Now, Lyship is knowing when to stand in front of, aside, and behind those who are marginalised.

Facts do not have opinions.

Just don't let perfection be the enemy of good.

Self love is really about self-respect and acceptance.

Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Topp of Real Everything.

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through self-love, body positivity and discovering new ways to be our best selves.

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And we always recommend that you see a licensed health professional accordingly.

I do also want to let you know that I have recently seen a health professional. I am arriving here with my full Stevie voice.

I'm ready to be in the band recovering from the flu. And I just want to thank our guest.

Dr. Steve is here to talk about inclusive leadership, but also I just want to give a big thank you to your flexibility and patience as I had to reschedule because I have the flu over the past week.

And with the holidays and everything, it was, I'm sure, a lot for you to reposition the podcast today. So thank you for that.

You're very welcome, Stacy. It's a pleasure to be here. Glad we made it work.

Yes, absolutely. So, Lister, I want to introduce you to Steve, Dr. Steve. Actually, I didn't even ask you how to pronounce your last name any tell me.

Yaka Valley.

I would have gone with that.

It's Americanized Italian.

Yeah. Okay. Interesting. All right. Steve, you have run the gamut in terms of your support of bringing inclusivity to leadership and workforce. And one of the things that's really important for me as I have become a more aware ally and wanting to be someone who is proactive in helping people feel safe and supported is the recognition that

as a leader in business, that this is something that I think previously we pushed under the rug or don't ask don't tell was the policy that I grew up with, right?

Whereas now we realize that people need to feel seen. They need to feel validated. They need to feel safe and that we can do that as leaders in a workforce and as people in our own lives. So I have a lot of parental listeners and I would argue that being a parent is also being a leader.

Like we are, we are the leaders of our household. My dogs believe that I am the leader of the path of my kids. I hope as well. And so I feel like it's so important as a parent to teach my children that it's their responsibility to help advocate and to speak up and to be inclusive and to foster these acceptance and all of this kind of stuff that moves forward. And I think that can feel overwhelming.

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