Talk It Forward

This season, we’ve talked to women about the challenges they’re facing at work and the barriers there still are to leadership. But we can’t do it alone. If anything is going to change, we’ll need men on our side. 

Today, Carla chats with Joe McLeod, City Arborist and Supervisor of Urban Forestry, and Amit Gandha, Director of Parks at the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, about how equity will hel...

In a work culture that expects employees to be constantly "on" and available, should our definition of success include being tethered to a phone 24/7? 

How do we set healthy boundaries between our personal lives and our careers? And how can we advocate for ourselves while maintaining the balance? We'll explore two stories from people who had to define those boundaries in the workplace and the impact of those choices.

Celene Le...

Why do women still feel the need to hide their pregnancies at work? Juggling caregiving with a career is a struggle. People are living and working longer and starting families later. Women and others often struggle in silence with the impacts of infertility treatments, pregnancy loss, postpartum depression, adoption processes, finding quality childcare, and more. While caring for parents and other elders is becoming a larger respon...

Nadine Maurus, a Junior Engineer, still hears this on the job. As she progresses through school and a career in engineering, she notices fewer and fewer women around her each year.

Host Carla Grimann wants young women to pursue leadership roles and not face the same challenges she has working in the trades. She chats with Nadine about why some jobs still feel like “men’s work,” with cultures revolving around h...

Women have been told to lean in and speak up at work. But when a woman, or those with a marginalized gender, asserts themselves in the workplace, they can be called angry, demanding, or emotional. The old boy’s network is still very much in operation, so how are we supposed to succeed at work? 

Host Carla Grimann chats with Sarah Greenwood of the Minerva Foundation about the barriers women are currently facing in progres...

A podcast that uses the power of dialogue to advance equity and diversity in the workplace -- hosted by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, with support from the City of Vancouver. 

Workplace culture has changed a lot in terms of equity and diversity, but still has a long way to go. From micro-aggressions to workplace harassment and everything in between, there’s a lot to talk about. Women and people of...