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A podcast profiling amazing people of African descent who are leading in their own way.

01/06/2021

Tune in for our latest episode featuring Ife Elizabeth Shabi () an amazing entrepreneur and CEO in the beauty industry.

She's been featured in Forbes and Elle and has built an amazing set of businesses from the ground up.

Listen to her amazing story via link in bio.

04/05/2021

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Today we chat with amazing South African multi-award winning jazz pianist and vocalist, Thandi Ntuli . She shares her journey into jazz music, specifically on the piano, which started at a very young age. After high school, Thandi went on to study music formally at the University of Cape Town.

In this episode we also discuss some of the emotional events in her life that inspired much of the work on her albums.

To date, her many collaborations with various artists and musicians around the globe display her fluidity in genres.

Her work has received many awards and nominations including a Metro FM award nomination (2015), a Mbokodo Award (2015) and a South African Music Award (SAMA) nomination (2019). She was also the recipient of the coveted Standard Bank Young Artist award for Jazz in 2018.

You can find her incredible songs and albums playing on every music streaming platform.

Listen now (link in bio)

03/05/2021

Yes indeed. Africa has a lot of what it needs to solve its own problems.

Catch up on a great conversation that we had with Kimberly on Season 3 Episode 2. Link in bio

20/04/2021

We're joined on the show today by Mansa Chintoh , Director, Business & Legal Affairs at Entertainment One (eOne). She shares here story as a first generation Black Canadian finding her path in life that eventually led her to a career in the entertainment industry as a lawyer.

Mansa gives back by mentoring young individuals looking to get into the entertainment industry and volunteers with Artist's Legal Advise Services , a not for profit that helps creators understand their legal rights.

Listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/d1Qo1WUn

13/04/2021

Before she became Head of Growth at ScaleUpNation, Kimberly Ofori had a very interesting journey that took her from the Netherlands to Dubai and to Spain. Without a colleage degree, she started her full time career in insurance at age 16 and, after a few years, moved on to investment banking and wealth management where she rose quickly up the ranks. An unfortunate turn of events turned an opportunity in Dubai into a mad scramble for survival.

Kimberly eventually became an entrepreneur in Spain, sold 2 companies and found her way back to the Netherlands where she helps start ups grow and scale their businesses.

We delve into her amazing story on today's episode.

Listen now: https://link.chtbl.com/d1Qo1WUn

07/04/2021

On our first episode of Season 3 we chat with Nicole Nomsa Moyo, an Urban & Architectural Designer.

She has a passion for human-centric design, master planning, innovative and disruptive sustainable development, community engagement processes, intelligent future thinking and Africa her beloved continent. Her work “Rising”, was recently selected as one of six international finalists for the 2020 Miami Design District Commission.

Subscribe and listen to her amazing story here: https://link.chtbl.com/d1Qo1WUn

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24/03/2021

We're Back!!! Season 3 is here. Listen to the trailer today (link in bio).

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02/12/2020

We've got another exciting episode of the show for you today. On Part 1 of this 2-part episode, we sit down with Mide Akerewusi, a British born African living in Canada. Mide is Founder and CEO of AgentsC Inc., a Canadian based international company delivering equity philanthropy and social research services to the non-profit and private sector. He has worked in senior relationship fundraising roles and consulted for a number of the world’s leading non-profit organisations.

We discuss how having a very fractured childhood filled with numerous failures and setbacks eventually led him to the world of philanthropy and the non-profit industry.

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18/11/2020

On today’s show we chat with one of the youngest executives in a Fortune 500 company Omonye Phillips, Divisional Vice President of Pharmacy Operations at Rite Aid. Her role involves overseeing the operations of 180+ stores and managing a budget in excess of $2B. Omonye has dedicated countless hours to other business, service and philanthropy efforts all focused on empowering others.

She shares with us how a personal tragedy led her on a path towards a career in Pharmacy and how she eventually became an executive. We also discuss her leadership mindset and how it propelled her to run a marathon even though she was not a runner at all.

Listen now everywhere (link in bio)

03/11/2020

Happy Tuesday! We've got another exciting episode of the podcast for you.

Today, we're joined by Horace Matthews, Vice President, Vice President, Digital and Information Technology / CIO at World Vision Canada. Horace discusses his life story from growing up in Mandeville, Jamaica to eventually moving to the cold country of Canada in search of a better life for his family.

He also talks about how his faith helped him through the initial tough times upon getting to Canada and how he eventually got a breakthrough into the Canadian workforce, ultimately leading him to executive roles.

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20/10/2020

From initially hating banking to eventually becoming an executive at Goldman Sachs, this episode is the exciting journey of Mary Mosope Adeyemi, a passionate, people-oriented and purpose driven woman who lives out these traits in various spheres.

She is an experienced investment professional currently working as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs supporting the risk focused deployment of credit capital in the Technology, Media and Telecom Sectors.

We discuss her journey into investment banking and how she eventually launched viSHEbility, a talk show and social initiative through which she inspires, coaches and fosters a community of black women who aspire to lead.

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06/10/2020

On today's episode of the podcast, we hear from Tapfuma Musewe, Founder of Eschaton Solutions, a boutique firm that promotes sustainable trade and investments with African markets.

Having grown up a Canadian citizen, his passion led him to spend most of his working life across Africa. He began in community development, then pivoted to entrepreneurship and established a couple of companies including a logistics company that moved FMCG’s for a blue-chip company. He then worked in market intelligence, consulting multinational clients seeking to pe*****te African markets.

We discuss the motivation behind creating his own company and his mission to expose Canadian businesses and investment to what Africa has to offer.

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