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The X PodcastReconciliation in Business: A Guide for Small Business Owners with Alison Tedford SeaweedAlison Tedford Seaweed is a storyteller and consultant who wrote the Canadian Business Owner's Guide to Reconciliation. She's a Kwakiutl First Nation member, a grad student and a mom.
Beginning Your Reconciliation Journey for Small Business Owners. Learn about the ways you can participate in Reconciliation as a business owner, even if you have a small team or work as a solopreneur. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission outlines the role of business in Call to Action 92 and that's something we will talk about so you can think about where you might get started.
2024-02-1240 min
This Is Not What I Ordered: conversations on chronic illness, loss + changeBody Image, Entrepreneurship + Indigenous Identity with Alison Tedford SeaweedToday I'm joined by Alison Tedford Seaweed: a Canadian consultant, author and mother who lives with hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome, chronic idiopathic urticaria and ADHD. Alison wrote a book called "Chronic Profit" about running a business while managing chronic pain and finds new ways to cope every day. In today's conversation, we discuss new, creative, and hilariously uplifting ways to rethink our relationships with our bodies amidst chronic illness, disordered eating, and a productivity-focused culture, as well as Alison's definition of Indigenous inclusion and her identity as a Kwakiutl First Nation member from a family of ʼNakwaxdaʼxw an...2023-11-2859 min
Why Access MattersEpisode 10: Alison Tedford SeaweedHello everyone!
Welcome to the 5th and the last episode of our second season and the 10th episode overall of our podcast “Why Access Matters”.
In this episode, I talked to Alison Tedford Seaweed. Alison is an Indigenous Relations consultant based in Abbotsford, BC.
In this conversation, she shares her valuable thoughts and experiences regarding her commitment to working alongside Indigenous
communities, people, and cultures to create transformative change and its intersectionality with her lived experience as an entrepreneur with disability.
And also about how social determinants of health impact the...2023-05-2637 min
Just Marketing™30. Diversity Statements: Create a Sustainable Plan For Inclusion in Business with Alison Tedford SeaweedThis episode is a conversation between Meg Brunson, the founder of Just Marketing, and Alison Tedford Seaweed, an Indigenous woman with a disability who has worked on issues of inclusion and equity in the public and private sector for almost 20 years. They discuss the importance of creating inclusive spaces and how small businesses and solopreneurs can make a difference in making their businesses more accessible and inclusive.
In This Episode You'll Learn:
What is a diversity statement and why your business should have one.
How to write your diversity statement.
What to do on...2023-04-1937 min
Just Marketing®Diversity Statements: Create a Sustainable Plan For Inclusion in Business with Alison Tedford SeaweedAlison Tedford Seaweed, is an Indigenous woman with a disability who has worked on issues of inclusion and equity in the public and private sector for almost 20 years.In this episode, we discuss the importance of creating inclusive spaces and how small businesses and solopreneurs can make a difference in making their businesses more accessible and inclusive.In This Episode You'll Learn:What is a diversity statement and why your business should have one.How to write your diversity statement.What to do once your diversity statement is written. ...2023-04-1939 min
Living The Next Chapter: Candid Conversations with Authors and Writers for Readers Searching for a New ReadE76 - Alison Tedford - Indigenous Author (Kwakiutl First Nation)EPISODE 76 -Our guest today is Alison Tedford is an author, consultant and a mom. I’m Indigenous (Kwakiutl First Nation) and based in Abbotsford, BC. I have over a decade of government experience contributing to culturally sensitive data storytelling, policy analysis and program development and seven years of private sector experience creating information products that educate, inform and delight. I’ve helped entrepreneurs, governments and brand leaders design their visions of inclusion, strategize about how to get there with practical, concrete action and find the words to talk about it. I create an i...2022-10-1033 min
Revenue AcceleratorRevenue Accelerator with Alison TedfordIn this episode of the Revenue Accelerator Podcast, we have invited Alison Tedford, a business consultant and author specializing in inclusive communications. She did work in the public service around creating inclusion for indigenous people within the federal prison system. Today, Alison discusses inclusiveness and communications, their respective origins, and how they interact.Telling Someone’s Story[00:45]When you think about storytelling and the role of a storyteller, you have to recognize the historical relationships that your subjects have had with who tells their stories, how they're represented in media, how their na...2022-08-1128 minThe X PodcastHow small businesses can be an ally for truth and reconciliation with Alison TedfordThis week on The X Podcast is Alison Tedford.
Alison works with entrepreneurs, brands and organizations who want to say the right thing, do the right thing, and promote what they have in a socially conscious way while building trust with their community. She helps them talk about it and be about it with diversity and inclusion from the inside out. Alison is an Indigenous woman with a disability and a consultant with 18 years professional experience educating people from the front lines to the C-suite about social justice issues.
You can learn more about Alison on Instagram and her...2022-07-0537 min
Balance365 Life RadioDoes Losing Weight Make You A Bad Feminist? (Reshare)Episode Overview Can you call yourself a feminist and still want weight loss? To help answer that question, we invited Grace Club founder Maggie Anderson for an exploration of feminism, weight loss, body autonomy, and how to create more compassion for yourself and others. Maggie is an avid learner and unlearner, a collaborator, community cultivator, yoga teacher, partner, and mother of two daughters. In this reshared episode, you’ll find a spirited discussion that will challenge you to examine your beliefs, think critically about the messages you are receiving, and really unpack what yo...2022-06-221h 07
Balance365 Life RadioAll About Type 2 Diabetes (Part 2)Episode Overview Today we’re back with Part 2 of our series “All About Type 2 Diabetes.” (If you haven’t listened to Part 1, please go back to last week’s episode and listen to it first!) Today, we continue the conversation alongside Jen’s sister Janelle Edwards. Janelle is a nurse and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes recently. She was so helpful in helping us create the outline for these two episodes that we asked her to come on and share her knowledge and experience live. And if you want more real conversations about health and wellness, jo...2022-06-0858 min
Master of NoneEp. 16 - Alison Tedford talks about her path to success + acceptanceWelcome to the Master of None podcast! If you want to learn more from successful entrepreneurs with ADHD and other neurodiversity, please subscribe. If you're a service-based business owner, make sure you join our FB group here: soloschool.ca/group
Alison helps people tell better stories, get inclusive, and connect better with their audiences. You can learn more from her at AlisonTedford.com2022-06-0221 min
What She Said!Women on the Verge, Farmland 911, Is My Prescription CoveredAndrea Gunraj from the Canadian Women's Foundation joins me to share details from a survey they did that shows that just over two years into the pandemic, almost half of mothers are at their breaking point and 2 in 5 mothers have had to put their career on the back burner. Overworked, overwhelmed, and undervalued; mental health is suffering; and the pandemic’s burdens are even greater for those experiencing poverty, discrimination, and gender-based violence.
Anne Brodie shares her thoughts today on the return of the summer blockbuster, plus the second Downton Abbey movie set in 1929 which brings in some old Hollywood gl...2022-05-2152 min
What She Said!Women on the Verge, Farmland 911, Is My Prescription Covered?Andrea Gunraj from the Canadian Women's Foundation joins me to share details from a survey they did that shows that just over two years into the pandemic, almost half of mothers are at their breaking point and 2 in 5 mothers have had to put their career on the back burner. Overworked, overwhelmed, and undervalued; mental health is suffering; and the pandemic’s burdens are even greater for those experiencing poverty, discrimination, and gender-based violence.
Anne Brodie shares her thoughts today on the return of the summer blockbuster, plus the second Downton Abbey movie set in 1929 which brings in some old Hollywood gl...2022-05-2153 min
ParallelClicking the Box Offends MeWhether we're motivated by a creative passion, the need for extra income or something else, taking on work outside the 9-to-5 comes naturally to a lot of people I know. So we're talking about what it means to juggle several "jobs."
This episode of Parallel is sponsored by:
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Guest Starring: Kelly Guimont, Sarah Hockett, and Alison Tedford
Links and Show Notes: Kelly Guimont
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Filled Up CupEp. 10 Alison TedfordThis episode features Alison Tedford. She is an Indigenous Mom, DEI consultant and author (Stay Woke, Not Broke and Chronic Profit). Alison has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which is a group of inherited disorders that affects connective tissues primarily skin, joints and blood vessel walls. We talk about the challenges that some people can face when dealing with a disability and what business owners should consider to be more inclusive. To work with Alison:Alison Tedford – DEI ConsultantAlison Tedford (@alisontedford) • Instagram photos and videosAshley (@filledupcup_) • Instagram photos and videosFilled Up Cup...2022-04-1431 min