Companies who profess to support mental health AND diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) for their employees, but who silo their efforts or treat them as unrelated initiatives, are missing yet another intersectional aspect of DEI. The abusive, power-imbalanced, transactional relationship between employers-employees that is foundational to capitalism is emotionally toxic to our human natures that crave connection, affirmation, and mutuality.

Friend, how do you feel about who you are? It’s a question I thought a lot about this past weekend during the Pride celebrations in my home town of Toronto.

On Sunday, the opposite of Pride was Shame. In the parade, I saw people who wanted to be fully seen and loved as they actually are. I saw people who refused to conform to what society, or their loved ones, demanded they be. I saw human beings who refused to believe that what made them "different" also made them unworthy.

If we want change, we can't stay silent.

It was supposed to be just another corporate seminar. NOT the place you’d expect to engage in a #MeToo confrontation with a misogynistic, sexist man. But if you think about it...