Carrie is a global leader for diversity, equality and inclusion across the media technology industry with over 20 years’ experience. She has built the international diversity membership organisation ‘Rise’ and the ‘Rise Up Academy’ from an initial idea and passion project to a thriving not-for-profit business working with brands such as BT Sport, ITV, Sky, Warner Bros.Discovery and others. Carrie has developed and delivered commercial business strategies and secured high profile partnerships for educational institutions such as Ravensbourne University London. She was given the Broadcast Tech Special Recognition Award in 2021 and won Gold for Female Leader at the UK’s National Business Women’s Awards also in 2021.Her x3 KIRs are aligned with Rise's mission👇🏼1️⃣  There is still more work to do to achieve gender diversity ⚖️2️⃣  Achieving gender diversity needs investment 💷3️⃣  Change is happening! ✨💪🏼✨Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.comI’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

<description>&lt;p&gt;Carrie is a global leader for diversity, equality and inclusion across the media technology industry with over 20 years’ experience. She has built the international diversity membership organisation ‘Rise’ and the ‘Rise Up Academy’ from an initial idea and passion project to a thriving not-for-profit business working with brands such as BT Sport, ITV, Sky, Warner Bros.Discovery and others. Carrie has developed and delivered commercial business strategies and secured high profile partnerships for educational institutions such as Ravensbourne University London. She was given the Broadcast Tech Special Recognition Award in 2021 and won Gold for Female Leader at the UK’s National Business Women’s Awards also in 2021.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her x3 KIRs are aligned with Rise's mission👇🏼&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1️⃣  There is still more work to do to achieve gender diversity ⚖️&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2️⃣  Achieving gender diversity needs investment 💷&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3️⃣  Change is happening! ✨💪🏼✨&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intro &amp; outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme&lt;/p&gt;
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I have FINALLY managed to get Carrie Wootten, Co-Director Rise and Rise Up Academy. Rise is an award-winning global advocacy membership organisation supporting gender diversity across the media technology sector. 

Carrie - Co-Director Rise and Rise Up Academy

Suzie Cox is many things…. a TV personality and speaker, a voice over actor, a mentor, investor and advocate, a fellow podcaster, a mum and she was Vogue off of Gladiators, as in the hit TV show of the 90s that I watched religiously every weekend…I cannot believe I have the actual Vogue off of the actual Gladiators on my podcast!She has presented and been interviewed on numerous regional and national television and radio shows including ITV, LWT, BBC, Channel 4, Virgin Radio and Radio 5 Live. She does a whole host of voice over acting and narration and she has not one but TWO podcasts; Top Dogs and Their Humans where Suzie chats with some amazing humans about their pooches and Brave Pants with Vogue and the Viking which is all about women putting on Brave Pants and doing stuff they have always wanted.Her x3 KIRs are:1️⃣  Needing quiet time 🤫2️⃣  Needing time away 🚗 ✈️3️⃣  Dancing! 💃🏻This is the last episode of Series 5... I know boo! ☹️ BUT I will continue and there will be a 6th series yay! 😁Intro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.comI’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

<description>&lt;p&gt;Suzie Cox is many things…. a TV personality and speaker, a voice over actor, a mentor, investor and advocate, a fellow podcaster, a mum and she was Vogue off of Gladiators, as in the hit TV show of the 90s that I watched religiously every weekend…I cannot believe I have the actual Vogue off of the actual Gladiators on my podcast!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She has presented and been interviewed on numerous regional and national television and radio shows including ITV, LWT, BBC, Channel 4, Virgin Radio and Radio 5 Live. She does a whole host of voice over acting and narration and she has not one but TWO podcasts; Top Dogs and Their Humans where Suzie chats with some amazing humans about their pooches and Brave Pants with Vogue and the Viking which is all about women putting on Brave Pants and doing stuff they have always wanted.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her x3 KIRs are:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1️⃣  Needing quiet time 🤫&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2️⃣  Needing time away 🚗 ✈️&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3️⃣  Dancing! 💃🏻&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the last episode of Series 5... I know boo! ☹️ BUT I will continue and there will be a 6th series yay! 😁&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intro &amp; outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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Suzie Cox is many things…. a TV personality and speaker, a voice over actor, a mentor, investor and advocate, a fellow podcaster, a mum and she was Vogue off of Gladiators, as in the hit TV show of the 90s that I watched religiously every weekend…I cannot believe I have the actual Vogue off of the actual Gladiators on my podcast and also can't believe we've got to the last episode of Series 5 already!

Suzie - TV personality, Speaker, Voice Over Actor

Minreet Kaur is an award winning freelance journalist working across TV, Radio and Online. She is also the daughter of 75 year old Rajinder Singh, known as The Skipping Sikh, where in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic, he shared exercise videos to inspire older members of the South Asian community to stay healthy whilst also raising money for the NHS. He was subsequently awarded an MBE and Minreet has helped to share his story through many news outlets.Minreet has written for the independent, BBC, Sky, Stylist, Byline Times, Metro, iPaper, Guardian and Al Jazeera. She has also reported for The One Show, Newsround, Sunday Morning Live, BBC South and Sky News.Her work focuses on improving the representation of South Asian communities and she has written features, opinion and news pieces.Her x3 KIRs are 👇🏼1️⃣ Friends & Family2️⃣ Faith3️⃣ Swimming & RunningIntro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.comI’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

<description>&lt;p&gt;Minreet Kaur is an award winning freelance journalist working across TV, Radio and Online. She is also the daughter of 75 year old Rajinder Singh, known as The Skipping Sikh, where in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic, he shared exercise videos to inspire older members of the South Asian community to stay healthy whilst also raising money for the NHS. He was subsequently awarded an MBE and Minreet has helped to share his story through many news outlets.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Minreet has written for the independent, BBC, Sky, Stylist, Byline Times, Metro, iPaper, Guardian and Al Jazeera. She has also reported for The One Show, Newsround, Sunday Morning Live, BBC South and Sky News.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her work focuses on improving the representation of South Asian communities and she has written features, opinion and news pieces.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Her x3 KIRs are 👇🏼&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1️⃣ Friends &amp; Family&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2️⃣ Faith&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3️⃣ Swimming &amp; Running&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intro &amp; outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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Minreet Kaur is an award winning freelance journalist working across TV, Radio and Online. She is also the daughter of 75 year old Rajinder Singh, known as The Skipping Sikh, where in 2020 during the height of the global pandemic, he shared exercise videos to inspire older members of the South Asian community to stay healthy whilst also raising money for the NHS. He was subsequently awarded an MBE and Minreet has helped to share his story through many news outlets.

Minreet - Award-Winning Freelance Journalist

Caroline Ewerton is Vice President of Technical Product Management, leading the transformation, next generation and optimisation of the media supply chain at DAZN. DAZN is a global sports entertainment streaming platform, streaming nearly 1 billion hours of live sport every year in over 200 countries and territories. She joined DAZN as Head of Operational Delivery in 2019 and at the end of 2020 she became Vice President of Production Services before moving into her current role.In the short time that I’ve got to know her by asking her to be a guest on my podcast, I find her to be warm, kind and someone who possesses a level of self-awareness that is truly admirable and I have no doubt after listening to her talk about her three Keeping It Reals, you too listener will agree with me!Carolines x3 KIRs are 👇🏼1️⃣ Having a connection to self2️⃣ Having a beginners mind3️⃣ Having an open heartIntro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.comI’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

<description>&lt;p&gt;Caroline Ewerton is Vice President of Technical Product Management, leading the transformation, next generation and optimisation of the media supply chain at DAZN. DAZN is a global sports entertainment streaming platform, streaming nearly 1 billion hours of live sport every year in over 200 countries and territories. She joined DAZN as Head of Operational Delivery in 2019 and at the end of 2020 she became Vice President of Production Services before moving into her current role.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the short time that I’ve got to know her by asking her to be a guest on my podcast, I find her to be warm, kind and someone who possesses a level of self-awareness that is truly admirable and I have no doubt after listening to her talk about her three Keeping It Reals, you too listener will agree with me!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Carolines x3 KIRs are 👇🏼&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1️⃣ Having a connection to self&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2️⃣ Having a beginners mind&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3️⃣ Having an open heart&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intro &amp; outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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Caroline Ewerton is Vice President of Technical Product Management, leading the transformation, next generation and optimisation of the media supply chain at DAZN. DAZN is a global sports entertainment streaming platform, streaming nearly 1 billion hours of live sport every year in over 200 countries and territories. She joined DAZN as Head of Operational Delivery in 2019 and at the end of 2020 she became Vice President of Production Services before moving into her current role.


Caroline Ewerton - VP Technical Production Management, DAZN

Nav Khangura is a VP of Business Development at Prime Focus Technologies. They are the creator of CLEAR - Enterprise Resource Planning software - that supports broadcasters, studios, brands and service providers to automate business processes around content and managing their business of content better.I first met Nav at the International Broadcasting Convention back in 2019 when I was working out there for a previous employer and like with most industry peers at events we ended up connecting on LinkedIn. When it came to finding guests for this series I got in touch and here we are!His 3 KIRs1️⃣ Family comes first2️⃣ Honesty is the best policy3️⃣ Being different isn’t a bad thingIntro & outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.comI’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme

<description>&lt;p&gt;Nav Khangura is a VP of Business Development at Prime Focus Technologies. They are the creator of CLEAR - Enterprise Resource Planning software - that supports broadcasters, studios, brands and service providers to automate business processes around content and managing their business of content better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I first met Nav at the International Broadcasting Convention back in 2019 when I was working out there for a previous employer and like with most industry peers at events we ended up connecting on LinkedIn. When it came to finding guests for this series I got in touch and here we are!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;His 3 KIRs&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1️⃣ Family comes first&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2️⃣ Honesty is the best policy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3️⃣ Being different isn’t a bad thing&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Intro &amp; outro music credit: Dawn Awaits by Cody Martin, obtained from www.soundstripe.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m on social if you’re interested…primarily Insta and occasionally Twitter: @diversityofme&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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Nav Khangura is a VP of Business Development at Prime Focus Technologies. They are the creator of CLEAR - Enterprise Resource Planning software - that supports broadcasters, studios, brands and service providers to automate business processes around content and managing their business of content better.

Nav - VP Business Development, Prime Focus Technologies

Sharing the unique stories of everyday people talking through their top three ways of "Keeping It Real!" Many of the guests featured work in broadcast and the creative industries.

There is also some spoken word poetry to boot by a newbie poet in her mid 30s! 😅😬🙈 

Reassuring feedback on a recent poetry submission that was NOT successful stated: "the judges were incredibly moved by your application, which was the most original and affecting of all that we received". 😊🙌🏼💪🏼 There's always next year!

Tanya is a single woman in her late thirties, of Indian (Punjabi) heritage, and was born and bred in the UK. Oh and she works in media. Views shared or discussed in this podcast are her own and that of her contributors...ya know the spiel.

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