Standing Up For Your Mate, Victoria Cilliers, Black Businesswomen
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Would you stand up for your mate if she was being discriminated against? Would you stick up for her, even if it caused you problems? Today we discuss how to be a good ally. Whether it’s racism, sexism or homophobia what’s the best way to speak up and support your friends? We're joined by Chloe Laws from Glamour Magazine, Richie Brave who presents Brave Conversations on BBC 1Xtra, and Danielle Dash who's a freelance writer.
Victoria Cilliers’ story made headlines in 2015. We heard how her husband tried to kill her by tampering with her parachute. Against all odds, she survived. After two trials, and the world’s press scrutinising their relationship, he was sentenced to 18 years on two counts of attempted murder. Now she's written a book called 'I Survived'.
We chat to two Black businesswomen about their successes and challenges. They share their advice about setting up your own business. They are Rose Adkins Hulse, Founder & CEO of ScreenHits TV and Shalom Lloyd, Founder & MD of Naturally Tribal.
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Our Podcast Friday the 7th of August 2020. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi there good morning today the next in our series of How-Two Guides this morning we talk about |
| 0:52.0 | how you can be a good ally and we'll also |
| 0:54.9 | discuss women of color in British business what it's like to start up a |
| 0:59.0 | business how much help do you get is it significantly harder to raise funds if you don't look like |
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| 1:14.4 | Our first guest this morning is Victoria Cilias and Victoria good morning to you. |
| 1:18.9 | Thank you very much for coming on. |
| 1:19.9 | How are you today? |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah, good, thanks. |
| 1:23.0 | Good. |
| 1:24.0 | It's brilliant to be able to talk to you. |
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