Olympian Zara Northover on Workpl...
Olympian Zara Northover on Workplace Retaliation, Racism & Fighting Back

They Tried It by Lindiwe Davis

Episode notes

This week on They Tried It, Zara Northover joins Lindiwe Davis for one of the most powerful conversations of the season.

Zara is a Jamaican Olympian, founder of Moving In Faith, former mortgage banking leader, TEDx speaker, and pro se litigant currently representing herself before the Michigan Supreme Court after alleging workplace discrimination and retaliation during her corporate career.

In this episode, Zara shares:

  • How she earned a full athletic scholarship through pure audacity and self-belief
  • What it took to compete in the 2008 Olympic Games for Jamaica
  • The realities of navigating corporate America as a high-performing Black woman
  • Workplace retaliation, favoritism, discrimination, and “office pet to office threat”
  • Why she refused to sign away her voice with an NDA
  • What ... 
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