The Diversity of Me; Keeping It Real Tanya Rai
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- Society & Culture
Sharing the unique stories of everyday people talking through their top three ways of "Keeping It Real!" Many of the guests featured work in broadcast and the creative industries.
There is also some spoken word poetry to boot by a newbie poet in her mid 30s! 😅😬🙈
Reassuring feedback on a recent poetry submission that was NOT successful stated: "the judges were incredibly moved by your application, which was the most original and affecting of all that we received". 😊🙌🏼💪🏼 There's always next year!
Tanya is a single woman in her late thirties, of Indian (Punjabi) heritage, and was born and bred in the UK. Oh and she works in media. Views shared or discussed in this podcast are her own and that of her contributors...ya know the spiel.
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Carrie - Co-Director Rise and Rise Up Academy
I have FINALLY managed to get Carrie Wootten, Co-Director Rise and Rise Up Academy. Rise is an award-winning global advocacy membership organisation supporting gender diversity across the media technology sector.
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Suzie - TV personality, Speaker, Voice Over Actor
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 and also can't believe we've got to the last episode of Series 5 already!
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Minreet - Award-Winning Freelance Journalist
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.
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Caroline Ewerton - VP Technical Production Management, DAZN
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.
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Nav - VP Business Development, Prime Focus Technologies
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.
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Chase - Assistant Producer, BBC Natural History Unit
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.