Fair Tales Podcast

Jordan and Liam believe that education plays an important and key role in addressing homophobia, biphobia and transphobia in schools. I agree with them, I think the earlier you talk about these topics, the better you can prevent discrimination and its challenges.

In this episode, Jordan and Liam tell us about their impactful work with teachers and young people to achieve their educative mission. On top of that, they share how to understand the impact words and language used can have on other people. You'd be surprised how we (people) commonly use some offensive words... I left this conversation much more mindful of that and forever grateful to Jordan and Liam for coming to Fair Tales to teach us how to be more inclusive and respectful.

Angie plays a significant role in supporting African women, refugees and asylum seekers. Angie helps them with the challenges they face and tackles barriers to access to information. She had experienced these barriers herself and founded Sharpen Her to help others going through this challenge of settling in the UK.

Angie is an amazing woman who changes lives, helps communities and impacts globally. There is a lot to learn in this episode about resilience, humanity and fighting for equality for all.

Thanks Angie for your time and precious insights!

Agnes is Chair of the Scottish Women's Convention. Every day and for many years, she has seen the discrimination issues and barriers women are (still) facing in Scotland – violence against women, misogyny, menopause, childcare, sexism, age discrimination in the workplace...etc. Her work has a real impact in these areas.

In this episode, Agnes shares her Fair Tale about the social and cultural problems of our time with resilience and hope.

I could have listen to Agnes for hours, I found her really inspiring and empowering. I hope you will enjoy it too :)

Leanne plays a key role in the communities around her, whether at work or in her personal life. In this episode, Leanne talks about the challenges she faced being a single parent raising her daughter while driving her career. Not only she experienced discrimination but also witnessed the racism her daughter experienced. 

She is a real change maker, trying to make the world a better place, more equal, more diverse and inclusive on so many levels. We can all learn a lot from this episode about Leanne's Fair Tale. 

Alaina is the CEO and co-founder of Women who code, a worldwide organisation supporting equality for the incredibly talented women working in technology, today.  In this episode, Alaina shares the powerful story and mission behind Women Who Code and her positive vision of how the world can be more diverse and gender equal. 

Check out their wonderful events, and reach out to their communities on www.womenwhocode.com

Starting this new year 2023 with this to-be-listened episode with Sarah Drummond, Design Strategist and Film Maker. 

We had such a great conversation and what I loved the most about our conversation is that  Sarah talks openly about the challenges she faced during her career in the design industry - from co-founding Snook to her current film-making project. 

Being the youngest knowledgeable in the room at work, advocating for  LGBTQ+ people's rights, making a movie to reveal legislation that banned the promotion of homosexuality in the 80s... Sarah does many great things and I highly recommend you listen to her Fair Tales - you'll get so much out of it! 

This is the first Fair Tales episode of 2023 - not to talk about magic but the real stuff.

In this episode, Wojtek shares his experience coming from abroad and working in the UK. We talked about different cultural clash situations in the way of working, joking, behaving, and communicating in the workplace. But we also talked about privileges, education, cultural heritage, and imposter syndrome. I hope you’ll enjoy this episode. 

I’m so excited to share with you the Fair Tale of Danae Shell. She is the co-founder and CEO of Valla, a technology company that helps people use their rights to deal with discrimination, harassment and bullying at work.  I really admire her because she’s one of those people who make a real change in our societies. In this episode Danae talks about her past experiences of discrimination being a women at a senior level in the tech industry. What is very inspiring about Danae is that her bad experience led her to create Valla with her co-founder Kate. They help people to label and assessing those discriminatory situations, and they provide legal protection options and actions to undertake. Check out what Valla does on their website, they also just released an amazing training and some examples of actions you can undertake if you or your colleague, friend, family experience discrimination. You can find this action toolkit on Valla's website: see action toolkit.

I let you discover her Fair Tale.

Pawel is a London-based recruiter in the IT sector and the co-creator of The Love What You Do assessment.

Combined with his authentic approach and experience, Pawel uses the 'Love What You Do assessment', inspired by the CLAMPS model - that helps individuals find their motivations and aspirations and be fully satisfied at their job .

You can learn more about it in this episode.

Pawel shares what he learned from different work experiences over the years, people he met and what led him to do what he does.  

He's now transferring his knowledge, years of experience and passion into supporting individuals and organisations to help them find what they love and love what they do again by increasing employee satisfaction and decreasing staff turnover.

Pawel also champions equality and diversity when recruiting people and encouraging the development of brighter and more inclusive workplaces.

Discover Pawel's Fair Tales. Have a good listening!

To learn more about the Love What You Do assessment, connect with Pawel now and book a call to get to know each other professionally. 

Kirsty Knowles is a London-based and online Coach for Human Sustainability, Teams, Executives, and Leadership Development. Combined with her former experience as Headteacher of a Junior School in education, Kirsty champions the concept of human sustainability and empowers individuals, teams and organisations for equality and equity in the workplace. In this new episode, Kirsty talks about how we can bring more fairness in workplace contexts with human-centered concepts we can all learn from. 

You can connect with Kirsty Knowles on LinkedIn and on Sustainable Pathways's website