Concrete Pastures Podcast
The word immigrant to so many like me, it signifies someone with a dream; a dreamer. I am Nancy Mulemwa Siisii. I was born and raised in Zambia, Africa, but I later migrated to America and settled in New York where I’ve been living for 20 years. As a dreamer, I have and continue to have a passion for making substantive bonds with audiences, and helping to inspire people to reach for their dreams. Being an immigrant has been one of the most challenging and extraordinary experiences of my life. It inspired me to start my podcast “Concrete Pastures: An African Immigrant Story” as a platform to reach out to fellow immigrants and dreamers.
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Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Sunday Nov 20, 2022
Preet Pannu is a professional editor with TV credits for Documentary Film and Travel TV, featured on PBS, Travel Channel and Discovery. She has taught in higher education, delivering instruction for Avid and Premiere Pro and is an active adjunct instructor at New York Film Academy. With over 21 years editing expertise, 7 years of producing and 6 years teaching, her career placements include the UK, USA and East Africa. She is currently residing in Brooklyn, New York.
Preet is fully conversant with post-production for television, documentary film and digital video and audio. An expert in Avid and Premiere Pro, plus Adobe Creative Cloud, some of her projects include Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, feature length documentary Into The Lost Desert, and she currently edits science content for World Science Festival with over 1M subscribers.
Her media career began in Kenya where Preet was discovered by a newly launched radio station East FM. After 1 year on air, she set off to the USA to advance her education, adding to a Bachelors in Business and Economics - following academic scholarships, she graduated with an MA in Media Studies from The New School in New York. Since then Preet returned to work and live in Kenya and also worked at national broadcast station Capital FM. Her career now combines a background in Media and Education, having gained a Post Graduate Certificate in International Education from the University of Sunderland.
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Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Mo! Sibyl describes herself as a Nigerian-born, Korean-speaking, and wandering intellectual. Her unique perspective is derived from her experience growing up in Nigeria to now living in the US, learning and speaking Korean, and enriched by the adventures her travels have brought on. Her podcast ,The More Sibyl Podcast launched 2018 and is available across several platforms for podcasts, including iTunes, Stitcher, PodBean, and has reached over 80,000 people in more than 90 countries. As a podcast host, her raison d'être is that there’s a lot more that binds us than separates us. So, through her platform, she strives to showcase that same but different thread that runs through us all by sharing stories that promote cultural curiosity among people towards creating a better world.
Mo! is also an assistant professor of pharmacy and health economics and outcomes researcher who Conducts research in cancer and lupus disparities and quality of life.
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Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
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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Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
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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Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
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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Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
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.
Discussion
Immigrant Story
Culture
Trauma
Healing
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Sunday Oct 09, 2022
Sunday Oct 09, 2022
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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Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
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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Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
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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Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
Tuesday Aug 02, 2022
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
Special Thank you- All the listeners and the Amazing Guests
Pastor Freddy Munsie Mabila
Mr Rodger Chali
Muma Sinkala
Lydia-Powers
Francis Kombe
Chulu Chansa
Monde Zama
Nosa Iyare
Raphael Harry
Preseta Anderson
Dr Elliot Moono Munsenje
Mr Jimmy Katuta
Busie Matsiko- Andan
Special Thank you:
Joyce Wamumona
Sharon Kaliye
Aongola Siisii
Vita Sviridenko
Isis White
Reyhanna
Waline
Harold Mabula- H- Man
Nova
Erin Harris
John Bien Cuit
Julian Scott
Adissa- Gvi
Will Phiri
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Dreamers
The goal for this podcast is provide myself and others a platform to share stories as we deconstruct the world’s view of immigrant status, and unlock the joys, laughs, and bravery that being a dreamer brings about. Tune in today!