Emily Unity is a well-known mental health advocate, a software engineer and a creative designer. Emily has won a range of awards and we are so proud to be in conversation with them: to name a few of those Awards: 25 Under 25 Winner, named by the Future Minds Network; Multicultural Honour Roll, 2022; Mental Health Advocate of the Year, 2021. Check out their website: emilyunity.com to see their outstanding portfolio career and range of roles including board roles and committees. Emily leverages their lived and living experiences as a queer, disabled, and neurodiverse young person from a refugee and migrant background in such a unique way… – you will be drawn into this interview in so many ways – from Emily’s authenticity… to their self-leadership in finding their own voice… and using their voice to advocate for others. In this interview Emily talks about the pressure that comes with expectations from family to be the person they want you to be versus the person you are hiding or finding. This interview meanders beautifully and interestingly through topics of managing mental health day to day; finding certainty in code; holding boundaries; equalising playing fields; machine learning holding our biases; how to run a portfolio career and how to advocate strategically to create outcomes and impact. Emily gives us hope for our collective futures, they are already leading in spaces that most executives today find challenging and complex. We say more power to you Emily, we wish you scalable impact that fulfils you and the financial reward that goes with it. Please enjoy the formidable and authentic leader , Emily Unity.