
Be About It Podcast
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.
Episodes
16 episodes
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 motivati...
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48:03

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 campaignin...
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52:08

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 sh...
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1:07:23

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 deci...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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50:56

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. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:10:07

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 caree...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:15

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
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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55:40

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.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:09:26

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 Acceler...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:23:24

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.&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:19:56
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Helping Black Boys Smile. Discussing Black Masculinity with Kay Rufai
In this episode I sit down with, youth worker, poet, writer, photographer and all round creative Kay Rufai.We discussed how his personal journey led him to create the S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Project. The has been working with black boys, hel...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:29:44

Building a theory for African Healthcare with Adebusuyi Adeyemi
This Episode shares our conversation about African healthcare with the Be About It Podcast's good Adebusuyi Adeyemi. Ade's passion to help people in Africa led him to founding a number of projects including: The
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:22:10

The importance of having important conversations with David from #WOKEWeekly
In this Episode we are joined by David "Zavid" Egbue a software developer by day but also the founder of #WOKEWeekly. #WOKEWeekly host weekly debates in universities across the UK about the black community. Zavid told us about h...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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54:36

Are we "African enough" to make a contribution? with Gosbert Chagula
On this episode Busayo Abidakun speaks to his Entrepreneurship expert, Educator and speaker Gosbert Chagula. Gosbert told us how he personally reconciles actively contributing to Africa as a British second generation migrant. He told us about g...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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59:57

Stories from Barking and Dagenham's first Caribbean woman Mayor
In this episode we speak to Sanchia Alasia former Mayor of Barking & Dagenham about her work as a labour party member in a borough that formerly held 12 British Nationalist Party members. We explore Barking & Dagenham's recent history g...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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51:57

Fixing the £24 Billion cost of racial inequality in the workplace with Rodney Williams
If you're reading this you're probably about to listen to the first Be About It podcast we ever posted online. Welcome! On the Be About Podcast we have conversations with people who have used their time and talents to work towards racial justic...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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