Ep 34: Fostering Safer Spaces with Ally Bahar...

What does an ideal world look like? Given Kapolyo answers without hesitation: one where inequality does not exist, and leadership is not a male sport. In this Smoke Signals, she lays out her feminist utopia, then grounds it in the everyday realities that prove the fight is far fr ...  Show more

What makes someone walk to the utility company with a placard instead of posting complaints online? Nalishebo Sinyama has been answering that since 2019, when a load shedding protest in her Lusaka suburb turned her into an organizer overnight. She sits with Given Kapolyo to trace ...  Show more

On this week's episode, we speak to entrepreneur and podcast host Dana Alhanbali on multicultural identity, intersectionality, humanity, and activism. Through Dana's personal journey, she explores the profound impact of embracing one's roots in the face of global challenges and t ...  Show more

Blu sits with poet, Allie Michelle, to discuss the process of finding your inner poet. In a world that can silence you, Allie shares how she learned to speak her truth, and turn it into art. Blu and Allie also tell their experiences of navigating social settings as empaths, and h ...  Show more

On today’s show I sit down with TED Talk speaker, writer and diversity and inclusion trainer, Brit Barron, we discuss everything from ways to become a better public speaker to how race and inclusion can improve not only business but the entire world. Here’s our conversation…</ ...

Samara gets real real with the National SEED Project trainer, who facilitates the types of difficult conversations many of us have been in since the Black Lives Matter protests erupted, if not before—with allies, with potential allies, with ourselves. For non-Black listeners, she ...  Show more