The Opportunity Issue

<p><strong>THE OPPORTUNITY ISSUE</strong></p><br><p>Welcome to Lennon Courtney Left Alone, a podcast about conversations we have when we’re left alone.</p><br><p>This week it’s The Opportunity Issue. This week we talk about opportunity as a place and a privilege and how we all need to acknowledge our own privilege blindness.</p><br><p>BUT WAIT! Before you listen to this week’s issue, please take this opportunity to show us your support. Simply leave a short positive review and give us five stars at this <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennon-courtney-left-alone/id1498840013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">link</a> where you can tell us how we’re your favourite podcast. It’s a simple way you can help the podcast grow - we can’t do it without you.</p><br><p>And while you’re here, let us take this opportunity to thank you for listening!&nbsp;</p><br><p>Until next Thursday...</p><br><p>Sonya and Brendan.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>OUTSIDE THINGS:</strong></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>READ - </strong><a href="https://ulir.ul.ie/bitstream/handle/10344/3808/Power_2010_smokescreen.pdf?sequence=4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>“The Smokescreen of meritocracy”: Elite Education in Ireland and the reproduction of class privilege</strong></a><strong> by Margaret Kennedy University of Limerick and Martin J. Power University of Limerick</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>READ - </strong><a href="https://www.pobal.ie/app/uploads/2018/06/Profiling-Barriers-to-Social-Inclusion-in-Ireland-The-Relative-Roles-of-Individual-Characteristics-and-Location.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Profiling Barriers to Social Inclusion</strong></a><strong> in Ireland - ESRI report</strong></p><br><p><strong>LISTEN - </strong><a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>How I Built This with Guy Raz - Norma Kamali episode</strong></a></p><br><p><strong>FOLLOW, FOLLOW:</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>