The Skin You're In: My Skin, My Worth With Sonya Barlow
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4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The world of work is rife with inequality and injustice. How can we shift power in the corporate world and prioritise the voices of those who need to be heard?
This week on The Skin You’re In, we’re sitting down with Sonya Barlow - the entrepreneur changing the game when it comes to corporate diversity and inclusion programmes with meaningful mentoring and proper support. We’ll be chatting about how to deal with discussing workplace trauma, performative allyship in the professional world, moving beyond tokenism and much more.
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The Skin You're In, a Polyester Podcast, is brought to you by Polyester's founding editor in chief Ione Gamble (@ionegamble), and co-hosted and produced by Olivia Graham (@og.irl), in collaboration with @monki.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, Ioni and Olivia here, and we're so excited to be presenting the second series of our limited podcast exploring modern identity. |
| 0:14.1 | Made in collaboration with Monkey, the skin your in explores what it means to be alive today and the biggest issues affecting our generation. |
| 0:20.6 | From online activism, marginalised people in the workplace and representation of bodies, |
| 0:25.0 | we want to know where the conversations are at and what we can do to move them forward. |
| 0:28.7 | We're talking to the people at the forefront of these issues enacting change through their work |
| 0:32.4 | and lives. So let's get it started. Episode two, I am buzzing and this is a conversation where the topic is very close to my heart as someone that has experienced. |
| 0:46.5 | I don't even know how to describe it. Workplace problems. I think workplace discrimination as well. |
| 0:51.5 | Discrimination, yeah, it just feels like even after having this conversation and saying that, it feels like such a strong word, even though it's the truth. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah. But our guest for today is the incredible Sonia Barlow. Here's the founder of the |
| 1:05.2 | LMF network. So the LMF network looks to mentor people, mentor them to, I suppose, I know this word is |
| 1:12.1 | overused, but like empower them in their workplaces, right? |
| 1:15.9 | And their careers as well. |
| 1:17.8 | Yeah, their workplaces and their careers. |
| 1:19.7 | And I really, anyway, well, no, I was about to say something, but spoiler, we'll get into it. |
| 1:24.9 | So Sonia is also a diversity and intersectionality coach for corporate |
| 1:30.3 | businesses, a TEDx speaker and a future shaper. She also has a book coming out soon. So a very |
| 1:37.2 | impressive woman. Yeah, very, very impressive intro. I really love this podcast because obviously |
| 1:42.5 | for this whole series, we've been talking about |
| 1:45.1 | activism and you know what we can do to like raise people's voices and like raise the voices |
| 1:52.5 | of marginalised people etc and I think that when you think about doing that in a workplace |
| 1:57.0 | you don't see it as activism like you see it as like HR or like union, |
| 2:03.6 | obviously like unions are activism, but I think that you, well, I may, maybe I don't want to |
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