Turning into a Hippie and Shit

Carrie is a global leader for diversity, equality and inclusion across the media technology industry with over 20 years’ experience. She has built the international diversity membership organisation ‘Rise’ and the ‘Rise Up Academy’ from an initial idea and passion project to a thriving not-for-profit business working with brands such as BT Sport, ITV, Sky, Warner Bros.Discovery and others. Carrie has developed and delivered commercial business strategies and secured high profile partnerships for educational institutions such as Ravensbourne University London. She was given the Broadcast Tech Special Recognition Award in 2021 and won Gold for Female Leader at the UK’s National Business Women’s Awards also in 2021.

Her x3 KIRs are aligned with Rise's mission👇🏼

1️⃣  There is still more work to do to achieve gender diversity ⚖️

2️⃣  Achieving gender diversity needs investment 💷

3️⃣  Change is happening! ✨💪🏼✨

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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Suzie Cox is many things…. a TV personality and speaker, a voice over actor, a mentor, investor and advocate, a fellow podcaster, a mum and she was Vogue off of Gladiators, as in the hit TV show of the 90s that I watched religiously every weekend…I cannot believe I have the actual Vogue off of the actual Gladiators on my podcast!

She has presented and been interviewed on numerous regional and national television and radio shows including ITV, LWT, BBC, Channel 4, Virgin Radio and Radio 5 Live. She does a whole host of voice over acting and narration and she has not one but TWO podcasts; Top Dogs and Their Humans where Suzie chats with some amazing humans about their pooches and Brave Pants with Vogue and the Viking which is all about women putting on Brave Pants and doing stuff they have always wanted.

Her x3 KIRs are:

1️⃣  Needing quiet time 🤫

2️⃣  Needing time away 🚗 ✈️

3️⃣  Dancing! 💃🏻

This is the last episode of Series 5... I know boo! ☹️ BUT I will continue and there will be a 6th series yay! 😁

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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Minreet Kaur is an award winning freelance journalist working across TV, Radio and Online. She is also the daughter of 75 year old Rajinder Singh, known as The Skipping Sikh, where in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic, he shared exercise videos to inspire older members of the South Asian community to stay healthy whilst also raising money for the NHS. He was subsequently awarded an MBE and Minreet has helped to share his story through many news outlets.

Minreet has written for the independent, BBC, Sky, Stylist, Byline Times, Metro, iPaper, Guardian and Al Jazeera. She has also reported for The One Show, Newsround, Sunday Morning Live, BBC South and Sky News.

Her work focuses on improving the representation of South Asian communities and she has written features, opinion and news pieces.

Her x3 KIRs are 👇🏼

1️⃣ Friends & Family

2️⃣ Faith

3️⃣ Swimming & Running

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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Caroline Ewerton is Vice President of Technical Product Management, leading the transformation, next generation and optimisation of the media supply chain at DAZN. DAZN is a global sports entertainment streaming platform, streaming nearly 1 billion hours of live sport every year in over 200 countries and territories. She joined DAZN as Head of Operational Delivery in 2019 and at the end of 2020 she became Vice President of Production Services before moving into her current role.

In the short time that I’ve got to know her by asking her to be a guest on my podcast, I find her to be warm, kind and someone who possesses a level of self-awareness that is truly admirable and I have no doubt after listening to her talk about her three Keeping It Reals, you too listener will agree with me!

Carolines x3 KIRs are 👇🏼

1️⃣ Having a connection to self

2️⃣ Having a beginners mind

3️⃣ Having an open heart

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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Nav Khangura is a VP of Business Development at Prime Focus Technologies. They are the creator of CLEAR - Enterprise Resource Planning software - that supports broadcasters, studios, brands and service providers to automate business processes around content and managing their business of content better.

I first met Nav at the International Broadcasting Convention back in 2019 when I was working out there for a previous employer and like with most industry peers at events we ended up connecting on LinkedIn. When it came to finding guests for this series I got in touch and here we are!

His 3 KIRs

1️⃣ Family comes first

2️⃣ Honesty is the best policy

3️⃣ Being different isn’t a bad thing

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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Chase has always had dual passions in wildlife and creativity and as a child they would make films impersonating Steve Irwin! Chase went on to study Zoology at the Universities of Exeter and Calgary, whilst exploring the arts during any spare time they had. They only became aware of the roles and career opportunities in Natural History Filmmaking through the Creative Access Internship Scheme - and soon realised that they wanted to create a flourishing career in this industry.

We met just over a year ago when I was working at Wildscreen to help launch their Emerging Talent Scheme and I had sourced Chase as a speaker. I’ve basically ripped off the bio I wrote for them back then for this podcast! Anyway, we followed each on the gram and kinda got to know each that way, we met for dinner ahead of this recording and I now consider them to be a friend.

Their top 3 KIRS:

1️⃣ Unlearning is just as important as learning

2️⃣ Your differences are your greatest strengths

3️⃣ Don’t forget to enjoy the view

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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I met Fatima through the amazing Wonder Women in TV mentoring programme where I was lucky enough to be selected as a mentee in 2021 and Fatima was one of the mentors. She delivered a talk for us which was so inspiring that I was compelled to send her an email telling her so. I welled up so many times when she spoke to us mentees because I could really relate to her. She has got to where is today without the bank of mum and dad, having not gone to uni (although I did for free - thanks to a government grant) and she is from a South Asian background - all of these things could have gone against her but she made sure that they didn’t.  

Her 3 KIRs (She calls them her x3 ‘F’s are:

1️⃣ Family & Faith

2️⃣ Friends

3️⃣ Future

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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This is a teaser for Series 5 which I am in the midst of making...it's gonna be a good'un people! 💪🏼💥🙌🏼

I’ve done it again. I have told you that I’ve finished a series, but then I get the opportunity to speak to another fascinating person and I think to myself, I can’t wait until the next series. I need to get them on now! So this is the reason for this bonus episode!

James Nguyen is a serial entrepreneur who has previously been featured on global broadcast networks including CNBC, Sky, ABC and has been a contributing writer for Forbes. He is CEO of Inflexion Media - they support companies, brands, and individuals to reach an unlimited audience through powerfully simple content. James has also created this brand - jqn. Here, he is able to distill his experience and lessons about life and business through the beauty of spoken word poetry. His topics range from truths about life, love, and spirituality. He also expounds on first principles from business and entrepreneurship in a collection of poems too.

My podcast really does bring some truly fascinating and interesting people my way and James is up there with the best of them! This was probably one of the 'deepest' conversations I've had on my podcast to date.

Now, I usually find my own podcast guests. But I did not find James. I was approached and asked if I would like to have James as a guest. When I was told about his background and watched a jqn trailer where I could see him performing snippets of his poetry I thought, “Blimey, what are the chances that this passion project of mine would lead me to finding an entrepreneur of East Asian heritage, who writes spoken word poetry in a similar style to me, is open about the importance of maintaining one’s emotional well being (there’ll be more talk on this later) and owns his own media company?!” How about that for brand alignment?!

So, as you can imagine, I was very excited about this opportunity. This really was an ace conversation.

James KIRs are:

1️⃣ My poetry:  It's helped change my world views, break boundaries and shape the way I move through the world as an entrepreneur.

2️⃣ My inner work/spirituality: I have a daily practice of trauma and emotional healing work (innovated variation of IFS) as a way to improve my emotional acuity and ensure I don't project unresolved trauma in my life.

3️⃣ Surround myself with compassionate candour: I have an inner circle of family and friends that have license to always offer me uncomfortable truths they see as my blindspots, to ensure I don't succumb to a subjective filter bubble.

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

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First poem for series 4 - aptly called Keeping It Real and is one of my favourites! Quite pleased with this one. 😁

Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com

I’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme