Be About It Podcast

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Apr 2024

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The Be About It podcast speaks to people who have taken the time to actively do something to create racial justice or support black communities in the UK and globally.

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April 16, 202448 min

Supporting Black families in the UK and schools in Africa and the Caribbean “Not comfortable not giving back” with Naomi Simon.

Naomi Simon has had a long history of volunteering to support the Black community. From an early age, she has been supporting a Saturday school run by her dad and has started several side projects since then.We learned about her motivations for creating projects and giving back to her community, most notably raising funds to support Black families financially during the pandemic and her involvement in the SEADS project who are training teachers and supporting schools across Africa and the Caribbean. Find out more about Naomi and the SEADS project in the links below. https://simoneducation.com/seads/https://twitter.com/NaeSimon

March 26, 202452 min

Creating change as an advisor to the Prime Minister - Nero Ughwujabo

Nero Ughwujabo has dedicated much of his career to creating greater racial equity in British society. He spent several years working as the Chief Executive of Croydon BME Forum working closely with community organisations in the area campaigning for change and enacting change on a wide range of issues. His work led him to become the first Special advisor to the Prime Minister of African heritage. In this episode, we discuss his motivations for committing himself to this work, his achievements, and advice others can take if they are interested in creating change.

March 21, 20241 hr 7 min

The only Black Genetic Counsellor in the room, Sasha Henriques

Sasha is a principal genetic counsellor and PhD candidate who's passion for inclusivity in the field of genetics lead her work across the world. She has too often been the only Black Genetic counsellor in many of the spaces that she has been in and has taken the initiative to set up Genetics Engage to encourage greater inclusivity in the field. We discuss her journey into the field, her experiences as a Black woman in this space. We also take about the genetics of race and what that means for our day to day experiences. https://www.geneticsengage.org/

March 12, 2024Episode 550 min

A marketplace for Black owned products with Nathaniel Wade

Nathaniel is the founder or Wakuda a market place for Black creators. After struggling to find a doll for his daughter that represented her, and his business partner struggling to find a Father's Day card that featured a Black father, they decided to create an online marketplace for Black creators making the products they needed.We discuss how Wakuda began and what they have done to support the Black business owners.

March 5, 2024Episode 41 hr 10 min

Creating a Global Black Middle class with Joseph Nwosu

As the host of Black Millennial Money Podcast, Joseph Nwosu recorded 100 episodes outlining the intricacies of making money, keeping money, investing money and spending money on the finer in life for the perspective of a Black Millennial. In this episode we explore the main reason why Joseph created the podcast: to prepare Black Millennials who have the opportunity to build a global middle class with the tools to manage their finances to realise this possibility.https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackMillennialMoneyhttps://mailchi.mp/88062e030f1a/three-circles-of-wealth-waiting-list

August 12, 2023Episode 347 min

Inclusive Marketing is better for you and your business with Joyann Boyce

Joyann Boyce is the Founder of Inclued AI and Arima & Co. We speak to her about the concept of Inclusive Marketing and find out its probably how marketing should have been be done all along. She generously shares how her career journey has lead her into specialising in inclusive marketing and then to utilising AI to help companies ensure they're doing it correctly. We were given a full explanation of what Inclusive marketing is and how it looks like. Joyann also gives advice on how we can practice inclusive marketing.

August 8, 2023Episode 155 min

The relationship between purpose, service, leadership and impact with Nathaniel Peat

Nathaniel is an individual with a wealth of diverse interests and talents. He is an international speaker, a coach, a social entrepreneur, a literal renewable energy provider, a charity board member and the founder of the Safety Box CIC. Whilst learning more about the Safety Box CIC we also unpacked how Nathaniel finds his drive to keep impacting the lives of others, how he maintains a sense of humility and how he diligently sticks to his meticulous daily schedule. I personally enjoyed hearing about how Nathaniel made his way into college with an unconventional but truly inspiring approach. This is a really inspiring feel good episode for anyone seeking a little inspiration.

August 1, 2023Episode 11 hr 9 min

Creating Several Seats for women of colour for better mental health with Joan Idowu

In this episode Joan Idowu share how her personal journey discovering and learning about Mental Health and Psychology has lead to her creating community for women of colour, supporting them to take care of their mental health and wellbeing.

November 23, 2021Episode 81 hr 23 min

Lessons in communicating as a Black leader with Sheryl Nwosu

This is part of a special series for the Be About It podcast in which we'll be speaking about Black Leadership from the perspective of people who have been involved with the Impact Black Leadership Accelerator programme. We are joined by Sheryl Nwosu an experienced Barrister, communications coach who lead our communication masterclass on the accelerator. We discuss how she gained her confidence to become and effective communicator in her profession, the definition of effective communication and leadership. There's also an insightful discussion on code switching and slang in which you'll find out how much we both love to use it.

October 21, 2020Episode 71 hr 19 min

How Jermaine Craig created an online collection pot for the global Black community

In this podcast we speak with Jermaine Craig, who has designed what we think might be one of the most revolutionary platforms created to create change in Black communities. Jermaine tells us his truly fascinating and inspiring personal story. Going for designing clothes from online avatars to creating kwanda.co an online collection pot for Black communities with a live open ledger.Jermaine spoke to us about how he has drawn inspiration from his own personal journey growing up in London, from the Black Panther Free Breakfast programmes and community led financial systems like Osusu and Pardna. We also discuss how kwanda.co works and its potential to create lasting change for the Black communities across the globe. If your going to listen this I urge you to please share the link to kwanda.co and start making donations as soon as possible.

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