Let's Be Honest: Recent Episodes
Priyadharshini Shanthakumar
✨The podcast where we learn about how different cultures navigate in the modern world through individual experiences
In celebration of Black History Month, we had a special episode of the Let’s Be Honest podcast, featuring a very special guest Wayne Sullivan!
Take a listen to Wayne sharing his personal and professional experiences, covering a number of topics such as: racism and gentrification, the inherent relationship between classism and racism, and how organisations responded to the recent BLM movement.
This episode was recorded live on the 22nd October 2020 to 75 people.
Episode 6 is a dive into the life of Karen Sandhu.
It is never easy for anyone to move to a new country. In this episode Karen talks about embracing your new cultures and the ideas of intersectionality being a female minority. When you face repeated questions about your name you begin to ask yourself about your own identity.
Episode 5 features Josh Novick from the USA.
In this episode we take the time to understand the differences between the UK and the US through Josh's life. Spending all of his life in the USA, to a loving family that looked different to himself we begin to understand the additional challenges individual may face.
This episode was recorded live on Tuesday 30th June 2020.
This episode explores Fahmida's relationship with culture and religion being a second generation Muslim from London.
Navigating the world being surrounded and governed by multiple cultures never becomes easy and this podcast highlights how she develops her views towards her religion.
This episode features Katerina Monastirli.
Katerina discusses her journey from Greece to London during the financial crisis, and the challenges a non-native English speaker can experience in the UK.
Our guest for this episode is Feeroza Patel. In this session, she discusses her own professional development amongst the premise of expectation from community, and past ignorance from individuals throughout her career.
My guest for the first episode is Richard Holder. He explores his experiences through life in London during turbulent times, and how this exposure to prejudice has shaped his present.