The Leader’s Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Leader’s Podcast
The vision of The Leader’s Podcast is to carefully curate the next generation of thought leaders in their respective fields and provide a platform in which their stories, lessons and world views can inspire those who aspire to tap into their human potential. Additionally we aim to share with you ideas and concepts that you can implement to elevate your business and personal life.
With this platform, we are taking one step further to democratizing the finding and execution of purpose, with the ultimate goal of building a global network of purpose-conscious and mission-driven leaders.
Bidhi Mandal is the Vice Executive Director of the Innovating Environmental Health in Nepal. An initiative built off the vision to create visible impact in her community and the world. A body of work that continues to impact the lives of many across the globe.
Over the years, her team has completed a couple of projects ranging from: buying life-saving oxygen during the second wave of the COVID to the Davis Peace Project that taught hundred of students from Nepal and China about air pollution.
Lastly, She is a Global Scholar at Babson College where she is studying towards her Bachelors degree, with concentrations in Global business management and Economics in Boston Massachusetts.
Our guest this week on the Leaders Podcast, Nitiya Walker is a social entrepreneur and media professional. She is passionate about economic empowerment for women and is the Executive Director and Founder of Seeds of Fortune Inc., featured in Forbes, Black Enterprise, Huffington Post, in which she helps minority teen girls apply for college scholarships, teach career and financial management skills.
She believed it was her duty to help ease the financial burdens of those in her generation; therefore she created a scholarship program to help teen girls obtain local and national scholarships called Seeds of Fortune Inc. as well as a blog Walker Finance and Media, highlighting financial tips, and the intersection between media and business.
Over the last six-plus years, about 80 girls have graduated from the program, and they have accepted $8 million in scholarships and grants. A true depiction of Nitiya’s personal mantra “we lift as we climb, and leave no one behind,” described the responsibility that people felt toward one another.
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Our guest this week, on the leader's Podcast, David Kroboksy is the co-founder of Skatify, a nonprofit organization that works with local organizations in Africa to build skate parks, distribute donated boards and engage underprivileged youth in purposeful activity. After David’s first visit to Ethiopia, he witnessed firsthand that the parks were not only creating a recreational activity but a safe community.
In partnership with organizations like the Boys and Girls Club of America and BBYO Inc., David has reached an additional 1,600 teens in the U.S. who have attended his fundraising events and led more than 90 young volunteers. This year, Skatify will build the first skateboard park in Zambia, and Ethiopia’s second park. By collaborating with local organizations in developing nations.
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Our guest this week, Toiell Washington is the co-founder of Black Boston, a community organization that aims to uplift and support Black Bostonians through educational programming, political advocacy and event planning. The organization’s mission is to “actively dismantle and fight for the elimination of racial inequities while promoting creativity and solidarity within the Black community in the Greater Boston Area.”
Adding to her body of work, Toiell founded a gaming company called, the master's tools, inspired by the social theory “the Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” by Audre Lorde, her favourite Black feminist scholar. It is through her company that Toiell aims to address systems of oppression and telling the stories of marginalized people across a range of topics and social movements.
She is a recent graduate of Salem State University where she attained her bachelor of science in sociology. In this episode, Toiell takes us down her memory lane as she unpacks her journey to founding Black Boston and personal experiences that shaped the trajectory of her life.
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Our guest this week, on The Leaders Podcast Hanson grant is the founder and CEO of Think board, a startup born from his college dorm at Babson College, that would go on to be his full-time post-graduate job. Today Thinkboard is built on a mission to help its users and customers accomplish their goals, enhance their collaboration, and express their creativity.
Due to his tremendous entrepreneurial success, he has been recognized as one of the Top 25 Student Entrepreneurs in the US (2016) and by BETA Boston as one of Boston's Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25 (2015). Think Board has been named the Top Collegiate Consumer Brand in the US (2016), the winner of Babson's B.E.T.A Challenge (2015), a finalist in MassChallenge (2015) and the winner of MassInnovation Night (2015).
Over the course of his trajectory, he’s been featured on platforms such as Home Shopping Network, Hatched (TV), The TODAY Show, Entrepreneur Magazine, Buzzfeed, NBC News, Huff Post, Yahoo Tech, The Boston Globe, WCVB The Chronicle and a few more
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Our guest this week on The Leaders Podcast, Deepshikha Parmersur, is a co-founder of Minority Africa, which is a digital publication providing solutions content on African minority communities and persons using Data, Immersive and Mobile journalism.
She is a graduate of the African Leadership Academy (ALA) and went on to Bucknell University where she secured her degree in international relations, with a focus on culture and identity on the African continent.
In the year 2019, She was appointed a Prime Minister at the Mauritius National Youth Parliament, becoming the first female holder of the office, and adding a prominent layer to her growing profile in the public sector. An opportunity that served as a milestone in her political trajectory that would serve as a building block that would catapult her contributions to the Mauritian political arena”
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Our guest this week on The Leaders Podcast, Wagamini Wanja Njama is a Kenyan-Boston based creative who uses photography, Social Media and storytelling, capture the beauty and vibrancy of the spaces in which she occupies.
As a content creator, she has already published her first book entitled Bejewelled Africa, which is an anthology of short folktale stories depicting Africa’s beauty and development whilst retelling part of the continent’s history. A true resemblance of Wanja’s passion for storytelling and community building.
She is a graduate of the African Leadership Academy (ALA), and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s of science in business administration with double concentrations in Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Innovation and minor in venture capital management at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusets.
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Our guest this week on The Leader's Podcast, Kgolagano Rakhudu is an award-winning Mail & Guardian 200 Young South African who is a Basketball Operations Professional and Social Entrepreneur. His mission aims to use sports as a vehicle for purpose and meaningful existence for youth in the Royal Bafokeng Nation the African continent at large.
At the cusp of his career, after years of coaching in the Bafokeng region, in 2018 he was named head coach of the team Africa and the Middle East at the Junior NBA International Championship, held in Orlando, Florida. He led the team to win the championship after beating the Canadian national team 93-75, a milestone that would catapult his trajectory in the industry.
Since then Kgolagano has been featured in print and broadcast around the continent, including Mail & Guardian, eNCA, ESPN Africa, Fox Sports, SABC Sports, Soweto TV, YOU FM, GABS FM (Botswana), Vision Sports Radio, VOW FM, BMH Radio, Power FM and Touch HD
Our next guest on the fourteenth episode of The Leader’s Podcast is Goodwill Mabena (@goodwillmabena).
Goodwill Mabena is the founder and host of The Goodwill Show, a recently launched show designed with an agenda to trigger your state of consciousness and trigger a hunger for reasoning amongst human beings. With just a few weeks into the podcast industry he’s already started to release his first series of the show where he delves into identity and breaks it down to first principles. We believe this is relevant given how much of our respective identities has been informed by popular culture.
Goodwill is in love with being knowledgeable. He is a person who lives his life by principles, laws and theories. He believes that life's complexities can be simplified through a spectrum of principles, laws and theories. He loves to analyse people's environments, state of thoughts, spaces of belief systems, financial background/position, history and levels of consciousness towards history together with their current realities and many other factors.
Join us as Goodwill talks to us about his thoughts on purpose, identity and what propelled him to start the newly launched Goodwill Show.
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Our next guest on the thirteenth episode of The Leader’s Podcast is Jesse Forrester (@jesse_forrester).
Jesse Forrester is the founder and CEO of a startup called “Mazi”, a service company that is ushering the future of e-mobility in Africa at scale. He is better known as a man who wears a cloak of many colors and stands not only as a commendable event host, but also as a Green Tech Pioneer, leading innovative African solutions within the Food, Water and Energy nexus.
In January 2019, this young man and his co-founder Wuntia Gomda, won the esteemed 2019 Zayed sustainability Prize from a competitive pool of 3,000 applicants around the globe. The duo had won the prize after designing the living machine, a wastewater treatment system which has the capacity to clean 300,000 litres of water annually.
Today Jesse is based in Nairobi, Kenya where he is working on the next leg of his conglomerate with Mazi mobility. He is converting matatu diesel engines into cheaper electric vehicles across east africa.
Join us as Jesse talks to us about his journey as an entrepreneur, and some of the challenges he’s faced in his journey in the energy sector.
Energynexus #greenrevolution #Business #Conglomerate #thoughtleaders #impact #theleaderspodcast #purpose #changemakers
Our next guest on the special episode of The Leader’s Podcast is Malkia the Band (@malkiatheband), featuring Gayle Were (@gayle_were), Osaruwa Nwokah (@osanwokah) and Chemutai Ruto (@chemutaiiruto).
The trio started in September 2018 after they had just been enrolled as students at the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Since then, they have performed twice at the prestigious Anzisha Prize, where they shared the stage with the well known Maps Maponyane and other C-Level corporate guns from around the globe.
Furthermore, the group has performed at the African Leadership Academy Model African Union (ALAMAU), where they had 300 delegates from all 4 different cardinal points of the globe including the likes of our very own Ms Lindiwe Mazibuko.
It was only a matter of time until April 2020, when the group’s rendition of Yemi Alade’s Afrika went viral. Yemi Alade herself recognized the group and reposted the video, which resulted in thousands of views in the first week of its release.
Today the trio are recent graduates at the African Leadership Academy and will be going off to college and others taking a gap year.
Join us as Malkia talks to us about their journey as a band and how they have grown as individuals through this joint venture.
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Our next guest on the twelfth episode of The Leader’s Podcast is Zulaikha Patel (@zulaikhapatel_ ).
Zulaikha Patel is a young and woke South African activist. She became a symbol when she made the headlines 4 years ago during the time in which she was fighting against her school’s anti-afro hair policy at the Pretoria Girls High School. This is where she said the famous quote “Asking me to change my hair is like asking me to erase my blackness”.
Today, Zulaikha is known as a prominent vocal opponent against many forms of injustices in South Africa, largely racism, poverty and gender based violence. Her tenacity and ability to articulate her thought process calls for deep respect and acknowledgement amongst the youth.
At just the age of 18, she’s been featured on various platforms including: SABC News, CNN, Eye Witness News, BBC, TED and many more. Furthermore, In 2016, she was named by the BBC as one of the Top 100 Women, an honor given to some of the world’s leading female voices.
Join us as Zulaikha talks to us about her journey as an activist, and why she believes that young people should be at the forefront of socio-political spaces.
Activism #Feminism #thoughtleaders #impact #theleaderspodcast #purpose #changemakers
Our next guest on the eleventh episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Tebogo Mphahlele (@tebo.mphahlele).
At the age of 16, Tebogo Mphahlele was inspired by the GIBS Program to start her organisation called The Lead Young SA Foundation, which she is using to inspire, motivate and groom young people through mentorship.
Through her foundation, Tebogo is on a mission to bridge the gap between young individuals living in suburbs and those living in the township of Benoni. This was integral for Tebogo and her team as they felt that much of the township youth think that they are too young, or don’t have the power to achieve their dreams and goals.
Through her organisation, she’s been able to give back and uplift the youth of her community.
Today, Tebogo is an undergraduate student studying at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), where she’s studying towards her Accounting degree (CA).
Join us on Thursday, 30 July 2020 (18:30) as Tebogo talks to us about her journey with building her organisation and the challenges she’s had to overcome throughout the evolution of her organisation.
womeninbusiness #corporatesouthafrica #Accounting #communityservice #theleaderspodcast #purpose #changemakers
Our next guest on the tenth episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Tanatsei Gambura (@tanagambura).
Tanatsei regards herself as a poet, intermedia artist and cultural practitioner. Growing up in Zimbabwe, at the age of 17, Tanatsei started the 25 May Movement, a movement established to create awareness and a sense of responsibility for people in her community about the future of the continent.
Over the years, the movement (derived from Africa day) has evolved and grown into a nationwide broadcasting series in Zimbabwe. It currently publishes short films and facilitates seminal workshops and empowering programs for free.
It was only a matter of time that in late 2019, Tanatsei would be named a Diana Award recipient for her organisation. The award is recognised as one of the most prestigious accolades any young person aged 9-25 can receive for their social action. Many view this achievement as an incredible stepping stone in her work. However, Tanatsei views the achievement as an affirmation.
Today, Tanatsei is an undergraduate student at Edinburgh University, UK, where she’s studying a BA in Intermedia art, an interdisciplinary coursed based arts program.
Join us as Tanatsei talks to us about her journey growing The 25 May Movement and the challenges she’s had to overcome throughout the evolution of her organisation.
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Our next guest on the ninth episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Amonge Elethu Sinxoto (@a_monge).
Amonge is the Co-founder Blackboard Africa (@blackboard_africa), a Johannesburg based organisation with a mission to create a platform and spaces that foster young people to vocalise their thoughts and celebrate their respective identities. Over the years, Amonge has lent her voice to various globally recognized platforms such as at Google, Facebook, TEDx and has sat at the round table with the former US First Lady Michelle Obama.
Today, Amonge is an undergraduate at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS) where she is studying for a BA Social Sciences, Majors: International Relations and Political Studies.
Join us as Amonge talks to us about her personal journey to building her organisation and the challenges she’s had to overcome throughout the evolution of her organisation.
BlackBoardAfrica #Globalleader #socialentrepreneurship #activism #theleaderspodcast #purpose #changemakers
Our next guest on the eighth episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Maxwell Simba (@maxwell_simba).
Growing up in Kitali in the Northern Rift Valley, Kenya, Maxwell developed his passion for acting during his time at the most prestigious boys’ school in Kenya, Alliance High School. At the age of 15, Maxwell would be selected by British Nigerian film director Chiwetel Ejiofor to star in the Netflix Original Film, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. The film tells the story of William Kwamkwamba. The film later premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlinale Film Festival. At the Sundance Film Festival, it received the Alfred P. Sloane Award, a prize given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme. It was also nominated for the renowned NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture.
Today, Maxwell is a student at the African Leadership Academy, where he’s doing his A levels and core subjects in Entrepreneurial Leadership (EL), African Studies and Writing & Rhetoric.
Join us as Maxwell talks to us about his journey to starring on The Netflix Original Film, The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. #actors #Africanfilm #inspiring #theleaderspodcast #purpose #changemakers
Our next guest on the seventh episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Letlotlo Morule (@miss_morule).
Letlotlo is the Founder and executive director of Khulisa Mfazi, an organisation with a mission to empower and create conversation mainly on issues that affect women ,by creating spaces to learn, educate and rise. In 2019 she was featured on national television channel NewzRoom Africa where she spoke about the lessons regarding how the narrative of the 1974 youth uprising is still relevant in today’s society.
Join us as Letlotlo has a much needed and relevant conversation with us about what is means to be a feminist and the role that men can play in the fight against patriarchal systems of oppression. ✊🏽🌍
Youth #Feminism #WomenEmpowerment #Purpose #Leadership #YouthEmpowerment
Our next guest on the sixth episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Thapelo Nthite (@thapelo.nthite).
Thapelo is a South African entrepreneur who is passionate about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2018, Thapelo and his team started their company Botlhale AI and immediately began working on their first product Naledi.
Naledi is a multilingual personal banking chat box that allows users to perform banking transactions in their native languages. After two years of hardwork and dedication, the team was announced as the grand winner of the season 3 Data Hack Africa Start Up Competition out of 30 teams from 7 different countries across the african continent. This saw the team successfully join the Nvidia inception program, which is a program designed to nurture cutting-edge AI startups who are revolutionizing industries.
Thapelo is currently enrolled at the university of Capetown (UCT) where he’s doing his masters in electrical engineering and research on human language technology.
In this episode, Thapelo walks us through the lessons, challenges and highlights of his entrepreneurial journey thus far. Furthermore he talks to us about the importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning in such a rapidly evolving global society.
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Our next guest on the fifth episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Amogelang Mangole (@amomangole).
Amogelang is the founder of Enlighten Me Women (@enlightenmewomen), a community of sisters whose mission is to ensure that in every sphere of their lives women learn to be comfortable in discomfort and that they challenge themselves and others to be and do better. She’s also recent graduate from Wits University with a BCom double major in Corporate Finance and Investment and Economic Sciences.
Join us as Amogelang chats to us about her story and the importance of building an all-inclusive society that encourages women to express their true selves and step into their full potential, all done with love. ♥️
For more info, visit www.enlightenmewomen.com
WomenEmpowerment #Sisters #Love #Light #Purpose #Leadership
Our next guest on the fourth episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Thaksheel Alleck (@thaksheelalleck).
Thaksheel is a teenger who is passionate about content creation on time management and business for young entrepreneurs. Over the past year he became the CEO of the Bezo’s Scholars student enterprise and was appointed as the COO of the African Leadership Consulting Group where he colead the first student led management consulting group on the African continent.
Thaksheel will be continuing on his journey at Leehigh University in the United States of America where he will be studying a degreee in Engineering and Business Administration.
In this episode, Thaksheel walks us through the lessons and tools he uses to manage his time effectively, especially during the Covid-19 season we're experiencing where we've all had to work from home.
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Our next guest on the third episode of the Leader’s Podcast is Tiassa Mutunkei (@tiassamutunkei). Tiassa, also known as the wildlife warrior, is a Kenyan teenager who is passionate about wildlife conservation. Since 2015, she’s channelled this passion into her own movement called Teens4Wildlife (@teens4wildlifekenya). The organization creates a space for Kenyan and African youth to learn, explore, and discover the value of wildlife – then take action to protect it. Furthermore, the organisation is aimed at fighting the activity of poaching and illegal trade in wildlife.
Join us as Tiassa chats to Mpho about her story, some of the challenges she’s faced on her journey and the importance of youth in challenging the status quo. 🐘🌍 #Wildlife #Conservation #Leadership #Purpose #youthempowerment
Our next guest on the second episode of The Leader’s Podcast is Obakeng Leseyane (@leseyane.obakeng). Obakeng is a social impact practitioner, with a special interest in Education, Public Service and Leadership Development. He’s the Founder and Managing Director of EdConnect Labs (@edconnectlabs) which is a research think tank in the education sector that builds impact programs & informs policy via partnerships. Join us as Obakeng chats to us about his story and the importance of educational reform in our nation and world today. 🌍
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Our first guest on The Leader's Podcast is Ikanyeng Rammutla, author of The Leader's Journal and co-founder of The Leader's Podcast. He is also the co-founder and current President of a student organization called The Society for Actuarial Students (SAS), whose purpose and mission is to model and holistically develop the modern-day actuary through personal development and leadership. To learn more about Ikanyeng and see his work, follow on: Instagram: @ikanyengrammutla, @societyforactuarialstudents, @theleaderspodcast, @theleadersjournalxyz LinkedIn: Ikanyeng Rammutla Website: theleadersjournal.xyz Thank you for tuning into the first episode of The Leader's Podcast. Until next time!
The vision of The Leader’s Podcast is to carefully curate the next generation of thought leaders in their respective fields and provide a platform in which their stories, lessons and world views can inspire those who aspire to tap into their human potential. Additionally we aim to share with you ideas and concepts that you can implement to elevate your business and personal life.
With this platform, we are taking one step further to democratizing the finding and execution of purpose. Thanks for listening to the introductory episode to learn more about The Leader’s Podcast. We can’t wait to share the new episodes with you; stay tuned!