LITC Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The LITC Podcast is brand new podcast where we talk to people within London with interesting stories that have gone unheard! Our Host Charles, challenges our guest with hard hitting questions to reveal their story in raw and unfiltered detail!
Sopo. Gilbert left Cameroon as a young man to study abroad but ended up getting involved in high level fraud. Imprisoned and facing a lengthy sentence, we sit down with Gilbert and hear his story.
Born and raised Peckham Boy Fos, founder of 'SN1 Wear' and more recently 'Dollars and Pounds' joins us for Ep.15 of the LITC Podcast, dropping the 6th of February! Fos talks about his fight against Lupus, prison experience and his various community ventures.
Our next guest Big J (Jamal Peters) is the author of Squad Gigantic, a superhero book series that combines London culture with Marvel. Big J talks about his struggles growing up in Tooting and how that helped him move forward with his businesses and community work.
Here the story of How one woman emerged from the ground up to become a 'key person of influence'. Councillor and host of the On The Sofa Vlogcast Rachel Onikosi shares her story from her upbringing and how here struggles led her to where she is now. On The Sofa Vlogcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjeLHwrNSm33HCmQs1CAXhg
Big Ego Media Podcast host Bobby Kasanga shares his story on what inspired him to start doing interviews, how spending 8 years in prison affected him and his relationship with his family, child discipline, moving out at 17 and selling food on the roads.
In this Episode Natalie Bell talks about her upbringing as a Vietnamese girl in a Essex and the effects it had on her at a young age, achieving her dream moving to London and running her own fashion tailoring company (in Gabriel's Wharf, Waterloo), squatting in Brixton, how women are presented in today and working for Coin Street London as the head of youth and community programs.
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https://youtu.be/PWCRNenMy9c
Dean Forbes is the founder of Forbes Family Group and a successful businessman. But he never came from a privileged upbringing. Businessman Dean Shares his story about being arrested, becoming homeless with his mother to escape his abusive father, developing responsibility at a young age for his younger siblings and how he uses those experiences to become a successful businessman.
Our next guest Londoner, Kevin, Salassie Son The Body Sculpture is an entrepreneur and personal trainer shares his story about spending time in Miami prison and Scotland and how he uses those experiences to educate London Youths; missing the birth of his daughter while in prison and the effects of trauma on the local community in Brixton.
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Founder of the charity organisation 'Resole', Moosa shares his story from when he was in a gang; going to prison; producing revolutionary UK rap music with OTB Rap Group during the early 20s and what made him quit; travelling to Egypt to change his life; starting his charity organisation and future projects.
Re:sole is an organisation that supplies less fortunate people with shoes donated by the community and popular shoe brands such as Nick, Footlocker and JD. Numerous shoes in good condition go to waste, and resole gives these old or unused shoes a new life.
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Join us with 'Back on Your Feat' founder Daniel Vella on Episode 7 of the LITC Podcast. 'Back on Your Feat' is an organisation that helps the homeless within London communities. In this episode, Daniel explains what his childhood was like and what he got up to. He then talks about the transition from being a child to becoming an adult alongside the problems he faced during those years and gives an insight on the journey to starting Back On Your Feat.
Brixton Soup Kitchen Founder Solomon Smith shares his story about his life before Brixton Soup Kitchen and what led him to start the organisation. He also talks about his regrets, his mental health, family and what the future brings for the organisation.
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https://youtu.be/JSH2tIdEs5o
Black entrepreneur Dexter Simms, Founder of successful clothing store 'Mula Cake' shares his experiences growing up in the inner city of South London, his trials and tribulations and goals to protect young people within our communities.
Our guest Gavin Rose founder of Aspire Academy talks about what inspired him to become a football Manager, his experience losing young people that he works with through gangs and how the drastic change of the world has affected football. Aspire Academy is a football school that helps young footballers structure a career out of football.
Their Website: https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/
On this episode of the LITC Podcast, we talk to Nicholas Okwulu (Pempeople Founder), about the regeneration and Re-gentrification of South London’s well known ‘Old Kent’ road. He also discusses his upcoming plans for 2021, his story from becoming a DJ to working within the pharmaceutical industry, his Nigerian roots and his eccentric stint as a successful DJ meeting The legendary Hip hop producer Dr Dre!
Who is pempeople? Pempeople is an organization based in Peckham that provides opportunities for people within the community to resolve local issues.
LITC Podcast Episode 2, Paula Perry Talks about her journey from growing up in a household with drugs, becoming a mother at the age of 16, dropping out of school, other struggles and community work. Watch over on Youtube for visual version!
For this episode of the LITC Podcast, Our first guest Fittness and MMA Trainer Chigs Terry tells his story about growing up in Brixton, struggling with mental health, training with Delon White and fighting in Thailand.
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