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Better Mental Health. Everyday conversations for better mental health. Founder of Benevolent Health, Marteka Swaby is exploring a range of mental health topics to increase awareness of mental health from diverse perspectives.

Better Mental Health Marteka Swaby

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Better Mental Health. Everyday conversations for better mental health. Founder of Benevolent Health, Marteka Swaby is exploring a range of mental health topics to increase awareness of mental health from diverse perspectives.

    Episode 90 - Calling out the Bullsh*t in DEI

    Episode 90 - Calling out the Bullsh*t in DEI

    Calling out the Bullsh*t in DEI explores perspectives of this space. Consultants, quotas and performative tick box practices, including that terrible question to Ngozi Fulani – Where are you really from? And, ways people leaders can improve this space in 2023
    Sammie Hawkins - Leadership coach, facilitator and writer | Calling bullsh*t on injustice I help people take back their power. 
    Erin Corine - The Identity & Belonging Coach, Performing Artist & Mama. Decolonizing Leadership. Chicago-Grown, Black Neurodivergent, Storyteller, Community Mama 
    3.40 - Calling out standalone roles - Pushing a Rock up the Hill
    7.12 - How to Reduce the Impact on your Mental Health?
    9.35 - Safespaces - Should organisation’s provide this Space?
    11.54 - Speaking to Power - How can leaders be empowered?
    14.20 - Performative DEI vs justice 
    17.14 - Building equitable organisations
    19.20 - Sustainability, growth & moving the dial
    24.42 - Proud plant mamma 
    26.42 - Mirroring the british psyche
    30.16 - Meghan the selective representation
    36.41 - The DEI Distraction- Past vs Present
    44.14 - Where are you really from?
    46.12 - Recommendations For Good Practice in DEI 2023

    • 58 min
    Episode 89 - Dealing with everyday racism

    Episode 89 - Dealing with everyday racism

    Dr Shungu Hilda M'gadzah Director & Lead Consultant Psychologist over 30 years experience with a Doctorate in EI. Working as a DEI coach at senior executives at board level.
     
    Today we are exploring everyday racism and what that looks like in the community & workplace. Thinking about how the racism spectrum can help us map this out.
     
    We will also go deeper to explore a 6 stage framework to tackle everyday racism. Understanding & dealing with everyday racism is also your recent book 
     
    1.50 - What makes the workplace lonely for diverse women?
    3.30 - Intersectionality & Identity - Ticking the boxes
    5.47 - Prejudices, racism & equity spectrum
    7.02 - Early & extremes stages of discrimination
    10.38 - Biases, stereotypes & judgements on sense of self
    13.39 - How can we talk about race?
    16.20 - Six Stages Framework to deal with everyday racism
    22.38 - Group think or lone voice in being anti-racist
    26.12 - Coming out of caves of priviledge
    30.32 - Allyship & bystanders
    34.46 - Reflect, change & do better next time!
    36.11 - Three things you can do everyday to deal with racism
    Join the Kinship community a safe space for diverse women here 

    • 40 min
    Episode 88 - Kinship Summit

    Episode 88 - Kinship Summit

    Yvonne Alston Chief Culture Architect, CEO & Founder of Indelible Impressions Consulting, LLC
    We are exploring leadership and the skills of great leaders to improve the experience of culture & belonging for bias correct, particulalry for women of colour in corporate.
     
    2.36 - The great resignation - Is it a direct result of our mental wellbeing?
     
    8.46 - Why does representation matter? What should leaders look like?
     
    14.06 - Pioneers - How to accelerate without sacrificing your mental health?
     
    21.52 - The qualities of good leaders to foster diversity coming out of the pandemic?
     
    28.09 - #BiasCorrect how radical empathy can shift the narrative for allies and leaders?
     
    30.37 - Getting the word out as a recruiter?
     
    35.16 - Now is the time! We have the MIC
    You can access the Kinship Summit here 

    • 37 min
    Episode 87 - Why getting my name right matters?

    Episode 87 - Why getting my name right matters?

    We explore what is in a name and why it is important to get a name right? 4 Tips to stop you mispronouncing a name & how to recover if you do.
     
    0.49 - Why getting my name right is important to me?
    2.41 - Creating a culture of belonging
    4.26 - What is in a name?
    5.37- Equality Act & protected characteristics
    6.33- Safe Spaces for diverse corporate women
    7.32- Validating Perspectives
    9.24 - Discrimination, Self estemm
    10.20 - Adopting angelicised names
    11.39 - What if you mispronounce a name?
    12.41 - How can I pronounce names properly.

    • 15 min
    Episode 86 - My Roadmap to success 2022

    Episode 86 - My Roadmap to success 2022

    My road to success has been paved with many obstacles, and this my friends, has all been part of the process. When I used to think of a leader, I didn’t see myself and neither did others!
    In 2022, my desire is to see more diverse women elevated into leadership roles and build a bigger sphere of influence in their industry, changing the idea of what leaders look like.
    I actually genuinely believe, successful people are not the ones who are more intelligent, but the ones who have a strategy to get there, a roadmap that will show the directions.
    2.21 - My Road to success
    4.08 - You can’t be, what you can’t see!
    6.10 -  Without sacrificing your mental health
    8.57 -  Dealing with sabotage & our shadow self
    11.34 - A goal without deadline is just a wish!
    12.48 - Avoid rinse & repeat to 10x impact
    13.55 - Super woman rewards
    14.32 - Leadership Development
    15.46 - Accountability & productivity
    16.42- The golf course etiquette
    Here is the roadmap for 2022

    • 21 min
    Episode 85 - Faith & Financial Coaching

    Episode 85 - Faith & Financial Coaching

    Lisa Y Jones is a Certified Financial Coach. We are exploring wealth, finances and building a wealth mindset.
    She paid off over 300k in 5 years with her husband and they are now teaching others the same principles of abundance.
    Lisa shares how they developed a step-by-step approach to eliminate debt and how faith based financial coaching completely changed their financial situation. 
    0.45 - What motivated you to tackle debt?
    3.03 - Mental health, wellbeing & relationships
    7.48 - The karmasutra vs toxic masculinity
    10.34 - The wealth mindset - Diamonds or bricks 
    14.12 - It’s not in my budget!
    15.45 - The shift- Investing vs consuming
    18.57 - Making financial goals 
    21.32 - Top 3 tips to be wealthy & healthy
    29.12 - ‘I don’t want to!’
    Kinship – Safe Space for Diverse Women.
    The first Friday of each month to explore the intersectionality of Race & mental health. If you would like to attend please register here

    • 33 min

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