What makes you different? Think about it, bring it to work, share it with others, celebrate it. Don't suppress it, don't hide it, don't conform.

What's interesting about the LGBTQ+ community is that we out-earn and we out-spend out straight counterparts by more than double. It's massive! So it's pretty important to have the rainbow dollar perspective in the room I'd say!

Diversity is 2-dimensional. There's inherent diversity, which is what you're born with, and then there's acquired diversity. Acquired diversity are the things you pick up throughout your life that shape and shift your perspective on the world.

It's human to make what you know... When you have a rich cross-section of perspectives at play, it results in work we can all be proud of.

The argument for more inclusive cultures in our industry is more than just ethical... there is a business need; a need to relate to our customers and to continue to evolve as an industry. That's not just my theory. The consequences of allowing dominant cultures to exist are playing out right now: 72% of people feel most advertising does not reflect the world around them, 63% claim they don't see themselves represented in most advertising, and 60% say they don't see their community of friends, family and acquaintances accurately represented in the work we are creating for them.

A dominant culture is a cultural practice that is dominant in a particular political, social or economic entity in which multiple cultures are present. What I realised is that I was working in what's called a dominant culture. These exist in all industries. In advertising, the dominant culture happens to historically be white, male, straight, middle to upper class, which meant I was on the outer, but so were a lot of others. It was this realisation that led me to think: "it's not just women facing bias, marginalisation, under-promotion, under-mentoring and under-payment. This is a much wider issue. One that spans race, religion, sexuality, class, ability and neurodiversity." That was my motivator and turning point that helped me co-found the programme Rare.

I found myself in an industry with little-to-no role models that looked like me, talked like me or walked like me. Then the ones I did come across, the amazing female talent I did have the pleasure of working with, they would eventually change industries, drop out, or they wouldn't return after having children. So lonely! I realised that it wasn't that they didn't want to do the job, it wasn't that they didn't want to be creative or come up with ideas. It was because they felt different, they were treated differently and it didn't feel that good.

If we have accessible transit, multiple modes of transit, it makes our city thrive; a place that people don’t want to move from, a place that people want to move to. It helps folks out that don’t have the same resources as you. It makes it so that people have choice on the ways that they want to move through the world.

Where are the places that you can invest in your community? Where can you invest in yourself?

Racism is draining.

Life is all about how you respond to your situation.

Hard times, uncertain times, stressful times are typically the periods of greatest learning, of character-building, and of strengthening.

Creativity is all about taking what’s inside my head and getting it inside of yours. The space between my starting point and your ending point is art—it’s creativity.

Racism is like OS-level RAM usage: before you even open any applications or try to perform any tasks, it’s already draining a certain percentage of your faculties.

When I see “underdog” for the arrangement of its letters, its assertive syntax, I break it of its order. Which then creates space, a capacity, an offering to become capable again. Because the power the word holds, disperses and becomes available for reuse.

When you're outside and/or thinking about public space, and you invite other people to be a part of that process, there are always built-in moments to both dive in and take a step back.

You can't eat a warm and fuzzy feeling.

It is 100% possible to have it all, but first you must know what your own all is.

I realized that you can be successful and unhappy at the same time.

Every day I wake up and the first thing on my mind is, ‘How do I create something that people are going to love? What sounds am I going to use?

We all have agency to open the door for someone and encourage them to keep doing the work.

A lot of times...we're so focussed on things that we miss and we're missing the things that we've gained.

Growth is proof of life.

The things that you're struggling with now is going to become second nature.

Skill comes from struggle.