Multicultural Minds: Recent Episodes
Multicultural Minds
Multicultural Minds is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. Host Emily Unity talks with guests from diverse backgrounds, exploring the different relationships between culture and mental health. www.multiculturalminds.org
Dr Dakhina Mitra joins host Emily Unity to speak about her experience as a researcher, specialising in child rights and participatory research design. Dakhina has worked to elevate the voices of children experiencing a range of marginalisation, including family violence, migration, HIV, malnutrition, poverty, and child marriage.
She has worked across many cultural contexts with the Centre for Excellence in Child & Family Welfare, Save the Children Australia, Child Safe Horizons, Make-A-Wish Foundation India, and Global Development Network. Throughout this work, she has ensured that diverse children are empowered and respected to be the experts of their experience.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Ashley Kirsner, Founder of Skip the Small Talk, joins host Emily Unity to share how she uses her background in clinical and social psychology research from Harvard, Cornell, and Boston University to design and host events that help groups of people skip the small talk and connect deeper through conversation.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Sheetal Deo, Founder of Shakti Legal Solutions and the Diversity Collective, joins host Emily Unity to share how she uses platforms and privilege to work alongside people to advocate on behalf of members from underrepresented and marginalised communities.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Dr. Kaushik Sridhar, winner of the ESG Thought Leader of the Year, Global Top 100 CSR Influence Leader Award, one of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians, TEDx Speaker, Former Professional Athlete, and self-proclaimed “Weirdo”, joins host Emily Unity to share his lived experiences of resilience and how he found his purpose in life: his “dot”.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Türkan Aksoy, a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, joins host Emily Unity to speak about their personal and professional experiences regarding creating social cohesion through inclusion and equity. They share about the social, cultural, economic and civic challenges that diverse communities experience and share how we communities can better embrace diversity.
Trigger Warnings: migration, racism, and gender.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Jeffrey Lai, Founder of Equal Ed, a social enterprise that specialises in providing tailored education support to diverse young people, joins host Emily Unity to speak not only about his experiences of working with diverse people, but also about being a diverse person, and how communicating about mental health can look different for everyone.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Oliver Tye, a young Wardandi Noongar man and the First Nations Statement of Commitment Coordinator at Orygen, the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health, joins Emily Unity to talk about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing, the harmfulness of scientific reductionism, and his lived experience of culture and connection to Country.
Trigger Warnings: culture, colonisation, and racism
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Ishara Sahama, a human geographer and young woman of colour, joins host Emily Unity to speak about their experiences navigating intergenerational conversations about mental health in a migrant family.
Trigger Warnings: culture, war, family, and mental health
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Budi Sudarto, an intersectionality advocate who identifies as non-binary, gay, Indonesian, and Muslim, joins host Emily Unity to reflect on the debates around the Religious Discrimination Bill that overlooked and ignored the voices of intersectional LGBTIQA+ faith and ethnic minorities.
Trigger Warnings: gender and sexual diversity, culture, politics, and religion.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Antoinette Lattouf, a multi award-winning journalist based in Sydney, Australia, joins host Emily to share her experiences with postnatal depression and challenging the cycle of intergenerational trauma within a refugee family.
Trigger Warnings: depression, family, and culture.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Sandeep Varma, the founder and CEO at South Asian media start up SAARI Collective, joins host Emily to share his experiences of reclaiming South Asian unity and the power of creativity and community in defining your own narrative.
Trigger Warnings: depression, culture, and religion.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Pheobe Ho, a Clinical Psychologist Registrar in Western Australia, joins Emily to share her journey from a young Singaporean person with eating disorders, to being a multicultural clinician that is changing the narrative for others.
Trigger Warnings: eating disorders, family, culture.
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Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds
Multicultural Minds is dedicated to raising awareness of multicultural mental health. We are focused on decolonising mental health services, increasing mental health literacy, and amplifying diverse lived and living experiences.
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Listen to or follow Multicultural Minds:
Website: www.multiculturalminds.org
Instagram: @multiculturalminds
Facebook: @multiculturalminds