The Black Lives Matters Movement has been an eye-opening time for many businesses.

Improving diversity is actually something we've been

working on for years at Shilocks with some success in places but less in others.

Listening to the feedback that Sherlock has received,

in light of the BLM movement, it's clear we need to do more

and we need to work harder as a business to create content

and to build a workforce that's inclusive of all women.

We recently held two focus groups with a diverse group of women in which we talked terminology,

heritage, race, the workplace, what they wanted from Sheilocks and lots more.

We met brilliant women and it was hugely constructive and educational and it made me want to have a similar conversation about

race and about diversity in the open air because I often feel like race is something we're just not

that comfortable talking about that feels awkward to talk about for

fear of saying the wrong thing I know I usually do. But we learned so much and I felt like a lot of our

readers would feel the same as we did if they'd been privy to the conversations

we were having in those groups. So three of the lovely ladies who attended Anna,

Juliet and Emma very kindly agreed to join me on a podcast and they're here.

With me remotely today, if the sound quality isn't tip-top, then please forgive us.

We're all in different places.

But a very warm welcome ladies. How lovely to have you. Can I start by asking you to

introduce yourselves Anna? Let's start with you. So yeah, I know I'm a diversity in inclusion consultant. I run my own D&I agency. Heritage-wise, I am Black British, but I'm of African descent. My parents, or I am originally from Angola and I came here when my parents

migrated to the UK in the early 90s. And you were how old when they migrated to the UK?

Gosh that was probably around Gosh, I was probably telling everyone my age,

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