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Boosted transforms professionals into leaders through real workplace scenarios, modern etiquette, and communication strategies.
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A Lawyer's Status, A Warehouse Lesson: Rethinking 'Where Are You From?'" (opens the original)
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He resisted the decision for six and a half years. When he finally said yes, he left a thriving 20-year law career for a warehouse job that broke his body before it rebuilt his faith. In this episode of Boosted, I sit down with Kayode Akomolafe, a former lawyer in Nigeria who now serves as Human Rights and Equity Advisor at the Durham Catholic District School Board. Kayode is warm, direct, and unflinchingly honest about the parts of this journey that were genuinely hard, and that honesty is what
Growing Up in Jamaica, Leading in Canadian Politics (w/Patrice Barnes) (opens the original)
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Have you ever stood outside your own event, unable to get in, while colleagues right beside you walked through without question? In this episode of Boosted, I sit down with Patrice Barnes, a former Ontario MPP who immigrated to Canada from Jamaica and built a career that took her from school trustee to Queen's Park to public affairs. Patrice is candid, reflective, and still working through some of this in real time, and that honesty is what makes this conversation so rich. We talk about growing
A Foot in the Door: Betting on Yourself in a New Country (w/ Analisa Allen) (opens the original)
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Have you ever reached out to a total stranger because you recognized their last name? In this episode of Boosted, I sit down with Analisa Allen, a communications specialist who immigrated to Canada from Trinidad and Tobago in 2018 and built her career from the ground up, one bet, one connection, and one "foot in the door" at a time. Analisa actually found me the same way half of Trinidad seems to find each other: through a last name. We talk about what it takes to rebuild a career in a new count
Judgement to Curiosity: An Identity Journey (w/Amy Au) (opens the original)
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Have you ever asked "Where are you from?" and wondered if you were asking it right? In this episode of Boosted, I sit down with Amy Au, a Hong Kong-born leadership coach, international bestselling author, and founder of Innovate You. Amy came to Canada as a teenager, fell in love with the country almost immediately, and built her career and family here, but she's spent decades navigating this question across two very different cultures. We go deep on one of the most common, and most complicated,
One Question, Three Generations of Chinese Canadian History (w/Hilda Gan) (opens the original)
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Have you ever asked "Where are you from?" - and wondered if you were asking it right? In this episode of Boosted, I sit down with Hilda Gan, a third-generation Canadian Chinese whose family has been in this country since the railroad era of the late 1800s. Hilda grew up in a mostly non-Chinese neighbourhood, culturally in-between in a way she didn't have language for until she was a teenager. And yet, she is still asked where she's from as if she just arrived. We go deep on one of the most commo
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