Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Radical Cander Podcast. I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Radical Cander,

and author of Radical Cander in Just Work. I'm Amy Sandler, your host for the Radical Cander

podcast. And today is a very special day. It is Jason Rosezoff's birthday. So not only-

Bastille day, baby. And Viva la France. Not only are we celebrating Jason,

Kim and I are going to do something very special today. Kim, you are going to be taking on

the hosting role and we're going to be

having a conversation about being out in the workplace. So the reason why we're doing this is

Amy wrote a great post, the very last day of Pride Month.

And we realized that we often celebrate all kinds of people in different months.

And we had failed to acknowledge Pride Month, which felt like a bad oversight.

I felt very bad about it because this is something I care a lot

about. And so I'm going to sort of kick it off to Amy to talk about why she wrote the post and

and then we'll keep talking. That sounds great. And I will just say I have not actually yet completely finalized the blog post.

So one way to hold myself accountable is for Kim to just say about the post.

So now I guess I have to actually.

Now you have to finish it.

It is finished.

It's actually a wonderful post.

Oh, well, thank you.

I'm sure we'll touch on some of the themes. It felt actually a wonderful post. Oh, well, thank you. I'm sure we'll touch on some of the

themes. It felt really important for me to speak up about being out at work, and I tend to be a more

private person. But I felt given recent headlines, and I got an email recently from HR dive, and I'll just quote

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