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The ThresholdHow to Stop Diseases from SpreadingWhat are the best ways to stop the spread of infectious diseases? One key element is diagnostics. For diseases like tuberculosis, there are millions of people unaware that they have the disease. So improving diagnostic tests and making them accessible are critical.
Thankfully, new scientific breakthroughs could dramatically improve rapid TB diagnostic tests. These tools may soon transform countries like India, where the toll of TB looms large.
Reporting from Mumbai, India, journalist Chhavi Sachdev speaks with Dr. DJ Christopher, professor of pulmonary medicine at Christian Medical College, Vellore, a top ranked teaching medical college. Ch...
2025-11-1334 min
Women Par ExcellenceWellness In The WorkplaceOn this episode we dive deep on Strategic Wellness & Leadership featuring the one and only Eunice Ong'ele — a seasoned Commercial Strategist with over 20 years of leadership across East Africa—shares powerful insights on balancing high-impact leadership with holistic well-being. Discover how purpose-driven success and personal wellness can go hand-in-hand in today’s demanding world.
2025-08-111h 06
The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)Series Reflections: Reporters’ RoundtableFirst, we need to share some news. This may be our last episode.We are so grateful to the funding we have received for this podcast over the past four years. But our largest grant is ending soon. So for now, we are saying goodbye. We truly hope to be back in your feed someday.To commemorate HERO, we are doing one last “follow-up” episode. This was an idea from you, our listeners. You suggested talking to past interviewees and seeing what they are doing now.
2025-04-0125 minThe Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)How Climate Change Impacts GenderThe number of people exposed to floods globally has surged by nearly 25 percent since 2000, with Africa experiencing the most dramatic increase. Floods this spring were especially brutal in East Africa, killing nearly 530 people and most heavily impacting Kenya.On today’s episode of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women, we analyze the relationship between climate and gender equality. Host Reena Ninan begins by hearing from Nairobi-based reporter Eunice Maina, who spoke with a family deeply impacted by the spring floods. They dig deeper into how these floods and climate change in general disproportionately affect women and children....
2024-12-1023 min
InsurTech Business SeriesIBS Conference 2020 Panel Session: Reimagining Insurance Distribution and Customer ExperienceThis is a panel session from the first-ever #IBSConference in 2022 moderated by the new Deputy Commissioner for Insurance in Nigeria (Technical) Ekerete Ola Gam-Ikon and featuring Richard Leftley ( Founder, Wavu), Sam Baddoo (Founder/CEO, Fleri), Eunice Maina (Founder/CEO, Bismart) and Opeyemi Osiyemi (Co-Founder, Claimsify).Hello Damola & Folumy here! Send us a quick text, comment or feedback. We would love to hear from you Check out our free resources on InsurTech ecosystem and innovation in the African Insurance space here https://linktr.ee/insurtechbusinessseriesJoin our IBS community on LinkedIn
2024-06-0143 min
Pure Digital Passion with Moses KemibaroEpisode 95 - Digital Transformation For Insurance Agents In Kenya: Insights From The AKI Agents Forum 2024 Panel Discussion.On March 8, 2024, I had the privilege of participating as a panelist at the Association of Kenya Insurers' (AKI) Insurance Agents Forum, held at Marist International University in Karen. The forum hosted 1,000+ insurance sales agents who excelled in 2023, featuring a broad collective of demographics and expertise.
This gathering served as a critical platform for education, inspiration, and networking, underpinned by the theme of digital transformation in Kenya's insurance sector with a focus on Insurance Agents.
With over 90% of insurance business in Kenya channeled through agents and brokers, digital transformation presents an unprecedented opportunity to enhance efficiency...
2024-04-061h 31The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)Fighting for LGBTQ Rights in KenyaHomosexuality is illegal in Kenya, as it is in more than half of African countries. But public attitudes have begun to shift. According to Pew Research Center data from 2002, only 1 percent of Kenyan respondents said society should accept homosexuality. As of 2020, 14 percent believed homosexuality should be accepted.On today’s episode of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women, we follow the key people driving this change. Reporter Eunice Maina interviews women and nonbinary LGBTQ activists such as Marylize Biubwa, the co-founder of Queer Republic, and Ivy Werimba, a communications officer at Galck+, a coalition of 16 membership-based LGBTQ+ or...
2024-04-0226 minThe Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)Can Reality TV Get More Women into Political Office?This season, host Reena Ninan and reporters across Africa will meet courageous women holding leaders accountable in various sectors, including healthcare, startups, and government. Specifically, we are looking at promises made about gender equality – and seeing if they have been delivered. For example, the government of Kenya pledged to end gender-based violence by 2026. And the ministry of health in Uganda is trying to eradicate yellow fever. It is ambitious to make these kinds of pledges. But are these leaders really delivering on these promises for women and girls? For this first episode, we decided to cover a surp...
2024-01-0926 minThe Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)Religious Leaders as Advocates for Female SuccessThis season, host Reena Ninan explores the importance of male allies in advancing women’s rights and economic freedoms. The topic came up at FP’s 2022 Her Power Summit. There, Hana Brixi, the global director of gender at the World Bank, shared an anecdote from research the World Bank had conducted in sub-Saharan Africa. It found one group to be particularly effective in changing men’s and boys’ attitudes toward gender equality: local religious leaders.In the first part of this episode, reporter Eunice Maina travels to central Kenya, where she meets with a pastor involved in a moveme...
2023-06-2021 min
InsurTech Business SeriesInsurance Innovation Trends and Opportunities for Incumbents & StartupsTo celebrate the first year of #IBSPodcast in 2021, Damola & Folumy hosted Rob Galbraith, Bryan Falchuk, Eunice Maina & Frederik Bisbjerg to discuss their books, trends in insurance innovation and opportunities that exist for the growth of the space.Hello Damola & Folumy here! Send us a quick text, comment or feedback. We would love to hear from you Check out our free resources on InsurTech ecosystem and innovation in the African Insurance space here https://linktr.ee/insurtechbusinessseriesJoin our IBS community on LinkedIn, Twitter,
2023-04-0144 min
Global Dispatches -- World News That MattersThe Hidden Economics of Female Genital Mutilation | From: "The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women" podcastWe present an episode of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women podcast, which is now in its third season. Each episode tells the story of how women are creating change through economic empowerment. In this new season, the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women is partnering with journalists around the world to cover underreported ways women are challenign the status quo. For the season three opener, which we share with you today, the show takes us to Kenya where reporter Eunice Maina some of the econimic incentives that perpetuate female genital mutilation -- and how to end the practice. The...
2023-03-3026 min
Sister Speaks GlobalOVAReact S3 E5: Full-Time Job Inspired Insuretech Business with Eunice MainaOVAReact Podcast Episode 5 is with Queen Hustler; Eunice Maina, the founder and CEO of Bismart Insurance. She shares her journey of working full-time for an insurance company that inspired the transition of starting a new venture in the insurance field.
OVAReact Podcast episodes air every Monday at 10.30 pm on Capital FM Kenya radio. It is available via Sister Speaks Global, Google podcast, Spotify and Anchor, and Capital FM Kenya's Sound Cloud page.
This is a Sister Speaks Global and Capital FM Kenya podcast production, where we ask tough questions, engage in challenging conversations, get comfortable...
2023-02-2832 min
Foreign Policy PlaylistEnding the Financial Incentives of FGMForeign Policy recommends: The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women This week on FP Playlist, we feature the first episode from season 3 of The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women. Lead Producer and host of Foreign Policy Playlist Laura Rosbrow-Telem sits down with reporter Eunice Maina to share what she learned from reporting on the financial incentives of female genital mutilation (FGM).Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-12-1437 min
The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)The Hidden Economics of Female Genital MutilationAccording to the World Health Organization, more than 200 million girls and women alive today have experienced FGM, or female genital mutilation. That’s about 5 percent of women and girls around the globe. How can the world finally end this? On today’s episode of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women – our first of Season 3 – reporter Eunice Maina explains how financial factors incentivize women to perpetuate this practice, and interviews a group of girls who are tackling this head on. Later in the episode, host Reena Ninan speaks with Caroline Lagat, a p...
2022-12-1327 min
The Know More Podcast#036 - Closing the Sale - Eunice Maina (Bismart Insurance)Eunice Maina Mburu is the CEO and Founder of Bismart Insurance; an innovative online insurance aggregator platform.
Eunice has won the Association of Kenya Insurers (AKI), a life insurance agent’s award for 4 years. Under her leadership, Bismart won the Women in Tech innovative and scalable business award by Standard chartered Bank; she is also an alumna of the Westerwelle Young Founders Program (Berlin).
Eunice is also among the 54 winners of the Women in Africa Initiative (WIA54, 2020). She is a member of the Babson University Executive Education: Launch & Grow – The Kenyan Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Progra...
2022-07-0654 min
The Know More Podcast#015 - Hidden Secrets of Sales Success - Eunice MainaEunice Maina is the Founder and CEO of Bismart Insurance, Author, Sell Me This Pen, an accomplished insurance business leader with over 9 years of management experience in insurance products and distribution channels development. Also has hands-on experience in insurance sales and relationship management in both conventional and microinsurance.
This episode of the podcast is a snippet of her more comprehensive sales course on Zydii
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2021-06-0226 min
InsurTech Business SeriesHow OKO is Reshaping Agribusiness in Africa with Parametric InsuranceIn this episode, we sat with Simon Schwall, a micro-insurance specialist and Founder of OKO; an insurtech company leveraging mobile technology & Satelite data to offer simple and affordable Crop Insurance to small-scale farmers in Africa.OKO is based currently operating in Mali and Uganda and is looking to expand across Africa starting with Cote D'Ivoire.Register for the IBS Women In Insurance Webinar: https://bit.ly/womenininsuranceWatch our Anniversary Event featuring Rob Galbraith, Eunice Maina, Frederick Bisbjerg & Bryan Falchuk: https://youtu.be/icXYVl81VJYJoin our community on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram
2021-05-1735 min
InsurTech Business SeriesFrom Agency to Digitally Distributing Insurance in AfricaOn this episode we celebrate another #IBSWomaninInsurance. Her name is Eunice Maina and she is the Founder/CEO of Bismart Insurance based in Kenya. Eunice started her journey in insurance as an Agent earning a commission and today she is trailblazing in the Insurtech space in Kenya. Bismart is an insurance marketplace where Africans can compare and buy insurance easily and conveniently. This episode also featured a company who are looking to provide IoT solutions for the insurance market.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/insurtech-bus-series/messageHello Damola & Folumy here! Send us a quick text...
2020-09-211h 00
Let's Start NowLSN #09 Buying insurance vs being sold insurance feat Bismart InsuranceIn episode four of the 'Kenyan Edition' we talk with Bismart Insurance's founder, Eunice Maina about her InsureTech Startup that allows customers to compare insurance products on the market, and also get to know about her entrepreneurship journey. For more information follow her on twitter @Eunicewmaina
2020-07-3155 min