Ep 97. How to be the change you want to see in the world with Nova Reid

Nova Reid is an advocate for equality and was recently nominated as a Positive Role Model for race equality at the National Diversity Awards for the third year running. She is a certified NLP Life Coach, with an extensive professional background in mental well-being and is a frequent mentor at the Women of the World Festival London. She is regularly invited to provide expert media commentary for BBC and Sky News on race and diversity matters. I am taking her Anti-racism course and I highly recommend it.  We chat about: * Being the change you want to see in the world * Her anti-racism work * What are micro-aggressions* How our unconscious biases can cause harm, Nova Reid gets the courage to do the work she does and to be an ally Podcast sponsors Betterhelp – Online counselling service. Special offer for calmer you listeners get 10% off your first month Sweaty Betty – Pop into one of their stores with your old leggings to grab that voucher towards a new pair. Head to Sweaty Betty online to find out more and get 20% off online purchases with the code calmeryou. Discover the ways in which Sweaty Betty are working to make the planet a better place and their promises for 2019. Sweaty Betty Sustainability Download your FREE Calmer You Toolkit Transcript Intro: Hello, and welcome to the Calmer-You podcast. This is your host Chloe Brotheridge, I’m a coach, a hypnotherapist and the author of “the anxiety solution, and brave new girl.” And this podcast is all about helping you to become your calmest, happiest, and most confident self. So in today's episode, I am speaking to Nova Reid, she is an inspirational speaker, a diversity campaigner, and mentor. She's an advocate for equality, I was recently nominated as a positive role model for race equality at the National diversity awards for the 3rd year running. She's also a certified n.l.p. life coach, she has an extensive professional background in mental wellbeing, and she's a frequent mentor at the women of the World Festival in London. She's also regularly invited to speak on BBC and Sky News on race and diversity matters, I have been learning so much from Nova, I am taking her anti-racism course, and I highly recommend that you check that out if you are inspired by this episode and want to learn more. I think she's doing incredible work in the world and we can see topics such as how we can be the change that we want to see in the world. We talk about her anti-racism work, and we get into what micro aggressions are, and why they can be so harmful. We talk about our own unconscious biases which we all have by the way and how we need to start to examine them so that we can overcome them. And I ask Nova how she gets the courage to do the work that she does because she really is putting herself out there, doing incredibly brave work. We also get into how to be an ally and what exactly that is. So if you want to get some free resources to help you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self, you can head over to my website, Calmeryou.com/free, into your e-mail address in there and I’ll send those resources straight away, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.