"I was aways proud of who I am", featuring the founder and host of Blacadian Podcast Denise Izso
Description
In today's episode Iryna is joined by Denise Izso, the founder and host of Blacadian podcast. Through social media , Iryna and Denise became listeners of each other's podcast and finally decided to sit down for a conversation on Moments That Define Us Podcast. Denise was born and raised in Canada but both of her parents are from Barbados. She spoke about growing up in Canada , in a predominantly white neighborhood and how she navigated her childhood, friendships and the world around her mixing her two cultures.
Denise talked about Canada and answered the question we all want to know - "Are Canadians really that nice". She also spoke about racism in Canada and the comparison to the United States.
Denise has had to navigate life as a woman of color her whole life so she decided to share her experiences through storytelling and that's when Blacadian podcast was born (she is black and canadian so blacadian, get it?
Check out Denise podcast here https://open.spotify.com/show/2yLBboXfmlaVRZjxPlYTmo
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