🎧 Podcast Episode: The Power of Vulnerability on Stage and Screen

What happens when the thing you once feared most becomes your greatest strength?

In today’s episode, we explore the power of vulnerability as both a personal tool and a public force. Our guest has spent a lifetime navigating the challenges of a stutter, only to transform that journey into a platform for global impact—through comedy, public speaking, and now, the documentary film Words Left Unspoken. As the film finds new audiences through ChangeMaker Co’s powerful community screening initiative, we sit down to talk about what it means to live—and speak—your truth, even when it’s hard.

JOZE PIRANIAN

Global Keynote Speaker | Forbes & 5x TEDx | Disability & Mental Health Advocate | Stuttering Awareness | Corporate Comedian

From avoiding speaking for most of his youth to commanding stages across the world, Joze is a powerful voice on turning fear into empowerment—and now, a central figure in the new documentary Words Left Unspoken.

BOBBY UMAR

CEO of DYPB - Discover Your Personal Brand and the Thought Leadership Branding Club | 5x TEDx Speaker | Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker | Best-Selling Author

Bobby joins the conversation as a seasoned expert on personal branding and leadership, adding sharp insight into the inner transformation that drives outer impact.

Leigh Mitchell is a dynamic personal and business branding leader, guiding small and medium-sized enterprises through Market Your Mission® Branding and her podcast, ChangeMaker Collective. As the founder of Women in Biz Network and the ChangeMaker Collective, she expanded the organization from a local group to a national community of over 35,000 members. Recognized by Statistics Canada for her diversity, equity, and inclusion expertise, Leigh holds an executive certificate in Marketing Leadership from Carleton University's Sprott School of Business and credentials in ethical leadership, DEI, inclusive design, and social-emotional learning. Her passion for equity spans mental health, business, education, and sports. Leigh teaches marketing, public relations, and business at York University, York Entrepreneurial Development Institute (YEDI) and the University of Guelph-Humber. She has collaborated with brands like Microsoft Canada, TELUS, and TD, and her insights have been featured in CBC & CTV News, The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Leigh is a proud mother of two, a dedicated mental health advocate, and an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys exercising in nature or at the gym.

📢 Let’s collaborate to create a brand, a strategy, or a training program that inspires action and delivers impact.

📧 leigh@leighmitchell.ca

🌐 https://wwwchangemakerco.org

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In this powerful episode of The Changemaker Collective, Leigh Mitchell sits down with Brandon B. Happy—artist, activist, and founder of the Cultured Collective—for a heartfelt and thought-provoking conversation on reclaiming identity, healing through service, and the radical power of imagination.

Brandon shares his deeply personal journey from generational trauma, addiction, and homelessness to launching a global movement that started with a single community fridge. Through music, storytelling, and grassroots activism, Brandon and his family have transformed their pain into purpose—offering emotional wealth, not just material support, to communities across the world.

Together, Leigh and Brandon explore what it means to redefine legacy, why lived experience is a form of expertise, and how dreaming itself is an act of resistance in a world that often robs us of it. This episode is a moving call to action for anyone ready to turn their story into service.

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