006. How to encourage diversity in the wellness industry with Toral Shah

Today I'm interviewing Toral Shah, scientist, writer and chef, the name behind The Urban Kitchen and co-founder of What The Health events.  In this episode we cover some great topics related to diversity and how we can all do our bit to ensure the right people hear the health messages they need including:    Basing health and wellbeing on how people look, and the dangers this has to our message as wellness experts. Increasing diversity in our messages so we help our audience see people more like themselves and therefore they listen more carefully to our health messages. The fact that we all have prejudices, regardless of our own race, religion or ethnicity. How we can all stand up and support other minorities - even if we feel we don’t identify with that community ourselves. Finding commonality in our messages, rather than division - celebrating our differences rather than using them to divide, polarise and argue. Getting more diversity at health events and panels so we don’t just keep hearing the same things over and over from the same people. Apathy in small things like social media, right through to larger issues like the environment and politics. How we can lift ourselves out of apathy and question things more. Listening and learning different perspectives, not just living in an echo chamber that reinforces our own views.       For episode show notes, resources and links, head to https://vickyshilling.com/juststartnow-podcast