Meet Osprey Orielle Lake, founder and executive director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice. In this episode, Michelle and Osprey discuss her latest book "The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis" and why women and women's leadership is policymaking, government, and more is the climate solution our world needs to thrive.

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Meet Sheryl Proulx, Executive Director of Adoption Options, Alberta's Leading Licensed Adoption Agency where professionally trained staff offer comprehensive and caring services working with expectant parents who are considering placing their children for adoption and with prospective adoptive parents who are residents of Alberta. Sheryl is also an ambassador for Gems for Gems, a non-profit focused on ending the cycle of domestic abuse through the economic recovery and empowerment of survivors. In this episode, Sheryl and I discuss her lived experience as a birth mother and how her personal journey inspired her career path and advocacy work. We also highlight Hope's Cradle, a Gems for Gems program that offers safe infant surrender sites for women in need.

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Meet Jordan Gilford, Founder and CEO of Gems for Gems, a non-profit organization  committed to ending the cycle of domestic abuse by focusing on the economic recovery and empowerment of survivors, offering solution-focused and high transformational impact to survivors of abuse.

This is the first of a 2-part community feature with Gems were I will chat with thought leaders about how they are transforming their lived experiences into powerful community programs all across Canada.

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Meet Zainab, Global GLOW Girl Advocacy Committee member from India. Zainab is a par to of the Shohratgarh Environmental Society (SES) and passionate philantrophist committed to establishing a career that enables her to make personal investments in girls education. 

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Meet Samantha, Global GLOW's Chief Youth Correspondent and GLOW Club Alumni! In this conversation we discuss how GLOW Club's are empowering Nigerian girls to introduce "selfcare" into their daily routines and incorporate "personal work" that is fulfilling. We also learn about Samantha's advocacy role, her passion for regenerative agriculture, and how she is a popular mentor for young Nigerian women in her community!

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TODAY IS THE DAY, FRIENDS! Oct 11th is UN Women's International Day of the Girl Child and we're celebrating my sharing important information and strategies anyone can use to advocate and support adolescent girls in their community. We're also digging deeper into Global GLOWs Girl Advocacy Committee and the OctobHER campaign highlighting how these powerful initiatives are deconstructing patriarchal influences and barriers in the lives of Global GLOW members.

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Meet Dusenge and Loyce, Global GLOW Girl Advocacy Committee members from the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. In this episode we discuss what it is like for girls growing up in a refugee camp, how girl advocacy initiatives and programs like GLOW Club reduces teen pregnancy, gender-based violence, and childhood marriage, and why developing youth leadership is the key to shifting old paradigms and strengthening communities.

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Meet Carmen Perry, Partnership Coordinator for Global GLOW in the Greater Detroit Area. Carmen is a liaison between the Detroit Public School Community District and Global GLOW HerStory Campaign that provides training and activities including Advocacy Days such as: World Read Aloud Day, International Day of the Girl, Local & Regional Summit and health initiatives. She is also mentor and trainer for literacy based empowerment clubs for girls. In this episode, Michelle and Carmen discuss how schools can be community hubs for girls advocacy education, and Carmen shares the how-to steps that anyone use to contact a school to start a GLOW Club in their community.

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