker, Writer and Podcast Host. As the Founder of career advice w...
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 Talent Attraction at Visa and passionate about employer branding. Diversity and inclusivity are ...
“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 are unsure of how to navigate through this loud world and connect with people through your...
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 this episode join me as I speak to my own experiences being an "only" in senior leadership and 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 avoid the inevitable awkwardness.... When you really break it down, it’s more than a name and in th...
“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 ruffle feathers and always say yes despite any core desires to listen to ourselves, our gut fee...
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 and its impact on me, both the good and the bad... Join Shahzia Noorally on a journey of persona...
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 Minister of Education to alter the curriculum and address racism in schools across Alberta through their wo...
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 game that often comes from universally crippling experiences and the "othering" of minorities to pla...
"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 finally getting a collective uprising - all from the incredibly inhumane and vile murder of George Floyd, ...
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 careers designed for and by white men - our stories and our experiences don’t quite match up, so why are we...
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 the conversation around the lived experiences of self-identifying women of colour and on the work she’s done ...
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 consideration that we have to take on as mothers. How do we raise strong, proud and resilient girls...es...
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 fail women of colour from advancing and being truly seen within corporations.
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.
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