Good Girls Eat Dinner
Welcome to Good Girls Eat Dinner, the most interesting dinner party you'll ever go to, now in takeaway form.
Since 2015 we’ve been on a mission to provide more visible, female role models across the creative industries and beyond. At our popular real-life events we serve up four gloriously inspiring female speakers between the courses of a delicious meal. It always leaves everyone hungry for more, so here on the podcast we’ll dedicate a whole episode to each incredible guest. We won't be eating dinner but you certainly can!
Join me, Jo Wallace (Executive Creative Director by day, founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner by night) as I ask female pioneers to share their experiences, stories and advice. To leave you full of inspiration.
Good Girls Eat Dinner
S2 E4: Deborah B Williams - Why an inclusive culture can't start and stop at words.
Jo welcomes the brilliant Deborah B Williams to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Deborah is someone who creates awareness around the big problems we face in society. But she doesn’t just talk about them, she doesn’t even just create awareness around them; she creates ACTION. Action which took her on a journey to become the founder and CEO of The Women’s Association.
Topics covered:
- Growing up in a bubble of happiness that partially helped deflect racism
- The importance of someone helping you picture your dreams
- Being able to fail and not live in that failure
- Hitting rock bottom and then choosing to live intentionally, with purpose
- Being told you can’t
- Then creating an organization to help stop other women be told they can’t
- The Women’s Association - helping remove the barriers to women’s dreams
- How society needs to play a role in closing the aspiration gap for girls
- The Executive Challenge: Giving teenage girls access to the workplace
- The Cannes Challenge - back by popular demand - for 18-30yr old women
- 56 Black Men - being part of a project to challenge racist stereotypes
- Knowing there’s a long way to go but finding fuel in real women’s stories
- Choosing to drive change rather than just exist in a biased system
- Social media: the no. 1 thing young girls site as impacting their confidence
- Project Phoenix - tackling the confidence barrier by allowing self-discovery
- Being intentional and consistent - and human - when it comes to DE&I
- Taking pride in helping others
- Deborah’s Doggy Bag of advice
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