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The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast # #15: Rohini MitraWelcome to our 14th episode of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! This time our interviewee is a researcher of migration Rohini Mitra 🌍🎤
Rohini grew up in a border state in India (West Bengal) and witnessed decades of regional, cross-border, and internal mobility as well as emergent cultural and ethnic conflicts. We can say that from her childhood she got interested in migration and now she is working at agency India Migration Now to help migrants and refugees.
“You can't have all the answers, but you can try to ask the right questions” - Rohini highlighted during our interv...
2021-03-2515 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #14: Aja CritesWe hope you are as ready and excited for episode #15 of our Brave Entrepreneurs podcast, as we are! This time Brave Entrepreneurs went overseas to introduce you to the warm hearted and inspiring young American Aja Crites!🎤
So what makes Aja so special?
For starters she is the founder of the project Migrant Voices, currently taking place in Colombia and targeting Venezuelan migrants. What Migrant Voices does is humanizes migrants and migration by showcasing their personal stories through beautiful photographs. Besides storytelling the Migrant Voices project also provides food packages, rent assistance, and medicine to Ven...
2021-03-0525 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #13: Kelsey FreemanOur Episode #13 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast is out! And we have the honor of introducing Kelsey Freeman 🤩🎤
As a writer and educator, Kelsey is passionate about Indigenous rights, immigration policy, social justice, and public policy.
Her passion for migration started in Mexiko with an interesting conversation with a man, who was deported from California, and he asked a question: “How does it come, that you can come to my country to study my people for two weeks, while I am repeatedly demanded to go to your country to visit my family? After th...
2021-02-2515 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #12: Immaculate NabisereWelcome to Episode #12 of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! Let us introduce you to Immaculate Nabisere 🤩🎤
Immaculate strives to make a difference in the lives of current and future migrants through her organisation Migrant Stories Canada. It is a platform for newcomers to Canada to share their journeys and experiences while celebrating success stories. This platform was created as a strategy of promoting stories while responding to the challenges and opportunities newcomers encounter at both individual and systemic levels in Canada.
Most people who are coming to a new country for a better future will encoun...
2021-02-1121 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #11: James MaposaEpisode #11 of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series is here! And we have the honor of introducing James Maposa!
James' life journey is really inspiring because he followed his dream. He was born in Zimbabwe and as a young man, he finished the National University of Science and Technology with a first-class honors degree. But that field wasn't his dream or passion, because he always was interested in business. So now James is living in South Africa and he is the founder of Birguid and co-founder of WeAreValora.
James has also released two anthologies through...
2021-02-0124 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #10: Viviana M. Calderon de la BarcaIt’s time for the #10 episode of our Brave Entrepreneurs Series! And who’s better to celebrate with than inspiring and lovely Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca! 🎤
What makes this woman so inspiring and worth listening to?
She is an educator who turned into a documentary and fiction screenwriter, tackling and exploring cross-cultural realities and cultural development after a post-migrant experience, through the lens of the personal case. In her work she merges her love for culture and adds a touch of her individual background (originally Mexican, who lived in Canada and now resides...
2021-01-1420 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #9: Chiara Dalla LiberaEpisode #9 and we welcome our first ever Italian guest - Chiara Dalla Libera 🎤
Though she’s Italian she can be linked to plenty of different countries, due to her passion for moving and adapting to new countries and cultures. Some of the countries include Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, The UK, and the Netherlands.
While her CV is more corporate, Chiara tries to nourish her passion for culture in her free time by organizing cultural events, volunteering at local festivals, and writing or designing for travel websites. Something recurrent in her path is her longing for movin...
2021-01-1115 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #8 Salma ZulfiqarWelcome to our Episode #8 from The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast!
We are featuring today an amazing lady, founder, and director of ARTconnects4Solidarity, Award-winning International Artist and Women's Rights Activist Salma Zulfiqar. 🌍🎤
Salma is a visual artist who is helping raise migrant voices and their rights through different art and other projects. Her current creative projects, such as ARTconnects & The Migration Blanket, focus on empowering refugee and migrant women by promoting integration, peace and tolerance to stop hate crimes and extremism.
One of the projects - the Migration Blanket - is an art installation create...
2020-12-0100 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #7: Menna Shanin and Max Haartsen🎧 Welcome to our Episode #7 from The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast!
We are featuring today an amazing inspiring couple, entrepreneurs, and the change-makers Menna Shanin and Maxim Haartsen!
They got an idea of creating a startup when having dinner at the restaurant! Menna, a pharmacist from Egypt, and her husband Max, a professional in biomedicine, majored in life sciences in the Netherlands, realised how much food is actually wasted all over the globe in the whole food industry. Their answer to this sustainable problem was the creation of the mobile app Tekeya, a Digital Market Place that connects Hotels, Res...
2020-11-2000 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #6: Sawsan RaslanWelcome to our Episode #6 from The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast!
Today we are featuring Sawsan Raslan, an inspiring testimonial, a real Role Model of her community!
Sawsan is an ambitious young woman from Syria, she believes in the power of change. She is passionate about volunteer work related to women’s empowerment, protecting the environment, and promoting education. That’s why we can see her among the other great people, who created and support the Initiatives of Change in Switzerland!
That’s why she became one of the co-founders of the World Wide women, a plat...
2020-11-1200 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #5 Tala Al Tawil🎧 Welcome to our Episode #5 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast!
It is one of the most inspiring interviews where we talked about the importance of self-determination and the power of positive thinking.
Our interviewee, Tala Al Tawil from Syria, tells us about the journey of her life full of amazing opportunities!
Tala has always been passionate about learning and took every single chance to get new knowledge and experience. As a result, she was fortunate to get a scholarship for studying Political Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the American University.
Tal...
2020-10-2900 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #4 Ary MarrufoOur Episode #4 of The Brave Entrepreneurs #Podcast is out!
Let us introduce you to Ary Marruffo, a proud member of @World.wide.women!
A Mexican Activist, Feminist, Designer, an Entrepreneur, and just a brave girl, who’s passionate about life!
At the age of 25, she established her own fashion brand @arymarrufomx. She represented Mexico internationally, even took part in Paris fashion week. Her hallmark is all about being environmentally friendly and combining it with artisan craftsmanship. Ary knows every person who works for her, she says “we’re all as one big family”!
In...
2020-10-1400 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #3: Suha NabhanEpisode #3 from our flagship podcast is out!
Meet Suha Nabhan, a brave, inspiring young lady who lives in #Istanbul. She has three years experience of working in Sales, Public Speaking and has demonstrated leadership through these fields. Suha started a voluntary project for females in Syria so that they can find a way to financially sustain themselves especially in the pro-regime areas.
She also volunteered in story-telling projects where she tried to support Syrian artists through social media.
Find out more about this amazing young lady in our “Brave Entrepreneurs” Podcast!
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2020-07-3116 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #2 Salam KanhoushMeet Salam Kanhoush, a 28 years old originally from a small town in Syria. He became a refugee at 16 and has been living there since then.
Salam through determination adapted with the culture, food and way of life of the sudanese.
He then went ahead to focus on his dreams by starting his first ever voluntary work.
This was in 2018 and in order to get this done, he had to ditch his football career which blossomed while he was in Syria. Of Course, this was for the greater goodSalam got his inspiration from...
2020-07-0707 min
The Brave EntrepreneursThe Brave Entrepreneurs podcast #1 Billo KeitaThis is an EustartGees Flagship podcast that shares real-life experiences of brilliant, brave guys who through struggles became successful entrepreneurs.
Our Episode #1 of The Brave Entrepreneurs Podcast is out! So excited to present Billo Keita’ story from Senegal! This amazing woman proves that it’s never too late to pursue your dreams! In her 50s, Billo is full of new ideas and plans. In this episode, Billo shares the story of her life and one of her dreams she is determined to make real! Being African, Billo knows how vital it is to feel a sense of b...
2020-06-2309 min