Toya Talks Podcast
Toya Talks is where culture, courage, and career collide.
Created for Black women first and inclusive of allies, this podcast unpacks the realities of the workplace through the lens of culture, life, and global events. From pay gaps and strikes to leadership, politics, and authenticity, each episode explores how the world around us shapes the way we live and the way we work.
Toya goes beyond surface conversations to deliver bold truths, necessary lessons, and unapologetic strategies that empower listeners to navigate the workplace with clarity and courage.
If you’re ready to rethink work, reclaim your brilliance, and be part of conversations that matter, this is your space.
Toya Talks: Bold truths. Real strategy. For us all.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 78 minutes
- Episodes
- 191
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Daily and Consistently
In this episode I will be discussing why as Black women we accept crumbs instead of an apology that consists of acceptance and accountability. Why as Black Women do we allow those outsi…
Model Minority
In this episode we discuss the the model minority, the acceptable minority that allows themselves to be controlled and puppeteered. Case and point Rishi Sunak down to the final two in …
HR Ain't Shit
In this episode we discuss a dilemma received in the mailbox.
A fellow Black Queen sent an email to her line manager correcting the continued mispronunciation of her name. Her email wa…
The First Daughter
'The more you have to protect, the weaker you become, thats why everyone and everything around you cant be a liability; - By Dencia
Creating boundaries with your family especially in a …
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
ACAS gives employees and employers free impartial advice and mediation on workplace disputes, employment rights, and best practices.
ACAS must be used before approaching an employment t…
'Inverted Commas'
The passive-aggressive inverted commas in emails create the tension the author intended. The use of inverted commas as a microaggression is used to reinforce one's position and to provo…
Code Black
As children, we were often not encouraged to use our voice, or have an opinion the old saying of 'Children should be seen but not heard.' This then evolves into being easily manipulated…
Karma Never Forgets An Address
In the workplace, I have long accepted that there is no such thing as a perfect job or workplace. Workplaces often thrive in toxicity breeding fear and control. I will always seek balan…
The Hustle Is Sold Separately
In this episode, I challenge you to have agency over your career it requires you to accept that the work structure is created to ensure you rely on your organisations and managers to va…
London Boys
London Boys applies to those who think it's acceptable to be debating who pays for dates and think they should piggyback on the hard work and sacrifice of women who are building. Such l…
Shattering The Glass Ceiling
"You are not worth anything if you are not in the right place. If you are not appreciated, do not be angry, that means you are in the wrong place. Do not stay in a place where no one se…
What Brings You Peace? (Part 1)
In order to recognise what brings you peace you have to know and understand your non-negotiables.
In the workplaces often white-dominated where we Black Women are often in the minority w…
DILEMMA - (What would Toya do?): 'Toya Talks - I am not respected in my organisation my manager does not introduce me and I do not have the respect of my colleagues'.
This is a dilemma episode covering x3 dilemmas.
This episode includes views of the death of Kevin Samuels.
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You See Me
What part of the working world is the worst part?..... I would say the first day would feature in the top 3. Trying to assert yourself without appearing overbearing, not knowing when to…
Blackexit
Blackexit - when we choose to exit the oppressive limiting beliefs created by society to keep us in a chokehold but instead seek the environments that will give life to the greatness we…
Thank You For Your Service.
I went against everything I believed in and put aside my stance and got my friend a job where I worked. This is not something I have ever done outside of my best friend who I have worke…
The Good Person Syndrome
Workplaces encourage and push the narrative of the 'good person' not allowing for questions or mistakes but instead placing undue pressure on staff to be perfect without mistake, questi…
The Business Of Marriage
This is one for your Whatsapp group chats. When people get past the aesthetics of marriage the flowers the big dresses and the exuberant amount of money spent, people ignore the busines…
Not Today Satan
Since recording this episode Will Smith has released a statement apologising for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars.
Whenever greatness and the TESTimony the devil will always show up to …
Finding Your Focus
In this episode, we discuss Finding You Focus. Having the focus to know what you need to manifest and developing a plan to make your focus a reality. So many people are on the fast trai…