Concrete Pastures Podcast

S2 Ep7 Dr Ambika Sampat Discovering your Identity

Dr Ambika Sampat is a director at FITBANKER, a global online health transformation platform committed to eradicating lifestyle disease and transforming a billion lives. Ambika leads The Coaches Programme, as well as the Healthy Relationships programme in FITBANKER, committed to human beings unleashing their unlimited potential. Previously At Acumen, a pioneer in the impact investing sector, she managed Partner engagement across Europe, resource mobilisation and revenue generation across multiple sectors in developing markets.
Dr Ambika has a Doctorate in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Born and raised in Zambia, a global citizen who has lived across 4 continents and delivered numerous talks on international platforms across multiple geographies on health, investing, and leadership. Her legacy is Love, the core essence of what it is to Be Human.
 
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S2 Ep6 Erica Hackman Travel with Purpose

Erica Hackman has been traveling all across the globe since she was 20 and moved to Doha to finish  her university. After that, she taught English in northeastern Thailand and South Korea. She continued living and learning abroad on a Caribbean island called St Vincent, which led her to working with farming cooperatives in rural Zambia. Since 2013, she's been working remotely for the well-known travel blog NomadicMatt.com. Over the years, she's spent extended periods of time working from her laptop in Vietnam, Cambodia, Dubai, Costa Rica, the UK, South Africa, and Ghana. Currently, she is the Director of Matt's travel community — The Nomadic Network — which connects travelers to people and resources that can get them traveling cheaper, longer, smarter, and more! Erica likes to say that traveling is about 90% of her personality and what she thinks has the capability of creating peace in the world.
 
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S2 Ep5 Martine Kalaw Illegal Among Us

Martine Kalaw is an author, speaker, and commentator on the human aspect of current immigration laws and policies. She is the CEO and president of Martine Kalaw Enterprises, a consultancy focused on providing Human Resources professionals with time, resources and confidence to drive diversity, equity & inclusion for organizations. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration focusing on immigration law from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School and has authored two books, IllegalAmong Us: A Stateless Woman’s Quest for Citizenship and The ABCs ofDiversity: A Manager's Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
As an stateless and undocumented immigrant survivor, Martine advocates around issues related to immigration rights and provides resources to those in need by volunteering for United Stateless and via her nonprofit, Stateless and Dreamers (SAD) Foundation. Her memoir, Illegal Among Us: A Stateless Woman’s Quest for Citizenship, recounts her personal journey as a stateless person and undocumented immigrant, personifying her experience as a “Silent DREAMer” for the world.
Martine provides communication training to immigration lawyers and advocates for increased education and employment opportunities for stateless and undocumented youth. She also directly works with the stateless and immigrant community through the nonprofit, SAD. Martine founded SAD Foundation after her seven year battle with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulting in her U.S. citizenship. SAD aims to provide practical tools and aid that stateless persons and undocumented immigrants can use to navigate between lawyers and the courts more effectively.
 
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S2 Ep 4 Richard Hackman Embracing your own culture

Richard Hackman is a Ghanaian-born, New York City-based Creative Director and Content Producer. Storytelling is at the root of everything he does, and his entire life has been defined by a quest to find and tell the truth with a deep sense of purpose. He is also the Founder of The Bored Brand, a marketing consulting agency primarily for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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Immigrant Story
Culture
Trauma
Healing 
 
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S2 Ep3 Dr Boukary Sawadogo An Untold New York Story

Born in Côte d’Ivoire to parents from Burkina Faso, Dr. Boukary Sawadogo moved to the United States  in 2006 to pursue graduate studies, earning a master’s degree and a doctorate. He has lived and worked  to different parts of the USA, including the states of Iowa, Louisiana, Vermont, Massachusetts, and now New York. 
As an African cinemas scholar and media professional, Dr Boukary Sawadogo’s multifaceted work seeks to give voice and presence work to film/media productions that developed outside of hegemonic paradigms of Hollywood cinema model.
Dr. Sawadogo has published extensively on African cinemas with four single-authored books on the subject. Also, he is the founding director of the Harlem African Animation Festival 
Beyond film and media industries, Dr. Boukary Sawadogo's work is widening in scope and depth to include a study of the encounters and exchanges between Africa and the diaspora. In this respect, he has authored most recently the book “Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story” (Fordham University Press, 2022). As a writer, Dr Sawadogo interrogates the place and trajectory of Africa today in the world through the diaspora 
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S2 Ep2 Efe Iyare People of Culture

Efe is an entrepreneur who believes in the concept of Pan-Africanism and the need for Africans to rewrite their own narrative, through building cultural awareness, education, and evoking appreciation for the African culture. Efe felt the desire to kickstart ``People of Culture`` as a movement that helped better educate other cultures and races about Africa, drawing their attention to the continent's rich cultural heritage, food, fashion, music, and business opportunities.
He holds a BSc. in Journalism and an MSc. in Integrated Marketing Communications. He oversees daily operations, planning & organizing events, digital marketing, and public relations. He also plays a vital role in collaborating and building meaningful alliances.
what is Pan-Africanism- it is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all Indigenous and diaspora peoples of African ancestry- Google
 
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S2 Ep1 Ronnie Rich Everything is Transformable

What is your definition of your dream life?  What impact would you like to leave the world, your country or our future generation. Do you know your WHY? The dream of going home is now possible for all  of us in the diaspora. 
Ronnie Rich is an executive Health & Fitness Coach & Transformation Specialist. As a Keynote Speaker, I share my very relatable story as a former Fat Banker to the birth of FITBANKER, and our mission to transform a billion lives in my lifetime through having our health education programs be mainstream, starting with Leaders & Executives in the Corporate World committed to investing in their employees and altering the ‘old corporate work culture’.
Ronnie, worked long hours and burning the midnight candle was the norm. Leaving 5pm on the dot in the banking world was frowned upon. I was a top performer in my banking career, yet neglected and never prioritised physical nor mental wellbeing. During a stressful period and loss in my personal life, I ended up hospitalised and decided to turn my wellbeing around. This loss gave birth to our business FITBANKER - empowering and enabling people to Bank on their Fitness. I am now the most relatable and effective Health (Body & Mind) Transformation Specialist for busy city professionals. Ronnie's team work with groups or highly driven individuals in corporates. Having gone through the rat race journey myself, I understand their pressures and 'lack of time' that your employees face. We bring about behavioural change for individuals and corporates to alter their culture and align employee values with business values and to be more productive, healthy, integrous team players.
CORPORATE TRAINING ► In my years in banking, we spent a lot of time completing online training for new regulation & company policy - mainly to protect our client's assets, and no training was delivered to protect the company’s greatest assets: IT’S EMPLOYEES. We work with CEOs, COOs, HR Heads, Employee Benefits' teams and Learning & Development teams to design, create & deliver custom wellbeing programs by focusing on 4 main pillars (see below).
 SPECIALITIES ► Body Transformation Specialist, Nutrition Coaching, High Altitude Leadership Training, Organisational Culture Change.
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S1 Ep20 Nancy Mulemwa Siisii My healing journey after Separation

My healing journey is my birthday gift to me, today August 2nd- I am celebrating how far I have come. I am proud of the person I have become.I am grateful to my sister circle for supporting me through it all. I grateful for the love I received throughout my journey.
THANK YOU GOD
 
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Pastor Freddy Munsie Mabila
Mr Rodger Chali
Muma Sinkala
Lydia-Powers
Francis Kombe
Chulu Chansa
Monde Zama
Nosa Iyare
Raphael Harry
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Busie Matsiko- Andan
 
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S1 Ep19 Busie Matsiko-Andan Engaging the Diaspora

Busie Matsiko-Andan is an award-winning global strategist and serial entrepreneur; she previously has been recognized as one of the most Influential people of African Descent.
She has transcended in different industries including fashion. She co-founded one of the first fashion-technology companies, Fashion Indie, which was acquired by Nylon magazine; Busie continues to share and influence in her fashion styling, on Poshmark where she has several thousand subscribers, following her.
She continues to evolve as a leader in diaspora affairs, a role she has assumed for over 20 years.
She has been recognized by the African Union for her efforts in uplifting various African entities in the diaspora, with focus on diversity and inclusion, whilst keeping up with changing needs and actively advocating for the African continent.
Busie is the founder and CEO of Pont Global, a boutique Management and Recruitment firm consultancy firm, hinged on women helping women. 
Busie’s work has been featured in Business week, Forbes, Fortune, New York Post, Daily News, Timeout New York, Women’s Wear Daily and international publications such as the BBC, Africa.com, Face2face Africa, Modern Ghana, The Daily Monitor, Vanguard among others. She speaks internationally on different topics including Diversity and Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Women Empowerment and has spoken at TEDX Princeton, Goldman Sachs, Newsweek, Forbes’s Digital Accelerator-Nigeria Edition. She also continues to be invited to sit on numerous boards such as ADCAM, ADDI, HACSA, ANGEL Africa, and the Patient Advisory Board of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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Bonus Episode -Dating as an Immigrant

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