Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change

About Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change

Everyday Equity: Everyday Ways to Make a Change is a conversational, action-focused podcast series that explores simple, concrete practices anyone can use to advance equity and inclusion in daily life at work, at home, and in community spaces. It centers real stories and lived experiences to show how small shifts in awareness, communication, and decision-making can collectively drive meaningful social change. The series is hosted by Pooja Kothari Esq. featuring equity educators, authors, and justice-focused professionals in dialogue about their work and journeys. Guests share specific tools they use to navigate inequity in organizations and communities, modeling how to blend professional roles, advocacy, and creativity in pursuit of systemic change. The podcast highlights how everyday choices in language, leadership, and relationships can challenge bias, support marginalized communities, and create more just environments without requiring formal titles or large platforms.Episodes often connect personal narratives with practical strategies, emphasizing self-education, listening, and accountability as core parts of anti-oppression work. Recurring themes include racial and gender equity, workplace inclusion, psychological safety, allyship, and the importance of believing and respecting others’ experiences.The podcast also addresses how to sustain this work over time, touching on boundaries, burnout, and the role of reflection and community care in long-term social justice efforts. Each conversation is designed to leave listeners with a handful of clear, doable actions they can implement immediately—such as changing how meetings are run, interrupting microaggressions, or rethinking policies and norms in their own spheres of influence. By framing equity as a daily practice rather than a one-time initiative, the show invites listeners to see themselves as active participants in building fairer, more humane systems wherever they are.

Publisher

Pooja Kothari, Esq.

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2024

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Everyday Equity: Beyond Hate and Understanding Everyday Racism

   What if racism was never just about hate? In this episode of Everyday Equity, Pooja Kothari sits down with author, speaker, and DEIA advocate Paul Ladipo for a candid conversation about everyday racism, performative DEI, emotional intelligence, raising socially aware children, and what it actually takes to move from awareness to action. Paul also discusses his book, It Was Never About That: Going Beyond Hate to Dismantle Everyday Racism in America, and why dismantling racism starts with expan...

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   S3 Ep 9: Everyday Equity- The cost of belonging Asian women, Ambition & Equity

   What does it really cost to belong when success means constantly navigating stereotypes, bias, and expectations about who you’re supposed to be? In this episode of Everyday Equity, Pooja Kothari sits down with Misa Chien, founder of The Authentic Asian, to talk about ambition, identity, belonging, and the realities Asian women face while building careers and businesses. Misa shares candid stories from Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship, and modeling and how those experiences inspired her to cre...

3. 

   26 Jun 2026

   Everyday Equity: Equity Across Life and Death Conversations with Jaya Saxena

   What does equity look like from your first breath to your last? In this episode, Pooja Kothari speaks with Jaya Saxena—lawyer, organizational strategist, and aspiring death doula about how equity shapes our experiences throughout life, including at the end of it. Together, they explore the difference between equality and equity, the barriers many communities face in accessing end-of-life care, the role of death doulas and why conversations about death are ultimately conversations about how we...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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