Busting Gender Bias

Busting Gender Bias

Busting Gender Bias is about making an often uncomfortable conversation comfortable by arming us with the knowlege and understanding we need to break down old cultural paradigms that serve nobody! Gender Bias and Equity Specialist Brenda Tackaberry hosts experts across a wide range of disciplines and topics to discuss how unconscious bias holds us back as a culture, as communities, as businesses, and as individuals.

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February 23, 2023 56 mins

Jeff Perera is leading the field in conversations on manhood and gender based violence and in today's discussion we get down to the root of it, with a lot of laughter on the way. Jeff has written many articles, given many keynote presentations, and even done a TedX talk on helpful vs harmful ideas of manhood, and he is a master of using analogies to make complex ideas and topics very relateable and understandable.  

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Lia Lamela is a medical esthetician turned electrician who is using her podcast "Sparky Life" to encourage more women to enter the trades.  We talk about barriers to women entering and staying in the trades, and the benefits that are being seen with having women tradespersons on construction crews.  These barriers and benefits are not all that different to the ones we see in the corporate world, but Lia shows us that a ca...

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Brenda is a coach, energy healer, and intuitive, and we talked alllllllll about the nervous system, what is going on when we are in fight/flight/fawn/freeze, and how to tap back into our body when we are experiancing stress or trauma. She gives us incredible tools for our toolbelt as we learn to navigate using our voice and setting better boundaries!  Lets bring those nervous systems back on line!!

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Austin is a mechanical Engineer turned gay-dad blogger and NFT creator. We talk about the adoption and surrogacy process for queer parents, and some of the benefits to parenting without gender roles.  Austin shares with us the importance of being able to live authentically and do what you are passionate about, and gives us an approachable crash course on NFT's and the inclusive spaces that they can create.


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Today I talked with Veronika Ilich - Commnity Manager for Next Gen Men.  "A small but mighty nonprofit working towards a future where boys and men feel less pain and cause less harm"

They are doing fantastic work building a strong community for men and boys, giving them the space to explore masculinity and understand how the expectations we place on men to 'be a man' are often harmful to themselves and others.  A beautifu...

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Today we have a very real conversation with two time Olympic athlete and 8 time Canadian National Alpine Ski Champion, Allison Forsyth.  Allison is a survivor of sexual abuse in the Canadian sport system and is helping create change through safe sport advocacy and education. Her company ITP Sport provides independant complaint management for allegations of abuse and maltreatement in sport, as well as consultancy and education ...

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Nancy and I talk about gender bias and sexism over the last 50 years - how some things have changed, and how other things havent. Nancy's podcast, Fire After 50, shares the stories of many women who are killing it in life and in business in their 50's, and Nancy embodies that herself.  We talk about the deprogramming of cultural norms that she has gone through, and compare that to the deprogramming that both men and women need...

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Welcome to the Busting Gender Bias Podcast - hosted by Brenda Tackaberry

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