Favourite Positions
Favourite Positions is a platform and podcast designed to help you find your dream role.
Founded by Alex Young in 2022, the platform was born from her own frustration with outdated career advice and rigid workplace expectations. Early in her career, Alex was often told she was “too young” to lead or made to feel uncomfortable in environments rife with sexism and performative policies. Like many, she was left disillusioned – not by hard work itself, but by systems that held people back.
Instead of conforming, she looked to those building better businesses – the founders, leaders and creatives shaping inclusive, purpose-led workplaces that prioritise well-being, impact and autonomy. Their stories lit the path forward.
Favourite Positions began as a way to share those stories – and has since grown into a trusted space for candid conversations about work, identity and ambition in a changing world.
Today, Favourite Positions is home to a growing community of over 10,000 people.
Alex’s work has been featured by the BBC, Channel 4, Cosmopolitan, Metro and Start Up Magazine. She is the recipient of the Excellence Scholarship at Imperial College London, where she’s continuing to grow the platform alongside her MBA.
Tune in for honest episodes that showcase the people reimagining work for a new generation.
Whether you’re early in your career, switching paths or leading a team, Favourite Positions is here to help you carve your own path and find work that truly fits.
Favourite Positions
Episode 03: Work In Progress - Kaia Allen-Bevan
đź’¬ Summary
In this episode, we speak to Kaya Allen-Bevan – founder of Youth the Gap and Edge of Difference – about what it really means to build inclusive workplaces, protect your energy and keep showing up with purpose.
Kaya opens up about how her own lived experience fuelled her work in advocacy and DEI. From early activism to launching two mission-driven businesses, she shares the realities of what it takes to do this work – emotionally, financially and professionally. We cover everything from unconscious bias to how to spot green flags in a new role, and how self-awareness is your biggest tool for growth.
đź’ˇ Takeaways
- Advocacy is about co-creating, not preaching
- You can care deeply and want to be paid – they’re not mutually exclusive
- Self-education is where most change begins
- Bias won’t go away – but awareness helps us navigate it
- Confidence doesn’t come before action, it comes from it
- Honest feedback loops are essential for workplace inclusion
- If the culture doesn’t support you, you don’t need to stay
- Empowering others starts with knowing your own needs
- Self-care isn't optional in meaningful work – it’s how you keep going
- Safe spaces in the workplace don’t just happen – they’re built intentionally
🔥 Favourite Soundbites
“I started to question a lot.”
“I did it because I was passionate.”
“You can’t control it anyway.”
đź•’ Chapters
00:00 – Meet Kaya and her mission
01:19 – How Edge of Difference came to life
04:10 – Kaya’s personal entry into activism
06:49 – Passion vs. pay: the advocacy tightrope
09:48 – Building confidence through self-care
13:43 – Bias at work: naming it and navigating it
18:47 – Hierarchies, feedback and honest conversations
20:11 – Culture fit vs. culture add
22:11 – How to build safer spaces for feedback
25:41 – What green flags in culture actually look like
30:18 – Diversity + flexibility: what the future needs
34:07 – Holding on to hope in a complex world
37:58 – How to reflect when something isn’t working
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