Candid with Clacier Clacier Paciente

The great resignation is happening in the U.S. and it is trending globally. There’s no doubt the pandemic has brought us a lot of challenges and disruptions but at the same time taught us to reflect on the importance of family, well-being and work-life balance. This episode talks about why people are exiting their jobs voluntarily. How the great resignation will change the balance of power between employer and employee and how it impacts the workforce. What that great resignation will mean to us.

Sharing with you how I dealt with grief for the passing of a loved one. I hope my own experience in dealing with grief will help you in one way or another.

This episode talks about the challenges of getting back into the workforce after taking a break to raise children. Joining me in this discussion is my special guest and a friend, Megan Meerkerk, who openly shares her experience about her biggest fear in going back to work and the challenge of finding a job. In this conversation, she provides insights on how she copes with the negativities of being away from work for some time and building that confidence again. 
Megan is a Chartered Accountant. She decided to take a break to raise her children after a few years of working as an accountant in the corporate world.

Joining me in this episode is one of my best friends, Zana Gawan-Taylor. Zana shares not only the challenges and the issues of interracial marriage but also the fun side of it. She provides insights on how to make interracial marriage works given she's a muslim from Malaysia who married a catholic Australian guy. They have been together for more than 20 years and still going stronger than ever!

Each year, Pride month is being celebrated to commemorate the Stonewall Uprising that happened in New York back in June 1969. My guest, Rigel Gio, joins me in celebrating Pride month! In this episode, we talked about the story behind the Stonewall Riot and its significance to the emergence of Pride month. What are the issues and the challenges the LGBTQ community face up to this day and how they can move forward to promote their causes? How to become a better ally and how society can help create space for the minority such as the LGBTQ community so they can thrive and live their lives without fear and shame? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in this episode. 
Please join us in celebrating Pride month and take part in the ongoing pursuit for equal justice for our brothers and sisters in the LGBQ+ community!