Goddess of Technology

About Goddess of Technology

Goddess of Technology is an educational podcast specializing in health, cultures, arts, business and technology. GT's mission is to educate, motivate and inspire women of color in the technology industry to achieve their career goals. For the long term, GT's vision is to foster a community wherein women of color mutually empower each other on their professional growth journey by passing on their skills, knowledge, experience and wisdom to each other. My name is Marie, and I'm your podcast host. | Contact: coucou.goddess@gmail.com

Publisher

Marie Gonzales, M.Sc., M.A.

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Feb 2023

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

210 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   208. Stalkerware: The Stalker in Your Pocket

   Welcome to Halloween month at Goddess of Technology! Your smartphone knows where you go, whom you contact, what you search for, which photographs you take, and how you communicate. That makes it extraordinarily useful. It can make it extraordinarily revealing, too. In this podcast episode, we’re exploring stalkerware and digital surveillance: software and technologies that can transform an everyday device into an instrument for monitoring another person’s private life. We’re examining what stalkerware is, how consumer surveillance technology evolved, why stalkerware presents a distinctive cybersecurity challenge, how digital surveillance affects human behaviour and psychological safety, and why an attacker does not necessarily require advanced hacking skills when proximity, trust, physical access, or existing knowledge provides another route into a person’s digital life. Most importantly, we’re learning how greater digital awareness can help you strengthen your privacy, protect your autonomy, and make more intentional decisions about the technologies that accompany you through your life. Goddess, I would love to hear your perspective. Have you ever discovered that an application, account, device, or location-sharing feature had access to more information about you than you expected? E-mail your opinion or, if you feel comfortable doing so, your personal experience to coucou.goddess@gmail.com (mailto:coucou.goddess@gmail.com). REFERENCES Chatterjee, R., Doerfler, P., Orgad, H., Havron, S., Palmer, J., Freed, D., Levy, K., Dell, N., McCoy, D. and Ristenpart, T. (2018) ‘The Spyware Used in Intimate Partner Violence’, 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp. 441–458. Citizen Lab (2019) The Predator in Your Pocket: A Multidisciplinary Assessment of the Stalkerware Application Industry. University of Toronto. Electronic Frontier Foundation (2020) ‘Watch EFF Cybersecurity Director Eva Galperin’s TED Talk About Stalkerware’. Federal Trade Commission (2019) ‘FTC Takes Action Against Stalking Apps’. Federal Trade Commission (2021) Stalkerware: What To Know. Levy, K. and Schneier, B. (2020) ‘Privacy Threats in Intimate Relationships’, Journal of Cybersecurity, 6(1). National Network to End Domestic Violence (2019) ‘The National Network to End Domestic Violence Joins Launch of Coalition Against Stalkerware’. Schneier, B. (2014) ‘Surveillance Is the Business Model of the Internet’. WIRED (2019) ‘Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware’.

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   207. Transparency vs. Politeness: Why Honesty Sounds Rude and Politeness Sounds Fake

   Transparency and politeness both sound like universally positive qualities in business. Yet what happens when one professional culture interprets honesty as respect – while another interprets politeness as respect? In this podcast episode, we’re exploring the conflict between more direct Central European business communication and the more diplomatically coded communication frequently encountered in English-speaking professional environments. We’re examining why a German professional may interpret polite language as insincere, why a North-American professional may Dutch directness as rude and harsh, and why the words ‘perhaps’, ‘quite’, ‘a little’ or ‘I would suggest’ may carry considerably more force than their literal wording appears to contain. We’re exploring the research behind low-context communication, direct and indirect negative feedback, politeness, face-saving, understatement, upgraders, downgraders and intercultural conflict. More importantly, we’re discussing what happens when these differences enter business, leadership, negotiations, meetings, employees’ performance management and everyday workplace communication. Because the real challenge in intercultural business communication is not just literally understanding what another person says. It is understanding what the other person believes they have communicated. Goddess, I would love to hear your perspective. Have you experienced a situation where directness was interpreted as rudeness, or where politeness prevented an important message from being understood? E-mail your opinion and, if applicable, your personal experience to coucou.goddess@gmail.com (mailto:coucou.goddess@gmail.com). REFERENCES Brown, P. and Levinson, S.C. (1987) Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Goffman, E. (1955) ‘On face-work: An analysis of ritual elements in social interaction’, Psychiatry, 18(3), pp. 213–231. Hall, E.T. (1976) Beyond Culture. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday. House, J. (1989) ‘Politeness in English and German: The functions of please and bitte’, in Blum-Kulka, S., House, J. and Kasper, G. (eds.) Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, pp. 96–119. Kádár, D.Z. and Haugh, M. (2013) Understanding Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Meyer, E. (2014) The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. New York: PublicAffairs. Meyer, E. (2015) ‘Giving negative feedback across cultures’, INSEAD Knowledge, September 16th, 2015. Meyer, E. (2015) ‘The most productive ways to disagree across cultures’, INSEAD Knowledge, April 6th, 2015. Murphy, M.L. (2025) ‘Separated by a common im/politeness marker: please in American and British web-based English’, English Language & Linguistics.

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   206. Covert Racism: When ‘Compliments’ Reinforce Harmful Stereotypes

   Many people immediately recognize explicit racism. Far fewer recognize covert racism because it frequently appears subtle, socially acceptable, or even complimentary. Statements such as ‘All Asians are brilliant at mathematics,’ ‘All Indians are excellent IT professionals,’ or ‘All Vietnamese people are talented nail technicians’ may sound positive on the surface. Nevertheless, reducing millions of individuals to a single characteristic or profession removes individuality, reinforces stereotypes, and shapes expectations that influence hiring, promotions, education, leadership opportunities and everyday interactions. In this podcast episode, we’re exploring what covert racism is, how it differs from overt racism, why positive stereotypes remain stereotypes, and how these seemingly harmless remarks can contribute to unequal treatment inside organizations. Furthermore, we’re examining the psychological, historical and organizational mechanisms that allow covert racism to persist even within workplaces that genuinely value diversity and inclusion. Moreover, we’re discussing practical leadership strategies for creating multinational organizations where every employee is recognized as an individual rather than as a representative of a racial, ethnic or cultural group. Whether you are an executive, people manager, entrepreneur or individual contributor, this episode provides practical guidance for fostering a workplace culture built upon respect, curiosity, fairness and psychological safety. I would love to hear your perspective, beautiful. Please share your opinion and, if applicable, your personal experiences by e-mailing coucou.goddess@gmail.com (mailto:coucou.goddess@gmail.com). REFERENCES Banaji, M.R., Fiske, S.T. and Massey, D.S. (2021) ‘Systemic racism: individuals and interactions, institutions and society’, Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(82). Dovidio, J.F. and Gaertner, S.L. (2004) ‘Aversive Racism’, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 36, pp. 1–52. Kroskrity, P.V. (2021) ‘Covert Linguistic Racisms and the (Re-)Production of White Supremacy’, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. Ni, P.C. (2021) ‘What Are Overt and Covert Types of Racism?’, Psychology Today. Sue, D.W. (2010) Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation. Hoboken: Wiley.

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

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Quality

75

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60