Not Your Token Hire

Not Your Token Hire is a space dedicated to real, unfiltered conversations about the workplace and beyond, disrupting the status quo one story at a time.

Not Your Token Hire is a society podcast hosted by nidhi kalaiya, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

nidhi kalaiya hosts Not Your Token Hire, a society show with 13 episodes published.

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  12. JAMILA RIZVI - not your token broadcaster

  Aug 5, 202551 minS0

  <p>Folks! It is final episode of the season, and we’re coming in clutch. </p><p>We sat down for an important conversation around invisible disabilities with Jamila Rizvi. She also goes by 'Jam,' but in the spirit of decolonising language, we're saying her full name with intention. Jamila means beautiful and graceful in Arabic. And she effortlessly embodies both.</p><p>Jamila is a passionate advocate for equitable workplaces and uses her platform to push for change. At just 31, she was diagnosed with a rare brain tumour, an experience that reshaped her relationship with work, intertwined with her...

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  11. HUDA THE GODDESS - not your token slam poet

  Jul 16, 20251h 20mS1

  <p>A conversation for the ages with Huda the Goddess, a creative force who uses improvised spoken word as a form of advocacy and to create new possibilities.</p><p>In this episode we talked about language as a tool of survival, the importance of centring Black voices and what building community actually looks like. Huda also shared about the evolution of Magandjin’s creative scene — from improvisation to curation, the unearthed talent that is brewing in our own backyards that is deserving of so much more and how art has always been political. We also unpacked anti-blackness, from the dehu...

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  10. TOM BALLARD - not your token white guy

  Jul 3, 202553 minS1

  <p>Okay, I know what you're thinking. What is a white guy doing on this podcast? Well, it's not just any white guy, he also happens to be gay (he told me to say that).</p><p>I sat down with comedian Tom around the same time that the Australian Federal Elections had wrapped. We unpacked the results, talked about why leftist and socialist movements need to better centre Indigenous folks & people of colour and what could get white people talking about racism. We also got into what’s broken about corporate DE&I, as I swapped some of my ra...

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  9. JODIE HALL - not your token digital campaigner

  Jun 24, 202538 minS1

  <p>Everything happening around the world right now is a timely reminder that Pride began as a protest, and now more than ever, we need to put the protest back into Pride.</p><p>In this special episode, we sat down with Jodie Hall, a proud Wakka Wakka trans woman and Digital Campaigner for the Trans Justice Project.</p><p>From white feminism to toxic masculinity, we talk about why trans folks continue to be viciously targeted and how that keeps the capitalist patriarchy in check. Jodie shares more about the importance of creating educational spaces to challenge the growing m...

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  8. PRABHA - not your token lawyer

  Jun 2, 202543 minS1

  <p>From perfectionism to burn out, gendered racism to navigating complex law reforms, we sat down with leading human rights and discrimination lawyer focused workplace culture reform to protecting the rights of asylum seekers and refugees, Prabha Nandagopal. </p><p>Prabha is no stranger to all the experiences many women of colour face in corporate and legal world. We spoke about the challenges of driving systemic change in predominantly white spaces, questioning what success looks like in a capitalist world, to building your own pathways, which led her to establish her own consulting company - Elevate consulting. </p><p>She...

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