Changing Lenses: Diversify Your Perspectives
We're a community who envision a world that's more Just, Equitable, Decolonized and Inclusive (JEDI). We're changing the way we see ourselves and each other, and shifting our worldview on business by looking through a JEDI lens.I’m your host, Rosie Yeung (she/her), a Chinese-Canadian immigrant with invisible disabilities, and I’m a JEDI speaker, coach and facilitator. Do you also want to be a JEDI Warrior for social impact? Then please join me in Changing Lenses! Each episode is hosted on colonized land that was taken from many Indigenous nations, including the Anishinaabe, the Huron-Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. I seek Truth and Reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis people of Turtle Island, and I call upon us all to decolonize our thinking, not just our systems. Learn more on my website, www.changinglenses.ca.
Episodes
35 episodes
Ep310: Antisemitism and Yom HaShoah: Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day, with Alice Henry
The Shoah is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust, and the full name of Yom Hashoah VeHagevurah literally means the “day of remembrance of the Catastrophe and the Heroism.”How much do you know about Yom HaShoah, and what happens on this day...
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Season 3
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Episode 310
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38:19
Ep309: White Supremacy Culture from a White Man’s Perspective, with Jeff Akin
If you were emotionally OK enough with the episode title to click on the link, thanks for making it this far! I’m only partly kidding. The words “white supremacy culture” are definitely triggering, and not just for white people. What that phras...
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Season 3
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Episode 309
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40:34
Ep308: What Ramadan Means to Me, with Saleha Khan
Ramadan Mubarak! This special episode of the Changing Lenses podcast is being released just before the holy month of Ramadan, an incredibly significant time in the Islamic faith.Before I met Saleha Khan, the only thing I really knew abou...
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Season 3
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Episode 308
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37:08
Ep307: Going Resume-Free to Hire More Inclusively, with Allie Knull
Have you ever felt in your job hunt that you’re being judged on something that doesn’t even represent who are you? Or at best, it only represents a very small part of the whole you. And yet “woke” companies are claiming to want employees to bri...
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Season 3
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Episode 307
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44:15
Ep306 Real Talk with Rosie: In the War for Talent, Candidates Become Casualties
This episode is all about the experiences of racialized people looking for work. Job hunting is hard enough as it is; but add on to that being Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and any other racialized identity that isn’t white – and it’s even ...
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Season 3
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Episode 306
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45:56
Ep305: We Need to Talk About Period Pain. Period. With Lux Perry
Endometriosis affects more people than prostate cancer, breast cancer and heart disease combined. It's in the top 20 most painful diseases in the world, and there’s no cure. It affects 1 in 10 people with a uterus. And it is so undiagnosed, so ...
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Season 3
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Episode 305
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46:03
Ep304: Building Walls against Immigrants: Systemic Barriers to Employment, with Xin Yi Yap
When you’re job hunting, does it sometimes feel like you’re trying to breach an impenetrable fortress? Recruiters and hiring managers talk about attracting top talent, but when it comes down to it, they act more like an immigration depar...
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Season 3
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Episode 304
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42:56
Ep303: Culturally Relevant Career Tips to Empower You, with Oscar Garcia
Almost all the career counselling, mentorship, corporate training etc. I’ve received have been almost exclusively from white people. Nothing wrong with that – I’ve been blessed to receive great advice and support from many white leaders over th...
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Season 3
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Episode 303
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44:33
Ep302: Loc'd Out at Work: Black Hair Discrimination, with Walter Gainer II
If you’re Black, you’re probably well aware of what Walter Gainer II is going to share in this episode. (Trigger warning, the content may be traumatizing or upsetting to you – please take care of yourself and stop listening at any point.).<...
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Season 3
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Episode 302
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43:47
Ep301: Who Decides When You’re Good Enough?
Have you ever tried to do something for the very first time? If so, what did you hear more often:.❌ “Who do you think you are?”or✅ “I believe in you!”..When I started my first ever podcast from scratch with no experi...
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Season 3
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Episode 301
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18:44
Ep214: Season Two Finale – Celebrating JEDI Visionaries!
It’s the final episode for Season Two! It’s been an incredible year since the Changing Lenses podcast first launched, and with the support of amazing listeners like YOU, we’ve become a community of JEDI Visionaries with over 2,500 podcas...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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6:32
Bonus Ep213: Talking Allyship and Solidarity on the Know Nonsense Anti-Racism Podcast
Anti-Racism. Black Lives Matter. Allyship and Solidarity between equity-seeking groups.We’ve touched a bit on these with Changing Lenses podcast guests over the last year, but haven’t dived as deeply into these topics as my friend and fe...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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42:39
Ep212: Everybody Knows Somebody with an Episodic Disability, with Melissa Egan
You may be aware of ways to accommodate physical and mental disabilities. But what about episodic disabilities?If you don’t know what an episodic disability is, you’re not alone. Once you hear Melissa Egan describe it, you’ll probably re...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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41:53
Ep211: Combatting Poverty with Neuroscience, not Financial Literacy, with Emily Heath
If we see poverty as the result of financial illiteracy, irresponsibility or a lack of self-control, then the blame falls on the person living in poverty, and the answer is to find a job, spend less, and get financial training.Financial ...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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40:33
Ep210: All the Single Ladies (are invisible minorities), with Jaime Ho
We’re single, but we’re not alone. The population of singles are growing in North America – but we’re still a minority group. And like any minority group, we face discrimination and marginalization purely because we don’t have the power of the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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42:12
Ep209: Breaking the Bamboo Mold: How One “Model Minority” Did It (and we can too), with Carissa Begonia
Carissa Begonia is a Filipina-American who left a safe corporate job to start her own business. Until I met her, the only examples I had of entrepreneurs or people following their passions were completely unrelatable for me. Because they ...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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36:40
Ep208: Why Police Record Checks Are More Harmful Than Helpful, with Safiyah Husein
Many employers are asking where to find and hire “diverse talent”. What they SHOULD be asking is how their recruitment process might discriminate against these candidates once they apply.In this episode, Safiyah Husein, a lawyer a...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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45:09
Ep207: So You Say You Want Decolonization? with Jessica Dumas
If you’re wondering what you can do in bringing reconciliation and decolonization to Canada – this episode is for you. First, we learn what colonization actually looks like. Jessica Dumas of Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation share...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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42:31
Ep206: Awakening her Indigenous Spirit - Fighting Academic Racism, with Jill Featherstone
“I started learning about residential schools. I started learning about generational trauma and that's when I realized like, okay, there's nothing wrong with us. I'm not broken. There's things that happened that caused us to be living this way....
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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44:00
Ep205: An Indigenous Worldview on Wealth - No One Left Behind, with Thomas Benjoe
Lots of companies have been asking, “What’s the business case for justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI)?”Thomas Benjoe turns that around and asks us to think about how JEDI benefits our community and economy, not just ourselves...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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42:36
Ep204: "I Can't Achieve My Way Out of This" - Workplace Racism in Switzerland and Canada, with Miriam Njoku
“I will always be the Black girl first, before Miriam Njoku. I cannot achieve my way out of being seen with prejudice. That's how they view people like me.”In this episode, Miriam Njoku changes our lens to reveal the racism she experienc...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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39:14
Ep203: Breaking the Chains of Trauma, with Miriam Njoku
Have you ever been told you can’t do it, or you’re not good enough for something you really wanted? What if you got that message in your whole life starting from childhood? What if abuse or racism you’ve endured created trauma that affects your...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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42:46
Ep202: What Kind of Person is Your Corporation? – The Case for Equity Diversity & Inclusion – Ali Interviews Rosie
What do you think is the business case for equity, diversity and inclusion? In business, or even not for profit, should morality or humanitarian reasons play a role? Or should it strictly be about profit and shareholder value?I have some...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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34:30
Ep201: Immigrants Need Not Apply, with Ali Ahmed
Ali Ahmed is a professional designated accountant who worked for one of the Big Four international accounting firms before immigrating from Pakistan to Canada. But despite having that professional experience, he couldn't get an accounting job i...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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34:10
Ep110: Season Finale – Are We Ready For Real Change?
As I reflect back on the first season of the podcast, it’s become clear to me that systemic change starts with personal change. I believe true inclusion and equity requires sacrificing some of our self-interests, like power, position, even prof...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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