Pens & Pencils

Welcome back to a brand new season of Pens and Pencils! In this episode we will explore how to eat healthy as a student with our guest Chef Arabella Parkinson. Arabella is a renowned plant-based chef; health coach and food activist. She has spent the last ten years in the food industry, from restaurants in London, cooking on five star luxury yachts in the Mediterranean, developing plant-based menus for restaurants and working with organisations in South Africa to improve the education around nutrition, our relationship to food and ways to create more accessible solutions. Food is her platform to ignite change. If you enjoyed the episode, please take the time to fill out the short survey below on your eating habits https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M3HLNR9 [https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/M3HLNR9] Additionally if you would like to learn more about eating healthy and sustainably, take a look at Chef Arabella's online cooking classes. https://www.quicket.co.za/events/148047-cooking-demonstration/#/ [https://www.quicket.co.za/events/148047-cooking-demonstration/#/] IG: @eat_to.thrivewww.eattothrive.co.za [http://www.eattothrive.co.za]Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arabella-parkinson/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/arabella-parkinson/]

Welcome back to Pens & Pencils, in this episode we will explore Global Markets Sales and Trading through the expertise of Keyuri Chibba and Sibongile Mbongo from Citibank. Sibongile Mbongo manages the South African Equity Sales division where she provides highly specialised investment advice to leading institutional investors. Keyuri Chibba is the Head of the electronic FX Solutions business for Sub-Saharan Africa and she is responsible for helping Corporates, Financial Institutions and Fintechs manage their FX risks and assists to bring efficiencies and automation to their FX worlflows. Both Sibongile and Keyuri have extensive experience in markets. This podcast will give us a better understanding of what Global Markets entails and we will touch on interesting themes such as digitization and FX trading.

Welcome back to Pens & Pencils, in this episode we explore the world of investment banking with the expertise of Fiifi Aikins, Eva Bonadei, Flint MacGregor and Muhammad Suleman from Citi Group. Flint Macgregor is the Director of Investment banking at Citi group. Eva Bonadei and Muhammed Suleman are investment banking analysts and Fiifi Aikens is an investment banking associate. With their help we will analyse the meaning of investment banking and look into what it takes to be an investment banker. We will also discuss the steps you can take to become an investment banker one day.

Welcome back to Pens & Pencils, on this episode we delve into mental health with Nicole Thomas and Joshua Bester. Nicole has an Instagram page call Destroy the Stigma dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of mental health and making people feel less alone with the different mental illnesses they may face; and Josh has a podcast called Just Another Convo, which he has also used to advocate for mental wellbeing. Both guests talk about the different challenges they have faced and how they have used their respective platforms to continually advocate for mental health.

One this week's episode we have the South Africa Chief Economist at CITI Group Gina Schoman. We will be discussing her journey through university, discovering where your passions could lie and the economics of South Africa that will affect students in the future.