EP 26 Grace, empathy, and asking for change with Darian Kovacs

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How do we open up doors and break down barriers for Indigenous peoples to get work?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To get mentorship? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And to be leaders in that sector? </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Darian Kovacs asks “what if we equipped Indigenous folx with the best education, the best resources, the best credentials, and let them loose into the world of marketing and advertising? And what if they happen to rise up as the leaders? Because they're incredibly brilliant people that are resilient, understanding, and empathetic of stories and storytelling because of the way they are brought up in their history. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Darian Kovacs, seasoned podcast host of Marketing News Canada and founder of Jelly Marketing joins Susan Diaz and Rohini Mukherji.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We tackle the phenomenon of the new found anxiety of someone who want to be an ally who is moving from a place of privilege to just becoming aware of the real state of things I- whether it was the George Floyd murder of last year or the unearthing of over 1000 children's graves, covered up in the Canadian residential school system. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We touch on</span></p> <p> </p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to operationalize empathy</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to get past the fear of doing the wrong things and paralysis by analysis that stops people from doing anything to help</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Some of the really practical pieces marketers struggle with - Darian talks of  a tool like Canva which many digital marketers within amazing organizations use. If you look up the stock images and try to find Indigenous people you’